Вариант 10

1. Перепишите следующие предложения. Определите по грамматическим признакам, какой частью речи являются слова, оформленные окончанием -s и какую функцию это окончание выполняет, т.е. служит ли оно:

а) показателем 3 л. ед.ч. глагола в Present Indefinite;

б) признаком множественного числа имени существительного;

в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени существительного.

Переведите предложения на русский язык:

1. At present the Tretyakov Gallery contains 55000 works of art.

2. This city’s art museums enjoy great popularity.

3. There are many cathedrals in St.Petersburg; the most impressive of them is St.Isaak’s Cathedral.

2. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их, обращая внимание на особенности перевода на русский язык определений, выраженных именем существительным.

1. During its four-century-old history the city experienced several dramatic events.

2. We have a large State library in our city.

3. The 40-meter-high arch which is the entrance to the Volga-Don navigation canal rises in the south of Volgograd.

3. Перепишите следующие предложения, содержащие разные формы сравнения и переведите их на русский язык.

1. The Bratsk Hydro-electric Power Station is the biggest in our country.

2. The more experiments we carry out the more data we obtain.

3. Irkutsk is one of the most beautiful cities in our region.

4. Перепишите и письменно переведите предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на перевод неопределённых и отрицательных местоимений.

1. Any moment in the town has its own history.

2. Nobody knew anything about this experiment.

3. The names of some streets and squares are living history of the heroic city.

5. Перепишите следующие предложения, определите в них видовременные формы глаголов и укажите их инфинитив; переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. The English language became widely spoken in the world with the rise of British Empire.

2. Americans like to think the United States is a young country.

3. In two years my brother will become an engineer.

6. Прочитайте и устно переведите на русский язык 1, 3, 6, 7-й абзацы следующего текста. Перепишите и письменно переведите 2, 4, 5, 8-й абзацы текста.

SPORTS IN GREAT BRITAIN

1. Sport is very popular among people in all the countries of the world. Sport makes people healthy, keeps them fit, more organized and better disciplined. It unites people of different classes and nationalities. Many people do sports on their personal initiative. They go in for skiing, skating, table tennis, swimming, volleyball, football, basketball, body-building etc.

2. The British are known to be great sports-lovers, so when they are neither playing, nor watching games, they like to talk about them. Many of the games we play now have come from Britain.

3. One of the most British games is cricket. It is often played in schools, colleges, universities and by club teams all over the country. Summer isn’t summer without cricket. To many Englishmen cricket is both a game and a standard of behaviour. When they consider anything unfair, they sometimes say “That isn’t cricket”.

4. But as almost everywhere else in the world, the game which attracts the greatest attention is football, or soccer. Every Saturday from late August till the beginning of May, large crowds of people support their favourite teams in football grounds. True fans will travel from one end of the country to the other to see their team play. International football matches take place at Wembley.

5. Rugby is also very popular, but it is played mainly by amateurs. Next to football, the chief spectator sport in British life is horse-racing. A lot of people are interested in the races and risk money on the horse which they think will win. The Derby is perhaps the most famous single sporting event in the whole world.

6. Britain is also famous for motor-car racing, dog-racing, boat-racing, and even races for donkeys. The famous boat-race between the teams of Oxford and Cambridge attracts large crowds of people.

7. A great number of people play and watch tennis. Tennis tournaments at Wimbledon are known all over the world. The innumerable tennis courts of Britain occupied by people between the ages of 16 and 60 who show every degree of skill – from practically helpless to the extremely able.

8. The British also like to play golf, baseball, hockey, grass-hockey. Various forms of athletics, such as running, swimming, boxing are also popular. You can sometimes hear that there are no winter sports in England. Of course the English weather is not always cold enough to ski, skate, or toboggan, but winter is a good season for hunting and fishing.

7. Прочитайте 3-й абзац текста и вопрос к нему; дайте правильный ответ на поставленный вопрос:

What is cricket for an Englishman?