Ex. 1. Insert connectors from the list below in gaps. Underline the connectors.

(as, which, what, that, whose, how, who)

1. The recession has reduced demand, as a result of ____ many companies have gone out of business.

2. The aunt permitted herself a smile, ____ might almost have been described as a grin.

3. Often and often Nicholas had pictured to himself ____ the lumber-room might be like, that region ____ was so carefully sealed from youthful eyes and concerning ____ no questions were ever answered.

4. Such parts of the house ____ Nicholas knew best were rather bare and cheerless, but here there were wonderful things for the eye to feast on.

5. Antimatter is identical to physical matter except that it is composed of particles ____ electric charges are opposite to those found in normal matter.

6. Reading through H.L. Mencken’s classic The American Language, ___ most recent revision dates from less than fifty years ago, one is struck by the number of then-current Americanisms that are now obsolete or archaic.

7. Mrs Dursley was thin and blond and had nearly twice the ususal amount of neck, ___ came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbours.

8. It is not ___ we do, but also ___ we do not, for ___ we are accountable. (Moliére)

9. As you may have heard, we regularly arrange meetings of our clients in The United States, in Europe and in Asia, at ____ they have the opportunity to listen to a talk held by leaders in commerce or specialists in a field of science.

10. He ____ chatters to you will chatter of you.

11. In addition he called people fools, ____ is unkind and unwise even if they are.

12. You eat twice ___ I eat.

13. He ___ leaps must take a long run.

14. I pity snails and all ___ carry their homes on their backs.

15. Such of you ___ wish to leave may do so.

 

Ex. 2. Insert connectors from the list below in gaps. Underline the connectors.

(as, which, what, that, whose, how, who)

1. Otherwise, however, Canada is too close to the United States (most of its inhabitants live within a couple of hundred miles of the border) to be more than an extension of its large neighbor, linguistically speaking – always, of course excepting Quebec, most of ____ inhabitants continue to speak their own rather archaic dialect of French.

2. Economise ____ he would, the earnings from hack-work did not balance expenses.

3. The animals felt relieved and grateful, and asked him to go at once – ____ he did.

4. My only enemy was the clock on the dashboard, ____ hands would move relentlessly to one o’clock.

5. ____ was more difficult was finding Snape and Malfoy.

6. If I were superstitious, ____ I am not, I should say it wasn’t chance at all, but Providence avenging the victim.

7. The Office of Misinformation has been working around the clock, we’ve had teams of Oblivators out trying to modify the memories of all the Muggles ___ saw ___ really happened.

8. I saved such equipment ___ could not be replaced.

9. Ellen sat listening, ___ she did so well.

10. A morpheme is a group of allomorphs, each of ___ is a combination of phonemes.

11. The scientists can only wait and hope, ___ is ___ I shall be doing for the next three months.

12. Katie was removed to St Mungo’s Hospital for magical Maladies and Injuries the following day, by ___ time the news that she had been cursed had spread all over the school.

13. ___ a man says drunk he has thought sober. (Flemish proverb)

 

Ex. 3. Translate into English paying attention to the connectors.

1. Всё, что может испортиться, портится. (Первый закон Чизхолма)   2. Всё, что не может испориться, портится тоже. (Следствие из первого закона Чизхолма) 3. Всё, что хорошо начинается, кончается плохо. Всё, что начинается плохо, кончается еще хуже. (Закон Паддера) 4. То, что вы храните достаточно долго, можно выбросить. Как только вы что-то выбросите, оно вам понадобится. (Правила взаимозаменяемости Ричарда) 5. Не повторяй то, что вдруг удалось.  6. Если нельзя, но очень хочется, то нужно обязательно. 7. Когда говоришь, что думаешь – думай, что говоришь! 8. Не откладывай на завтра то, что уже отложил вчера на сегодня. 9. Самое трудное в ничегонеделании – это то, что ты не можешь прерваться и отдохнуть. 10. В Антарктиде продолжается сильнейшая оттепель, что может отразиться на повышении уровня мирового океана.  10. Не успели мы порадоваться наступающей весне, как на наши бедные головы свалилась эпидемия гриппа. В районных поликлиниках – наплыв чихающих и кашляющих граждан.

 

APPENDIX

Ex. 1. Solve the crossword puzzle.