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(A) 1. Я две недели гостила у приятельницы. 2. Я уже две недели гостила у приятельницы, когда получила ваше письмо. 3. Он вчера два часа играл на скрипке. 4. Он уже целый час играл на скрипке, когда мы пришли. 5. Девушка долго играла на рояле, и мы слушали ее с большим удовольствием. 6. Сестра была больна уже несколько дней, когда я узнал об этом. 7. Мересьев долго лежал без сознания, когда его заметили мальчики из ближайшей деревни. 8. Мальчик начал работать на заводе, где его отец проработал двадцать лет.

(B) 1. Лемм долго сидел на своей кровати с нотной тетрадкой на коленях. (Тургенев) 2. К вечеру им уже казалось, что они знают друг друга всю жизнь. (Чаковский) 3. Она [Таня] долго стояла перед черной доской в вестибюле. (Слепухин) 4. Ему [Волынцеву] было тяжело. Он давно любил Наталью. (Тургенев) 5. Анна Акимовна была голодна, так как с самого утра ничего не ела. (Чехов) 6. Забежала Раечка — уже три дня она не работала. (Слепухин) 7. Более часу провел он у ней. (Тургенев) 8... Прошло два года с тех пор, как он [Завьялов] видел его [Виктора] в последний раз. (Чаковский)

Exercise 25. Insert the Past Continuous or the Past Perfect Continuous.

!. The four of them went out and joined Mark Gaskell, who __ at the extreme end of the terrace by himself, (to sit) (Christie) 2. Gretta __ through the blowing snow for several minutes when a man, his head lowered against the wind, walked directly into her. (to walk) (Caldwell) 3. It continued to fain and at Vienna __ still __ (to rain) (Hilton) 4. We __ maybe an hour when she began to lean forward and look out, and then she told me to stop, (to run) (Cain) 5. I __ at the bar one evening with an acquaintance when the man with the scar came up. (to stand) (Maugham) 6. She took his arm, and led him out to the cab that __ at the door, (to wait) (Collins) 7. When I came down to Burlington to work in the lumber mill, I was only a kid about sixteen. My brother __ there already a year... (to work). (Reed) 8. Sitting by the window at a table, where she seemed to have been writing or drawing, was a lady, whose head __ on her hand, (to rest) (Dickens) 9. Nell awoke and saw that it was still night, and that the stars __ brightly in the sky. (to shine) (Dickens) 10. He __ about half an hour when he saw Cornelius coming along the path, (to walk) (Hardy) 11. He __ of her all the morning: he — of her now. (to think, to think) (Collins) 12. When the doctor awoke, Miss Reid __ still __ (to work) (Maugham)

Exercise 26. Translate into English.

1. Одим утром Анна Михайловна вошла в комнату сына. Он еще спал. (Короленко) 2. Несмотря на поздний час, на привокзальной площади было еще людно. Шел дождь. (Слепухин) 3. Был тихий летний вечер. Дядя Максим сидел в саду. (Короленко) 4. Джейн Эйр в течение нескольких минут внимательно рассматривала мистера Рочестера, когда он обернулся и перехватил ее взгляд. 5. Вдруг что-то заставило его обернуться. В дверях стояла Надя... Сколько времени простояла она, наблюдая за мужем? (Котов) 6. Она [Лиза] старалась возвращаться домой как можно позднее, когда девушки уже спали. (Чаковский) 7. В часов десять, когда я выходил из квартиры... я столкнулся в дверях с внучкой Смита. (Достоевский)

Exercise 27. Insert the Past Continuous, Past Perfect, or Past Perfect Continuous.

1. Abbey resumed the newspaper she __ (to read) (Dickens) 2. By three o'clock he __ all his own cigarettes and those he could borrow from others. He __ about lunch, (to finish, to forget) (Wilson) 3. When she came out again her tears and cries __, but there was a band of rosy flush across her forehead, (to cease) (Hansford Johnson) 4. He __ still __ at her, when two of the prowlers halted on his left, (to gaze) (Lindsay) 5. Approaching the door, she found herself face to face with Mr. Linley. He __ just __ directions to one of the servants, and was re-entering the drawing-room, (to give) (Collins) 6. Rosa made a contemptuous gesture. Then she tossed the book she __ on to the ground, (to read) (Murdoch) 7. I got up from where I __ at the Carlton House writing table and went over to the fireplace, (to sit) (Murdoch) 8. She looked up at him, and found he __ her closely, (to watch) (Wells) 9. She was on the edge of tears, as nearly dishevelled as so tidy and businesslike a girl could be. I thought she __ (to cry) (Hansford Johnson) 10. It __, but it __, and a street lamp some way off streaked the roadway with reflections, (to rain __ negative, to rain) (Murdoch) 11. Cowperwood got up. He was a little afraid now of this deep-seated passion he __ (to arouse) (Dreiser) 12. She picked up the chair she __ in and quickly slipped away with it into the house, (to sit) (Maugham) 13. Elinor __ still __ at this missive... when the door opened, (to stare) (Christie) 14. "Oh, don't get up, dear Miss Ley," said the visitor as her hostess slowly rose from the sofa upon which she __ so comfortably __. (to lie) (Maugham)

Exercise 28. Translate into English.

