The experiment being made at our laboratory shows the action of catalysts.
4. The paper described a series of carefully controlled experiments. 5. The
other paper presented at the conference dealt with sound phenomena. 6.
The work described here was part of our investigation. 7. The tests
reported here are very important for our research work. 8. These papers,
previously unpublished, fall into two groups.
Exercise 72. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на
причастие в функции обстоятельства.
1. Making the experiment he was seriously injured. 2. Knowing the
harmful effects of the rays, they took special precautions. 3. They worked
using the best modern equipment. 4. Having finished his experiments, he
compared the results. 5. While burning different substances combined with
oxygen. 6. Having discussed chemical reactions we proceeded to the
experiments. 7. The students spent the first year in the preparatory
department studying Russian. 8. When combined with the oxygen of the
air the match was lighted.
Exercise 73. Подчеркните независимые причастные обороты и
переведите предложения.
1. The text-book provides a series of examples, the examples being
graduated with a view to facilitating homework as much as possible. 2.
Natural radioactivity having been discovered, many scientists became
interested in it. 3. Many technical and scientific problems having been
solved, the first spaceflight could be realized. 4. Large masses of
substances are made up of molecules, molecules being made up of atoms.
5. The 5
th
of June arriving, they departed. 6. The wind having dropped,
they set out to walk. 7. The vessel being pretty deep in the water and the
weather being calm, there was but little motion. 8. The attendance from
Western European countries was regrettably small, about half of the
overseas visitors being from North America. 9. Plants grown in the dark
are always colourless, chlorophyll becoming green only under the action
of light.
Герундий
Exercise 74. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на функции
герундия.
1. Nuclear physics gives two directions for solving the energy problem. 2.
Nowadays man gets nineteenths of the energy by burning valuable raw
materials like oil, coal and gas. 3. His work was a success due to his
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