Учебно-методический комплекс по учебной дисциплине Иностранный язык (английский) для специальности 1-96 01 01 Таможенное дело специализации 1-96 01 01 02 Экономическое обеспечение таможенной деятельности

D:___________________________________________________

C: Not really. I prefer disco dancing.

VI. Переведите на английский язык слова, данные в скобках.

1.You are not going (никуда)____________until you finish doing your homework.

2.At present he is (делает)___________excellent progress learning to be a programmer.

3.Can you stay here (немного)_________. longer?

4.He never (одалживает)____________anything from other people.

5.It would be (намного)_________quicker to get there by car.

6.I haven't heard from him (в последнее время)_________

7.She's got (такие)_________beautiful green eyes.

8.— He refused to speak at the meeting. — I (тоже)_____________

VII. Выберите правильный вариант.

1.a) The old man's clothes was torn. b) The old man's clothes were torn. c) The old man's clothes is torn.

2.a) We'll be glad if we are allowed to take the exams earlier. b) We'll be glad if we'll be allowed to take the exams earlier. c) We'll be glad if we'll allow to take the exams earlier.

VIII. Соедините по смыслу фразы из левой и правой колонок.

IX. Прочитайте текст два раза и выполните следующие задания.

One Saturday in September 1985,1 was at my desk when the telephone rang. «My name is Louis Coles,» a voice said. «I don't know if you remember me, but...» «Louis!» I exclaimed, my eyes brimming with tears. «How can you ask if I remember you? I've been thinking about you for thirty years!»

Louis explained that I had been a constant fixture in his memory, that he had often wanted to seek me out. We repeated the same things, asked the same questions, and I laughed as our memories mingled.11 learned that for the past 21 years Louis has worked at Glassboro State College in New Jersey. Louis' wife, Brenda, has worked for Mobil Oil. They have two children, and own a house on a gentle hill in the country.

Louis reported that his brothers and sisters are doing well too. They are happily settled in different spots from Virginia to New York – all working and most with families.

A few weeks later, Louis and I got together in Chatham. More than six feet tall, Louis is an affable2 man, with the same energetic spontaneity he had as a child. We began to talk quietly of serious things — racism, black poverty and the old segregationist South. It was clear that we both understood how profoundly wrong the old way was, yet Louis insisted that as a child he never felt the bite of racism. I mentioned how we used to go to the movies and be separated at the door. Didn't

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that bother him? «Why would it, Henry?» I could sense a hidden grin. «The movies I saw were always better than the ones you saw!»

But I was still puzzled about how his home could be so important to Louis. What had he found here that could fuel his life with happiness and success?

«The most important thing came from my mamma,» he said. «She taught all of us that people are going to treat you just like you treat them. And that's all I've ever done. When you understand that, it makes it really easy to get along in life.» He brushed a tear from his eye.

1to mingle–смешиваться

2affable–приветливый

I. Определите, верны (True) или неверны (False) следующие утверждения.

1.Henry and Louis Coles had not seen each other for 30 years.

2.Henry and Louis had the same memories.

3.Louis's brothers and sisters were all married.

4.Louis was not bothered by racism when he was a child.

II. Ответьте на следующие вопросы.

1.What did Henry learn about Louis when they talked over the telephone?

2.When did Louis and Henry get together in Chatham?

3.What was the author's impression of Louis when he saw him in Chatham?

4.What had helped to fill Louis's life with happiness and success?

III. Исправьте предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста.

1.Louis had worked at a college in New Jersey for the past 10 years.

2.All Louis's brothers and sisters were settled in the same town.

Test 11

I. Откройте скобки, употребив глагол в правильной временной форме.

1.Snow (to promise)_______________tomorrow by the forecast. If it (to snow)____________tomorrow, I (to stay)____________

at home.

