I. Перепишите следующие предложения; подчеркните в каждом из них глагол-сказуемое и определите его видовременную форму и залог. Переведите предложения на русский язык

l. Land conservation has a wide range of various practices, such as contouring, strip cropping, and minting.

2. Attention is given to legal dimensions of land conservation.

3.The biosphere is a complex system and possesses enormous possibilities for self-regulation.

4. Water expands when cooled from 0°C and contracts when heated from 0 to 4°C.

5.The movement of undesirable odors, smoke and chemical wastes are known as air pollution.

II. Перепишите следующие предложения. Подчеркните Participle I и Participle 11 и установите функции каждого из них, укажите, является ли оно определением, обстоятельством или составной частью глагола-сказуемого; предложения переведите на русский язык.

1. Men will drink water containing 1 part in 1000 of dissolved salt, animals will drink water that is much more saline, while food-plants demand a purer water.

2. The Nile River is the only river flowing within the territory of Egypt and the source of water for irrigation of lands in the country.

3. For us, situated of 5000 years, it is hard not to feel sympathy with the unknown engineer who so boldly attempted the impossible for that age, the Egyptian dam.

4. The ends of the delivering and watering pipe-lines are fitted with special flushing valves which serve to free the pipe-lines of salt.

III. Перепишите следующие предложения, подчеркните в каждом из них модальный глагол или его эквивалент; предложения переведите на русский язык.

1. We can live without food for several weeks but we must die in a few days if we have no water to drink.

2. Excessive nutrients, salts, pesticides, organics in soils may limit the utility of the land.

З. Тhе soil has to be in optimum condition for crop growth and the micro-flora and micro-fauna must be of a character to ameliorate the general chemical and physical properties of the soil and the soil-plants relationship.

4. “Water must be an element,” ancient people thought.

5. Some of each plant food is there in such a form that the plant can use it.