Вариант III

I. Выберите правильный перевод подчеркнутой глагольной формы.

1. The professor delivering lectures at our university is a well-known scientist

a) читая б) читающий в) читает

2. Making experiments, students use many devices

a) проводящие б) проводя в) проведение

3. They are discussing the plans for the next year

a) обсуждая б) обсуждают в) обсуждающий

4. The gas being compressed, the number of molecules in the same volume increases

a) сжимаемый б) сжимается в) сжимая

5. The device измеряющий a temperature is called a thermometer

a) by measuring б) measuring в) is measuring

6. переводя the article he consulted the dictionary

a) translating б) is translating в) being translated

II. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на функции герундия в предложении.

1. I remember you having objected to this schedule

2. Did you have any difficulty in solving this problem?

3. They insisted on the question being reconsidered

III. Переведите предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на функции причастия.

1. The problem solved attracted our attention

2. The problems being discussed by the students are interesting

3. Having improved the qualities of a device, the engineer used them at the plant

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания после текста.

THE FIRST SEISMOGRAPH

In 1989 millions watched on televi­sion as a

powerful earthquake rocked San Francisco shortly before base­ball's World Series. That quake's tremors brought death and destruc­tion around the Bay area.

Today we know that the shifting in the earth's crust causes earth­quakes. This movement sends "seis­mic waves" across the earth's sur­face, much as dropping a pebble in a pond sends ripples across water.

People living in Han China be­lieved that angry spirits caused earth­quakes to express their displeasure with society. Scholars studied quakes closely, believing they were interpreting a divine message.

In A.D. 132 Zhang Heng invented the world's first seismograph, an in­strument for detecting and measuring earthquakes. Zhang's device resem­bled a domed, cylindrical urn. Each of eight dragons around the top held a

ball in its jaws. At the base of the urn sat eight toads with upturned heads and open mouths, each directly under a dragon.

When a tremor occurred, a mecha­nism caused one of the balls to fall into a toad's mouth. This action showed that somewhere an earth­quake was taking place. The side of the seismograph where that toad was sitting indicated the quake's direc­tion. As the ball popped into the toad's mouth, the loudness may have indicated the tremor's strength.

Zhang Heng's seismograph had one quality that today's instruments lack: it was also a work of art.

1) Найдите в тексте слова, схожие по значению со следующими:

1. to happen –

2. to point at –

3. to swimming from side to side –

4. to explain the meaning –

5. to change (position, direction) –

2) Подберите русские и английские словосочетания.

angry spirit seismic wave earth surface divine message work of art

произведение искусства земная поверхность злой дух сейсмическая волна божественное послание

3) Найдите в предложении неправильное слово и замените его на правильное.

1. We know that the shinning in the earth’s crust causes earthquakes.

2. The movement spends “seismic waves” across the earth’s surface.

3. Seismograph’s an instrument for defecting and measuring the earthquake.

4. The device shows that somewhere an earthquake is having place.

5. Zhang Heng’s seismograph had one quantity that modern devices lack.

4) Дайте ответы на следующие вопросы.

1. What is earthquake?

2. What is seismograph?

3. What’s mechanism of Heng’s seismograph?

4. How was Zhang Heng’s seismograph?

5. What preventive measures can be taken in case of the earthquake?

6. Do you know any survival techniques?

5) Подберите ключевые слова и выражения по теме “Earthquake” (не менее пяти).