Контрольная работа по дисциплине «Иностранный язык (Английский язык)», Вариант 4 для ЕГТИ

I. Напишите вторую и третью формы следующих глаголов

(Past Indefinite, Participle II):

work, train, wait, live, perform, play, repeat, revise;

know, think, see, swim, go, come, become, learn.

II. Употребите глаголы, данные в скобках,

в Present, Past, Future Indefinite Tense:

Last year the competition (to be held) in March.

We (to approve) the plan at the conference yesterday.

They (to pay) special attention to the scientific work of each student.

I hope that the visitors (to come) on time.

The woman (to pack) the luggage in an hour, so you can wait.

The parents (to send) for the doctor every time when the child falls ill.

A group of businessmen (go) on a trip several times last year.

Where you (to buy) this magazine?

When your friend (to live) in the South? Last summer.

The man (to have) a look at his watch and stopped.

What you (to do) tomorrow?

I (not to be) very busy both tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

III. Переведите предложения на русский язык:

Her grandmother can knit very well.

I could answer the questions. They were so easy.

May I invite Mike to our home?

You may not touch my things.

It may rain soon.

You must not talk at the lessons.

You must be joking!

I must help my mother today.

Students must work hard at their English.

Can I ask you to help me?

IV. Употребите глаголы, данные в скобках,

в Present, Past, Future Continuous Tense:

I (to reading) the novel during the first week of May.

It (not to rain) any more and the sun (to shine).

I saw that the children (to play) games and their father (to take) pictures.

Listen! Someone (to play) the violin.

Everybody (to have) a good time here now?

Be quiet! The child (to sleep).

The child (to sleep) during the next few hours.

He (to work) at his essay during the last month.

Who (to stand) at the door?

The assistants (to discuss) the results of the experiment from 6 till 8 tomorrow.

You (to translate) the text on your speciality all day tomorrow?

Can’t you see? She (to read) a newspaper at the window.

V. Вставьте нужный модальный глагол:

A fool (может) ask more questions than a wise man (может) answer.

You (должны) read this book. It’s very interesting.

(Можно) I have a Coca-cola, please?

(Можно) I come in?

You (нельзя) smoke here.

He (умел) swim very well when he was 7.

VI. Переведите предложения на русский язык, отразив смысловое различие, внесенное глагольными формами. Укажите время глагола:

This woman is an art critic. She writes articles on art.

The girl is playing the piano.

Where are the students? They are getting ready for the presentation in the reading hall.

I am waiting for a telegram from my foreign partner

We are waiting for you .We are so glad to see you.

I shall remember my father for ever.

What are they looking for?

What were they doing when you called them?

When I called them they were having tea.

My sister woke me up and told me to get up immediately.

VII. Поставьте все типы вопросов к предложениям:

My cousin visited Scotland last week.

The students are writing a test.

She sings better than the other girls in the group.

The guide warned the tourists about the traffic jams.

VIII. Переведите следующие предложения на английский язык:

Этот перевод не такой правильный, как тот.

Чем больше мы читаем, тем больше мы знаем.

Говорите громче, пожалуйста.

Зима – самое холодное время года.

Я знаю этого человека гораздо лучше, чем вы.

Владивосток дальше от Екатеринбурга, чем Новосибирск.

Он знает английский язык хуже, чем его сестра.

Боюсь, что я самый плохой спортсмен в группе.

Здоровье дороже богатства.

Какой самый короткий месяц в году?

IX. Переведите предложения на английский язык:

Почему вы говорите по-русски?

Ведь вы на уроке английского языка, не так ли?

Как вы проводите время, когда друзья приходят навестить вас?

Я не езжу на работу автобусом; я предпочитаю ходить пешком.

Разрешите посмотреть ваш перевод.

Пожалуйста! Но я еще пишу его.

Когда вы собираетесь закончить перевод?

Я подготовила все документы в начале июня.

Секретарь не заметил, что директор с кем-то разговаривает.