(A) 1. Она отложила в сторону письмо, которое писала, и задумалась. 2. Она пошла на почту отправить письмо, которое написала накануне. 3. Все еще спали, когда зазвонил телефон. 4. В саду никого не было. Пахло свежескошенной травой. По-видимому, садовники косили. 5. Сад потерял свою прелесть: садовники скосили всю траву. 6. К счастью, он не заметил ее воспаленных глаз и не догадался, что она плакала. 7. Сью внимательно наблюдала за Джонси, когда та открыла глаза. 8. Сью, которая некоторое время наблюдала за своей больной подругой, подошла к ее кровати. 9. Она отложила в сторону книгу, которую читала. 10. Она написала письмо и читала книгу. 11. Пеготти уронила чулок, который она штопала. 12. Пеготти отложила чулок, который уже заштопала.

(B) 1. Нежданов до того удивился, что даже не поднялся с пня, на котором сидел. (Тургенев) 2. Одинцова опустилась на то же самое кресло, на котором сидела накануне. (Тургенев) 3. В это время один офицер, сидевший в углу комнаты, встал. (Лермонтов) 4. Она [Елена] быстро захлопнула книгу, которую читала, и отошла от стола. (Достоевский). 5. Лена выпустила его руку, которую минуту тому назад так крепко сжимала. (Чаковский) 6. Глаза у Сергея покраснели и чуть припухли. Неужели он плакал?.. (Слепухин)

Exercise 29. Comment on the use ot the Present Indefinite, Present Continuous, Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous.

1. Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed. (Maugham) 2. You probably haven't seen her since those summer holidays when Mum and Dad were abroad. (Christie) 3. Gerald, if you are going away with Lord Illingworth, go at once. Go before it kills me: but don't ask me to meet him. (Wilde) 4. There's the car. Arnold's come back. I must go and bathe my eyes. I don't want them to see I've been crying. (Maugham) 5. I am seeing the other nurse, Nurse O'Brien, to-day. (Christie) 6. As she turns to go, she finds that Bella has entered and is staring at her and her father with impassive hatred. (Gow and D’Usseau) 7, Bella is a Negro woman of fifty who has been in the Langdon home for twenty-four years and thus occupies a favored position. (Gow and D’Usseau) 8. "You are being very absurd, Laura," she said coldly. (Mansfield) 9. When I've taken off my things we shall go into the next room and have tea. (Mansfield) 10. I'm always doing things on the spur of the moment to ray own inconvenience and other people's. (Maugham) 11. He has all the virtues. Dr. Ramsay, Miss Glover, even Mrs. Branderton have been drumming his praise into my ears. (Maugham) 12. Fatty came over to Lanny's table. A fat, cheerful Greek with laughing wrinkles at the sides of his eyes. "You're alone to-day," Fatty said. Lanny nodded and lit a cigarette. "I'm leaving to-night." "Leaving?" "Yes, Fatty. I'm going home to the Karroo." (Abrahams) 13. D'you know that Robert Qldham and Caroline have been madly in love with one another for the last ten years? They've waited all this time, and now at last Caroline is free. (Maugham) 14. This will be the death of her when she hears it. (Dreiser) 15. You have told my learned friend that you have known Mr. Pickwick a long time. (Dickens) 16. He is always breaking the law. (Shaw) 17. "It is Mrs. Sedley's coach, sister," said Miss Jemima. "Sambo, the black servant, has just rung the bell." (Thackeray) 18. She doesn't like me... She's always saying sharp things to me. (Christie) 19. "I think you are being very wise. A complete holiday, a complete rest, that is what you need. Have you decided where you are going?" "I've changed my mind," I said. "I don't think I'm doind away after all." (Murdoch) 20. Ah, Miss Marple. Good morning. Glad you've come. My wife's been ringing you up like a lunatic. (Christie) 21. A woman never acknowledges such a nondescript age as forty-eight unless she is going to marry a widower with seventeen children. (Maugham) 22. "By the way, you've been talking about me. I see it written in your faces. Your silence tells me all. I could even guess what you've been saying..." "You've been listening," Gladys cried, making a face at him. (Priestley) 23. You are being far too romantic about it. (Hilton) 24. "Do you like me at all, Bertha?" he asked. "I've been wanting to ask you ever since you came home." (Maugham) 25. Years have passed since we began this life. (Dickens) 26. I've been making some sandwiches. Won't you come up and have some? (Christie) 27. I cannot imagine why I've lived thirty years with a man I dislike so much. (Maugham) 28. "Antonia has been telling me about your flat," said Rosemary. "It sounds ideal. And there's a heavenly view over to Westminster Cathedral." (Murdoch) 29. We've been going to pictures about twice a week ever since. (Maugham) 30. I've flown a kite every Saturday afternoon ever since I was a kid and I'm going to fly a kite as long as ever I want to. (Maugham) 31. I know this is an old story, I don't understand it myself and if I set it down in black and white it is only with a faint hope that when I have written it I may get a clearer view of if. (Maugham) 32. Who is coming to tea? (Wilde) 33. "I don't know what's been the matter with me. I've been so miserable, Eddie..." "You've been crying." (Maugham)

