Connecticut

The third smallest state, Connecticut is shaped roughly like a rectangle and washed by Long Island Sound. The state’s greatest asset is its splendid network of riverways. Chief among them is the Connecticut, which rises in northern New Hampshire and sweeps down a 410-mile course to Long Island Sound. This fine river system with its bounty of cheap water power made Connecticut a leading industrial state in the mid-19th century. Still it was not until the beginning of the American Industrial Revolution that Connecticut really came into its own.

Connecticut did not just benefit from the revolution; it helped create it. American steel manufacturing began in Connecticut, and over the years Connecticut entrepreneurs invented or produced: revolvers, clocks, bicycles, sewing machines, postage meters, shaving soap, jet engines, and nuclear submarines. Thus did Yankee ingenuity earn Connecticut a place among the nation’s most prosperous state.

Hartford, the state capital since colonial times, has also been its economic center. Mark Twain made his home there, and although he traveled widely throughout the United States, Hawaii, Europe and even Egypt, he deemed Hartford“ the prettiest town”. Today its shiny glass and steel office towers are headquarters for some 50 companies whose business has long been synonymous with the city – insurance.

In 1788 Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify Constitution.

КОНТРОЛЬНОЕ ЗАДАНИЕ № 2

ВАРИАНТ 9

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

1. He had finished his work before I came.

2. The weather has changed for better in the morning

3. The goods were delivered in time.

4. The boy is still having his English lesson.

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. By ratifying Constitution in 1788, Massachusetts became the 6^th state.

2. Studying the description given in your specifications, we came to one conclusion.

3. The Canadian Shield is an ice-scoured area covering half the country.

4. Coming back home he had a lot of problems.

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

1. The average American is able to complete any business transaction with plastic cards.

2. How the market works in practice we must concentrate on its essential features demand.

3. You should better consult the dictionary.

4. She had to get up early because she lived far from her office.

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

1. Massachusetts abounds in images that have helped form the sense of America’s past

2. Yet the state that looms so large in the nation’s story is not very big at all.

3. Three hours is all it takes to drive from the Atlantic coast to the ski slopes of the Berkshires in the west.

4. One of the innovations is the electronic funds transfer.

V. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык текст.