Контрольное задание №1. Вариант 3.

I. Перепишите следующие упражнения. 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-го лица единственного лица глагола в Present Indefinite;

б) признаком множественного числа имени существительного;

в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени существительного.

Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. Nowadays all mathematical calculations are performed by the computer.

2. The telephone connects you to a person directly.

3. Mendeleev’s periodic table is the great invention of the times.

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

1. A glass tube is suitable for this kind of work.

2. Fuses are widely used nowadays as protection devices.

3. Electron devices control production processes.

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

1. The greater the elasticity and the less density, the greater is the velocity.

2. The hottest planet in the Solar system is Venus.

3. The weakest useful signal strength lies between two extremes

IV. Перепишите и письменно переведите предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на перевод определённых и отрицательных местоимений.

1. Nobody came to visit me while I was in hospital.

2. A sound card lets you listen to music and record any sounds to your computer.

3. Some electrons may readily be added to an atom.

V. Перепишите следующие предложения, определите в них видовременные формы глаголов и укажите их инфинитив; переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. Our professor’s conclusion is the same.

2. We used different system models.

3. We shall solve some complicated problems.

4. The scientists of our laboratory had been carrying out the experiments with a new type of insulating material for several years before they got the positive results.

VI. Перепишите и письменно переведите текст со словарём на русский язык.

THE INVENTOR OF THE TELEPHONE

This is an article about Alexander Graham Bell, about his life and activity. Alexander Graham Bell never planned to be an inventor; he wanted to be a musician or a teacher of deaf people. The subjects he studied at school included music, art, literature, Latin, and Greek.

Alexander’s father was a well-known teacher who developed a system called “Visible Speech”. The system was used to teach deaf people to speak.

When Alexander was only sixteen (in 1863) he became a teacher in a boys’ school in Scotland. Though he liked teaching there, he still wanted to teach deaf people. He read all the books he could find about sound, and started to work on his own experiments. While experimenting, Bell became interested in the telegraph. His wish was to find a way to send musical sounds through electric wires. When Alexander was twenty-five, he was able to open his School for the Deaf in Boston. At that period he started working on finding a way to send the human voice through an electric wire. The parents of some of the children whom he taught contributed money for equipment since the government offered no assistance of any kind to the future inventor.

At this period he found an assistant, Tom Watson, who knew a lot about building electric machines. After two years of hard work the “talking machine” started working! Bell’s wish was realized, to his great delight. The two men continued to work together for perfecting the machine. The work was successful; the first permanent telephone line was built in Germany in 1877. And in 1878, the first telephone exchange was established in New Jersey. By 1915, a coast-to-coast telephone line was opened in the United States — 5,440 kilometers from New York to San Francisco.

Alexander Graham Bell was invited to open the new line. He did it together with his friend, Tom Watson. ~ 1500