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Ex 1. Rewrite the sentences as in the example. Translate them into your mother tongue.
Example
This car model is now being developed. ► This car model was being developed at that time.
1. Workers are now being laid off at factories in Britain.
2. New trasportation improvement strategies are now being implemented in the region.
3. Data on highway congestion locations are now being collected.
4. The impacts of incidents on road traffic are now being analyzed.
5. Alternative sources of financing for new highway construction are now being sought.
6. Pushkinskaya Street is now being resurfaced.
7. The rails are now being removed from the central lane.
8. A detailed assessment of transportation alternatives is now being conducted.
Ex. 2. Put the verbs in brackets into past progressive passive forms. Translate them into your mother tongue.
1. When we arrived in Baltimore, the rapid transit system there (complete).
2. At that period, tunneling (carry out) for a light-rail rapid transit system in Buffalo.
3. The mayor telephoned when the costs of the 2010 city’s center reconstruction project (estimated).
4. In winter 2009, the hryvnia constantly (devalue) which retarded financial and economic activity.
5. Throughout 2007 the country’s economic development (finance) through monetary issues from the Central Bank.
6. The whole year after the crisis had been met, its repercussions (feel) in all sectors of the industry, especially in trucking.
7. When Colbert resigned as president, the company (threaten) with bankruptcy.
8. Iacocca was hired as president of Chrysler Corporation at the time when the company (plague) with management and sales problems.
Ex 3. Rewrite the sentences beginning with the phrase in italics as in the example. Translate them into your mother tongue.
Example
Within the whole February 2009, analysts were considering the ways of fighting the inflation. ► The ways of fighting the inflation were being considered by analysts within the whole February 2009.
1. When he came into the conference-hall, the participants of the conference were discussing issues concerning the motor carrier industry deregulation.
2. At that moment the traffic warden was inspecting the parking lot where he usually parked his car.
3. At that time dealers were selling cars with no warranty and no assurance of service after sale.
4. I bought my first car at the time when the automotive industry was introducing safety belts.
5. When I started working for the company, they were improving the effectiveness of exhaust systems.
6. He saw that a State Motor Vehicle inspector was carefully examining his new car.
7.As mid-sized sedansarrived, other Chrysler teams were preparing new lines of compact cars for 1994 and 1995.
8. The informatiom arrived when the department officials were analyzing impacts of traffic incidents on congestions on the arterial streets.
Ex 4. Translate into English using past progressive passive forms where necessary.
1. У той час спад комерційної діяльності відчувався повсюди.
2. Поки обговорювалося питання про підвищення цін на паливо, деякі заправні станції не працювали.
3. Ця інформація надійшла, коли збиралися дані про вплив заторів на дорожній рух у нашому місті.
4. У той час інтелектуальні транспортні системи (Intelligent Transportation Systems) ще тільки розроблялися.
5. Коли водій дістався сервісного центру, його автомобіль тестували.
6. У той рік гривня (hryvnia) постійно знецінювалася.
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