South carolina

South Carolina is a quiet Atlantic seaboard state tucked between the mountains of North Carolina and the red clay hills of Georgia. Its beauty is subtle rather than spectacular, emanating from grassy savannas and shady pinewoods, lonely marshlands and windswept beaches.

The first English and French colonists who settled near Charles Town in 1670 discovered that the swampy lowlands surrounding them were for rice paddies. Starting with a single bag of Madagascar rice bought from a sea captain in about 1685, the colonists were exporting their own crop by 1690. By 1700 a complex plantation system was established.

Meanwhile, the hilly and forested Piedmont above the lowlands was being settled by arrivals from the northern colonies. Mostly hardworking farmers, they resented the airs and influence of the coast-dwelling aristocrats. Conflicts between up-country and low country arose early and persisted even after the state’s capital was moved, as a compromise, to Columbia, midway between the two areas. Regional distinctions began to blur only when the cotton craze swept the entire state in the late 1700’s. Vast tracts of forests fell to make for the new crop.

In the rugged northwestern corner of the state, the Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway winds close to such impressive sights as craggy Caesar’s head, Table Rock Mountain, and 420-foot Raven Cliff Falls. The hilly Piedmont region forms the industrial core of the state.

In the southern lies the low country, including the 60-mile sweep of beach known as the Grand Strand; the historic towns of Georgetown and Charleston, the marshy wetlands and the Sea Islands.

In 1788 South Carolina joined the Union as the 8^th state.

КОНТРОЛЬНОЕ ЗАДАНИЕ № 2

ВАРИАНТ 6

I. Перепишите следующие предложения. Определить видовременные формы глаголов и залог; укажите их инфинитив. Переведите предложения на русский язык /см. образец выполнения 1/.

1. Have you ever been in Scotland?

2. The telegram was sent last Monday.

3. When I came home my mother was cooking.

4. He is often asked to translate the articles from English into Russian.

II. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их, обращая внимание на особенности перевода на русский язык причастий (Participle I и Participle I). Подчеркните причастия. Помните, что причастие в предложении может выполнять функции определения, обстоятельства или составной части глагола - сказуемого /см. образец выполнения 2/.

1. Here stand cool white-columned mansions shaded by magnolias

2. Confederate cemeteries are still decorated with fresh flowers

3. Delta is an elliptical floodplain lying between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers.

4. The best known of the prairie regions, just west of these hills, is the long, narrow Black Belt, so named for its dark and fertile soil.

III. Перепишите следующие предложения. Подчеркните в каждом из них модальный глагол или его эквивалент; переведите предложения на русский язык / см. образец выполнения 3/.

1. Could you help me, please?

2. What can I do for you?

3. You should go to the dentist.

4. All children must go to school.

IV. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на многозначность it, that, one.

1. Driving through these silver-green pine woods, one comes at last to the coastal lowlands

2. Such natural beauty, impressive all through the state, strengthens the love of land that makes Mississippi natives reluctant to leave.

3. Nearly 90 percent of the people living in Mississippi were born there, and many are eager to write about it, sing about it, or capture it on canvas.

V. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык текст.