Semester 2
Для успешного выполнения контрольной работы N2 необходимо изучить следующий грамматический материал:
Future Indefinite - Future Continuous
If and When Clauses
Modal verbs: ought to, shall, should
Numerals
Comparison: as...as/than
Nouns (uncountable), articles with uncountable nouns
Much, many
Some, any, no (somebody, anybody, nobody, something, anything, nothing)
Test 2 (Variant a)
Read the text:
HOW BELARUS IS GOVERNED
Under the Constitution of 1994 the Republic of Belarus is a unitary democratic social legal state. The Republic of Belarus possesses supreme and absolute power on its territory, it independently exercises its home and foreign policy. The power in the Republic of Belarus is exercised on the basis of its separation into three branches: legislative, executive and judicial. The state bodies are independent within the limits of their authority: they interact, restrain and balance each other (the system of checks and balances).
The principle of the supremacy of law is established in the country. (1)The State, all its bodies and officials act within the Constitution and laws adopted according to it. (2)The Republic of Belarus recognizes the priority of universally recognized principles of international law and provides the correspondence of the national law to these principles. (3)The citizens of the Republic aged 18 and above enjoy the right to elect and to be elected to governmental bodies on the basis of general, equal, direct or indirect suffrage by secret ballot.
The President of the Republic of Belarus is the Head of the State. He is the guarantor of the Constitution, the rights and freedoms of people and citizens. The term of office of the President is five years.
* The supreme legislative power of the Republic is Parliament - The National Assembly. It consists of two houses: the House of Representatives and the Council of the Republic. The term of office of the National Assembly is four years. The supreme executive power of the Republic is the Council of Ministers. The head of the Council is the Prime Minister. The supreme judicial power is the Supreme Court of the Republic. (4)The Constitutional Court checks the constitutionality of laws and the acts of the government. The local governmental bodies comprise councils of deputies and executive bodies. The local councils are legislative bodies. The members of the local councils are elected for the term of four years while the heads of the executive bodies are appointed by the President. There are regional and district courts at the local level, which are local judicial bodies.
Translate the marked (*) paragraph into Russian.
Put questions to the numbered sentences using the prompts:
1. General, Disjunctive.
2. What principles...? What...?
3. What right...? Alternative.
4. What...?
Use the Future Indefinite or the Future Continuous:
1. This time tomorrow we (to fly) home. 2. I think my friends (to come) to the presentation of my wife’s book. 3. This box looks very heavy. I (to help) you with it. 4. Don’t even try to call him at 9 tonight, he (to watch) a match on TV. 5. Don’t worry, Tom. You (to pass) your exams. 6. According to the weather forecast it (to rain) tomorrow and it (to rain) the whole week and we (not/to be able) to hike.
Put questions using the words in brackets:
1. They will meet you at the railway terminus. (Who? When? Where?)
2. Mike will be waiting for you at his parents’ tomorrow at 9 a.m. (Alternative, General)
3. Marks and Spencer won’t close their shops down. (Why? Disjunctive)
Open the brackets:
1.I (to help) you with these letters if you (to find) a typewriter. 2. When you (to start) your work next week I still (to bask) in the sun. 3. What you (to do) if the car (to break down). 4. I don’t know whether they (to send) that cheque to the bank. 5. Their work (to be) good for nothing if they (to work) like this. 6. I just want to know when you (to be ready) with this grammar test.
Insert articles where necessary:
1. ...Lawyers are paid more than ... teachers. 2. I prefer ... classical music to ... pop music. 3. ... Life would be much easier without ... lawyers. 4. Are you interested in ... art or in ... architecture? 5. Did you like ... coffee we had yesterday after dinner? 6. I heard Mr Jackson was arrested by ... police. 7. I usually drink ... tea, because it is much cheaper than ... coffee. 8. I liked the film but ... music was awful.
Use much or many:
1. It is a little town, there isn’t ... to do. 2. How ... books do you have in your library? 3. He doesn’t drink ... coffee. 4. The pressmen didn’t ask him ... questions. 5. How ... time have we got before the train starts? 6. There is too ... sugar in this tea. 7. We didn’t take ... photographs in London.
Use some, any, no (nobody, nothing, etc.)
1. He couldn’t get help, there was ... around. 2. Do you have ... money on you? 3. Open the door, please. ... is knocking. 4. Did you see ... on the parking yesterday at 9 p. m? Yes, I saw ... people, but I didn’t recognise ... . 5. It was so dark, that I could see ... . 6. Sorry, but we have ... vacancies for you at the moment.
Choose the proper preposition from those in brackets:
1. He got used to count (on, at, for) himself. 2. They often refer (on, for, to) this article. 3. He was accused (in, for, of) robbery. 4. They couldn’t object (-, from, to) Mr Blake’s participation in the jury. 5. Before you make any decision you should talk (with, to, at) him. 6. We’ll have to insist ( to, on, at) the following amendments. 7. You have deprived me (from, of, -) the pleasure to defend him. 8. All his attempts ended (with, in, at) failure. 9. We have an enormous demand ( of, for, in) lawyers. 10. You should never judge people (on, by, at) appearances.