Ex.2.9. Translate the following sentences into Russian.
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 544.
1. There was an especially big boom in the number of young people going on to higher education in the late 1980s and early 1990s, which has since levelled off: Tony Blair wants to revive it, and has set a target for 50% of 18-to-30-year-olds to experience higher education by 2010
2. Some universities are looking to poorer countries - South Korea, China, Eastern Europe - to fill junior posts
3. the tendency of policy has been to erase or deny the differences between them
4. This tendency was most starkly manifest in the decision by the last Conservative government, in 1992, to scrap the distinction between universities and what were previously known as polytechnics
5. It is difficult conclusively to prove the notion that Britain's top universities are falling behind their international counterparts, such as Harvard and Yale
6. it is difficult to compare the modular education offered in top American colleges with Britain's single-subject approach
7. British universities seem to be doing rather well. They still attract more than their fair share of foreign students.
8. By British standards, UCL has a vast research budget; but it is running a deficit and has lost academic staff to America
9. One of the stated aims of these changes was to improve access to university for less-well-off teenagers. But the wide gap between the proportions of students who come from the top social classes and the bottom ones hasn't shrunk
10. In mitigation…
Ex.2.10. Find in the article above the English for the following words and phrases:
1) переход от … к… 2) один из трёх 3) поставить цель 4) расходы на одного студента 5) снизиться на … % 6) увеличиться на … % 7) соотношение между студентами и преподавателями удвоилось 8) исправить положение 9) изучать огромное разнообразие предметов 10) отставать от 11) Нобелевская премия 12) лауреаты Нобелевской премии 13) надвигается кризис 14) страстный защитник 15) большое число отчисляемых (студентов) 16) отпугнуть 17) обходиться без правительственных дотаций (субсидий)
Ex.2.11. Find in the article above words and phrases which mean:
1) the effect or result of an action or event
2) sb/sth (with sth) (often passive) to cause trouble, pain or distress to sb/sth
3) without plan or order; random
4) unable to consider or plan for the future (first meaning – unable to see distant things clearly)
5) to manage sth wrongly or badly
6) (in sth) a sudden increase in population, trade, etc; a period of wealth and success
7) to come or bring back into use, existence, fashion, etc
8) to become worse in quality or condition
9) the combining of two or more commercial companies, etc into one
10) a sum of money given by an organization, esp the government, for a particular purpose
Ex.2.12. Fill in with words from the previous exercise:
1) What was the ___________ of your meeting?
2) Our company lost an important order because the directors _____________ the negotiations.
3) He was awarded a research ____________ by the government.
4) His health ____________ rapidly and he died two weeks later.
5) The government's approach to the problem was ____________ and _____________ therefore not satisfactory.
6) Seeing her old friend again _____________ memories of her childhood.
7) She is ___________ (ie suffers from) arthritis.
8) The two companies are considering the possibility of a ____________.
9) The oil market is enjoying an unprecedented _____________.
10) Severe drought has ____________ the countryside.
11) Interest in this composer's music has ____________ recently.
12) You can get a ___________ to repair of your house.
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