2.Horses (to introduce)_______________into the Americans by Spaniads in the early fifteenth century. Spanish explorers (to bring)

___________them in their ships and later most of the horses (to become)_________wild animals.

3.When I (to get)_______to the Parker family yesterday afternoon around two o'clock, Mr. Parker (to work)_______________on his car. He said he (to get)_____________ in a road accident and the repairs (to take)________________him another day or two.

4.— Where's Robinson?

— He (to prepare) ______________for tomorrow's seminar. He

just (to return)_____________from the library.

II. Вставьте артикль, где необходимо.

The buffalo is ... large animal living in ... North America. Many years ago ...

people from ... other lands came to America. ... immigrants crossed ... country in ...

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wagon trains. They killed ... buffalo for ... food. Today you can sometimes buy ...

buffalo meat at a restaurant.

III. Вставьте правильный предлог или послеслог, где необходимо.

1.Who is responsible in your family ... washing the dishes ... dinner?

2.Jane has been interested ... ancient history ... her first year ... college.

3.My coat is similar ... yours but different ... Ben's.

IV. Составьте предложения, расположив слова в нужном порядке.

1.just/I/for/waiting/he/have/man/is/the/been.

2.understand/the/about/you/teacher/is/do/what/talking?

3.mother/to/take/me/advised/my/English/course/another.

V. Закончите диалог вопросами, подходящими по смыслу.

Mr. X is going to Mexico on business. He is talking to the secretary. X ____________________________.__________________________

S: No, you needn't. We have reserved a room in a good hotel for you. X______________________________________________________

S: It's the Sunday morning flight.

X _________________________________

S: Take only light clothes and, perhaps, an umbrella.

X ___________________________________.__________________

S: Yes, we'll contact you every day. X______________________________________________________

S: The information will be sent by mail to the hotel.

VI. Переведите на английский язык слова, данные в скобках.

1.There are (меньше)__________mistakes in your test than in mine.

2.He had two choices but he didn't want (ни один)__________of them.

3.Tim works (усердно)__________at school but Tom is a bit lazy.

4.Will you (сделать)__________me a favour?

5.I don't want (ничего)_____________at all.

6.It isn't as (легко)__________as that.

7.The flag (поднялся)__________on the mountain peak.

8.Every evening he (рассказывает)__________a story to his son.

VII. Выберите правильный вариант.

1.a) The bill isn't such expensive as I thought it would be. b) The bill isn't so expensive as I thought it would be.

c) The bill isn't more expensive as I thought it would be.

2.a) I haven't been at the cinema for ages.

b)I wasn't at the cinema for ages.

c)I won't be at the cinema for ages.

VIII. Соедините по смыслу фразы из левой и правой колонок.

IX. Прочитайте текст два раза и выполните следующие задания.

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The first time we met, I was an innocent eight-year-old. My friends and I secretly took you down to our dark cellar, so that our parents would not find out. Later on, when I was about ten-year-old, we started to meet every weekend when my friends and I went to the noisy discotheque at our local youth club. We used to sneak out from the club up into the shady woods, where my friends and I sat with make-up on our faces and garish nail polish on our nails feeling very adult and mature.

From thirteen onwards we met several times a day, and by then my mother allowed you to come into my room. She did not want to know you,, having gone through so much to get rid of you. Naturally she was rather disappointed in me but what could she do? She kept hoping that I would «get my act together» but at this age I was unruly and rebellious and punishments and curfews did not work.

There is no doubt that you have been everything to me. You have been there when I needed a friend or when I was sad. You calmed me down when I was upset. In other words, you have been one of my best friends.

Unlike others in similar situations, I did not associate with you because it was fashionable or I thought it was tough. However, I had seen you and your equals, together with beautiful, sophisticated women; women who ate at expensive restaurants and drank red wine by candlelight. My friends and I tried to imitate those women; we wanted to live in that kind of world.

