Вариант 2

1. Прочтите и перепишите текст. Выполните перевод со словарем.

The Hudson River School

From about 1801 American artists, poets and composers were beginning to shape truly American culture. Along the Hudson River, artists were deliberately ignoring European in­fluences on painting and formed the first school of American art, the Hudson River School.

Beginning with artists like Cole and Durand, Americans began painting the landscapes that European painters had not seen. They painted scenes that were breathtaking in their beauty and which they celebrated for their sense of natural majesty and greatness. They showed a new world full of opti­mism and potential. Man, where he featured in these huge land­scapes, was tiny when shown against the vastness of the New World wilderness.

Painters such as Kensett and Heade experimented with the effects of light on water and the sky. Some, like Church, took their canvases out further into the west and painted the im­mense horizons of the American plains. Cole would go out into the mountains, sketch from nature and then return to his studio

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to paint frantically capturing every glint of light, every moment on a grand scale. His paintings seemed to be alive.

2. Перепишите слова и определите, какой частью речи явля­ется каждое слово: существительное, прилагательное, гла­гол, наречие.

Portrait, sculpture, great, probably, drawing, distinguish, inspire, academic, optically, scientific, prodigy.

3. Перепишите предложение и определите функцию каж­дого члена предложения (подлежащее; сказуемое; дополне­ние: косвенное, прямое или предложное; обстоятельство; определение).

His work included numerous portraits and book illustrations.

4. Определите число существительных (помните об основ­ном правиле и особых случаях образования множественного числа).

Sculpture, piece, interpretations, church, mountains, peo­ple, information, children, museum, family, topics, editions, landscapes, subject, prize.

5. Объедините существительные в две группы: а) исчисляе­мые; б) неисчисляемые. Переведите.

Gallery, nature, picture, figure, controversion, form, part, century, burlesque, idea, career, style, cathedral, delight, centre.

6. Перепишите предложения. Заполните пропуск в предложе­ниях неопределенным (a, an) или определенным (the) артиклем там, где это необходимо.

1. Не is the son of ... musician.

2. He was probably ... best-known Italian artist.

3. She painted ... religious subjects.

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7. Перепишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на способы выражения падежных отношений.

1. Не showed me the house of his friend.

2. They gave the teacher the book.

8. Перепишите и переведите предложения, содержащие разные способы образования степеней сравнения прилага­тельных.

1. His most characteristic works were nude figures.

2. This manner of painting is more fashionable now.

3. The best-known figures of Graffiti art are Jean Michel, Basquiat and Keith Haring.

9. Изобразите следующие числительные цифрами.

Sixteen, seventy, three thousand, three hundred and fifty five, one ninth, one million two thousand, five hundred and three, eighty-four, twelve hundred, the first.

10. Заполните пропуски в предложениях неопределенными ме­стоимениями some, any, no или их производными: something, somebody, somewhere, anything, anybody, anywhere, nothing, nobody, nowhere.

1. ... can imitate his style.

2. Philip also bought ... works by the greatest Renaissance masters.

3. I couldn't find ... museum in that town.

4. He was born ... in Switzerland.

5. Do you know ... of his theories?

11. Перепишите предложения. Переведите слово в скобках на английский язык, разграничивая употребление количествен­ных местоимений many, much и little (a little), few (a few).

1. (Многое) of his work was devoted to mythological themes.

2. This museum has (несколько) versions of his paintings.

3. She speaks French, German and (немного) English.

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