Контрольная работа № 3.

Bариант I.

I. Переведите предложения. Определите видовременную форму и залог сказуемого.

1. Everything was arranged in good time.

2. The problem will be solved in the near future.

3. The mail has just been sent off.

4. The match is being shown on TV now.

5. When we came to the factory, the new equipment was still being installed.

6. The meeting has been put off.

7. The question was asked several times.

II. Преобразуйте предложения, сделав дополнение подлежащим. Внесите соответствующие изменения. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. Nobody lived in the house.

2. The senior students laughed at the freshmen.

3. We often speak about her.

4. I have paid for these flowers.

5. The headmistress sent for the pupil’s parents.

6. I was waiting for him at 5o’clock yesterday.

7. Everybody will talk about him tomorrow.

III. Переведите следующие предложения. Подчеркните герундий.

1. Repairing cars is his business.

2. Living in little stuffy rooms means breathing poisonous air.

3. On being told the news she turned pale.

4. I understand perfectly your wishing to start the work at once.

5. He keeps insisting on my going to the South.

6. She likes being stared at because she thinks she’s attractive.

7. The place is worth visiting.

8. Her husband used to smoke, but he stopped smoking 2 years ago.

IV. Переведите предложения. Подчеркните инфинитив.

1. Here are some more facts to prove that your theory is correct.

2. I need something to write with.

3. I have brought you a book to read, but you must return it by Sunday.

4. Do you like to listen to the music?

5. I think I shall be able to solve this problem.

6. Would you like to go to England?

7. We had to put on our overcoats because it was raining.

8. It is high time for you to go to bed.

9. He didn’t want to play in the yard any more.

5. Переведите текст. Causes of forest fires.

A forest fire is an unenclosed and freely spreading combustion that consumes the natural fuels of a forest. Combustion is another word for fire, and natural fuels can be litter, grasses, shrubs, trunks, branches, and leaves; basically any vegetable matter in the forest that can burn.

Natural causes of forest fires such as lightning are most likely to occur when the weather is hot, dry, or windy. Also when there are thunderstorms because thunder and lightning often occur in pairs. El Nino is an ocean warming and leads to climate changes all over the world. The name is Spanish and is believed to be a cause of forest fires. El Nino happens when weakening trade winds allow the warmer water from the western Pacific to flow towards the east. This flattens out the sea level, builds up warm surface water off the coast of South America, and increases the temperature of the water in the Eastern Pacific.

More than 50 % of fires are man-made. Some are purposely set to drive out unwanted animals, clear ground for farming, grazing, or development, to get rid of unwanted underbrush, even to fertilize the soil. Forest clearing accelerates as population expands and pressures to exploit natural resources increase. Much of the expansion into forested areas uses the cheapest form of cover removal: fire.

Sometimes fires are even set to prevent forest fires. Firefighters use fire wisely and under selected conditions to clear forest and debris. These small fires are set in order to prevent larger ones in case of lightning or careless humans. It also helps many plants reproduce and increases food for wild animals. Therefore National Forests pose the greatest fire risk because no fires are deliberately set there.

Other fires are set accidentally by careless campers who don’t know how to put out a campfire correctly, or by smokers who toss away their burning cigarette butts.