The problem was I liked you too much. There was no going back. I was caught in your trap. My flat was almost ruined because of you. My skin became a washed out pale grey. Sometimes I felt like an old woman. How was I so blind, deaf and ignorant for all those years? Why couldn't I let you go? I know the answer myself, it was because I did not care then, but I do now.

In spite of it being difficult, I am now trying to end our destructive relationship, as one must end all bad relationships. I hope I will succeed in my effort to stop smoking and that I will never buy another packet of Prince again. After more than eighteen years together I bid you farewell, my fair Prince.

I. Определите, верны (True) или неверны (False) следующие утверждения.

1.The narrator is twenty-six years old now.

2.The narrator's parents didn't know that she had started to smoke.

3.The mother had given up smoking when her daughter was 13.

4.The narrator has started to take care of her health.

II. Ответьте на следующие вопросы.

1.Where did the narrator and her friends go at week-ends when she was ten-year- old?

2.What role did smoking play in the narrator's life?

3.Who did the narrator and her friends try to imitate?

4.What does the narrator's skin look like now?

III. Исправьте предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста.

1.The first time she took a cigarette the narrator was ten-year-old.

2.From thirteen onwards the narrator was allowed to smoke in the club.

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Test 12

I. Откройте скобки, употребив глагол в правильной временной форме.

An interesting thing (to happen) ____________to me last night. I

(to sit)_______________in my room reading, when the phone (to ring)

__________Usually I (not to run)_______________to the phone so quickly. But this time I (to know) ___________it was something important.

The voice on the phone (to belong)___________to an old friend of mine from whom I (not to hear) _________________ for ten years. I said, «Let's meet tomorrow after I (to finish) ___________

work. I can't wait to see what you (to look)_________like now. I wonder if you (to change) ________________». But suddenly our talk (to interrupt)________________In vain I hoped he (to ring)

____________ back.

II. Вставьте артикль, где необходимо.

1. ... recent newspaper article on ... British teenagers' use of ... pocket money proves what ... most parents already know. ... teenager these days spends nearly all

... pocket money given by ... parents on ... computer games. 2. ... vase is a kind of pot for holding ... flowers.

III. Вставьте правильный предлог или послелог, где необходимо.

1.I tried ... several dresses but ... my friend's opinion none of them suited ... me all right.

2.Jill starts her new job ... Monday morning but she is not sure she'll

be good ... programming.

3. We are angry ... our neighbours ... their making so much noise last night.

IV. Составьте предложения, расположив слова в нужном порядке.

1.start/no/meeting/before/there/the/to/o'clock/is/more/need/nine.

2.interested/countries/other/are/reading/you/in/cultures/about/and?

3.Rita/new/every/tries/learn/day/to/words/twenty-five.

V. Закончите диалог вопросами, подходящими по смыслу.

Jane is back from her trip to Cambridge and she is talking to her mother. M:___________________________________________________

J: I spent the day with Mrs. Tate. M:___________________________________________________

J: No, no one else went with us. M:____________________________________________________

J: We went to King's College. M:___________________________________________________

J: No, most of the students were on holiday. M:___________________________________________________

J: After we'd looked round King's College, we did some shopping.

VI. Переведите на английский язык слова, данные в скобках.

1.I think it's (самая худшая) _______________programme on TV.

2.One boy played the guitar while (другие)____________sang.

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1clammy–влажный

2sand paper–наждачная бумага

3outraged–оскорбленный

4to compose oneself–успокоиться

I. Определите, верны (True) или неверны (False) следующие утверждения.

1.Mary hadn't intended to listen to the conversation.

2.Mary was the same age as her friend.

3.The conversation was between Mary's friend and her husband.

4.Mary was keen on sports.

II. Ответьте на следующие вопросы.

1.Where was Mary that night?

2.Why did Mary's friend hardly recognize her when she caught sight of her in the street?

3.Who did Mary's friend think she should marry?

4.What did her friends do when she came back into the room?

III. Исправьте предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста.

1.Mary was amused by the conversation she heard.

