14. Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в требующемся времени:

Ann: Hello, Kate. I am so glad you (to come) at last. Where you (spend) the morning?

Kate: I (to be) in the bookstore choosing new books in English.

Ann: It (to rain) still? It (to be) rather dark in the room.

Kate: No, the rain (to stop), but the wind (to blow). On my way to your place I (to meet) Mary. You (to know) her?

Ann: Of course I … (to know) her since childhood. When we (to be) children, we often (to play) together. Where you (to meet) her? I (not to see) her for a long time. What she (to look) like?

Kate: She (not to change) a bit. She (to go) to the library when I (to meet) her.

Ann: What she (to tell) you?

Kate: She (to tell) me she recently (to return) from a very interesting trip and that she (to travel) a lot and (to see) many interesting things. She (to want) to see all her friends soon.

Ann: Oh, then she (to come) to see me, too, I (to think).

Kate: Yes, that (to be) a pleasant meeting, I (to be) sure. But what (to be) the time? My watch (to stop) and I (not to know) the exact time.

Ann: It (to be) ten minutes to three.

Kate: Oh, then let’s begin working at once. At four o’clock I must go. My mother (to wait) for me at the metro station at a quarter past four.

15. Переведите предложения, учитывая особенности перевода конструкций “подлежащее, выраженное местоимением “it”:

1. It proves that the system works perfectly. 2. It took the student 5 years to master his speciality. 3. It is possible to predict the results of this experiment. 4. It was head of the government who signed the decree on the establishment of the Moscow Mining Academy. 5. It was not until 1930 when a separate petroleum institute singled out from this Academy. 6. The level of petroleum education has grown manyfold. It is very high now.

16. Переведите текст: The System of Petroleum Education in Our Country

Our country has always paid great attention to the education of petroleum engineers. Soon after the October Revolution in September 1918 the Soviet Government published the Decree about the organization of the Moscow Mining Academy. Later in 1930 a separate petroleum institute singled out from this Academy and we call this institute the Russian State Gubkin University of Oil and Gas. Since that time the level of petroleum education has grown manyfold.

At present the system of petroleum education in our country is comprising special petroleum universities with their branches and some faculties in several polytechnical institutes and universities. Together with traditional specialities such as “drilling, production and reservoir engineering”, “geological and geophysical prospecting of oil and gas fields”, “refining and petrochemical processes”, “reservoir engineering and production methods”, “pipeline transportation”, “petroleum economics” a great number of new specialities have appeared. Nowadays students are studying 59 petroleum specialities and it is difficult even to enumerate them.

A typical oil university has usually several (from 5 to 8) faculties and the educational period lasts 4-6 years. These universities usually provide not only full-time education but also part-time and extra-mural (correspondence) departments. The main idea (method) of education at all the departments is based on the unity of academic, practical and research education. Future engineers study in well-equipped laboratories and workshops, computer classes and reading-rooms. They are mastering mathematics and physics, chemistry and drawing, strength of materials and foreign languages. As to foreign languages they study English, French or German languages.

All our higher educational institutions prepare our petroleum engineers in close connection with their future work and they have their practical training at oil refineries, oil fields and pipeline construction sites. During their studies at a typical petroleum university many students start their independent research work in students’ scientific societies. They carry out special investigations in the laboratories of the university under the guidance of experienced teachers.

Most of students receive maintenance grants.