Контрольная работа по Английскому языку на тему: "Перевод сказуемых"

Задание 1.
Перепишите предложения, подчеркните в каждом из них глагол-сказуемое и определите его видовременную форму и залог. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

A.

1. Governments usually require all individuals to conform to the laws they make.

2. Anne is practicing law now.

3. Trespassers will be prosecuted.

4. The government policy will depend upon the political and economic ideology adopted by the government.

5. Neither the government nor any official is above the law.

B.

1. My car has been stolen and abandoned.

2. These problems were being discussed by lawyers for many months.

3. Such criminal cases are usually tried by district courts.

4. Appeals and protests against sentences and decisions of Courts of First Instance are examined by Counts of Second Instance.

5. The criminal case was decided according to the laws of the state.

6. The accused is guaranteed the right to defence.

7. The verdict must be passed by the jury and the sentence must be passed by the judge.

8. The hearing of the case will be postponed.

9. The unlawful decision was appealed against by the procurator last week.

10. Penalties are imposed on guilty persons according to the law.

Задание 2.
Перепишите предложения, подчеркните Participle I, Participle II и установите функции каждого из них, т.е. укажите, будет ли оно определением, обстоятельством или составной частью глагола-сказуемого. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. An arrested person has a statutory right to consult a solicitor.

2. The man standing before a judge is a criminal.

3. In Scotland the police may detain and question a suspected person for a period of up to six hours.

4. This is the article describing the crime of murder.

5. Anyone arrested must be brought before a court with the least possible delay.
   
    

Задание 3.
Перепишите и письменно переведите следующие предложения:

1. It is an old debate, whether an effective system of law can be imposed from above or must grow «organically» from below. 

2. Hearsay evidence must be excluded on grounds of unreliability. 

3. The advocate is to fight for the rights of his clients, but only up to the point where an honourable person could fairly put the case on his own behalf.

4. Legislation needs to be expressed in language readily comprehensible by judges and lawyers. 

5. The “alibi warning” notice must be given to the prosecution if an alibi defense is to be relied upon.
 

Задание 4.

Перепишите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на различные значения слов «it», «that», «since», и «as». Переведите их на русский язык.

1. It was a quarter past seven when two men dressed in all black, entered the bank and drew the pistols. 

2. It is significant that there were different understanding of the means to achieve ideals. 

3. One must tell the truth in the court. 

4. As I don’t know the witness I can’t believe him.

5. Since that time she became to get secret information about new weapons of mass destruction during war.

6. Supporters of capital punishment believe that death is a just punishment for certain serious crimes.

Задание 5.
Перепишите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на различные значения глаголов «to do», «to be», «to have». Переведите их на русский язык.

 

1. The gangs were chasing him again. 

2. There have been two main theories in the study of international law: the natural law approach and the positivist movement. 

3. At the very moment the suspect is being interviewed by the police. 

4. Do the police know about the stolen money? 

5. You are always complaining about my reports. 

6. Muggers used to attack people in this park before a police station was established nearby.

Задание 6.
Перепишите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на функции инфинитива. Переведите их на русский язык.

 

1. To interrogate the accused the investigator looked through all information about the crime. 

2. To make a long story short means to keep to the point and to be brief. 

3. There is no need for him to appear in the court-room. 

4. There is no reason for him to change anything in his life. 

5. She tried to make long story short.

Задание 7.

Перепишите следующие предложения, принимая во внимание правила согласования времен и бессоюзное подчинение. Переведи предложения на русский язык. При переводе обратите внимание на тот факт, что в русском языке правила согласования времен отсутствуют.

 

1. The judge told us what crime the accused would be guilty of, if the evidence supplied by the prosecution was true. 

2. When the judge had finished his summing up, he asked the jury to consider their verdict. 

3. I inquired what one had to do if he needed a barrister in the High Court. 

4. My friend wondered what he was supposed to do, if he got into trouble with the law in England.

Задание 8. 

Переведите следующий текст письменно, используя словарь.

 

Criminal Law in England

In English law there is a rather long common law definition of murder. The unlawful killing of a human being under the Queen’s Peace, with malice aforethought, so that the victim dies within a year and a day.

Malice aforethought refers to the mens rea of the crime and is a way of saying that the murderer intended to commit a crime. Of course, the court can never know exactly what was in the head of the killer at the time of the killing, so it has the difficult task of deciding what his intentions must have been. The judgements in many recent cases show that English law is constantly developing its definition of intent....