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VIII. Ответьте письменно на вопросы к тексту.

1) Why was the Open University established?

2) What is the main principle of the courses?

3) How do the students of the OU attain new information?

IX. Спишите предложения и заполните пропуски словами или словосочетаниями из текста.

1) The OU enables people to study for a ____________________at home.

2) To study successfully you must have the ________________________.

3) The OU uses not only textbooks, but also _______ and _________ cassettes and a

____________________________________.

X. Выпишите предложения, в которых:

1. Participle I и Participle II стоят в функции определения; подчеркните причастия

2. Participle I стоит в функции обстоятельства; подчеркните причастия

c) Participle I и Participle II являются частью сказуемого; определите время и залог сказуемого; подчеркните причастия.

Вариант 3

I. Спишите предложения, подчеркните сказуемое и определите его видо-временную форму. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1) We haven’t met each other since 1990.

2) The engineer will have completed the experiment by July.

3) They have been studying English for three years.

4) This student has already passed his exams.

5) They had finished their experiment by 4 p.m. yesterday.

II. Спишите предложения и переведите их на русский язык. Поставьте предложения в прошедшее и будущее время, используя соответствующую форму модального глагола или его эквивалент.

1) He must work hard to finish his experiment.

2) I can devote myself to scientific work.

3) You may repeat your experiment.

III. Спишите предложения и переведите их на русский язык. Подчеркните модальный глагол или его эквивалент.

1) The students were allowed to use dictionaries.

2) You should pay more attention to the study of foreign languages.

3) They may carry out these experiments in the laboratory

4) This student is to defend his diploma project next month.

5) I shall be able to help you when I am free.

IV. Спишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на независимый причастный оборот. Подчеркните причастие.

1. Some new devices having been obtained, the researchers could make more complex

experiments.

2) The lecture being delivered by a famous professor, the students listened attentively.

3) Tom was writing the translation, his friend helping him.

4) All the questions having been discussed, the meeting was over.

5) The report being in French, they couldn’t understand a word.

V. Перепишите текст и переведите его на русский язык.

HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UK.

1) Education after 16 is voluntary in the United Kingdom. 2) Students living in England, Wales and Northern Ireland must take at the age of 16 the examinations for the General Certificate of Secondary Education. 3) In Scotland students receive the Scottish Certificate of Education. 4) Having passed this exam students can choose to stay on in school or attend colleges of further education.

5) Funding for education and research is provided by funding councils set up by Parliament. 6) The number of universities jumped in 1992 when polytechnics and some other higher education establishments were given the right to become universities. 7) By the end of 1994 there were some 90 universities, almost half of them former polytechnics, including the Open University. 8) Many of the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge universities were founded in the 12^th and 13^th centuries. 9) All other universities in Britain were founded in the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

10) During the 1960s there was a significant increase in the number of new universities, reflecting a fast growth in student numbers. 11) During the 1980s, an expansion in higher education places led to another large jump in student numbers. 12) In the 1992-1993 academic year there were more than 1.4 million students in full or part-time higher education in Great Britain, compared with just 850,000 a decade earlier. 13) About 90 per cent of students get state grants covering tuition fees and living costs. 14) The size of the grant is determined by parents income. 15) Since the late 1980s, however, grants have been frozen; students can apply for a student loan.

VI. Расположите предложения по порядку согласно содержанию текста.

1)Nowadays students don’t get state grants.

2)During the 1980s-1990s there was a large increase in students numbers.

3)At the age of 16 students can choose to stay on in school or attend colleges of further

education.

4)Funding councils are set up by Parliament.

VII. Найдите в тексте следующие слова и словосочетания, выпишите их и выучите.