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КОНТРОЛЬНАЯ РАБОТА № 3

Вариант 1

Выполните следующие задания к тексту.

Задание 1. Просмотрите отрывок из текста Invention breeds invention

... A man and woman walked home through the dusk of an early Paris evening. They walked slowly, for they were tired. For months they had worked together in a damp, rotting shed, which they called their laboratory. For much of this time the woman had stood stirring a boiling mixture in an enormous pot. Her husband had worked hard to measure the end products of the boiling with extremely delicate instruments.

But now the stirring was over, and so was the very difficult job of crystallizing and isolating the tiny quantities of precious substances obtained in this way. At last, Marie and Pierre Curie had achieved their goal. So, they felt excited and their walk passed quickly.

At home Marie went at once to their four-year-old daughter Irene. Marie may have been the greatest woman scientist of her day, but she was a mother too and a very devoted onе. Admiring these glowing spots, Pierre said: "At last, Marie. We've waited for so long..."

So they stood that night, Marie and Pierre Curie, on the threshold of a new world.

They had discovered radium, a new radioactive element that was to bring about a revolution in physics. In 1903 Marie Sklodowska-Curie presented her work on radioactivity as her doctor's dissertation. It was one of the most remarkable dissertations in history, for it won her not one, but two Nobel Prizes! In 1903 she and Pierre, together with Henri Becquerel, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies of uranium radiations. In 1911 Marie received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering polonium and radium. The second prize went to her alone, for in 1906 Pierre had died tragically in a traffic accident.

Задание 2. Определите все значения слова tо call по словарю. Подберите перевод этого слова, исходя из контекста.

Задание 3. Поставьте один из модальных глаголов в предложение. Переведите предложение на русский язык.

Mendeleev was wondering how he… link up his description of potassium, sodium, litium and other elements into a system. (might, may, must, has to).

Задание 4. 0пределите, чем являются и как переводятся все слова в тексте, которые оканчиваются на - ing. (отглагольное существительное, герундий, причастие).

Задание 5. Переведите предложения на английский язык, используя зависимый и независимый причастные обороты.

Они открыли радий, причем новый радиоактивный элемент был началом революции в физике.

Получив Нобелевскую премию по химии, Мария Кюри продолжила свою научную работу по химии.

Задание 6. Переведите на русский язык, учитывая особенности предлогов и союзов в научно-популярном тексте.

.. .for they were tired

.. .for month they had worked together

.. .to measure products with instruments

.. waited for too long

.. work on radioactivity

Задание 7. Переведите текст на русский язык.

Задание 8. Составьте четыре вопроса на английском языке по содержанию текста.

Задание 9. 0заглавьте текст на английском языке.

Задание 10. Переведите предложение на английский язык.

В тексте говорится о …

The text deals with…

Задание 11. Переведите на русский язык известное изречение.

Genious is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent persperation.

Thomas Edison (1847-1931)