Exercise 2. Analyse and translate paying attention to the predicate.
1) The great virtue of the neutron is that it has no electric charge. 2) The conclusion I arrived at was that he had a special purpose in asking me his last question and. a special interest in hearing my answer to it. 3) The result was that among his written papers there was one in which my name was mentioned. 4) An important characteristic of radiation is that it can occur in vacuum. 5) The question is whether the topic is important enough to unite all the participants. 6) One of the reasons why people before the eighteenth century knew hardly anything about gases was that they were difficult to handle. 7) Another remarkable fact is that the instruments not only show the operator now things are at the moment, but warn him of impending disturbances. 8) The question is whether they will finish the test in time. 9} The main point was where he could find the necessary data for his experiments. 101 This is why I want to be present at the tests.
Exercise 3. Translate paying attention to the object.
1) The experiments show that light travels with great speed in a vacuum and that it travels with different speeds in different mediums. 2) The engineer said that he would be able to make the experiment the members of the committee spoke about at the last conference. 3) He asked me to tell him what place I had come from and where I was going to. 4) The delegates were asked if they themselves would select the laboratories they wanted to visit. 5) This instrument serves to indicate to the pilot whether his engine is operating efficiently. 6) The post-graduates say the text they must translate is the most difficult one they have ever had. 7) When heating gases we find they act in exactly the same way as liquids.
Exercise 4. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the attribute.
1) They overcame numerous obstacles and difficulties they met with in the course of their research. 2) Instead of replying to my words he gave me the article he referred to in his report. 3) Microphones may be divides into classes according to the service they are intended for. 4) Properties of steel depend also on heat treatment the metal has been subjected to. 5) This is the principle the mercury thermometer is based upon. 6) He delivered such a report that everybody was pleased. 7) The usual courses which post-graduates usually take are: a foreign language, philosophy, management and marketing, computers, speciality, and some others. 8) The college the new assistant arrived from supplied him with excellent recommendations. 9) The university he arrived at was just starting up a new laboratory. 10) It was the kind of laboratory he was willing to work in. 11) The scientist asked his new assistant whether there was any field of physics he was especially interested in. 12) This was the very man he had been told about by the senior assistant, Maxwell by name. 13) The report he made after their delegation had visited our laboratory shows that he has finally realized the importance of the work we are doing here. 14) The postgraduate teaching prof. N. is responsible for is of great interest for him. 15)The subject they have chosen for the discussion is connected, with the physics of fluids.
Exercise 5. Translate the following sentences into Russian paying attention to the adverbial modifier.
1) You must remember about it wherever you are. 2) The bell or other alarm signal operates only when the circuit is broken. 3) As the warm air rises, cooler air takes its place. 4) It is a highly important instrument as it may be used in many experiments. 5) When radio waves travel away from their point of origin they become attenuated or weakened. 6) As the vibration dies down, the intensity of the sound diminishes. 7) We shall go to the lecture on psychology for it seems to be interesting.