2.She thought the picture her friends had made of her was true.

Test 13

I. Откройте скобки, употребив глагол в правильной временной форме.

1.Look, it's eight o'clock already. We (to wait)__________ here for half an hour and I (not to know)____________. if she (to come)___________at all. She always (to arrive)________late or you (to think) _________ something (to happen)

_______________to her?

2.When Gulliver was going to make his journey he (not to imagine) ___________

what adventure he (to meet)_______. One day when he (to wake up)_________he (to see)_________that he (to surround)_______________by a lot of strange small people. He was impatient to learn where he was and what (to happen)_______________to him if the small people (not to like)

_______________him.

II. Вставьте артикль, где необходимо.

I knew ... man who had travelled much in his life. He had visited many countries in

... East. He loved ... children and often told them ... interesting stories. I remember some of ... stories he told me ... few years ago. One of them was about the adventure he had in ... Himalayas. He was ... young man at that time and was interested in ... history of ... ancient architecture.

III. Вставьте предлог или послелог, где необходимо.

I don't really enjoy travelling ... plane. ... a plane last week I noticed two men...... of me smoking, although there were signs telling ... them

not to smoke. So I went to remind ... them ... the signs and asked them to leave ...

the non-smoking area. But they didn't even look ... me.

IV. Составьте предложения, расположив слова в нужном порядке.

1.order/he/allowed/enter/not/passport/the/not/country/in/his/was/to/as/was.

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2.the/walk/you/wmdows/around/all/closed/if/see//the/were/did/house/to?

3.TV set/I/make/room/for/moved/the/have/bookshelves/to/the/more.

V. Образуйте производное слово, подходящее по смыслу предложения.

VI. Переведите на английский язык слова, данные в скобках.

1.I am sorry I didn't study (усерднее)_____________

2.Alice was born in Chicago so she (привычна) ____________to living in a big city.

3.I am (удивлен)____________at your behaviour.

4.(Кроме)-------------------her novels and poems, she published a number of short stories.

5.(Ни одна)____________of these two books interests me.

6.If you are ready, (подними)_______your hand.

7.It (делает)_______no difference at all.

8.Very (мало)_______readers stay in the library after 9 p.m.

VII. Выберите правильный вариант.

1.a) Cars can be parked on neither side of the road. b) Cars can't be parked on neither side of the road. c) Cars can't be parked on no side of the road.

2. a) It's so lovely weather.

b)It's such lovely weather.

c)It's such a lovely weather.

VII. Напишите подходящие по смыслу фразы-стимулы к данным ответам.

1.—____________________ — Certainly.

2.—____________________ —That's very kind of you.

IX. Прочитайте текст два раза и выполните следующие задания.

Elaine and Roy Fullwood had no intention of educating their children themselves until things went badly wrong at school. When a new headteacher with what Roy describes as «trendy educational methods» took over at the local school, the work of their eldest child, Alex, suffered and she became bored and aimless.

Despite a meeting with the headteacher, the Deputy Director of Education and other concerned parents nothing changed. At this point Elaine and Roy decided to take Alex, aged 8, and Anna, aged 6, away from school.

A year later Elaine was concerned about whether the girls were making enough progress. «For advice, we took the girls' work to the heads of the schools where they would have been pupils. In both cases they were well ahead for their age. This reassured us that we were on the right way.»

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Alex and Anna have now been at home for two years and are joined in their morning studies by six-year-old sister Miriam, who has never been to school. Four- year-old John occasionally joins in and 14-month-old Luke is often crawling nearby.

Having no teacher-training, it was necessary to plan work very carefully in the early days but now Elaine finds that it's become second nature.

Roy trained as a teacher but has never actually taught. Now he spends as much time with the family as his job allows.

