21 Вариант Test paper

I. Give the equivalents of the following expressions:

идти под флагом, порт захода, управлять судном, размещать груз, трап,

плавучий маяк, фрахтовать судно, буксир.

II. Translate the following sentences into English:

1. Лишь высококвалифицированные моряки могут исполнять свои обязанности должным образом.

2. Вахтенный делал записи в бортовом журнале, когда вошел боцман.

3. Докеры разгружали судно, в то время как мы красили корпус судна.

4. Капитан приказал сбросить скорость.

5. В следующем году эти кадеты собираются работать в рубке в качестве рулевых.

6. Капитан решил изменить курс и стать на якорь в ближайшем порту.

7. Весь груз был упакован в деревянные ящики.

8. Крен произошел из-за того, что груз был плохо закреплен в порту отхода.

III. Read the text and translate it in writing:

The European exploration of Australia encompasses several waves of seafarers and land explorers. Although Australia is often loosely said to have been discovered by Royal Navy Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook in 1770, he was merely one of a number of European explorers to have sighted and landed on the continent prior to English settlement, and he did so 164 years after the first such documented encounter. Nor did the exploration of Australia end with Cook; explorers by land and sea continued to survey the continent for many years after settlement.

The first records of European mariners sailing into 'Australian' waters occurs around 1606, and includes their observations of the land known as Terra Australis Incognita (unknown southern land). The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutchman, Willem Janszoon.

Between 1606 and 1770, the estimated 54 European ships from a range of nations made contact. Many of these were merchant ships from the Dutch East Indies Company and included the ships of Abel Tasman. Tasman charted parts of the north, west and south coasts of Australia which was then known as New Holland.

In 1770, Englishman Lieutenant James Cook charted the Australian east coast in his ship HM Barque Endeavour. Cook claimed the east coast under instruction from King George III of England on 22 August 1770 at Possession Island, naming eastern Australia 'New South Wales'. The coast of Australia, featuring Tasmania as a separate island, was mapped in detail by the English mariners and navigators Bass and Flinders, and the French mariner, Baudin. A nearly completed map of the coastline was published by Flinders in 1814.

IV. Answer the questions:

1. Who was the first seafarer who discovered the coasts of Australia?

2. What parts of Australia did Tasman chart?

3. When and by whom was the first map published?

V. Make up a dialogue on the following situation, get ready to reproduce it.

Your family took part in a Program for the Exchange of students. It is a first day of a boy from London, England in your family. Ask him about his native city and don’t forget to mention about yours.