Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given.
1) I waited for him unti 6.30 and then gave up. Which I waited for him until 6.30, ……. gave up. 2) We suggested a lot of things, which were all rejected. Was Everything …………… rejected. 3) If someone understands this book, they are cleverer than I am. Is Anyone …………… cleverer than I am. 4) I won’t tell you this again, you naughty girl. Time This ……………………. tell you, you naughty girl. 5) The whole summer was sunny and warm, for a change. Made The whole summer was sunny and warm, …………. nice change. 6) I don’t really approve of his proposal. What I don’t really approve of ………………….proposing. 7) The police never caught the culprit. committed 8) I have read all of his books but one. That There is only ……………….. I have not read. 9) I can’t remember the last heavy rain. When I can’t remember …………………… heavily. 10) Do you get on with your new manager? Who Do you get on with ……………….. manages your company? 7. Translate into Russian: 1) The decision of Turkey's constitutional court, on the urging of meddlesome generals, to ban the party which won the most recent general election and which, until last summer, led a government coalition is foolish. It will do nothing to give stability to a politically unstable country. 2) The Federal Reserve's ability to maintain its integrity while paying due deference to the democratically elected authorities with which it works provides a model more appropriate to a complex economy of the EU than does the haughty independence of Bundesbank.. 3) The very criterion that limits political democracy most seriously — the fact that it is a set of methods and procedures governing how policies are to be arrived at rather than what policies are to be effected — is also the source of its greatest strength. 4) When you have only two candidates running and one of them will be elected, the electorate has what we could call a choice of two national disasters. 5) What is most depressing is that some American China watchers conclude that we need to be nicer to China, not tougher — apparently for fear that Beijing will get even nastier with the West. 6) The idea the party wants to convey is that the dogmatism was just a phase the Tory once went through. 7) Colombian officials said that they were disappointed that the head of the largest rebel group in the country had not attended peace talks aimed at ending a 34-year-old civil war, but they signaled that the negotiations would continue. 8) Kuwait, which has most reason to support the use of force against Iraq (but has in fact been a bit equivocal), is one of the few to say it will attend the conference - but showed its feeling by saying that it would send only an under-secretary from the finance ministry. 9) The financing deal, which is unusually large for a computer company, highlights how economic crisis has altered the way Asian companies approach high-tech investments and how that, in turn, is demanding sophisticated and riskier solutions from US exporters. 10) Renault SA, which is seen as overly reliant on the European market and historically slow to expand overseas, is in the midst of the take over that could render it more attractive to potential marriage partners, industry analysts believe. 11) The minority three-party coalition government, which controls 25% of the seats in the country's legislature, the Storting (Norway), lacks the political muscle to withstand pressure from the opposition. 12) The paper, on which that calculation is based shows that if the present aid budget were switched entirely to an efficient poverty-reducing allocation, 80 m people a year would be lifted out of poverty at a cost of $450 per person, compared with the present 30 m a year at a cost of $1,200 per person. 13) Encryption, which scrambles data for protection from eavesdroppers, is becoming key to electronic communications and commerce. 14) Traditionalists who see a Scottish parliament as a dangerous change to a system which has delivered Britain centuries of peace and stability are missing the point. 15) The riots in Karawang, 60 kilometers east of Jakarta, broke out Friday after rumors spread that the police had mistreated motorcycle drivers who ferry passengers for a living. 16) The original university which emerged in Italy and France in the 12th and 13th centuries, was what we would now call a professional school, designed to train theologians, doctors, lawyers, and philosophers who were usually teachers. 17) The latest turn in the Starr inquiry is bound to be part of the debate that begins in earnest this week over whether Congress should renew the federal law that creates independent counsels. 18) The New York Times, correctly, objected: «The notion that nuclear war can be kept limited and, in some sense, “won” is not only dubious; to adopt it may actually increase the risk of nuclear suicide.» 19) The lawsuit alleges that the airline failed to rescue the trapped passengers or allow them to leave the aircraft after several hours of what they said amounted to forced detention. 20) Nineteen companies involved in everything from property development to bicycle manufacturing announced that they would post losses in their earnings reports for last year, which are due by the end of April. 21)The European Commission has made a convenient target for the Parliament, which is flexing its muscles in advance of elections in June and fighting off the popular perception that it is a gravy train in which many of its members habitually fiddle their expenses. 22) Having a single standard was a boon to manufacturers, which could produce equipment for a single European wireless market, and for operators, which could form so-called roaming agreements that let customers from one country cross borders and use networks in another. 23) As the European Union threw its cell-phone market open to com petition, other unknown operators began making deep inroads into what quickly became the fastest-growing segment of the EU $171.8 billion telecom market. 24) Justice according to the whims of the nearest mob is not justice at all, but arbitrariness. And that is not good for what little legitimacy international law has. 25) The fear of ethnic tension between the majority Chinese population and the Malay, Indian and other minorities in Singapore has led to an emphasis on what the races have in common rather than what makes them distinct. 26) Singaporeans are used to their government taking a paternal interest in what they do and think, and to its perennial campaigns telling them how to behave. 27) The UN Security Council stands firm on the principle that it itself must determine whom it sends to decide whether Iraq has dismantled its weapons of mass destruction. 28) In what may be a model for future operations, France has taken its soldiers out of the Central African Republic, replacing them with an 800- strong African force from six African countries. 29) When Hong Kong's carefully picked «provisional» legislature was sworn in last July, replacing the elected one that China deemed un acceptable, the easy prediction was that it would be the poodle of the new chief executive and even of Beijing.
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