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28.10.2022 12:36 •  Английский язык

1. Replace the infinitives in brackets by the Present Indefinite or the Past Indefinite. 1. They (to work) hard at that problem for a whole year, but when they (to fail), the failure (not to discourage) them and they (to start) working anew. 2. Stratford-on-Avon (to be) a small town in central England where Shakespeare (to be born). 3. Renaissance (to mean) “a new birth,” “a revival”. Thus we (to call) the time of the great revival of art and learning which (to cover) the 15th and 16th centuries and (to mark) the transition from medieval to the modern world. 4. Some two centuries ago, when there (not to be) trains, cars and trams, people (to travel) in carriages. The mail-coach (to take) both people and the post from town to town. In some carriages the driver (to stand) or (to sit) behind the carriage. Even, when the train (to appear) some English writers still (to prefer) to make their heroes travel by cabs, hansoms and mail-coaches. 5. Latin (to be) a dead language now, but it (to be) the international language some four centuries ago. 6. Many thousands of years ago Cyprus (to be) famous for its copper. Our word “copper” (to originate) from the old word “cuperus”, which (to come) from Cyprus. 7. The Metric system (to be) a system of measures and weights which (to be) first adopted in France. 8. In ancient Rome people (to use) sticks of bone or metal with a pointed end, for writing on waxed tablets. They (to call) these sticks “styles”. Now this word (to mean) a mode of writing or speaking. 9. I (not to know) that Shishkin (not to create) his picture Morning in the Pine Wood alone. The no less famous painter Savitsky (to paint) the bear with her three little cubs.