Вариант 2

I. Прочтите и переведите текст:

A disappearing kind of work

New York is one of the last large cities to have some of its policemen on horseback. The New York police have 170 horses, which use more than 8,000 horseshoes a year. Keeping these shoes in good repairs is the job of six blacksmiths. There are only about thirty-five blacksmiths in the whole United States.

A blacksmith has to be able to shape a shoe from a plain piece of metal and then fit it to each horse. A blacksmith must work very hard, since he is bent over while fitting the shoe and must hold the weight of the horse's leg at the same time.

Every police horse in New York gets new shoes every month. The cost of shoeing a horse is between twenty dollars and thirty-five dollars, and it takes a skilled blacksmith two or three hours to do the job.

Clearly, a blacksmith must have great strength. But even more important, he must be able to deal with horses. For before the blacksmith can begin his work, he has to get the horse to lift its leg.

(From "Encounters". A Basic Reader)

II. Ответьте на. следующие вопросы:

1. What kind of work does a blacksmith do? 2. How often does a police horse get new shoes? 3. How long does it take to shoe a horse? 4. What does a blacksmith do with the horse's leg while he is fitting the shoe? 5. What must, a blacksmith do before he can begin his work? 6. Why is a blacksmith's work hard?

3. Выпишите из текста интернациональные слова.

4. Определите по суффиксу часть речи:

talentless, television, handless, subscribe, substantial, roughly, rely, regulator, popular, pulsate

V. Выпишите из текста и затем переведите предложения с модаль­ными глаголами have to, must, can.

VI. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на выделенные слова:

a) Don't throw stones at my dog! b) This sportsman's throw of the hammer is the best today. c) Yesterday he bought a new throw for his mother's bed.

a) Her mother had thick beautiful hair. b) The air was thick with snow. c) In the thick of the crowd we saw Ann.

a) Do you like to play tennis? b) The children were at play and noticed nothing. c) Are you going to the play?

VII. Закончите предложения:

a) Ann can ... . b) Did he ... ? c) Has she ... ? d) They don't ... . e) We have never been ....

Вариант 3

I. Прочтите и переведите текст:

Small house of peter the great in leningrad

A short distance from the Peter-and-Paul Fortress is the city's first dwelling. It is hidden within a red brick building with large windows. Now it is a museum, the Small House of Peter the Great (Domik Petra).

This little shingle-roofed log cabin was put up in three days in May 1703. The roof was decorated by two wooden mortars and cannon balls, also made of wood. The Tsar was the captain of an artillery company.

The log cabin has only two rooms divided by a narrow hall. The right one was Peter the Great's study and reception room, and the left one he used as a dining-room and bedroom. Being a very tall man (2.04 meters) the Tsar had to stoop to go through the door. It is recorded that Peter the Great did not like large rooms. When he was free he would watch the ships on the Neva River. This he did quite often as his house stood right at the edge of the water.

The walls of the house are covered with canvas as they were when Peter the Great was alive. There is a cast of his powerful hand; certain articles of furniture and household utensils have been restored. Just outside is a boat said to have been built by the Tsar himself.

On the opposite embankment is a stairway descending to the river, ornamented with unusual stone lions, Chinese representations of the mythological lion-frogs. They were presented to a Russian army officer, and have stood here, in front of Peter's house, since 1907.

Peter the Great's house is also on an island, but a much bigger one than Hare Island. Once it was called Birch Island, because birches grow there. Today, it is the Petrograd District.

The island now has many public parks and gardens.

(From the guidebook "Leningrad")

II. Ответьте на вопросы:

1. Where is Small House of Peter the Great situated? 2. What is it now? 3. How many rooms are there? 4. What are the walls of the house covered with? 5. What are the opposite embankments ornamented with?

3. Выпишите из текста интернациональные слова.

4. Определите по суффиксу часть речи:

centralization, comparatively, effusive, effuse, expansible, general, historic, majority, obliterate, offer

V. Выпишите из текста и переведите предложение: а) с глаголом в настоящем совершенном времени в страдательном залоге и б) с при­частием I.

VI. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на выделенные слова:

a) The duty of a postman is to deliver letters. b) He goes on duty at 9 a.m. and comes off duty at 6 p.m.

a) He hit his hand when he fell. b) His new novel is quite a hit. c) Several hours later they hit the right path in the wood.

a) They presented the girl with a box of paints. b) What are you painting there? c) This artist paints in oil.

VII. Закончите предложения:

a) She has to ... . b) It is done ... . c) They must ... . d) Have you read ... ? e) You didn't ... .