ВАРИАНТ I
I. Вставьте артикли a/anили the там, где необходимо.
1. Buy ….. tobacco, please, it's the most profitable merchandize for your company, because it's much cheaper here.
2. Here is ….. book you need.
3. ….. large branch broken by ….. wind lay across our path.
4. ….. person who is sitting next to me is ….. famous painter.
5. ….. windows let in ….. light and ….. air.
II. Выберите нужную форму прилагательного или наречия.
1. I did not rest very (good/ well) last night.
2. It is not (good/ well) for your company to distribute these very commodities.
3. I was (angry/ angrily) at what he said.
4. He spoke (angry/ angrily).
5. It isn’t (bad/ badly) what the manager suggests.
III. Вставьте it или there.
1. Is ….. a police station near here?
2. I couldn’t hear….. was noisy.
3. ….. is going to be rainy tomorrow.
4. ….. are several people in the reception room waiting for you.
5. ….. is not normal when the subordinates don’t obey their superlatives.
IV. Выберите нужную форму местоимений.
1. When can I find (somebody, anybody) here who can give me the necessary information?
2. The suppliers were upset because somebody stole part of (them, his, their) cargo.
3. I’ve heard (little, a few, few) about the customers new suggestion.
4. The spaniard Balboa called the ocean Pacific, (which, what) means “peaceful”, “quiet”.
5. (Which, what) student in your group words hardest of all?
6. The managers (theirself, themselves, them) advised about the urgency in our office.
V. Поставьте глаголы, данные в скобках, в нужном времени. Переведите предложения на родной язык.
1. I only (succeed) in solving the problem after I (work) on it for several weeks.
2. I (read) the contract for half an hour and can’t agree to some provisions.
3. He said by June 1st he (work) for the company for 5 years.
4. He (feel) very tired when he (come) home as he (play) football.
5. The customers must (observe) an upward tendency in wool prices on the London market.
VI. Сформулируйте вопросы, ответами на которые являются следующие следложения.
1. She has lived in Minsk for three years.
2. They heard nothing about the new prices.
3. He’ll be permitted to visit you next week.
4. She is busy with the suppliers.
5. Yes, he is. The CEO is talking on the phone.
VII. Употребите инфинитив с частицей toили без нее.
1. I think you ought (to apologize).
2. Make him (to speak) louder.
3. My subordinate asked me (to let) him (to go) home a bit earlier.
4. He was seen (to leave) the office.
5. I cannot (to go) there now, I have some work (to do).
VIII. Употребите соответствующую форму герундия.
1. They regret (to marry) young.
2. This prevented the letter from (to be) sent off.
3. He enjoyed (to sleep) in the open air.
4. There was no chance of (to find) a vessel of the required size.
5. The steamer left the port without (to take) sufficient bunker coal on board.
IX. Употребите герундий или инфинитив.
1. CEO doesn’t allow (to smoke/ smoking) in his office.
2. She wants her children (to go/ going) to the dentist every six months.
3. Would you like (to discuss/ discussing) the contract clauses in detail?
4. My neighbours are interested in (to run/ running) a restaurant.
5. I admit her (to tell/ telling) a lie.
X. В условных предложениях поставьте глаголы в нужной форме.
1. I (to come) and see you off if I not (live) so far away.
2. If you (to stay) here a little longer you (to see) the boss.
3. We not (to go) out unless it (to stop) raining.
4. The man (to be killed) if the train not (to stop) quickly.
5. The manager said the company (to suffer) losses last month if the stand-attendant not (to work) efficiently.
XI. Прямую речь в скобках преобразуйте в косвенную.
1. He….. («The buyers agree to accept the cargo on condition that it is not shipped before the 10th December»).
2. He said ….. («I was writing a letter when he entered the room»).
3. The consignor said ….. («We must ship the merchandize at the end of May»).
4. They said to me ….. («You ought to send him a cable»).
5. The counterparts said to me ….. («You should wait until the weather changes»).
XII. Прочитайте текст, устно переведите его. Напишите на английском языке аннотацию прочитанного.
To call Google a juggernaut would be an insult
Merriam-Webster defines a juggernaut as “a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path”. But this word really doesn’t capture how phenomenal Google’s growth has been the past few quarters and how rapidly the stock has risen in recent months. The leading search engine company has beaten consensus earnings estimates by an average of 21.6 percent a quarter during its first five quarters as a public company.
Shares of Google (Research) have nearly doubled this year and have surged about 350 percent since the company’s initial public offering in August 2004. As of Wednesday morning, the stock was trading around $380. So it only needs to head about 5 percent higher to pass the rarified air that is the $400 level.
Google now has a market value of $106 billion. It is worth more than twice as much as its top rival Yahoo! What’s more, Google’s market value is higher than computer giants Dell and Hewlett-Packard. And Google is on the verge of surpassing Cisco Systems, which has a market value of nearly $110 billion. It wasn’t that long ago when many investors were touting Cisco as a company that could be the first to hit the trillion dollar market value.
It’s not a stretch to suspect that Google could even soon eclipse two of the granddaddies of the tech. Industry, services and software giant IBM and semi-conductor leader Intel, in the not so distant future either. Big Blue has a market value of approximately $130 billion while Intel is worth about $140 billion.
A cheap $40 stock? With all this in mind, can shares of Google possibly still be worth buying? – Many analysts say “yes”. The bullish argument for Google is that the stock, despite its high sticker price, is actually not that expensive based on the most widely used method of valuing a stock – the price to earnings ratio. Analysts expect Google to earn $8.47 a share in 2006. So the stock is currently trading at about 45 times next year’s earnings estimates.
That’s certainly a rich valuation but it’s nowhere near the triple-digit price to earnings multiples that many Internet stocks fetched during the go-go days of the late 1990s and the early 2000. It’s also slightly cheaper than Yahoo! which trades at 50 times 2006 earnings estimates. What’s more, Google’s earnings are expected to increase by 44 percent in 2006. That means Google is trading at a valuation that is roughly in line with its projected growth rate, a level that several analysts said is reasonable.