Английский язык. Сборник контрольных работ для студентов I курса направления подготовки 270800.62 «Строительство» (заочной формы обучения)

chooses the elective which will be necessary for his future work or further education at university or college. There are also special schools for mentally/physically handicapped children.

After classes pupils don't usually go home. They have some extracurricular activities. Their social and cultural life is well-organized. Schools have different clubs and societies, and pupils can take part in their work according to their preferences.

At present one can see a lot of changes in the traditional system of education in Russia. Education is free at most schools. But there are some private primary and secondary schools where pupils have to pay for their studies.

There are many colleges, institutes, universities and academies in our country. It's not easy to enter a university or a college as the competiton is rather high. Children must take part in this competition with the results of UST. Most of the universities and colleges are public and don't charge fees. Students who do well in all subjects get scholarships.

Universities train specialists in different fields. Students are able to study in evening, day-time or part-time departments. The course of studies is usually five years.

Universities and colleges have their own students' hostels and some of them have large and excellent sports centres. Most higher educational institutions have modern computer centres.

Now a new system of education is being introduced in Russia. It's a distance education system which helps working professionals to continue their education while remaining at their jobs. A good education is a pass to a well-paid job and higher status.

Словарь

compulsory – обязательный primary school – начальная школа secondary school – средняя школа

vocational school – профессиональное училище technical secondary school – техникум

to pass a Unified State Test (UST) – сдать единый государственный экзамен (ЕГЭ)

finals= final / school-leaving exams – выпускные экзамены Certificate of Secondary Education – аттестат о среднем образовании comprehensive school – общеобразовательная школа

academic subjects – общеобразовательные дисциплины, предметы elective subjects – предметы по выбору

student – зд. учащийся

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mentally / physically handicapped children – умственно / физически непол-

ноценные дети

extracurricular activities – внеклассные занятия

X. Ответьте на вопросы, пользуясь содержанием текста

1.At what age do children start going to school in Russia?

2.What do many children attend before going to school?

3.How long does primary education last?

4.What subjects are taught at secondary school?

5.What other types of secondary schools are there in Russia besides comprehensive schools?

6.What subjects can children choose for their future work or further education?

7.What extracurricular activities do many schools offer to their pupils?

8.When do school-leavers receive a Certificate of Secondary Education?

9.What new system of education is being introduced in Russia now?

10.Why do you think higher education plays an important part in our life?

КОНТРОЛЬНАЯ РАБОТА № 2

ВАРИАНТ 1

I. Заполните пропуски нужной формой модального глагола

II. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на глагол в повелительном наклонении

1. Open the textbook on page 63 and do exercise 5.

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2.Let him help you with your homework.

3.Don't read so fast.

4.Be attentive in class!

5.Have a little think.

6.Go on reading.

7.Learn the poem by heart, please.

8.Try to do your best.

III. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на многофункциональность глагола to be

1.We are to move there in May.

2.When I returned to town, the school was still beingbuilt.

3.The ice wasn't thick enough to skate, was it?

4.What was destroyed by the fire?

5.Will there be a meeting tomorrow? – Yes, there will be.

6.The child is being looked after.

7.We were to meet at the entrance to the theatre at a quarter to eight.

IV. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на многофункциональность глагола to have

1.He had to cook dinner as his mother was busy.

2.You won't have to wash the floor. I have already done it.

3.We have many relatives in St. Petersburg.

4.Come tomorrow evening: by that time I'll have finished the translation of the article.

5.I have never seen anyone more beautiful than your wife.

6.I shall have been waiting for you for half an hour and if you don't come at 11 o'clock, I’ll go alone.

7.Have you ever been taught how to behave?

V. Поставьте предложения в нужном времени Present, Past или

Future Simple

1.Rachel (to travel) around Europe this summer.

2.I think Jane (not/to get) the job.

3.Mike (to graduate from) the Institute next year.

4.Who (to plant) tomatoes every year?

5.I (to be) too tired to walk home. We (to take) a taxi or stay here till morning?

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6.He (to phone back) me in an hour.

7.How long the lesson (to last)?

VI. Поставьте предложения в нужном времени Present, Past или

Future Continuous

1.They (to make) their reports at that time yesterday.

2.The children are too quiet. Go and see what they (to do).

3.Mary (to clean) her room or (to read) a journal from nine till ten yesterday morning?

4.I (to watch) TV. Please, don't bother me.

5.We saw an accident while we, (to walk) along the street.

