2. Употребите глагол, данный в скобках, в нужной форме действительного залога.

1. I (not/to understand) the sentence. 2. John is away on holiday. He (to go) to Spain. 3. Sally (to work) here since she graduated from the institute. 4. The man sitting next to me was nervous because he (not/to fly) before. 5. I think the weather (to be) nice later. 6. We are late. The film (to start) when we get to the cinema. 7. How often you (to go) to the cinema? 8. I (to buy) new shoes. Do you like them? 9. When I got home, Bill (to lie) on the sofa. 10. Mike (not/to watch) TV yesterday. He had no time.

3. Передайте следующие предложения в Passive Voice.

1. I saw a UFO yesterday. 2. Mike has just read a very interesting book. 3. Angela often writes letters to her boyfriend. 4. They had pulled down the house before the revolution began. 5. He will pass his exam successfully. 6. I must do this work in time. 7. She will send a mail soon. 8. We are giving a party now. 9. I brought the documents last week. 10. He always invites a lot of friends to his birthday party.

4. Определите в следующих предложениях время, форму и залог. Задайте по 3 вопроса к каждому предложению.

1. Angela went to London last year. 2. The students will be taught English next year. 3. Mike rarely does his morning exercises. 4. Nora has been to England recently. 5. She is having a rest now. 6. Helena had baked a cake before she saw her guests in.

5. Употребите прилагательные, данные в скобках, в нужной степени сравнения.

1. This sentence is (difficult) than the first one. 2. The cat is much (happy) in its new home. 3. This piece of homework is as (bad) as the previous one. 4. Winter in London is (foggy) than in Paris. 5. This was (large) power station I have ever seen. 6. He bought the toys at (near) shop. 7. Her illness was (serious) than we thought before. 8. It’s becoming (hard) and (hard) to find a job. 9. As the day went, the weather got (bad). 10. Everest is (high) mountain in the world.

6. Переведите следующие предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на конструкции типа the more …the less.

1. The warmer the weather, the better I feel. 2. The more I got to know him, the more I liked him. 3. The more goods you will sell, the more your profit will be. 4. The longer she waited, the more impatient she became. 5. The higher the prices, the better the goods. 6. The more tired you are, the harder it is to concentrate. 7. The sooner we leave, the sooner we will arrive. 8. The more expensive the hotel, the better the service.

Control work 2

Variant 7

1. Прочитайте и переведите текст на русский язык. Задайте по содержанию текста 3 вопроса и дайте на них ответы.

On April 8, 1894, Alexandra and Nicholas II were engaged. Alexandra was the daughter of Louis IV, the Grand Duke. She was born in 1872. Her grandmother was Queen Victoria of England. On November 14, 1894, a month after the death of his father Nicholas married Alexandra and officially became the tsar of Russia.

The first son of Nicholas and Alexandra was born in 1904. He had four elder sisters. He was called Alexei. The problem of who would rule Russia in case of an accident to Nicholas was solved. However, there was a new problem, as Alexei was diagnosed with hemophilia. Another problem, even more serious appeared in 1917, when Nicholas II was forced to end the Romanov’s rule over Russia after three hundred years on March 2, 1917 because of the Revolution. He was promised that his family would not be hit, if he forfeited the throne. He agreed. He was very kind, intelligent and softhearted man. He loved his family more than all. Because of people were still so upset with him, the Soviet authorities ordered the arrest of Nicholas II and all the members of the Romanov dynasty on March 3, 1917. The family was to be isolated from the outside world within the confines of Alexander’s Palace, complete with an inside and outside guard. However, soon after, rumours were spreading that claimed the imperial family had escaped to England. Therefore, the government sent the family and their servants to Tobolsk, in Siberia, on July 31, 1917.

After spending about nine months under heavy supervision, the family was going to be transported to Moscow to stand trial for treason against Russia. However, this plan was only a fake, as the family was never intended to make it to Moscow. The real plan was that the Ural Bolsheviks would seize the train on its way to Moscow and take the family to the Ural capital of Ekaterinburg.

In Ekaterinburg, the family was put in a prison in one of the town’s largest houses, the Ipatiev House. Two months later, when Ekaterinburg was surrounded by the Czech Legion and the White Army who were intent on overthrowing the Bolsheviks and releasing the imperial family, a decision about the family was made. The Bolsheviks sent a telegram to Mos­cow containing the plans for an execution of the imperial family on July 16, 1918. The consent was received. The family was awakened in the early hours of July 17 and taken down to the cellar for what they thought was a family photograph, but there was no photographer. Yakov Yurovsky read out the family’s death sentence. As soon as he had finished, the shots began and minutes later, the family was murdered. They loaded up the bodies into a truck and buried them in a pre-selected gravesite. Then their remains were poured over by acid and reburied again.

All their relatives in Russia were murdered following the direct order of Lenin.