Упражнения

1. Поставьте инфинитив в нужную форму, обращая внимание на использованную конструкцию сложного подлежащего.

1. All the applicants are supposed (to show) they are capable, well-prepared, punctual and polite.

2. The prices are announced (to rise) again.

3. Most people happen (to spend) a third of their lives at work.

4. “Most young men these days seem (to want) dull jobs.

5. She is unlikely (to succeed) as an HR manager.

6. While the family household is still the dominant form in the US, it appears (to be giving ground) for other forms as well as undergoing drastic changes.

2. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на перевод инфинитива в составном глагольном сказуемом.

1. The country appears to be spending some of the oil money in advance.

2. Japan was believed to be condemned to a low standard of living because it lacked basic resources.

3. The commission’s recommendation seems to represent a new approach to the problem of inflation.

4. Management was seen to have been handed over to the same people who had run the privately owned enterprises.

5. The cost of shipping of an article from one country to another may be said to depend on a number of considerations: its weight, bulk, value, etc.

6. The firm is reported to have been subjected to intensive “speed-up” methods.

7. In Norway the balance of payments deficit happened to provoke grave Government concern.

8. Latin America’s economic future was thought to be dim for the lack of coal.

3. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на перевод конструкции for+ существительное/местоимение + инфинитив.

1. International trade and other financial dealings between countries make it necessary for them to make payments to one another.

2. During inflation there is a tendency for prices and wages to rise, that is, for the value of money to fall.

3. It is not possible for the oil-producing countries to use up all the funds in buying the exports of the oil-consuming countries in proportion to their oil debt.

4. It is associated with the tendency for the output of agricultural products to be more than the market will absorb.

5. There has been a greater tendency in the United Kingdom than in the United States or Germany for the large-scale business enterprise to consist of a number of diversified businesses each operating on a medium scale rather than for there to be a massive aggregation of economic power within a narrow range of industry.

6. There was a general tendency for wage rates to rise relative to productivity.

4. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на перевод инфинитива в сложном дополнении.

1. Assessing income tax on average income over a number of уеаrs, permitting losses to be more liberally offset against gains and assessing tax on, say, last year's earnings would meet this point to some extent.

2. Our basic problem is to explain why Germany could get productivity to grow at 6 per cent.

3. The capitalist would like the wages to obscure his exploitation.

4. We know labour power to exist only as long as its owner remains alive.

5. The wider spread of education would be growth-inducing because it enabled such structural imbalances to be avoided.

6. The accelerating use of electronic data-processing machines, both in the number and in the complexity of problems handled, will allow group managements to exercise more and more exact overall control of the performance of operating subsidiaries whilst permitting considerable delegation of operating responsibility to divisional and factory level.

5. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на различные конструкции с инфинитивом.

1. This trend is likely to continue.

2. The Black people are last to be employed during booms and first to be fired during depression.

3. This type of pollution was thought to be causing serious damage to forests and lakes.

4. The rise in the volume of international transactions made it necessary for the stock of international reserves to rise over time.

5. Evidently direct investment appeared to be a relatively profitable use of corporate funds.

6. There is likely to be little check to imports, with the result that in these circumstances the devaluation of a currency is unlikely to achieve its objective.

7. Capital markets are said to be efficient when they can match quickly vast numbers of stocks put forth by sellers with vast demands put forth by buyers.

8. In a competitive market, as it is usually described, choices concerned with offers and demands appear to be made simultaneously.

9. Many large British businesses have built up small specialist staff departments at group level which enable group operating managers to exercise adequate control over operating subsidiaries.

10. Overall economic growth makes it possible for farmers to concentrate on a narrower range of commodities.