6.She is out now. She (to have classes) at the University.

7.Margaret (to wear) long hair when you first met her?

VII. Поставьте предложения в нужном времени Present, Past или

Future Perfect

1.By the end of the month we (to translate) already this book.

2.I (to see) just my friend in the street.

3.We were good friends. We (to know) each other for a long time.

4.Is this the first time you (to cook) pasta?

5.By what time the students (to submit) their term papers?

6.Bill (to eat) never caviar.

7.After they (to leave) home, the rain stopped.

VIII. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на страдательный залог

1.In the UK the power of the monarch is limited by Parliament which is made up of the House of Lords and the House of Commons.

2.What will have been repaired by the end of the month, I wonder?

3.I am often helped about the house. And what about you?

4.The visitors will be shown round the city by the guide.

5.The customers are not being served at the moment.

6.When was the first heart transplant operation made?

7.Nothing has been told to us about the changes in the programme of the conference.

8.A lot of money will be spend on housing construction in our country.

9.A new grammar rule is being explained to the students now.

10.You will be given a dictionary to do the translation.

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governing, residential colleges. The teaching (here is based on the tutorial system as well as lectures. Each student hits a tutor who is responsible for his progress. A tutor is a member of a Mull' who teaches small groups of students and gives them help and advice. The cost of education at Oxford and Cambridge is so high that not many can afford entering these Universities. Most of their students are former public schools leavers.

2.The universities which were founded between 1850 and 1930, including London university, are known as redbrick universities. They were called so because red brick was the favourable building material of the lime. They are rarely referred to as «redbrick» today.

3.The new universities were all founded after the Second World War. Some of them quickly became popular because of their modern approach to university courses.

The Open University, started in 1971 and intended for people who study in their own free time, provides degree courses using television, correspondence courses, summer schools and a network of viewing centres.

Словарь

full-time higher education – полный курс дневного высшего образования sell-governing institution – самоуправляемое учебное заведение

the Department of Education and Science – Министерство образования и науки

regulations – устав

curriculum (мн.ч. curriculums / curricula) – учебный план appointment of staffназначение преподавательского состава application - заявление

the Universities' Central Council on Admissions – Центральный совет но вопросам поступления в университеты (учрежден в 1961 г.)

tutorial – консультация; практическое занятие с наставником / руководителем

Bachelor of Arts (В А) – бакалавр искусств

Bachelor of Science – (BSc) – бакалавр наук

Master – магистр (обладатель второй ученой степени)

Doctor of Philosophy – доктор философии (обладатель высшей ученой степени в той или иной области: медицины, физики...)

tutorial system – система наставничества, руководства, индивидуального обучения

tutor – наставник, руководитель, преподаватель correspondence courses – заочные курсы

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X. Ответьте на вопросы, пользуясь содержанием текста

1.What are the main sources of full-time higher education in Great

Britain?

2.What kind of institutions are British universities?

3.What professionals do they produce?

4.How can an applicant be admitted to a university?

5.When do students have their vacation?

6.What degree is awarded at the end of a three years' study?

7.A master degree is the highest degree, isn't it?

8.What must a person submit to get the highest degree - that of Doctor of Philosophy?

9.What differs British universities from each other?

10.What three groups can British universities be divided into?

ВАРИАНТ 2

I. Заполните пропуски нужной формой модального глагола

1. The children didn't … go to school yesterday because it was a holiday.

II. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на глагол в повелительном наклонении

1.Turn on/off the light.

2.Take a piece of chalk and write this sentence on the blackboard.

3.Let me take the credit test in advance.

4.Don't miss classes and don't be late for lectures.

5.Let's listen to him attentively.

6.Try not to make many mistakes.

7.Go out of the room!

8.Don't ask the same question.

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III. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на многофункциональность глагола to be

1.You are good at physics.

2.The metro station is far from my house.

3.How old is Mary? – She will be 17 in May.

4.The report was followed by a discussion.

5.Who was talking on the telephone at that time?

6.Are they leaving Moscow tomorrow?

7.The children will be sleeping when their parents come home.

IV. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на многофункциональность глагола to have

1.I haven't got any books on Sociology.

2.He had to cook dinner as his mother was busy.

3.I am sure the work will have been completed by the time you return.

4.I've been waiting for my friend for two hours.

5.By what lime will you have finished your work?

6.He had a number of problems with his experiment.

7.Do you have to look up a lot of words in your dictionary?

8.Has Roger bought a bike for Tom yet?

