1) Найдите в тексте соответствующую следующим словам и выражениям информацию, например.

Explorers wanted to find a way by sea from Europe to Chine.

Explorers; food in tins; government; three men; mystery

2) Напишите соответствуют ли предложения содержанию текста (Если предложение верно напишите “True” , если нет “False”).

1. Franklin’s ships had enough food for 10 years.

2. They had orange juice to stop disease.

3. Franklin and his men sailed across the Atlantic without problems.

4. The last time that anyone saw Franklin and his men was on July 26^th.

5. The British government didn’t send expeditions to look for Franklin’s ships.

6. In August 1850 sailors found the graves of three men on Devon Island.

3) Подберите нужное слово и заполните пропуски в предложениях.

Route; a camera; bay; offered; mystery; alive

1. The … of the Franklin Expedition was growing stronger.

2. They had two libraries, excellent maps, scientific instruments and a new invention ….

3. In 1845 John Franklin left England with 134 men to look for a … through the Arctic.

4. That was the lost time that anyone saw Franklin and his men … .

5. On July 26^th, some sailors saw Franklin’s ships when they were entering …

6. The government … ₤ 20.000 to anybody who had information about Franklin.

II вариант

I. Переведите на русский язык и определите функцию инфинитива.

1. Here is a good house to live in.

2. To master a foreign language you must work much.

3. The article to be translated is very important for us.

4. We had to change the time of our meeting.

5. There was nothing interesting at the conference to attract our attention.

6. Their aim is to translate a new article.

7. To make a new device is not an easy task.

8. To read English authors in the original means to enlarge your vocabulary.

II. Переведите предложения на русский язык. Помните, что объектный и субъектный инфинитивные обороты соответствуют придаточным предложениям.

1. The engineer thought these young workers to be right.

2. The results of the experiments are believed to be very important.

3. The plant to be built will be the biggest in Siberia.

4. A new system of planning is reported to be used at our department.

5. We’d like them to increase the production of consumer goods.

6. The current of the river seems to be slow.

7. The factory is known to produce modern furniture.

8. English is considered to belong to a branch of Germanic family of languages.

III. Выберите правильный вариант перевода для подчеркнутого слова.

1. They helped to solve this problem.

a) решить в) решив с) решая

2. To do the translation better you can use a dictionary.

a) делать в) для того, чтобы сделать с) делая

3. To do this operation became possible by means of new equipment.

а) сделать, выполнить в) делая, выполняя с) выполнение

4. The device to be introduced is made by our engineer.

a) для того, чтобы представить в) которое будет представлено

с) представляя

5. To solve this problem they made many experiments.

a) для того, чтобы решить в) которые решают с) решение

6. To solve this problem is very important.

a) для того, чтобы решить в) которые решают с) решение

7. Our task is to solve this problem.

a) для того, чтобы решить в) решить с) решение

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания после текста

THE NATIVE AMERICANS

When Columbus arrived in the Caribbean in 1492, he thought he had landed in the East Indies in Asia, so he called the people there “Indians”. In fact, they were native Americans, who had arrived in the Americas over 40,000 years before them. At that time, Native Americans lived all over North America. Many of them lived in small groups of about 20-50 people. Most of them were very peaceful people, who lived by hunting and collecting food. Other Native Americans lived in small villages where they had farms. Te Native Americans were the first people to cultivate many of the plants that we now eat: potatoes, beans maize tomatoes cacao and many more. There were thousands of different languages and tribes, each with its own culture.

When the Europeans arrived, they tried to take land away from the Native Americans and there were many wars. Millions of the Native Americans also died from the diseases that the Europeans brought to them. As the Europeans took control over the eastern part of North America , the Native Americans had to move to the west in order to survive. After the United States become independent, White Americans moved further west into the land where Native Americans lived and there were many battles – as we can see in the cowboy’s and Indian films. Then, starting in 1983, The US Government forced the Native Americans to move even further west into “reservations”. The Native Americans fought against this and for many years there were wars against the white Americans, ending with the massacre of Sioux men, women and children at Wounded Knee in 1890.