Художник обещал подарить нам эту картину.

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Text №1

British Character

Many British people are guided by Victorian values and make them the principle of their life. Margaret Thatcher has been the ardent champion of them rightly considering them to be eternal values and the way to making a good society. Victorian values teach to work hard, to improve yourself, to live within your income, to give a hand to your neighbour, to respect yourself, to be self-reliant, to be a good member of your community, to take it as duty to help others voluntarily when you get greater prosperity, to have tremendous pride in your country.

The best known and universally marked qualities of the British people, especially English, are coldness and reserve. They do not talk very much to strangers, do not show their emotions openly. But foreigners also confess that English reserve is not unpleasant. And when you get to know the English better they will turn out to be very companionable, friendly and warm-hearted people.

Closely related to British reserve is British modesty. English people hat boastfulness. That’s why A. Mauris advises travellers to Britain to be modest. “If you are a world tennis champion, say «Yes, I don’t play too badly». If you have crossed the Atlantic alone in a small boat, say, «I do a little sailing». An Englishman will say: «I have a little house in the country, when he invites you to stay with him you will discover that the little house is a place with three hundred bedrooms».

Snobbery is not so common in England today as it was at the beginning of the century. It still exists, however, as the British accept and enjoy the distinctions of social class. They love hierarchy and see nothing wrong in the differential attitude that it breeds. The simplest clue to class distinction is accent. George Bernard Show once made the famous remark that an Englishman cannot open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him. For the way English is spoken gives away not only regional identity but class status too. The so-called RP (Received Pronunciation) systematically established through the Public School is the accepted dialect of the national elite. There two kinds of RP: «unmarked» (the language of well-educated people, BBC radio and television) and «marked» RP (the language of high social class). Although spoken by less than 5% of the population, RP has immense influence and those who speak it enjoy a social authority that contradicts democratic ideals. Some job advertisements demand «well spokeness», and some ambitious politicians will hide their regional accents with RP.

The majority of middle class people speak a sort of classless, democratic version of RP, with a slight admixture of a local regional accent. People’s attitude to the various regional accents depends on a whole range of historical and social factors. The Birmingham is considered ugly, cockney is associated with criminals, Scottish is thought of as serious and sensible, Irish as poetic.

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Universities and Science of Eire

Trinity College was founded in 1592. Originally it was an institution like Oxford and Cambridge.

All scientific departments are housed within the College grounds, except for the Botanic Gardens set up in 1806.

The University College, Dublin, has been greatly influenced by the rapidity with which the number of courses and of students has grown in recent decades. The Faculty of Arts is usually large, holding one-third of the number of students, and the Faculties of Medicine, Engineering, Architecture and of Celtic Studies have shown exceptional development.

The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies was established by the Government in 1940. Its functions are defined as the provision of facilities for the furtherance of advanced study and research in specialized branches of knowledge, and for the publication of the results of such study and research. The Institute comprises at present three schools: those of Celtic Studies, of Theoretical Physics and a school of Cosmic physics added in 1947.

Royal Dublin Society was founded in 1731 for the advancement of agriculture and other branches of industry, and for the advancement of science and art, the Society’s activities have covered the wide range. The Geological Survey, the National Gallery, the Royal College of Science, the National College of Art, the National Library, the National Museum, etc. all arose directly or indirectly, out of the Society’s work. The most important part of the Society’s scientific work is the publication of Scientific Proceedings, which contain original papers on all branches of science. By exchange with other learned societies a scientific library of about 100,000 volumes has been built up.

The Royal Irish Academy was founded in 1785. The Academy’s collection includes many of the most celebrated objects which are on display at the museum today.

The National Museum (founded in 1877) houses all the important national collections relating to antiquities, history, arts, crafts, fauna, flora and geology of the country.

In Northern Ireland the Queen’s University in Belfast is a self-governing university. It receives parliamentary grants and grants from local government authorities.

Magee University College in Londonderry is a teaching body which prepares students for the arts examinations of Dublin University.