4. Определите в следующих предложениях время, форму и залог. Задайте по 3 вопроса к каждому предложению.

1. Mary always speaks English at the lessons fluently. 2. The children are playing football in the yard now. 3. The text has just been translated by the children. 4. Nick spent his holidays in the South last year. 5. Sabina’s parents will be working in the garden the whole morning. 6. The letter was sent yesterday.

5. Употребите прилагательные, данные в скобках, в нужной степени сравнения.

1. My brother is much (young) than me. 2. The Opera House is one of (beautiful) buildings in the city. 3. The sound grew (faint) and (faint). 4. I have no one (near) than you. 5. Nick’s English is as (fluent) as mine. 6. To my mind, this restaurant is much (good) than that over there. 7. In my opinion, this last work is (bad) than the previous one. 8. Nizhni Novgorod is one of (large) cities of Russia. 9. This is (good) film I have ever seen. 10. I received from the book (little) information than from my teacher.

6. Переведите следующие предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на конструкции типа the more …the less.

1. The more you read, the more you learn. 2. The better we know the grammar rules, the fewer mistakes we make. 3. The higher we climb the mountain, the colder is the air around us. 4. The more we study English, the better we understand it. 5. The longer the night lasts, the shorter the day is. 6. The better you learn the words, the sooner you will master your English. 7. The more we know about the nature, the more control we get over it. 8. The better we know this girl, the more we like her.

Control work 2

Variant 2

1. Прочитайте и переведите текст на русский язык. Задайте по содержанию текста 3 вопроса и дайте на них ответы. The Company Man Alfred p. Sloan

Is a company as important as a country? Are the interests of a business the same as the interests of a nation? Most people would answer 'no' to both questions. But when you're talking about General Motors you can't be so sure.

Certainly, when the General Motors manager, Charles E. Wilson, said those words at a meeting with the US government in the early 1950s, nobody was surprised. At the time, General Motors was the biggest company in the world - it employed more than 750,000 people. It made some of the most famous products in the world - cars with names like Chevrolet, Cadillac and Buick. It was also the richest company in the world and it sometimes made profits of over $2 billion. But perhaps most important of all, General Motors' boss, Alfred P. Sloan, was the most admired businessman of the last century.

Sloan was admired because his ideas were copied by every other big business in the middle years of the twentieth century. He was admired because he had created a company that was bigger and more powerful than many small, rich countries. But his colleagues knew the real reason for Sloan's success; he was a man who always put business first.

Sloan had no children and no interests outside work. He rarely saw his wife because he often slept in a small bed at the General Motors offices. In fact, he took his job so seriously that he didn't even allow himself to have any friends.

'Some people like to be alone,' he once said. 'I don't. But I have a duty not to have friends in the workplace.'

Sloan became the boss of General Motors in the early 1920s, at a time when the company was having serious problems. GM had been started by the US businessman, Billy Durant. Durant collected companies like some people collect stamps. He owned companies that made everything from cars to fridges. He thought that if he owned enough companies, one or two of them were certain to be successful.