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

2.What does a typical education-at-home day begin with?

3.Who recommends the children which subjects from the list they should select?

4.Why was Victor uneasy about home education at first?

III. Исправьте предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста.

1.At week-ends the children often attend the local cinema.

2.Going to a conference made Victor feel uneasy about home education.

Test 19

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

1.The first television broadcast (to make)_______________in April, 1939. Since then it (to become)_____________one of the most important facts of modern life. Its effect (to feel)_________all over the world at present. So what you (to do)_________if your TV set (not to work)_________________tonight?

2.The man who (to sit)_______________opposite David (to ask) _______him what time the train (to arrive)_________in London. David knew the time-table well as he (to travel)_______________ by this train several times already. But the train suddenly (to stop) _________and nobody knew why. David (to feel)_________that they (not to get)_______________to London in time. Later it turned out that a cow (to step)_______________on the line.

II. Вставьте артикль, где необходимо.

I don't like ... crowds when I am on ... holiday. But once I went to ... holiday camp on ... Black Sea coast. There were lots of ... children there. ... holiday camps seem to be popular with married

couples who have ... small children. They not only get a holiday from ... work but also from ... children whom they bring along. Luckily we didn't have to sleep in ...

tents there.

III. Вставьте предлог или послелог, где необходимо.

James had been a student ... Cambridge university ... half a year already ... the time he decided to visit his hometown. He left Cambridge

Saturday evening as he was late ... an earlier train. So he arrived home ... midnight. The house didn't look inviting as his parents had left ... France ... their holiday.

IV. Составьте предложения, расположив слова в нужном порядке.

1.better/spend/no/is/seaside/holiday/than/to/place/at/your/there/the.

2.you/myself/I/to/it/makes/think/what/not/be/able/do/will/that?

3.dress/first/she/an/worn/evening/it/had/time/ever/was/the.

V. Образуйте производное слово, подходящее по смыслу предложения.

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

1.I have already (сделал)_______my choice of the future profession.

2.(Ни)_______Monday (ни)___Tuesday will be a good day for

the meeting.

3. Last year I wrote (меньше)_________dictations than this year.

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4.He was (намного)_________luckier at the exam than any of us.

5.Some people are clever and hard-working; (другие)_________are clever but don't do much work.

6.Can't you (сказать)_________the difference between them?

7.We have to do it by Friday, (не так ли)_________________?

8.He ran to the station (чтобы не опоздать)_________for the train.

VII. Выберите правильный вариант.

1.a) I was the last to enter in the building. b) I was the last to enter to the building.

c) I was the last to enter the building.

2.a) He sounded angry when I phoned him. b) He sounded angrily when I phoned him.

c) He was sounding angry when I phoned him.

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

1.—____________________ —That's all right.

2.—------------------------------ — The same to you.

IX. Прочитайте текст два раза и выполните следующие задания.

Men have walked on the moon, transplanted hearts and invented machines to think for them. But they cannot cure the common cold. A spokesman at the worldfamous cold research center in Salisbury sounded . understandably badtempered when I spoke to him about it. They've been working on the problem for years but the most optimistic he could be was to hope that they would find a cure within the next 10 years. So what was their advice on coping with a cold meanwhile? «Ignore it», he said.

In urban areas we have about three colds a year and they are caused not by wet feet or sitting in a draught, but by a virus, or rather many viruses which are always changing so that a vaccine prepared from one is useless against the next. But every year the pharmaceutical companies spend millions of pounds trying to persuade us that their product will banish1 the miseries of sneezing, running noses, sore throats, headaches and coughs. They admit they can't cure the cold, but they do promise to relieve2 the symptoms.

We looked at 10 well-known brands of cold remedies and asked a doctor to explain, exactly what they contain, each ingredient is for, and his opinion on their effectiveness. Although none of the preparations had exactly the same ingredients, they fell into certain categories.

Nearly all contained a painkiller, either aspirin or paracetamol. These help to reduce temperature and relieve general aches and pains. Aspirin can irritate the stomach, so paracetamol is generally preferred.

None of the preparations was harmful, as long as you observed the warnings on the packets. The worst thing about them was the cost. Advertising and packaging had inflated the price of relatively cheap ingredients, and in many cases you could get the same relief from straightforward paracetamol taken with a warm drink of lemon and honey.