Exercise 30. Insert the Present Indefinite, Present Continuous, Present Perfect, or Present Perfect Continuous.

1. I __ the bell for the last quarter of an hour, (to ring) (Maugham) 2. I want to see how much he __ since I saw him last, (to change) (Voynich) 3. __ you __ any word from her since she left here? (to have) (Dickens) 4. I don't want to take a cure at all. I am perfectly happy. All my life I __ perfectly happy. (to be) (Hemingway) 5. Signora Grassini greeted Gemma affectionately, exclaiming in a loud whisper: "How charming you __ tonight!" (to look) (Voynich) 6. Here's my keys. I __ (to leave) (Gow and D’Usseau) 7. I __ to Mr. Boldwood since the autumn. I want to explain. I __ to do it ever since I returned, (to speak — nej»tive, to long) (Hardy) 8. I requested them to suspend their decision until they. __ my narrative, (to read) (Collins) 9. Wait till you __ Moose and __ with him. (to see, to talk) (Aldridge) 10. "But what __ we __ ?" she asked. "I __ about it a lot. I __ about it all week. But 1 __ what to do." (to do, to think, to think, to know — negative) (Caldwell) 11. I muet not let my eyes get all red and swollen, or Henry'll know I __ (to cry) (Maugham) 12. The sun __ with different degrees of heating power in different parts of the world, (to shine) 13. "Look," I said, "I __ Francis very well. I __ him since we were very young men." (to know,! to know) (Snow) 14. "Well, I __ that Iris isn't going to be married," I said after a while, (to hear) (Maugham) 15. He says he __ to the same tunes for fifteen years, (to listen) (Maugham) 16. Cesare you and I __ friends for all these years, and I __ never __ you what really happened about Arthur, (to be, to tell) (Voynich) 17. What are we going to say to the king when he __ ? (to come in) (Shaw 18. "Dear little Hans," cried the Miller, "I am in great trouble. My little boy __ off a ladder and __ himself." (to fall, to hurt (Wilde) 19. "As I __ you for the past six months," he said, "business is bad." (to tell) (/. Shaw) 20. "This other gentleman," cried Mr. Pickwick, "is, as you will see when you __ the letter... a very near relative, or I should rather say a very particular friend of your son's." (to read) (Dickens) 21. Maude: You __ both ; __ forward to this moment ever since you met one another. Carol ine: And now it __ (to look, to come) (Maugham) 22. But you ought to have been telling your tale. Now you begin and when you __, we'll go back and see what __ really __ (to finish, to happen) (Priestley) 23. What __ you. __ with yourself since I've been away? (to do) (Christie) 24. You __ here two weeks. __ you __ your opinion of the South? (to be, to change) (Gow and D’Usseau) 25. "1 am very hungry and tired," replied Oliver. "I __ a long way. I __ these seven days." (to walk, to walk) (Dickens) 26. My good man, Signora Bolla __ head nurse in general to all of us. She __ after sick people ever since she was in short frocks, and __ it better than any sister of mercy I __ I needn't leave any directions if she __ (to be, to look, to do, to know, to come) (Voynich) 27. As Arthur mounted the stone steps leading to the street, a girl in a cotton dress and straw hat ran up to him with outstretched hands. "Arthur! Oh, I am so glad!.. I __ here for half an hour... Arthur, why __ you __ at me like that? Something __ Arthur, what __ to you? Stop!" (to wait, to look, to happen, to come) (Voynich) 28. "Mr. Bithem here yet?" asked Miss Mass. "Oh, yes, dear," cried the chorus. "He __ here for ages. We all __ here for more than an hour." (to be, to wait) (Mansfield) 29. "Are we alone now?" "The waiter __ and the door is locked." (to go) (Caldwell) 30. I __ happy. I __ always __ happy, (to be, to be) (Hemingway)