И. А. Курбасова Е. И. Силантьева

17. Переведите предложения с причастиями I, II в функции обстоятельства. Найдите аналогичные предло­жения в тексте и переведите их (часть I).

1. Constructing the Moscow Underground the workers encountered many engineering.difficulties. 2. While carrying out experiments with the computer the scientists clearly saw its-disadvantages. 3. When improved, the track will be used for high-speed running. 4. The metro workers ensure a great safety of travel examining trains regularly. 5. When first proposed before the Great October Socialist Revolution, the project for the Moscow Underground seemed unrealistic.

18. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на различные формы сказуемого.

1. Our engineers are now working out new projects of underground systems for some rapidly growing Soviet cities.— One of these projects has been completed quite recently. 2. When the train equipped with the autodriver was being tested the scientists made a careful study of the computer operation. — After the train had been tested successfully it was decided to start its mass production. 3. Many long­distance trains are being equipped with air-conditioning.— Nowadays many long-distance trains have been equipped with air-conditioning. 4. You must be at the conference at 3 o'clock because the leading railway expert will be making a report on the latest achievements in the locomo­tive construction.—If you come at 4 o'clock, you will be late, the report will have been already made. 5. While the Soviet people were carrying out the GOELRO Plan they encountered many financial and engineering difficul­ties.—The GOELRO Plan had been carried out by 1931.