Roy and Elaine make it quite clear that being at home is not a soft option1. They put a lot of emphasis on responsibility and self-discipline. For example, Alex and Anna are in charge of the animals — hens, a horse and a goat — which they have to feed and clean out in all weathers. No one stands over them but they know that if they shirk their responsibilities2 then the animals will go. The children themselves will decide whether they want to do «O» and «A» levels. Roy and

Elaine certainly won't try to influence them.

The Fullwoods are clearly a close-knit family but they also have many friends. Although the children may never go to school again there is no anti-school feeling in the home. «The door's open. If ever they want to go they can».

1soft option—легкий выбор

2to shirk responsibilities— уклоняться от выполнения обязанностей

I. Определите, верны (True) или неверны (False) следующие утверждения.

1.In the beginning Elaine and Roy didn't plan to educate their children at home.

2.Three of the Fullwoods children have never been to school.

3.Neither of the parents has ever had any teacher-training.

4.Roy and Elaine will decide later whether their children will do «O» and «A» level exams.

II. Ответьте на следующие вопросы.

1.At what moment did things go wrong at school?

2.What was Elaine concerned about during the first year of home education?

3.How much time does Roy spend with his family?

4.What do Roy and Elaine put a lot of emphasis on in the upbringing of their children?

III. Исправьте предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста.

1.At the end of the first year of home education Elaine and Roy took the girls to the heads of the schools where they would have been pupils.

2.Although the children will never go to school again there is no anti-school feeling in the home.

Test 14

I. Откройте скобки, употребив глагол в правильной временной форме.

This (to happen)________________in Australia during a water-polo game. It was the end of the game and the players (to move)_______________very slowly. Suddenly one of the players jumped out of the water saying that one of the forwards of the opposite team (to bite)_______________him in the leg under

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water. The forward (to call)____________out of the water but he (to refuse)_________ to admit it. In some minutes another player jumped out of the water and cried: «If you (not to stop)________________the game I (not to go)

_______________back into the pool.» The water (to let) _________out of the pool and the players (to find)____________ a letter in their dressing-room that read: «I (to be)_______________ a water-polo fan for many years. Today's game is very slow, so I (to decide)_________________to make the players move faster. I (to hope) ___________that my little crocodile (to do)__________it better.»

II. Вставьте артикль, где необходимо.

... destruction of rain forests throughout the world does a lot of ... harm to ... earth's environment. ... automobiles are ... biggest source of ... pollution in ... big cities. ...

water in ... North Sea contains a great deal of ... oil.

III. Вставьте предлог или послелог, где необходимо.

Miss Hart is going to swim ... the English Channel ... the 30th of May. She is going to leave ... the French coast at six o'clock and arrive ... some place near Dover ...

fourteen hours ... the start. Her friends will be waiting ... her ... the English coast.

IV. Составьте предложения, расположив слова в нужном порядке.

1.me/for/what/it/difficult/was/to/doing/1/concentrate/was/on.

2.discussion/end/any/to/is/other/an/there/this/put/to/way?

3.slower/the/invention/much/were/of/scientific/computer/before/the/ calculations.

V. Образуйте производное слово, подходящее по смыслу предложения.

responsible the loss of

important to everybody. interest

friend

VI. Переведите на английский язык слова, данные в скобках.

1.A piano is (намного тяжелее)_________________than a table.

2.Не didn't tell (никому)_______________about it.

3.Could you (сделать)_____me a favour?

4.The store has two lifts and (ни один)_________of them is working.

5.It was more difficult than we had (ожидали)_____________

6.They (имеют обыкновение)____________to playing tennis every Sunday.

7.My friend doesn't enjoy science fiction books and (я тоже)

8.He was so (взволнован)_________that he could hardly speak.

VII. Выберите правильный вариант.

1.a) She looks so smart. b) She looks so smartly. c) She looks such smartly.

2.a) He translated the text from Russian on English. b) He translated the text from Russian into English. c) He translated the text from Russian in English.

VIM. Напишите подходящие по смыслу фразы-стимулы к данным ответам.

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