8. Ответьте письменно на вопросы по тексту.

1. What islands is the United Kingdom situated on?

1. What is the country’s population?

1. What is the United Kingdom made up of?

1. What is the United Kingdom washed by?

1. How can you characterize the surface of the British Isles?

1. What is the climate of Great Britain?

1. What are Britain’s chief industries?

1. What is Britain’s political system?

Вариант 2

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.

Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. The teacher’s computer is out of order.

1. The language laboratories help us to study foreign languages.

1. Our University enrolls men and women, who have complete secondary education.

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

1. The city’s transport system is very heavy: cars, trams, buses and trolley-buses take people to different parts of the capital.

1. The Moscow Underground (as well as St.Petersburg Underground) is the best metro in the world.

1. The University is about 10 minutes’ walk from his house.

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

1. The Niagara Falls are one of the most beautiful sights in the world and attract tourists from all continents.

2. The deeper oil is, the more expensive it is to extract it.

3. This equipment is better than that one.

4. Перепишите и письменно переведите предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на перевод неопределенных и отрицательных местоимений.

1. Some two million people live in Montreal.

1. Do you speak any West European Language?

1. No other museum in St.Petersburg is as popular as the Hermitage.

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

1. The motor-car industry has its biggest works in Windsor, Сhatham and Ottawa.

1. The Vikings went to Canada first more than two thousand years ago.

1. Next year a group of post-graduate students will go to Finland.

6. Прочтите, перепишите и письменно переведите следующий текст.

Canada

Canada occupies the whole of the northern part of the continent of North America (except Alaska, a state of the U.S.A.) and a number of islands, the biggest of which are Vancouver in the west, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in the east and the Victoria and Baffin Islands in the north.

Canada covers a total area of nearly 10 million square kilometers and is the largest country in the world after Russia.

The Rocky Mountains, continuing northward from the U.S.A., stretch parallel to Canada’s Pacific coast. East of these mountains are the high plains of Alberta and Saskatchewan, the low plains in the region of the great Lakes and the River St.Lawrence. Mountains also run parallel to Canada’s east coast in Labrador and Baffin Island.

The most important cities in Canada are Ottawa, the federal capital, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Hamilton, Winnipeg and Quebec.

Canada has deposits of coal, metal and oil. The metal, machine-building and chemical industries are highly developed in this country. The principle mining province is Alberta.Centers of the iron and steel industries are Hamilton and Sydney. Sarnia is an important center of the oil industry.The country is also rich in natural gas, gold and wood.