Вариант 3

1. Перепишите следующие предложения. Определите по грамматическим признакам, какой частью речи являются слова, оформленные окончанием «s» и какую функцию это окончание выполняет, т.е. служит ли оно:

а) показателем 3-его лица единственного числа глагола в Present Indefinite;

б) признаком множественного числа имени существительного;

в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени существительного.

1. Everybody knows that autumn was Pushkin’s favourite season.

1. He takes English lessons twice a week.

1. In our Zoo sea-lions take fish from visitors’ hands.

2. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их, обращая внимание на особенности перевода на русский язык определений, выраженных именем существительным.

1. There are many concert halls and theatres in our city. The Pushkin Drama theatre is one of the most famous.

1. My sister’s friend is the third year student and the editor of the university student paper.

1. Jack is a freshman. He works at the foreign languages lab regularly. In five years he will graduate from Moscow University.

3. Перепишите следующие предложения, содержащие разные формы сравнения и переведите их на русский язык.

1. Hyde Park is the most popular park and beautiful place in London.

1. Do you know that the Volga is eleven times as long as the Thames?

1. The Caspian Sea is much bigger than Baikal but Baikal is the deepest lake in the world.

1. The weather forcast for to-morrow is not so bad as it is for the day after to-morrow.

1. The nearer the winter the shorter the days.

4. Из трех предложенных вариантов выберите единственно правильный и переведите предложение на русский язык.

1. Could I have … more coffee?

1. any

1. some

1. more

2. She doesn’t make … mistakes in spelling

1. any

1. some

1. more

3.Is there … knocking at the door?

Yes, there is … at the door.

1. somebody

1. anybody

1. nobody

4.I am afraid there is … at home

1. somebody

1. anybody

1. nobody

5. Вставьте в предложения пропущенные слова, выбрав их из трех предлагаемых вариантов.

1.Ann … all her examinations two weeks ago.

1. pass

1. passes

1. passed

2. My sister … her work at the end of the next week

1. finished

1. will finish

1. finishes

3. What newspapers … your friend … in the morning?

1. do … read

1. shall … read

1. does … read

6. Перепишите следующие предложения, определите в них видо-временные формы глаголов и укажите их инфинитив; переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. London is the capital of England, its political, economic and commercial center. London stretches for nearly thirty miles from east to west.

2. During the Middle Ages London increased in size, the old city and the area round the Palace of Westminster became the two chief centers.

3. In Trafalgar Square you will see the tall Nelson Monument.

7. Перепишите и письменно переведите текст.

The British Isles.

The British people live on a group of comparatively small islands which form part of Europe. The British Isles consist of some five thousand islands- two large islands

1. Great Britain and Ireland, and a multitude of small islands. Many thousands of years ago the mainland¹ of Europe stretched much further west than now.

1. There are many rivers in Britain, but none of them are very long. The Thames, on which London is situated, runs into the North Sea. The Severn, flowing south-west into the Irish Sea, is the longest British river. Many of the rivers are joined one to another by canals, so that it is quite possible to travel by water from one end of England to the other.

1. The British Isles are placed in mid-temperature latitudes in the belt of westerly winds with the result that they receive the full benefit of oceanic influences brought by the warm North Atlantic Drift, a continuation of the Gulf Stream.

1. Lands in the same latitude on the opposite of the Atlantic have their harbours ice-locked for the five months in the year; British harbours are never ice-bound. The highest mountains are in the north and west.

1. The British Isles were originally a land of vast forests with great stretches⁴ of marshland and smaller areas of moors⁵. In the course of time much forest land was cleared and almost all the lowlands⁶ outside the industrial areas were put under cultivation. Today only about 6% of the total land area remains wooded.