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1to banish – отгонять

2to relieve –облегчать

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

1.The cold research centre in Salisbury is known all over the world.

2.The pharmaceutical companies spend millions of money on developin a cure for the common cold.

3.Cold cures fell into certain categories though they actually contai the same ingredients.

4.The worst thing about the preparations, according to the author, i that they can be harmful.

II. Ответьте на следующие вопросы.

1.What are common colds caused by?

2.What do the pharmaceutical companies promise in their advertisements?

. 3. Why is paracetamol generally preferred? 4. What caused the rise in the price of remedies for colds?

III. Исправьте предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста.

1.Nearly all the preparations for colds contain paracetamol.

2.In northern areas they have about three colds a year.

Test 20

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

1.Last spring I (to go)_______to London for a job interview. As I (to walk)_______________by the National Gallery I suddenly (to see) _______a familiar face. It was Nigel with whom we (to share) _______________a room at college and whose address I unfortunately (to lose)_____________We were happy to see each other and (to agree)_________that we (to meet)__________ for coffee the next day.

2.The Eiffel Tower (to visit)_________by millions of tourists every year. It (to build)___________in 1899 for the Paris exposition. Since that time it (to become)____________the most famous place in Paris. I never (to be)______to France myself so if I (to happen) _________to visit Paris I definitely (to try)_______to climb on top of it.

II. Вставьте артикль, где необходимо.

One day ... fisherman was in his boat in ... Irish Sea, very near ... mouth of ... River Kent. It was nearly ... midnight and ... heavy fog was rising. He was just about to sail home when he heard ... sound of ... bells coming from under water. ... fog had cleared and ... moon was shining.

III. Вставьте предлог или послелог, где необходимо.

According ... the job description, you must have a Master's degree and ... least five years ... experience. Unfortunately, I am not qualified ... that job. Though I am not satisfied ... my present job, I am not going to give it ... as I have no chance to change it ... anything better. So I have to wait ... some other vacancies.

IV. Составьте предложения, расположив слова в нужном порядке.

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1. sure/you/am/enough/to/1/seriousness/are/old/the/problem/understand/ that/of/the.

2.watch/not/a/nothing/TV/there/video/why/if/on/is/interesting/film?

3.managed/last/her/what/out/happened/I/at/to/find/had/really/to.

V. Образуйте производное слово, подходящее по смыслу предложения.

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

1.I have seen a lot of him (в последнее время)__________

2.Не (научился)_________to play chess last year.

3.Are you (интересуешься)____________in cooking?

4.We are not allowed (делать)_________personal calls here.

5.What (идет)_________at the «October» cinema this week?

6.It's important (не волноваться)____________over small things.

7.We paid for our dinner (сами)_____________

8.There's no need to hurry, (не так ли)____________?

VII. Выберите правильный вариант.

1. a) I dislike the thought to lose my freedom.

b)I dislike the thought of loosing my freedom.

c)I dislike a thought of loosing my freedom. 2. a) Who opens the shop every morning?

b)Who open the shop every morning?

c)Who does open the shop every morning?

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

1. —____________________ — That's OK.

2. —____________________ —We'd love to.

IX. Прочитайте текст два раза и выполните следующие задания.

The problem with American parks system is that the parks are being, in the popular phrase, «loved to death». Too many people are visiting the system. It's said they are raining the plants with the pollution fromthedr cars, scaring the animals, destroying by their numbers the experience of being in a wild place the parks are supposed to offer.

It's hard for a visitor from Europe to feel that way. Three years ago we went to the Grand Tetons in Wyoming which is my favourite park of all. Yes, you could find yourself waiting behind a line of cars as someone tried to photograph a herd of animals with a pocket camera.

But then we drove a little way north, turned off the main road and found a small lake surrounded by fields of flowers, with the beautiful snow-capped range of the Tetons in the background. We saw a total of two other people during the whole long, sunny, perfect afternoon.

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The busiest park in the system, the Great Smoky Mountains between Tennessee and North Carolina, can get 60,000 visitors on a single summer's day. That sounds plenty and it is. But all of these people are sharing an area only slightly smaller than the whole of Luxemburg, which has a permanent population seven times as great.