V. Поставьте предложения в нужном времени Present, Past или

Future Simple

1.I never (to eat) ice-cream.

2.Last year we (to begin) to study this subject.

3.She never (to do) her work beforehand.

4.Who (to win) the first prize?

5.I rarely (to visit) art galleries. I (to be) not particularly interested in art.

6.Ann (to be free) in a few days?

7.The child (not/to have) a walk yesterday. He (to be) very pale.

VI. Поставьте предложения в нужном времени Present, Past или

Future Continuous

1.I sometimes sing while I (to cook).

2.He (to travel) in France this month?

3.They (to have a rest) or (to work) now?

4.When Frank came home his son (to write) a letter to his friend.

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5.It (not/ to snow) hard now.

6.Tom (to cook) dinner when he burnt his finger?

7.They (to leave) for Berlin or Madrid when you met them at the airport?

VII. Поставьте предложения в нужном времени Present, Past или

Future Perfect

1.By what time you (to do) the translation of the article?

2.I remember this singer very well. He (to be a success) for a long time.

3.My friend (to speak) never to a famous person.

4.Ann (to type) three letters since morning.

5.George said that he (to have) already his lunch.

6.I am afraid Mark (not/ to come) by ten o'clock tomorrow morning.

7.They (to buy) a new flat recently?

VIII. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на страдательный залог

1.I hope my Valentine will have been received by February the 14th.

2.A big self-service store is called a supermarket.

3.She was being laughed at by everybody.

4.The doctor was sent for immediately.

5.The atmosphere which is created by a good interpersonal relationship is the major condition for learning.

6.No wonder that he is being paid well for the job. He is a good specialist.

7.The traffic system in Moscow is being improved from year to year.

8.She said that he had not been seen anywhere that day.

9.I’m sure the children will be taken good care of when you are away.

10.When we entered the room that problem was still being discussed.

IX. Прочитайте и переведите текст

THE ENGLISH

The English are a nation of stay-at-homes. There is no place like home, they say. «The Englishman's home is his castle» is a saying known all over the world; and this is true since English people prefer small houses built for one family, perhaps with a small garden. The fire is the focus of the English home. Most English people remain strongly attached to the open coal fire. Many rooms are, in fact, heated by gas or electric fires, but these are usually placed in front of old-style fire-places. What do other nations sit around? The answer is they don't. They go out to cafes or sit

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round the cocktail bar. For the English it is the open fire and the ceremony of English tea. From four to six the nation is at ease from the Channel to the Lakes. Traditionally tea is served with milk and the tea hour (famous five o'clock) in England has become a ritual.

English hospitality is gracious and beautiful. The Englishman must know you and approve you before he asks you to his home; or you must be properly recommended to him.

One often hears of the Englishman's «reserve»; how he likes «to keep himself to himself». It is true that Englishman does not talk freely about himself or easily disclose the things nearest his heart, and for that reason he often deceives. Most English are unemotional in public. They don't like displaying their emotions even in dangerous and tragic situations. But they are far from being unemotional. They control their emotions because they are taught that it is best not to show their feelings. But at the same lime they show great love for animals. Millions of families have «bird-tables» in their gardens. Nearly half of the households in Britain keep at least one pet. The English take good care of their pets. Pet dogs, cats, liens, canaries and many other animals have a much better life in Britain than millions of poor children throughout the world. And do you remember the English saying: «Love me - love my dog»?

The English take pride in doing everything in a different way than anybody else. People are seen as independent personalities with individual needs and a right for private information. Being in the UK one should avoid mentioning any figures when talking with people about income, hank interest, insurance rates, credit line, etc.

The English are practical and realistic, prudent and careful about almost everything. Everything is orderly: the lawns and the trees are neatly trimmed. Every Englishman is said to be a countryman at heart. The English countryside is many things to many people. It means peace and quiet, beauty, good health and no crime. Most Englishmen love gardens. Gardening is one of the most popular hobbies among Englishmen.

The English are said to be polite and well-mannered people. Polite words or phrases such as «Please», «Thank you» and «Excuse me» are used very often in Britain. They seem to apologize often, even for things over which they have no control.

Englishmen are characterized as very punctual people, who do not waste a single minute or penny. Yet you may be ten minutes late but not ten minutes early.

English people take everything with a sense of humour. A reflection of it you can find in numerous limericks, nursery rhymes and tongue-twisters.

You can easily offend them if you tell them they have no sense of humour.

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