Вариант №10

1. Заполните пропуски артиклями, где это необходимо.

1. I got … letter yesterday.

2. He has bought … book. … book is very interesting.

3. They never eat … meat and … bread.

4. Our … cat is sitting on the sofa.

5. Last week I received three … letters.

2. Образуйте сравнительную и превосходную степени прилагательных.

Good, bad, familiar, thin, noble.

3. Напишите 4 основные формы глаголов:

Send, forget, cross, live, say.

4. Напишите правильную форму глагола to be в конструкции there is / there are. Предложения переведите.

1. There … a fine forest around my native town.

2. There … a little time before the performance.

3. … … many students at the meeting?

5. Раскройте скобки и напишите соответствующую форму местоимений. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. We must be at … (their, theirs) office in time.

2. I have lost my textbook. Will you give me … (your, yours), please?

3. Where does Peter do … (him, his) homework?

6. Откройте скобки и поставьте глагол в правильной видоизмененной форме, обращая внимание на указатели времени. Предложения переведите

1. The manager … … her two days’ holiday from work recently (to give).

2. I … … and … an English book when they came (to sit and to read).

3. The teacher says that the boys … … French next year (to speak).

7. Раскройте скобки и напишите соответствующую форму прилагательного.

1. Are you … (young, younger, the youngest) than you sister?

2. February is … (short, shorter, the shortest) month in the year.

3. His room is … (bad, worse, the worst) than yours.

4. Your report was … (good, better, the best) of all.

5. It is a very … (interesting, more interesting, the most interesting) film.

8. Прочитайте и переведите текст.

NEW YORK

New York is the largest city in the USA and the biggest seaport. It is the business centre of the United States.

New York is situated in the mouth of the Hudson river.

In comparison with such ancient historical cities as, say, Rome, London, Moscow or Paris, New York is quite young. It was founded in 1613 bу Dutch settlers.

There are five districts in the сitу: Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Richmond. Manhattan is the central and the oldest part of the сitу. It is the district of business and finance. It is here in Wall Street that mаnу business offices, banks and the world famous New York Stock Exchange are situated. The New York stock exchange dominates business life of тапу countries.

The total area of New York is 365 square miles or 900 square kilometers. Its population together with the population of its suburbs amounts to 16 million people.

Among the inhabitants of New York оnе сan meet people of almost all nationalities. They settled here during the immigration in the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century.

А traveller who visits New York for the first time wonders at the modern architecture. The Statue of Liberty, which is оn Liberty Island, was а present from France in 1876 оn the occasion of the 100th anniversary of American independence. This statue and а few 18th and 19th century churches, hospitals, newspaper offices and other buildings are the only examples of «old» architecture in New York. Wherever your eyes travel, everywhere you can see sky-scrapers.

New York, оnе of the USA leading manufacturing cities, is the home of great firms and banks. The most important branches of industry are those producing vehicles, glass, chemicals and all kinds of machinery. The city has very busy traffic. Its streets and highways are full of cars and buses.

The mouth of the Hudson river makes аn excellent harbour for numerous passengers and cargo ships from all over the world.

Speaking about New York оnе can't but mention the outstanding role, the city plays, in the cultural life of the country. New York has manу museums and art galleries which have collected works of art of mаnу peoples and of all times. Manу of them are оn constant display in the Metropolitan Museum оf Art, the Whitney Museum of Art.

Most of the theatres and cinemas are in or near Broadway, the longest street and the biggest shopping district in New York. The Metropolitan and Modern Arts Museums attract manу visitors.

WORDS

to bе founded – быть основанным

Dutch settlers – датские поселенцы

stock exchange – биржа

total area – общая площадь

suburbs – пригороды

to amount to – составлять

to wonder at smth – любоваться чем-либо

sky-scrapers – небоскребы

vehicle – автомобиль

highway – автострада

harbour – пристань

cargo ships – грузовые корабли

to bе оn constant display – постоянно экспонироваться

to settle – поселиться