The basic argument is over how much should be done in the parks to satisfy human visitors. Should the accommodation be so basic that only true lovers of nature will be tempted to come? Or should they contain — as they increasingly do — comfortable bathrooms and colour TVs? Choose the former and you are necessarily excluding America's growing population of old people.

And exactly what should be preserved? Twenty years ago Yellow Stone, perhaps the most famous park of all, decided to change to a «hands-off» policy. Animals in danger of starving in the winter would be left to starve, just as nature intended. My advice is to stop trying too hard. Provide plenty of car parks and lodgings for visitors of all kinds. Ban radios and snowmobiles. But realize that for every thousand acres which are spoiled, there are a million which remain as beautiful as they were in George Washington's day.

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

1.Visitors from Europe notice that American parks are being destroyed.

2.In the Grand Tetons in Wyoming visitors .are not allowed to turn off the main road.

3.The Great Smoky Mountains can get seven times more people on a single summer day than the permanent population of Luxemburg.

4.The basic argument over national parks is about the accomodation that would satisfy human visitors.

II. Ответьте на следующие вопросы.

1.What, according to the author, are the parks supposed to offer ?

2.Why did the author have to wait a few times behind a line of cars during his visit to the Grand Tetons' Park?

3.What accomodation should hotels have to welcome old age people'

4.What does the «hands off» policy which was introduced in the Yellow,

Stone park mean?

III. Исправьте предложения в соответствии с содержани ем текста.

1.The Great Smoky Mountains park is the largest in the American park system.

2.The author's advice is to provide lodgings for true lovers of nature only

Test 21

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

On Friday afternoon we (to get)_______________ready to go to the pictures when the baby-sitter (to ring)_________to say that she (to come)____________at 6.30 instead of 6 p.m. So when we (to get) _______to the cinema the film (to start)____________already and the lights (to be) _________out. We (to lead)___________to our seats by the usher in the dark. We (to watch)_________________the film for about half an hour when something (to

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hit)_______me on the head. A little boy who (to sit)___________two rows behind me said: «I am sorry, madam. I (to do)___________it by chance. I (to throw)

_______________the ice-cream to the boy who (to sit)___________ in front of you. I thought he (to catch)_____________it.

II. Вставьте артикль, где необходимо.

Не is taking ... holiday next week before starting ... work again. He is going to spend ... few days in ... Alps with ... friend and then go to ... Lake Balaton. They meet in ... Lime street and take ... bus to Heathrow Airport. In ... half ... hour they'll be there.

III. Вставьте предлог или послелог, где необходимо.

Yesterday afternoon I went to the airport to meet Pierre who was coming ... Paris.

... spite ... the heavy traffic I got there ... an hour. So I arrived ... the airport ... two o'clock, went to the waiting room where I met an old friend of mine. We chattered

... a moment and then went to the bar which was one floor ... the waiting-room.

IV. Составьте предложения, расположив слова в нужном порядке.

1.that/should/it/everybody/have/a/meeting/chance/to/is/at/important/ speak/the.

2.you/with/staying/why/come/instead/don 't/us/of/home/at?

3.think/a/very/swimming/good/keeping/is/sport/for/I/fit/that.

V. Образуйте производное слово, подходящее по смыслу предложения.

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

1.February is (худший)_____________month of the year.

2.He (едва)__________spoke to me.

3.He has missed (меньше)__________lessons than me.

4.I asked every pupil in the class but (никто)__________of them could answer the question.

5.The moment the sun (встало)__________we got up and dressed.

6.So you are late again (как обычно)________________

7.He is (сдает)_____________his next exam on Friday.

8.I am more (интересуюсь)_____________in teaching languages.

VII. Выберите правильный вариант.

1.a) Did you see any of the old friends at the party? b) Did you see anybody of the old friends at the party? c) Did you see some of the old friends at the party?

2.a) I was used to drink a glass milk before going to bed. b) I used to drink a glass of milk before going to bed.

c) I used to drinking a glass of milk before going to bed.

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

1.—____________________ — Не is a driver.

2.—------------------------------ — You are welcome any time.

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IX. Прочитайте текст два раза и выполните следующие задания.

