Контрольное задание № I. Вариант 5

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.

4. Holland is famous for its cheeses.

5. You can tell by a Dutch woman’s clothes where she lives.

6. Kate cooks dinner every day.

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

1. Bear hunting is a very dangerous hobby.

2. We have a nice country house in that village.

3. London recording studios are famous all over the world.

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

1. Dutch tulips are the finest in the world.

2. This film is more interesting than that one which we saw yesterday.

3. The more you read, the more educated you become.

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

1. There were no oranges in the shop, so we bought apples instead.

2. Any schoolboy knows this.

3. Here are some books by English writers. Take any book you like.

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. You will see houses with thatched roofs, and people in national costumes.

2. In the 16^th century a Dutchman sent some of the tulip bulbs from Turkey to his home.

3. Our grandfather always sleeps after dinner.

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

HOLLAND – THE COUNTRY OF TULIPS AND WOODEN SHOES

1. What can you see in Holland? Bicycles, for example. Cycling in Holland is not only a national pastime. It is a necessity for the people to travel to their work.

2. Holland is also famous for its cheeses, especially the cheeses which are like round red cannon-balls. And the wooden shoes, of course…

3. These wooden shoes are known as klompen. Go to a house where you see a pair of them hanging from a signboard and ask the klompen-maker to let you see how they are made. First he takes a small log and hacks it into shape; then with a sharp gouge he starts to make a hole in it. He makes no measurements – just trusts his eye. In two hours the shoes are finished. You have a pair of nice klompen.

4. You will see houses with thatched roofs, and people in national costumes. Men wear black trousers, and women wear white lace caps. Those people, who know this Dutch dress, can tell by a woman’s clothes where she lives, and if she is married or not.

5. There are a lot of flowers in Holland. It is the country where tulips are grown. Holland has more tulips than any other country, and Dutch tulips are the finest in the world.

6. This beautiful flower was found during the crusades, nearly a thousand years ago, in Asia Minor. It was given by the crusaders to the monasteries in Turkey.

7. Then the tulip was brought to the west through south and south-eastern Europe. At last it took root in Germany.

8. In the 16^th century a Dutchman sent some of the tulip bulbs from Turkey to his home. And now you can see fields and fields of tulips in Holland in the tulip season.

9. Everywhere in the country you can see the famous windmills of Holland. Most of them are used to pump water from one canal to another. People of Holland say, jokingly, that the windmills are there specially to make a proper Dutch landscape!

10. But the time of windmills is coming to an end. In the 17^th century there were seven thousand windmills in Holland. Now there are only about one thousand.

VII. Укажи­те номер правильного ответа на поставленный вопрос:

The Dutch word klompen means:

1. windmills;

2. tulips;

3. wooden shoes.