IV. Переведите предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на перевод неопределенных и отрицательных местоимений; выберите правильный перевод подчеркнутого местоимения.

1. If you have some spare time we advise you to take any suburban train and visit some of many places of interest around Moscow.

a) какой-нибудь, b) любой, c) никакой

2. Someone on the launch will probably point out the interesting places as we go along, famous buildings, old and new, and the names of bridges we pass under.

a) что-то, b) кто-нибудь, c) любой

3. In Moscow you will find no difficulty in finding somewhere to spend аn enjoyable evening.

a) куда-нибудь, b) где-нибудь, c) где угодно

V. В следующих предложениях сказуемое используется в а) Present Simple, b) Past Simple, c) Present Perfect, d) Past Perfect. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. Russia never divided nations.

2. The country has embarked on a path of reform.

3. The main occupations of the Ancient Slavs were agriculture, cattle breeding, hunting and fishing.

4. By the 13^th century the ancient Russian state had fallen apart into many small principalities.

VI. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на функцию выделенного существительного в предложении. Укажите, выполняет ли оно функцию: a) подлежащего, b) определения, c) дополнения, d) обстоятельства.

1. Human progress has reached the stage of intensive exploration of nuclear and solar energy, the World Ocean and outer space.

2. Life was slower in the XIX century.

3. Slavic tribe lived by itself, and at the head of it was a leader who was called the prince.

4. The only Military Institute of Physical Culture in Russia is in St. Petersburg.

VII. Прочитайте и письменно переведите текст на русский язык: Pskov region

People began to settle in the territory of the present Pskov region approximately 10-12 thousand years ago. In the first Russian Chronicle, the Pskov area is described as a Trade route from Scandinavia to Byzantium in the 11^th-12^th centuries. The city of Pskov has a lot of ancient Russian architectural monuments and paintings. There are about a hundred such ancient treasures within its territory. The most famous of them are the Mirozhsky monastery, the Church of Vartaan Knutynsky.

There are 14 towns and 8,143 rural settlements in the region. The population of the Pskov region is 835,000. The population density in this region is 15,1 people per km². The Pskov region is divided into 26 administrative districts. The main towns of the Pscov region are: Pscov, Velikiye Luki, Ostrov, Nevel.

The Velikaya and Pskova rivers divide the city into three parts. The ancient city proper name is “the centre” but Pskovites call it the “city”. The territory beyond the Velikaya River has the historical name of “Zavelichiye”; beyond the Pskova River – “Zapskoviye”. The city is surrounded with the fortress walls where one can see a masterpiece of ancient Russian architecture – the Kremlin.

The main street of modern Pskov is Oktyabrsky Prospect. There are other beautiful churches in Pskov: St. Basil’s Church on the Hill and the church of St.Nicolas on the Usokha. There are many places of interest in Pskov: the Pskov Historical Architecture and the Fine Arts Museum; Pogankin’s Chambers (the house of one of Pskov’s merchants); the Letny park, the Botanichesky Garden; the modern monument to A.Pushkin and his nanny Arina Rodionovna; a monument to the soldiers who perished during the Great Patriotic War; and Pokrovskaya Tower (40 m. in height, 90 m. in diameter).