II. Переведите предложения, укажите соответствующее значение многозначных служебных слов.

1) Since you don’t like pizza, let’s buy fish and chips. 2) Since reading that article, Colin’s refused to eat red meat. 3) This relative improvement may, however, prove illusory, since there had already in 1957 been a pressure on dollar reserve in both areas. 4) With the population growth will come a tremendous increase in transport on the roads and the council estimates that while in 14 years time there will be one additional person for every six now – the number of vehicles will have almost doubled. 5) While I see your point, I still think you are wrong. 6) While pressing for every kind of financial help to the local authorities, it is evident that only nationalization of all urban land is an essential need. 7) While on the boat, always wear a lifejacket. 8) Yesterday my little son went out of the house to play without his overcoat. Now he recovered from pneumonia only a short time ago which will easily make you understand how anxious I was for him. 9) He was very nervous for his was being videoed. 10) They left at night for fear of being followed. 11) For these reasons the dreams of a solution along these lines are empty castles in the clouds. 12) The right of the states to decide voting qualifications is preserved, so long as it is not used for systematic discrimination. 13) The Premier's speech followed a weekend of warnings by the Chinese leaders in Peking as celebrations for New China's National Day got underway. 14) We are expecting a busy summer insofar as bookings are already up for August. 15) As you have been here before, you’d better lead the way. 16) She acts as though she owns the place. 17) I keep the windows open so as to let fresh air in. 18) He is but a child, do not be angry with him! 19) But for your help I shouldn't be able to understand this. 20) A massive explosion and fire destroyed the building leaving nothing but a black hole. 21) But for their refusal to return all prisoners, the armistice would have been already signed. 22) His reasons are anything but simple. 23) No doubt new men will be needed as well as a new attitude and new ideas. 24) With this conclusion, the report running too well over 600 pages shows up the Prime Minister's speech for a fraud. 25) By this time next week, I might well have left for Washington.

III. Переведите тексты с английского на русский, обращая внимание на многозначные слова.

A. People of one of the Channel Islands, Sark, are voting today for their first ever democratic government. The election ends nearly 450 years of feudal rule. The island's constitution was changed to comply with European human rights legislation. At precisely ten o'clock the doors to Sark's village hall opened. Waiting in line, a handful of islanders keen to cast their votes before the morning ferry departed.

The hall snooker room has been converted into the only polling station with specially constructed plywood booths where voters can fill in the lengthy ballot paper in secret. There are fifty-six candidates seeking office in all - that's one in eight of the islands adult population. There'll be twenty-eight seats in the new parliament and the result should be declared here just after ten o'clock tonight.

B. Bosses of America's three biggest car companies face grilling in Congress over their request for a multi-billion dollar bailout. Yesterday they faced scepticism from US lawmakers as to whether the bailout would work. It was a long and frustrating day for the chief executives whose revised request for a multi-billion dollar loan was met with renewed scepticism by senators. Despite warnings of the impending collapse of General Motors and the view of the banking committee's chairman, Chris Dodd, that inaction was not an option, the six hour hearing ended without consensus.

Some Senators echoed the sentiments of President Bush who warned in an interview against throwing good money after bad.

On Friday the carmakers take their case to the House financial services committee. Its Democratic chairman, Barney Frank, has called on president-elect Obama to be rather more assertive on the issue than he has been so far.

C. President Obama has made his first efforts to roll back some of the decisions made in the last days of the Bush administration. Today he meets his economic team; he is also promising to get together with his military advisers soon to make a plan to pull troops out of Iraq.

Last July, then candidate Obama made a promise about Iraq. “On my first day in office”, he said, “I will bring the Joint Chiefs of Staff in and I will give them a new mission, and that is to end the war responsibly and deliberately, but decisively”. Since then something else has happened of course - the world economy has collapsed, and politically it's now more important for him to be seen to be acting on the economy than on Iraq.

Nonetheless, both subjects will figure in his discussions today. This administration is promising action across the board, so a number of executive orders are likely to come soon. Already last night the White House – in a memo signed by the new Chief of Staff – ordered all the last-minute regulations signed by President Bush to be put on hold. But it is the economy that will dominate the early days of this administration - and on which Mr Obama knows he will be judged.

D. In China, a survey of multinational companies has found that nearly 70% of them plan to cut recruitment this year. The survey of more than 350 companies found that finance, communications and IT companies were hardest hit. Jobs in multinational companies are highly prized in China, especially white-collar jobs. For a start the pay is often better than you might get as a public servant or the employee of a state owned enterprise. The jobs tend to be concentrated at the moment in the larger cities, like Beijing or Shanghai, or in the areas where there are many factories making goods for export.

Two years ago the multinationals were competing to hire the brightest talent from China's universities but since the financial crisis jobs in multinational firms whose parent companies have run into trouble overseas, like CitiGroup or Motorola, no longer look so secure.

This year there was a record number of applications for the civil service, more than three quarters of a million people applied for 13,500 places. The surveys of the multinationals reported in the state media suggest that those applicants were wise to seek safer alternatives.

Almost 7 out of 10 of the firms polled made clear they planned to recruit fewer staff in the year ahead. That will make life even harder for this year's graduates. There are fewer jobs available than before and they'll be competing with other unemployed graduates from previous years and with newly laid off workers who already have experience. The graduate employment market has always been tough in China but this year it is looking like it will be tougher than ever.

E. Thousands of people have been joining in carnival celebrations in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. Crowds gathered at the Sambadrome in the centre of the city to watch a parade lasting all night.

Communities from the poorest parts of Rio de Janeiro worked for twelve months preparing for carnival. The samba schools, which are the focus of the main parade, are almost all based in the city's favellas, or shanty towns. Once again, that huge effort resulted in an explosion of sound and colour, a celebration that brought seven hundred thousand visitors to Rio from around Brazil and from across the world. Each samba school picks a social or historical theme which is reflected in their costumes, floats and music. This year, topics included everything from the arrival of the Portuguese royal family in Brazil to one hundred years of Japanese immigration.

Controversially, one samba school wanted to use a float to portray the naked bodies of Holocaust victims. The Viradouro School said they intended to send a message to the world that this should never happen again. However, after Jewish leaders took the issue to court, the float was banned. To show their dismay at this decision, Viradouro were using the float to focus on freedom of speech instead.

But controversies aside, the mood in Rio, a city that has had its fair share of problems, was overwhelmingly one of celebration - and as if to make the point, they intend to repeat the party all over again on Monday night with another six samba schools.

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