Вариант № 3
Задание № 1. Употребите глаголы, данные в скобках, в Present, Past, Future Perfect.
I already (to write) my composition. May I go out?
How many pages of this book you (to read)?
Make just (to receive) a letter.
We already (to tidy) all the rooms when the guests arrived.
I (to carry) out all my duties by the end of this year.
What you (to do) for your homework?
The students (to learn) all the wards by the time their teacher came.
You ever (to be) to St. Petersburg?
We (not\ to post) the letter before they arrived.
What (to happen)? Why is she crying?
Задание № 2. Переведите на английский язык, обращая внимание на степени сравнения прилагательных.
Сегодня у меня меньше свободного времени, чем вчера.
Этот фильм не хуже того, который я видел на прошлой неделе.
Дети играли в самом дальнем углу сада.
Его ответ сегодня лучше, чем два дна назад.
Эта деревня находится дальше от Москвы, чем мы думали.
Разве у него больше английских книг, чем у меня?
7. Ты думаешь его доклад хуже наших? – Да, это самый неинтересный доклад.
8. Эти туфли не хуже ваших. Я советую вам купить их.
Задание № 3. Закончите разделительные вопросы и перепишите их.
1. Road building is one of the earliest arts known to mankind, …?
2. The strategic and commercial aims of the Roman Empire required the creation of broad lines of communication, …?
3. One day soon we will hear about a traffic jam all the way round the M 25 in both directions, …?
4. We do not have the technology to find a solution to the traffic problem, …?
5. The first road was simply a layer of logs and brushwood over marshland, …?
Задание № 4. Перепишите и переведите текст.
Relics of Wooden Architecture.
The carpenters of the ancient Russian city of Novgorod were famed for their skill. Carpenters and building, they erected peasant homes, fortress walls and towers, windmills, churches, chapels and even palaces. They built thousands of villages and a large number of towns mainly with axes. In olden times practically all the buildings in Novgorod were made of timber.
Relics of the carpenter’s skill - art of truly folk origin - have been preserved to our days.
To establish the artistic worth of old structures a close study is made of all that is left and of books and even legends passed on from generation to generation.
The rich finds led to the decision to collect and put in one place all the more valuable works by unknown architects of the Novgorod area.
Industrialized Building Methods
Industrialized building means a high degree of prefabrication applied to reduce site work to a minimum. This involves careful planning, and a maximum.
The quantity of factory work on the building components is highly increased so as to reduce the cost and improve the quality and speed of construction.
Large-panel construction is one of industrialized building methods which was first applied in Russia. It consists of using reinforced concrete panels one or two stories high, sometimes made of light-weight insulating concrete.
For large - panel timber walls which have been prefabricated for many years both in Europe and America, the term is not used.
Задание № 5. Перепишите вопросы к тексту и письменно ответьте на них.
What is meant by "industrialized building"?
What does this method involve?
How does the cost of construction be reduced?
When was large - panel construction applied first?
What does the method of large - panel construction consists of?
Задание № 6. перепишите и переведите следующие словарные выражения на русский язык:
industrialized building methods; high degree of prefabrication; maximum of standardization; to reduce site work; one or two storey high large – panel construction.
Задание № 7.Перепишите и переведите следующие предложения на русский язык:
A maximum of standardization is needed to reduce site work to a minimum.
The up-to-date machinery is used on construction sites.
Large- panel construction was first applied in Russia.
A high degree of prefabrication is important for housing construction.
Prefabricated rooms and flats can be assembled into houses.