Toys have formed part of human culture since the earliest times. Every society has provided its children with imitation of human beings or animals, and dolls are probably the oldest form of toy. No dolls have been found in prehistoric graves1, but this may be because they were made of materials like wood or cloth that have perished. Nevertheless, a doll with movable arms has been found in a Babylonian grave, and there were certainly dolls in Egypt over six thousand years ago.

Other ancient toys include balls and sticks, and it is clear that most games requiring physical action were originally introduced to train boys in the art of warfare2. Sometimes the result went beyond the inventors' intention. Football was banned3 in England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I because it became too violent. But boys continued to play with toy soldiers and weapons. We have examples dating from the Middle Ages. Moving toys also have a long history. The Chinese developed explosive toy weapons from the use of fireworks, and many early toys employ wheels. Modern technology has made possible the production of sophisticated moving toys like model railways, aircraft controlled by radio, and dolls that can walk.

Children need toys because many adult skills are developed from playing with them. Children who learn to construct model aircraft are using their hands to a purpose; children who solve jigsaw puzzles are using their minds. Above all, children's imagination is stimulated by playing with objects.

But it is not clear that giving children particular toys changes the nature of their games, or that the most elaborate toys will be the ones they like most. Many parents are upset to find that two or three days after Christmas or a child's birthday, the expensive presents they bought have been broken or are lying in a corner of the room, and the child is once again happily building an imaginary castle with a few pieces of wood or playing with an old teddy bear the parents think is ugly and should be thrown away.

1grave—могила

2warfare— война, боевые действия

3to ban—запрещать

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

1.The oldest form of toy is an imitation of human beings.

2.People have found toy soldiers dating from Middle Ages.

3.At one time playing football was not allowed in most of the European countries.

4.According to the author, giving children particular toys changes the nature of their games.

II. Ответьте на следующие вопросы.

1.Why, according to the text, have no dolls been found in prehistoric graves?

2.What fact proves that in ancient times they sometimes buried children's toys with children when they died?

3.What was the purpose of ancient toys like balls or sticks?

4.Why are many parents upset after Christmas or a child's birthday?

III. Исправьте предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста.

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1.It is known that there were dolls in Egypt over six hundred years ago.

2.Children's independence is stimulated by playing with objects.

Test 22

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

Last week our 15-year-old son Joe (to take)_____________to Paris where we (to live)_____________for five years before we (to move) ------------to England. We (to visit)__________the park where Joe (to play)_____________with his friends. When we came up to our house we (to see) ________Mme Duchen, our former maid, who (to stand) ________________outside with a happy smile on her face. She (to exclaim) ___________«Oh, Janet, you (not to change)_______________at all! And Joe (to look) ________such a big handsome boy! When you (to come)________next time I (to make)___________Joe's favourite cherry pie. How you (to do)________at school, Joe?» Her questions were endless.

II. Вставьте артикль, где необходимо.

In ... ordinary English town there is usually ... High Street, which is ... principal street of many towns. It is usually lined with ... shops. It is ... place to visit but not to live in. Nowadays it is becoming more and more unlikely that ... most

Englishmen would like to live in ... street. For some reason ... word «street» has become unpopular. They prefer to live in ... «roads» rather than ... streets.

III. Вставьте предлог или послелог, где необходимо.

1.You remind ... me ... someone I used to know a long time ago. You are very similar ... him ... many ways.

2.«I am going to marry ... a very rich man. I am not going to sit ... a secretary's desk all my life. And I won't wait ... buses or push my

way through crowds of people on Tube trains,» Sally said and everybody laughed

... her.

IV. Составьте предложения, расположив слова в нужном порядке.

1.more/people/there/to/willing/are/area/in/live/this/many.

2.Jane/how/tell/she/to/is/our/find/house/can/anybody/going?

3.big/nice/town/for/have/to/a/it/will/really/supermarket/be/our.

V. Образуйте производное слово, подходящее по смыслу предложения.

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

1.(Ни он ни)_________I have a gift for languages.

2.Susan can't find her keys (нигде)_____._______

3.Our team hasn't won a single game (в последнее время)

4.They are going to have (другое)_________meeting next week.

5.It will be (намного)_________better if we go by bus.

6.We (привычны)____________to having problems with Dick.

7.They say that other people's problems are easy (решить)

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8. They didn't (ожидали)_________so many people at the concert.

