4. Задание 6. Прочитайте, перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующий текст.

Вариант 3

Задание 1. Перепишите следующие предложения, подчеркните в каждом из них глагол-сказуемое и определите его видо-временную форму и залог. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. The rate of corrosion is influenced by temperature.

2. The law of conservation of matter had been discovered by Lomonosov many years before Lavoisier.

3. Both the driver and the passenger have been injured in the car accident.

4. Many cars are being supplied with air bags and other safety equipment.

Задание 2. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на разные значения слов it, that, one.

1. This order is more important for our enterprise than that sent last week.

2. The steam engine appeared in 1763. It was followed by several improved steam road carriages.

3. The fare in the London Underground depends on the distance but the lowest one is 50 pence.

Задание 3. Перепишите предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на разные значения глаголов to be, to have, to do.

1. At present most of the industrial enterprises have their own electric power stations.

2. James Henry Greathead developed the method which was to make tunneling in the London Underground possible.

3. Don’t stand there –do something!

4. The part of a mechanism which causes the motion is called the driver.

Задание 4. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на бессоюзное подчинение.

1. They heard the construction of the new highway would take three months.

2. The engineer you were talking about has just left the office.

Задание 5. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на функцию инфинитива в предложении.

1. Karl Benz employed his own Otto-type engine to power a three-wheel carriage in1885.

2. Montage was the first person to be fined by the police for speeding.

3. Sometimes it is very difficult to solve the problem of repairing roads.

4. The drilling machine is especially valuable where broad surfaces are to be machined.

Задание 6. Прочитайте, перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующий текст.

Henry Ford

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the Ford Motor Company he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world.

Henry Ford was born in July 1863, on a farm in Greenfield Township. Ford’s mother died in 1876. In 1879, he left home to work as an apprentice machinist in the city of Detroit. In 1882, he returned to Dearborn to work on the family farm. He was later hired by Westinghouse company to service their steam engines. In 1891, Ford became an engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company, and after his promotion to Chief Engineer in 1893, he had enough time and money to devote attention to his personal experiments on gasoline engines. These experiments culminated in 1896 with the completion of his own self-propelled vehicle named the Ford Quadricycle, which he test-drove on June 4.

He founded the Detroit Automobile Company on August 5, 1899. However, the automobiles produced were of a lower quality and higher price than Ford expected. Ultimately, the company was not successful and was dissolved in January 1901.

Задание 7. Найдите в тексте ответ на следующий вопрос.

What did these experiments culminate in?

Вариант 4

Задание 1. Перепишите следующие предложения, подчеркните в каждом из них глагол-сказуемое и определите его видо-временную форму и залог. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. It has been estimated that the costs of high-speed ground transport will be recouped three times faster than with the railways.

2. If we employ this device, the best results will be obtained.

3. The first self-propelled vehicle was constructed in 1763.

4. The problem of ensuring traffic safety on this freeway is being settled now.

Задание 2. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на разные значения слов it, that, one.

1. The work of this conference is more interesting than that of the previous one.

2. In some countries cadastre may be the responsibility of local governments, in others it is a state or national responsibility.

3. It has been proved that light needs time to travel any distance.

Задание 3. Перепишите предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на разные значения глаголов to be, to have, to do.

1. The vehicle had to stop every 100 yards to make more steam.

2. Each of the drivers was sure that he was on his side of the road.

3. What is he doing? He is describing the results of the experiment.

4. They did their best to achieve safety on the roads.

Задание 4. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на бессоюзное подчинение.

1. I heard he had been sent to work in the Far East.

2. Where are the drawings I prepared yesterday?

Задание 5. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их на русский язык, обращая внимание на функцию инфинитива в предложении.

1. The problem to be solved was to make the wheels lighter.

2. He used his influence to make them repair his car.

3. It was necessary to build new roads.

4. Every generation has to leave something worthwhile on the earth.