. Выпишите из перечисленных предложений те, в которых употребляется причастие времени (Participle II). Подчеркните причастие и определите его функцию в предложении. Переведите предложения на русский язык.
1. Auditors must prove cash balances, confirm physical inventories and verify the amounts owed by the customers.
2. The company owed five thousand dollars to the bank.
3. The offices built last year are provided with all modern means of communication.
4. A fixed amount is borrowed from a bank and paid back in installments over a definite period of time.
5. Sent by e-mail, the message was received by the addressee very soon.
IV. Перепишите следующие предложения, выпишите из них причастия, определите их форму и функцию в предложении. Переведите предложения на русский язык.
1. Issuing shares public limited companies can attract new shareholders.
2. Having used the modern principles of accounting the company began to operate more efficiently.
3. Firms producing finished products which are fragile or valuable tend to be located close to a market in order to minimize the cost of damage or loss during their transportation.
4. Having been asked about the matching rule in accounting, the chief accounting officer gave explicit explanations.
5. Being well prepared for the tests the applicants could demonstrate their professional competence.

My friend Nick is very busy and he doesn't have much time to spare. But he's got a lot of hobbies and interests.

Five years ago Nick was fond of collecting stamps. His hobby helped him to learn a lot about other countries and other peoples' traditions, the world's flora and fauna. Maybe that's why he was good at geography and biology at school.

He used to bring the albums to school and we examined his stamps with great interest and envy. Sometimes he exchanged stamps with his schoolmates.

When Nick was in the tenth form his parents bought him a compact disc player and Nick decided to collect compact discs. Today, he has got more than one hundred CDs of his favourite groups and singers! I think that he is very proud of his collection.

Every time Nick buys a new CD he carefully studies the information printed on disc booklets. He also tries to find out everything about the singers he likes. That's why he reads a lot of specialised magazines and books on the history of rock.

Nick never misses MTV shows — he thinks he must keep up with the news in the world of music. He says he likes all types of music except "rave".

He even writes letters to some fan-clubs in other countries, so he has to brush up his English. Nick never misses a concert of his favourite group. He brings his compact discs to the concert and asks the singers for their autographs.

But in spite of his new hobby, Nick sometimes sits in his room and looks through his albums of stamps (with his earphones on, of course).

Объяснение: Надеюсь

The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States, located at 1600 Pennsylvania AvenueNW in Washington, D.C. It has been the residence of every U.S. president sinceJohn Adams in 1800.

The house was designed by Irish-bornJames Hoban[2] and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia Creek sandstone in the Neoclassical style. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he (with architectBenjamin Henry Latrobe) added lowcolonnades on each wing that concealed stables and storage.[3] In 1814, during the War of 1812, the mansion was set ablaze by the British Army in the Burning of Washington, destroying the interior and charring much of the exterior. Reconstruction began almost immediately, and President James Monroe moved into the partially reconstructed Executive Residence in October 1817. Construction continued with the addition of the semi-circular South portico in 1824 and the North portico in 1829.