Вариант № 4

1. Перепишите предложения, употребляя глагол to be и to have в нужной форме. Предложения переведите.

1) The weather is fine today, but it … bad yesterday.

2) There … many thousands of stars in the sky like the Sun.

3) He … a new electronic microscope in his laboratory.

4) Moscow … one of the world’s cultural and scientific centers.

2. Перепишите предложения, раскрывая скобки и употребляя прилагательные и наречия в сравнительной или превосходной степени сравнения. Предложения переведите.

1) We discussed (important) problems at the meeting yesterday.

2) Water in the sea is often (warm) than the air.

3) Summer is (good) season for travelling.

4) New York is (large) city in the United States of America.

3. Перепишите и письменно переведите предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на сравнительные конструкции, содержащие the...the; as...as, not so…as.

1) The nearer the earth is, the denser the atmosphere is.

2) I study English not so long as my friend.

3) Chemistry is as difficult as physics.

4) The greater number of data we shall analyse, the more valuable will be the results of our experiment.

4. Перепишите следующие предложения; подчеркните в каждом из них глагол-сказуемое и определите его видовременную форму и залог. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1) The reactor is fast becoming a major source of heat and electricity.

2) This professor published his article a month ago.

3) Quantum mechanics has greatly influenced the nuclear theory.

4) We shall have finished the work by 5 o'clock tomorrow.

5. Прочитайте и устно переведите текст на русский язык. Перепишите и письменно переведите 4, 5, 6, 7-й абзацы.

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

1. The United States lies in the central part of the North American Continent between two oceans: the Atlantic Ocean to the East and the Pacific Ocean to the West. Friendly Canada to the north and friendly Mexico to the south are the only countries bordering it.

2. The USA consists of three separate parts. These are the Hawaiian Islands, situated in the central part of the Pacific Ocean, Alaska separated by Canada, and the rest of the USA. The states differ very much in size, population and economic development.

3. There are many big cities and towns in the USA: New York, San Francisco, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles are the biggest.

4. The United States of America is a parliamentary republic. The government is divided into three branches: legislative (the US Congress), executive (the President and his Administration) and judicial (the US Supreme Court).

5. There are two main political parties in the USA: the Democratic (symbolized by a "donkey") and the Republican (its symbol is an "elephant"). The US President is both head of state and government. He is elected for a four-year term. The Supreme Court consists of the Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices who are appointed for life. It is supposed to decide whether a law of the Congress or an executive order of the President is constitutional or not.

6. The Congress of the United States is composed of two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Senate represents the states and the House represents the population according to its distribution among the states. All states have electoral requirements of the same nature. First of all they are residence requirements.

7. Each of the fifty states of the USA has a constitution patterned after the federal Constitution, with its divisions of power: legislative, executive, and judicial.

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

1) What are the main political parties in the USA?

2) What does Supreme Court consist on?

3) What the Congress of the USA is composed of?