..." "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)
Exercise 31. Translate into English.
(A)
1. Ты уложила свои вещи? Такси уже десять минут ждет у дверей. 2. Теперь я поняла. 3. Он уже пять месяцев заведует лабораторией и многому научился за это время. 4. Я приду к вам, если только меня не задержат на работе. 5. Я всегда интересовалась естественными науками. 6. Кто взял мой словарь? Я уже полчаса ищу его. 7. Мы здесь уже с начала месяца, но не было еще ни одного солнечного дня. 8. Она вечно говорит по телефону.
(
B
)
1. «Виктор, ты меня слышишь?» — «Да, слышу», — ответил он! (Семенихин)2. Что с вами?.. Или вы что потеряли? (Тургенев)3. Здравствуйте, целую вечность вас не видела. (Тендряков)4. Она [Наташка) всегда встает раньше меня. (Тендряков)5. Ваш сын — один из самых замечательных людей, с которыми я когдалибо встречался. (Тургенев)6. «Мы давно не видались»... — «Давно, и переменились оба во многом». (Лермонтов) 7. Почему же ты не здороваешься с ним, Алеша? Ведь ты давно знаешь его! (Коптяева)8. Ты что делаешь сегодня вечером? (Слепухин)9. Прошла почти неделя, а я еще не познакомился с Литовскими. (Лермонтов)10. Треплев (нетерпеливо). Где Заречная? Дорн. Она уехала домой. (Чехов)11. Ты не заболела? — Нет, Сережа... я просто не ела с самого утра... (Слепухин)12. Инсаров послезавтра приезжает в нашу деревеньку и будет жить со мной на одной квартире. (Тургенев)13. Игнатию Тимофеевичу давно хочется жить самостоятельно. (Пермяк)14. Вы, кузина... не похудели в эти восемь лет. (Тургенев)15. Что же вы намерены теперь сделать? (Тургенев)16.... если я сумею помочь тебе, я буду... счастлива. (Тендряков)17. Как-то он [Ласкер] теперь сыграет? Почти десять лет он не играл в шахматы. (Котов)18. Я ее давно знаю, и хорошо ее знаю. (Тургенев)19. Я знаю, кто нас подслушивает в эту минуту... Г-жа Сипягина подслушивает нас. (Тургенев)20. Псина, ты откуда? Я тебя ушиб? (Чехов) 21. Я, милая, давно уже ничего не читал... Впрочем, иногда читаю Жюля Верна. (Чехов)22. Андрей Васильевич!.. Ваша Тонечка у нас. И вас ждем. Толя приехал. (Тендряков)23. Она [Лена] уже скрылась за поворотом, а Завьялов все стоит и смотрит в окно. (Чаковский)
Exercise 32. Comment on the use of the Past Indefinite, Past Continuous, Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous.
1. The cook
used
to snatch away the letters from home, before she [Ma Parker]
had read
them. (Mansfield)2. As she neared the kitchen, Chris came from the garage where he'
d been attending
to a lorry with a magneto trouble, wiping his hands on some waste. (Lindsay)3. She
was
always
telling
herself that the only rational course was to make Edward a final statement of her intentions, then break off all communications. (Maugham)4. I realized that he
had come away
with me in order to discuss once more what he
had been
already
discussing
for hours with his sister-in-law. (Maugham)5. I saw that it was 2 o'clock. We
had been
sitting
there an hour and a half. (Du Maurier)6. It
had
long
been
dark when Arthur rang at the front door of the.great house in the Via Borra. (Voynich)7. It was three o'clock. The wind
had fallen
, the moon
was shining
over the quiet sea. (Christie)8. Every Sunday morning Ethel
would read
aloud while Ma Parker did her washing. (Mansfield)9. We'
d got
to Ruby's room by then. She wasn't there, of course, but she'
d been
there, because the dress she
had been wearing was lying
across a chair. (Christie)10. To take off her boots or to put them on
was
an agony to her, but it
had been
an agony for years. (Mansfield)11. Here I saw this man, whom I
had lost sight
of some time; for I
had been travelling
in the provinces. (Dickens)12. When the Gadfly raised his head the sun
had set
, and the red glow
was dying
in the west. (Voynich)13. It was Sunday morning and they
had
all
been
back at Grayhallock for three days. (Murdoch)14. Rainborough noticed that she
had been crying
, her face was stained with tears... (Murdoch)15. Ann
was
certainly
