2.4. Раскройте скобки, употребляя герундий в активной или пассивной форме.

1. Why do you avoid (to speak) to me?

2. She tried to avoid (to speak) to.

3. The doctor insisted on (to send) the sick man to hospital.

4. The child insisted on (to send) home at once.

5. Do you mind him (to examine) by a heart specialist?

6. He showed • no sign of (to recognize) me.

7. She showed no sign of (to surprise).

8. He had a strange habit of (to interfere) in other people's business.

9. I was angry at (to interrupt) every other moment.

10. He was always ready for (to help) people.

11. He was very glad of (to help) in his difficulty.

12. In(to make) this experiment they came across some very interesting phenomena.

13. The results of the experiment must be checked and re-checked before (to publish). The watch requires (to repair).

14. The problem is not worth (to discuss).

15. Jane Eyre remembered (to lock) up in the red room for (to contradict) Mrs. Reed.

2.5. Переведите на русский язык, обращая внимание на существительные и местоимения перед герундием.

Пример 1: I don't mind opening the window. – Я не против (не возражаю), чтобы открыли окно. I don't mind his opening the window. – Я не против, чтобы он открыл окно.

Пример 2: She insisted on being allowed to go home. – Она наставила на том, чтобы ей позволили пойти домой. She insisted on her son being allowed to go home. – Она настаивала на том, чтобы ее сыну позволили пойти домой.

1. I had no idea of his leaving St. Petersburg so soon.

2. Aunt's coming here gives me much pleasure.

3. The librarian did not object to the reader keeping the book one day longer.

4. She said that she knew nothing about the door having been left open.

5. The mother was surprised at her daughter having tidied up the room so quickly.

6. My trying to convince him is of no use.

7. When asked why she had missed the train, she said something about her watch being slow.

8. She approached without my seeing her.

9. She stayed in town the whole summer because of her daughter being ill.

10. She did not object to doing the room. She did not object to my doing the room.

2.6. Переведите на русский язык Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali is popularly known as Dali. He is hugely popular around the world for creating a new genre in art - surrealism. Dali is known for his strange, right in the eye bizarre images. Dali got strongly influenced by thoughts, ideas and artworks of the Renaissance period.

Dali was eccentric by nature and he drew attention of his critics who remained mostly irritated by his weird antics and outrageous behaviour and public actions. Dali was passionate about style, statement making and luxury. There have been several films, sculptures and photography exhibitions carried pout by Dali in collaboration with other artists. Dali was an excellent draftsman who produced skilled technical drawings. Dali gave many art lectures around Europe. But his fame was greatly popular in the USA. Dali's most famous paintings include "The Metamorphosis of Narcissus", "Landscape Near Figueras", "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening" and "The Great Masturbator" which are some of his greatest symbolic art representations.

Besides painting Dali indulged in writing and produced some great literary works like "The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí", "Diary of a Genius" and "Oui: The Paranoid-Critical Revolution". Dali created great many lithographs, etchings and graphic arts. Dali was a self proclaimed genius who is referred for his paintings even in the modern times.

Works Outside Painting

Dali worked on several sculptures and other objects and he also contributed massively to theatre, fashion, and photography, among his other areas of interest. From the period between 1941 and 1970, Dalí created an ensemble of 39 jewels which were brilliantly intricate artworks. The most famous jewel “The Royal Heart” was made out of gold and encrusted with 46 rubies, 42 diamonds, and four emeralds which were made in such a manner as the centre had heart beat like feature much like the real heart. Dali contributed greatly in creating the scenario for the theatre production of Federico García Lorca's 1927 romantic play Mariana Pineda.

 Dali had been interested in films since his childhood. He is credited for being the co-creator of Luis Buñuel's surrealist film Un Chien Andalou, a 17-minute French art film co-written with Luis Buñuel. Dali also worked with many other filmmakers which include Alfred Hitchcock for whom Dali created the dream sequence in the film “Spellbound”. He also worked on the Disney short film production “Destino”. In 1975 Dali completed working on the film, “Impressions of Upper Mongolia” where Dali narrated a story about an expedition in search of giant hallucinogenic mushrooms. The imagery of the film was based on microscopic uric acid stains on the brass band of a ballpoint pen on which Dalí had been urinating for several weeks.