1. Напишите предложения в пассивном залоге.

1) The letters / type/ yet.

2) The politician / interview/ now.

3) The telephone / invent/ Alexander Bell.

4) His flat/ burgle/ last night.

5) The conference/ open/ before we arrived.

6) The manager/ inform/ yet.

7) The goods/ ship/ now.

8) The prizes/ award/ President/ tomorrow.

9) Tea/ grow/ India.

10) The prisoners / take/ to prison/ now.

2. Раскройте скобки в следующих предложениях.

1) Participants of the forum (welcome) by the President.

2) The investors' attention (focus) on global problems at the conference yesterday.

3) Beverages no stronger than wine (allow) on the grounds of LenExpo this year.

4) He noted that the suit (accept) by the court.

5) Kremlin (manage) currently by the Federal Property Management Agency.

6) Its status (confirm) by the President when he took his office in 2008.

7) The Rurik dynasty (succeed) by the House of Romanov.

8) Russia (rule) by the Romanovs who (relate) to the Rurik dynasty until the end of the monarchy in 1917.

9) At the moment access to numerous buildings (limit) because they (use) by the officials.

10) The next hearing (schedule) for August.

3. Преобразуйте следующие предложения в вопросительные и отрицательные.

1) You'll be informed about the agenda later.

2) He was asked about his opinion of the new trends in the economy of the country.

3) Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in Southern Kyrgyzstan.

4) 300,000 people have been driven from their homes.

5) Many people were killed in the clash.

6) A lot of houses have been destroyed by the earthquake.

7) Her decisions are based not on laws but on her personal likes and dislikes.

8) All adoptions through unaccredited middlemen will be banned.

9) Some 1,800 children were adopted in the USA last year.

10) Ten young men were arrested on hate crimes on Thursday.

11) The crime of which they were accused is the murder of a student from Ghana.

12) The nationalist group is being accused of being behind a series of similar hate crimes.

13) 18 people have been killed in racist and xenophobic crimes this year.

14) Many Uzbeks say they had been prevented from returning home by the authorities.

15) The man was questioned by the authorities when he flew into Farnborough Airport near London.

4. Преобразуйте следующие предложения в вопросительные и отрицательные.

1) The Federal Customs Service of Russia is composed of 7 regional customs administrations.

2) Northwest Customs Administration was founded in 1990.

3) The Federal Customs Administration is guided by the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

4) A U.S. diplomat was being investigated on suspicion of trying to smuggle rare Soviet posters.

5) The diplomat was allowed to fly out of Russia, but the posters were confiscated.

6) Actions are focused on improving training for the staff.

7) 1600 million tons of cargo is transported by sea and 8 million tons of cargo is transported by air.

8). Non-intrusive inspection equipment is being deployed at border crossings.

9) Drug precursors are used to manufacture illicit drugs.

10) A new legal arsenal has been put in place in the EU with the entry into force of a set of new regulations.