Задания к разделу 3

Модальный глагол must и его эквиваленты “to have to и to be to”

(см. таблицу 3.1.-3.2.)

Задание 1. Укажите номера предложений с модальным глаголом 'must' и его эквивалентами:

а) в настоящем време­ни;

b) в прошедшем времени;

с) в будущем времени,

d) Ука­жите предложение, где 'have to' встречается дважды: в прошедшем и настоящем времени.

1. Our workers have been free from the fear of being unemployed. They know that they will never have to go from one factory to another or from one office to another in search for work.

2. People had to study and learn, to acquire technical skills and to master the art of management. That was another task set by the government before the country.

3. Russia was buying large quantities of machines from developed countries. But could it rely on the western market alone?

4. The country had to build new industries and modernize plants.

5. The machine tool industry was to organize the production of new models of machine tools.

6. The engineering industries were to turn out complete sets of equipment for new metal-making works.

7. The output level of 2005 was to be more than doubled.

8. The chairman of the factory trade union committee said that they worked a 41-hour, five-day week but in addition had to work about six or seven Saturdays to cover the num­ber of hours that have to be worked in a year.

9. As in the past the efforts of scientists are to be concentrat­ed on achieving a radical improvement of the production.

10.The country is to build new metal-making plants but the need for more metal is to be met also by more careful and fuller use of the metal already being produced.

11.Commodities must match the better standards people are demanding.

12.The basic principle of socialism was that everything be­longs to the people and had to be used to benefit them.

Ключи: a) —9, 10, 11, 12; b) — 2, 4, 5, 6, 7; c) — 1; d)— 8