Определите, в каких предложениях содержится герундиальный оборот. Предложения с герундиальным оборотом переведите:
1. I don’t like your going off without any money.
2. After I had read the book I went to bed.
3. I hope you will forgive me disturbing you.
4. I object to Mary going out on such a windy day.
5. I realized that something had gone wrong when I saw her pale face.
6. His being a foreigner was bad enough.
7. After he had looked through the article, he found many typing mistakes.
8. Do you mind me sitting in your favorite chair?
9. I couldn’t stand his talking nonsense.
10. After she had copied the telephone number, she tried to memorize it.
2 Whose invention do we use nowadays? For what do we use Bell`s invention nowadays?
3 What is more complax version of the two-way radio?
4 Who began experimentin with the idea of usin a number of radio masts to pickup signals from two-way radios in the 1940s?
5 Who moved far away from one mast and the next mast picked up the signal? What did the next mast pick up when a caller moved too far away from one mast?
6 Where did the mobile phone quickly become synonymous with the "yuppie"? What is the "yuppie"? What did the new breed young urban professionals carry as status symbols?
7 What will become more and more advanced?
8 What do mobile phones with broadband internet access allow us?
9 Where do we live?
Fashion is something we deal with everyday. Even people who say they don't care what they wear choose clothes every morning that say a lot about them and how they feel that day.
One certain thing in the fashion world is change. We are constantly being bombarded with new fashion ideas from music, videos, books, and television. Movies also have a big impact on what people wear. Ray-Ban sold more sunglasses after the movie Men In Black. Sometimes a trend is world-wide. Back in the 1950s, teenagers everywhere dressed like Elvis Presley.
Fashion is revealing. Clothes reveal what groups people are in. In high school, groups have names: "goths, skaters, preps, herbs." Styles show who you are, but they also create stereotypes and distance between groups. For instance, a businessman might look at a boy with green hair and multiple piercings as a freak and outsider. But to another person, the boy is a strict conformist. He dresses a certain way to deliver the message of rebellion and separation, but within that group, the look is uniform. Acceptance or rejection of a style is a reaction to the society we live in. Fashion is a language which tells a story about the person who wears it. "Clothes create a wordless means of communication that we all understand," according to Katherine Hamnett, a top British fashion designer.
Fashion is big business. More people are involved in the buying, selling and production of clothing than any other business in the world. Everyday, millions of workers design, sew, glue, dye, and transport clothing to stores. Ads on buses, billboards and magazines give us ideas about what to wear, consciously, or subconsciously. Clothing can be used as a political weapon. In nineteenth century England, laws prohibited people from wearing clothes produced in France. During twentieth century communist revolutions, uniforms were used to abolish class and race distinctions.