Mississippi

Mississippi is the most traditionally southern of all the Deep South states. Here stand cool white-columned mansions shaded by magnolias that bear huge creamy blossoms. Mockingbirds sing deliriously from the treetops. Confederate cemeteries are still decorated with fresh flowers, and longleaf pine forests sweep grandly south to the splendid Gulf Coast beaches.

Perhaps the most distinctive region of the state is Delta. This is a cotton country- flat, nearly treeless, home of the very rich and the very poor. The Mississippi Delta area is known not only for cotton but for its music, in particular the blues.

East of the Mississippi floodplain, much of the state is a mix of undulating hills and prairies, forests and farmland. The highest elevations are the southernmost ridges of the Appalachian Mountains. 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.

Most of the lower third of the state is known as the Pine Hills, or the Piney Woods. Driving through these silver-green pine woods, one comes at last to the coastal lowlands, where the U.S. highway 90 runs for 26 miles along the wide sandy man-made beaches of the Gulf of Mexico. Nearly 90 percent of the people living in Mississippi were born there.

In 1817 Mississippi became the 20^th state.

КОНТРОЛЬНОЕ ЗАДАНИЕ № 2

ВАРИАНТ 7

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 seen the new film?

2. You are wanted to the phone.

3. When we went out it was raining.

4. She is coming tomorrow.

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. We believe that the points brought up in the letter will be better settled during personal discussion.

2. Some of the expenses involved may be charged to your account.

3. Not knowing his address I couldn’t visit him.

4. Traveling over the country he saw a lot of newly-built houses.

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

1. You must pay utility bills immediately.

2. We had to apply for more cash yesterday because we run out of money.

3. The company doesn’t need additional cash.

4. Family members can lend at a very low interest rate.

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

1. The company doesn’t need additional cash. It receives high revenue.

2. They called the great river that flows west to east across the state.

3. No-one can read this letter.

4. Is that your bag?- No, the green one is mine.

V. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык текст.