Контрольное задание № I. Вариант 4

I. Перепишите следующие предложения. Определите по грамматическим приз­накам, какой частью речи являются слова, оформленные окончанием -s и какую функ­цию это окончание выполняет, т.е. служит ли оно:

а) показателем 3-го лица единственного числа глагола в Present Indefinite;

б) признаком множественного числа имени существительного;

в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени существительного (см. образец выполнения 1).

Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. There are a lot of holidays in Japan.

2. The Dolls’ Festival is the most beautiful holiday of the year.

3. This old custom still exists in Japanese villages.

II. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их, обращая внимание на особенности перевода на русский язык определений, выраженных именем существи­тельным (см. образец выполнения 2).

1. Please help me with my chemistry task.

2. There were a lot of children in the school yard.

3. Victory Day is a national holiday in Russia..

III. Перепишите следующие предложения, содержащие разные формы сравнения прилагательных, и переведите их на русский язык.

1. The dolls made for this prayer became more and more beautiful.

2. This is the happiest day in my life.

3. The more you learn, the more you know.

IV. Перепишите и письменно переведите предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на перевод неопределенных и отрицательных местоимений.

1. They have some cousins in Minsk.

2. Do you know any German words?

3. The lecture wasn’t difficult, and the students had no questions.

V. Перепишите следующие предложения, определите в них видо-временные фор­мы глаголов и укажите их инфинитив; переведите предложения на русский язык (см. образец выполнения 3).

1. The third of March is the time when spring slowly begins.

2. Suddenly we heard Mike’s voice.

3. He will never come back!

VI. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык данный текст.

JAPAN – DOLLS FLOATING ON THE RIVER

1. Like in any other country in the world, there are a lot of holidays in Japan. Some of them are for children, both for boys and girls, and some are for girls only. Here is a story about one of them.

2. The third of March is the Dolls’ Festival in Japan. It is celebrated for girls in most families all over the country. When the day gets near, beautiful dolls are shown in all the houses of families that have girls. The dolls are placed on a number of shelves or steps, covered with a red rug. On the top shelf are the king and queen, on the next, five musicians, on the third, soldiers, and on the lowest, very small cherry-trees, paper lanterns, or an ox-drawn carriage.

3. The food on this festival day is different from usual food: rice cakes in the form of a diamond, white rice wine, another sort of rice cake, and many other good things to eat. For girls, the Dolls’ Festival is the most beautiful and the most enjoyable holiday of the year.

4. You may be interested to know why the festival is celebrated in this way, and not in any other way. Perhaps it can be explained best by telling you about an old custom which still exists in Japanese villages.

5. On the third of March people bring dolls to a river, and let them float away. The dolls are made of bamboo strips covered with red paper. First they are shown to everybody, and different gifts are placed in front of them. When evening comes, the people take these dolls and the gifts down to the river.

6. All the children go together, singing, shouting and making a lot of noise. Then they watch the dolls as they are carried away by the water and disappear.

7. The regions in which such festivals are celebrated are famous for their bad climate, and there are many places where crops cannot grow. The third of March is the time when spring slowly begins, and long ago people sent dolls made in the form of men down the river as a prayer for a good year.

8. The dolls made for this type of prayer slowly became more and more beautiful, and people kept them at home as a kind of ornament, or gave them away as gifts. During many years, the festival on which these beautiful dolls were shown became a holiday.

VII. Укажи­те номер правильного ответа на поставленный вопрос:

Long ago people sent dolls down the river because

1. they wanted the gods to give them good weather;

2. they didn’t like these dolls;

3. they wanted to make the river more beautiful.