1 Вариант

An economic lead over Asia

The US has long regarded itself as a natural role model for other countries. For most of its history it has offered a certain mixture of personal freedom and material abundance. But its status as a role model is now being challenged by East Asia. For the past three decades this region’s per capita economic growth is more than 5 per cent annually.

Asian leaders emphasise that their model of development has social as well as economic advantages. Many believe that Americans are “too free”.

Lee Kuan Yew, the former prime minister of Singapore and architect of its economic transformation, said in his interview with the journal Foreign Affairs, of American society: “I find parts of it totally unacceptable: guns, drugs, violent crime, vagrancy, - in other words it’s a breakdown of civil society”.

But in narrow economic terms, the US probably has little to fear. Claims that Japan and the smaller Asian “tigers” found a new elixir of growth now seem naïve.

Most experts agree that the region’s success is due to such economic fundamentals as: unusually high rates of domestic saving and investment, strong education, prudent fiscal and monetary policies.

Грамматические упражнения

1. Образуйте форму множественного числа у следующих существительных.

a cup a man

a student a bus

a drink a person

2. Вставьте вместо пропусков местоимения. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. I’d like to buy (this/these) book, please.

2. My father works in a sport shop. (She/he) works very hard.

3. This car belongs to me. This is (his/my) car.

4. I’ll buy a new coat by (themselves/myself).

3. Переведите на английский язык следующие предложения, используя в качестве сказуемого формы глаголов “to be”, “to have”

1. Меня зовут Стив, а это – мой друг.

2. Сандра и Том – врачи.

3. У меня нет свободного времени на это.

4. У тебя есть сахар?

4. Поставьте глаголы в скобках в форму прошедшего простого времени (Past Simple) в следующих предложениях. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. We (to go) on holiday to Scotland last year.

2. I (to take) a taxi from the airport to the city centre.

3. We (to walk) to the park and then we (to play) tennis.

4. The man in the shop (to say) something to the woman, but she (not to hear) him.

5. Поставьте следующие предложения в отрицательную и вопросительную формы. Подчеркните подлежащее и сказуемое, определите время сказуемого, переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. We are very busy now.

2. He always tells lie.

3. He waited for his friend yesterday.

6. Переведите предложения на английский язык, сказуемые которых употреблены в категории Continuous (Present-Past-Future Continuous).

1. Моя дочь рисовала картину с 5 до 6 вечера.

2. Посмотри! Катя моет посуду!

3. Я буду ждать тебя завтра в это время.

7. Задайте 4 типа вопроса к следующим предложениям. Переведите исходные предложения на русский язык.

1. She goes to school every day.

2. Beth is going to school at the moment.

3. The lesson began at 2.

8. Переведите текст контрольной работы на русский язык письменно.