2004-2005
Find the Gerunds
and Participles. Translate the sentences.
 - The individual elements of the model, as elaborated
     in this work, represent the tested output of empirical research.
 
 - These represent the two major methods
     employed in gathering evidence to justify the claim that media violence
     affects behaviour.
 
 - Even as a journalistic metaphor, reifying
     public opinion can have pernicious effects by leading to
     misinterpretations of political reality.
 
 - They are simple signs indicating which
     class is declining and which is on the rise. 
 
 - It is worth observing that some
     psychological studies have come to the opposite conclusion.
 
 - Information about the individual helps to
     define the situation, enabling others to know in advance what he/she will
     expect of them and what they may expect of him/her.
 
 - Consumption involves goods being
     purchased for their symbolic value, their meaning to the consumer, not
     just for their material value.
 
 - Today we live in a world in which deep
     integration organized primarily within the production networks of TNCs
     is becoming increasingly pervasive.
 
 - This control is achieved largely by
     influencing the definition of the situation.
 
 - This procedure (which may also be called
     a normative definition) consists of determining the expectations held by
     each individual member of the population.
 
 - Participants were allowed to ask
     questions by raising their hands.
 
 - Analyzing popular texts requires a double
     focus.
 
 - Generally speaking, would you say that
     most people can be trusted or that you can’t be too careful in dealing
     with people?
 
 - The man who deceives the others
     begins by deceiving himself.
 
 - A conceptual model frequently
     employed these days in the social science is the “closed natural system”.
 
 - Pennsylvania passed legislation in
     1848 allowing wives the right to own the property they had inherited or
     been given.
 
 - We are accustomed to viewing the history
     of that time as s struggle between Christianity and other religions.
 
 - If you are talking to a child, you change
     your level of pronunciation without knowing it.
 
 - Many sociologists, especially those relying
     primarily on surveys and other quantitative methods, have been
     criticized for viewing people as objects passively responding to the
     meaning of the others.
 
 - Even when the qualifications needed were
     the same, jobs occupied mostly by women were paid less than jobs occupied
     mostly by men.
 
 - In seeking to resolve this
     contradiction the author turns to the analogue of language.
 
 - Having adopted the processual view on
     ritual, Turner discussed the importance of the liminal phase in ritual.
 
 - Following the passage model, he
     identifies a 3-phased process in ritual.
 
 - Regulation has a number of meanings,
     depending on the context.
 
 - Descriptive systems for dealing with
     these aspects of speech have now been developed.
 
 - The survey objective is collecting data
     on events occurring in specified time periods.
 
toelaborate – разрабатывать, обдумывать
toreify
– материализовать, превращать в нечто конкретное
pernicious – вредный, пагубный
TNCs = transnational corporations
зervasive – проникающий, распространяющийся
to deceive - обманывать
frequently = often
to pass
legislation – принятьзакон
toinherit
– получить по наследству
to rely on – полагатьсяна
to seek to
do smthи=
to try to do smth