VII. Выберите правильный вариант.

1.a) I can't give you any advices. b) I can't give you any advice.

c) I can't give you no advice.

2.a) It is enough easy to get there on foot. b) It is enough easily to get there on foot. c) It is easy enough to get there on foot.

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

1.—____________________ — Very well, thank you.

2.—____________________ — Yes, by all means.

IX. Прочитайте текст два раза и выполните следующие задания.

The World Health Organization reports that 3.5 million people die every year from tobacco related diseases. Half of these deaths occur in industrial countries. Antismoking campaigns have been started in most developed countries — banning1 tobacco advertising in the mass media, increasing cigarette taxes and requiring health warnings on cigarette packages.

For the first time in a quarter of a century the number of women smoking is on an increase. Statistics show that it's the youngest women who are increasingly taking up the habit.

The habit is on an increase among teenage girls while it is falling in all other groups of the population. Now almost one in three girls of school-leaving age are smokers. Teenage girls who smoke believe cigarettes help keep them slim, make them look grown-up and control stress, health experts say. And while they know the risks to their future health, they would still rather smoke.

Health experts are puzzled as to why the anti-tobacco message is not reaching them. Dr. Anne Charlton said «We do not really know why they keep taking up smoking when everyone is giving up.» Teenage girls are twice as likely to start smoking if one of their parents is a smoker. They probably have a best friend who smokes and parents who do not disapprove of their taking up the habit. They are more likely to leave school at 16.

Fifty per cent of girls who leave school to start a career in hairdressing are smokers. In nursing the figure is 44 per cent and around 34 per cent in secretarial work. Dr. Charlton said: «The rates are less among those who go to university. The smokers are usually the ones who do not do well at school and show few signs of wanting to. They mistakenly believe it helps to keep their weight down, although they have no weight problem in the first place».

One of the most effective methods of getting girls to stop smoking is to point out how much they smell, says Dr. Charlon. Others stop when a boyfriend insists he does not like it.

1to ban—запрещать

1.Teenage girls smoke because, according to scientists, smoking helps to keep down weight.

2.Teenage girls are more likely to take up smoking when they start a career in hairdressing.

3.Most of the girls who smoke are not interested in their progress at school.

4.A lot of girls give up smoking after they are told that they smell.

II. Ответьте на следующие вопросы.

1.What are the World Health Organisation's statistics on smoking related diseases?

2.What measures do anti-smoking campaigns include?

3.What puzzles health experts about teenage smoking?

4.What category of girls smoke less?

III. Исправьте предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста.

1.The habit of smoking is on an increase among teenage girls while it is falling among adult women.

2.Teenage girls are likely to start smoking if their best friends do not disapprove of their taking up the habit.

Test 23

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

It's ten o'clock news and I (to speak)_______________to you from Oxford where the finals of the World Quiz Championship (to hold) _______________tomorrow. The favourite is Claude Jennings, the man who (to know)_______everything. Twelve months ago no one (to hear) _______of Claude although he (to take)________________part in such competitions for years. Now suddenly he is a big star. He (to answer) ______________every question correctly since the beginning of the tournament. When he (to arrive)_________here two days ago, hundreds of fans (to wait)_______________at the station to welcome him. Since his arrival he (to read)_________________encyclopedias in his hotel bedroom. If things (to go)_______well for him, he (to become) ___________the first prize winner. He (to have)__________to reply to seventeen thousand questions tomorrow and no meal breaks (to plan)

II. Вставьте артикль, где необходимо.

Today Melissa is ... popular actress and she played ... main part in.. soap opera

«Round the Corner». But as ... child she was unhappy. She didn't do well at ...

school and her greatest pleasure was going to ... cinema. Her family lived in ...

small town in... North of England. Her mother spent all day at... work and her father had little time for ... children.

III. Вставьте предлог или послелог, где необходимо.

Harriet had accepted the invitation ... Mark's party. But ... Friday afternoon she had to stay late at work after office hours. She left ... the office only at seven. When she reached ... Mark's house he was sitting in his car outside waiting ... her. She apologized ... being late. ... the party she sat next ... a man who never stopped eating.

IV. Составьте предложения, расположив слова в нужном порядке.

1. any/see/it/to/you/our/at/place/nice/is/time.

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