Вариант № 4

1. Перепишите следующие предложения. Переведите предложения их на русский язык, обращая внимание на особенности перевода пассивных конструкций.

1) This event is commented upon in today’s newspapers.

2) In mechanics the study of kinematics is followed by the study of dynamics.

3) The development of science is closely connected with the development of higher education.

4) The child must be looked after.

2. Перепишите следующие предложения, подчеркните модальные глаголы или их эквиваленты. Письменно переведите предложения.

1) The sputniks can be used to study the magnetic fields, atmosphere, ionosphere and cosmic radiation.

2) The students were not able to do the work without their teacher’s help. He had to help them.

3) Science is to change the conditions of man’s life.

4) You should take into consideration the results of our experiments.

3. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на различные значения слов it, one, that.

1) One should know the discoveries of this great physicist.

2) An automatic machine is the device that works by itself.

3) It is necessary to learn foreign languages.

4) It was Einstein who came to the conclusion that the electromagnetic field influenced by the gravitation field.

4. Перепишите и письменно переведите следующие предложения, обращая особое внимание на перевод неопределенных местоимений и их производных.

1) No manager of any enterprise can produce the maximum results if he has no practical knowledge of the production technology.

2) You will find this book nowhere besides the Lenin Library.

3) Any data on that problem will be of great interest for the explorers.

4) I have seen this man somewhere before.

5. Прочитайте и устно переведите на русский язык следующий текст. Перепишите и письменно переведите 2, 3-й абзацы.

MIKHAIL VASILYEVICH LOMONOSOV

1. Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a famous Russian writer, chemist, and astronomer who made a lot in literature and science.

2. Lomonosov was born on November 19, 1711, in Denisovka (now Lomonosov), near Archangelsk, and studied at the University of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. After studying in Germany at the Universities of Marburg and Freiberg, Lomonosov returned to St. Petersburg in 1745 to teach chemistry and built a teaching and research laboratory there four years later.

3. Lomonosov is often called the founder of Russian science. He was an innovator in many fields. As a scientist he rejected the phlogiston theory of matter commonly accepted at the time and he anticipated the kinetic theory of gases. He regarded heat as a form of motion, suggested the wave theory of light, and stated the idea of conservation of matter. Lomonosov was the first person to record the freezing of mercury and to observe the atmosphere of Venus during a solar transit.

4. Interested in the development of Russian education. Lomonosov helped to found Moscow State University in 1755, and in the same year wrote a grammar that reformed the Russian literary language by combining Old Church Slavonic with modern language. In 1760 he published the first history of Russia. He also revived the art оf Russian mosaic and built a mosaic and coloured -glass factory. Most of his achievements, however, were unknown outside Russia. He died in St. Petersburg on April 15, 1765.

6. Перепишите следующие вопросы к тексту и письменно на них ответьте.

1) Why can Lomonosov be called an innovator?

2) What are his main works?

3) Where and when did he die?