II. Пользуясь словарём, переведите письменно следующие предложения.

1. Global warming is caused by the greenhouse effect.

2. Recycling is the processing of used objects and materials so that they can be used again.

3. Recycling saves energy and raw materials and also reduces damage to the countryside.

4. Factories, power stations and motor vehicles pump large quantities of carbon dioxide and other waste gases into the air.

5. Acid rain damages trees and buildings and can kill fish in lakes and rivers.

6. Rivers can also be polluted by industrial waste from factories and chemical fertilizers and pesticides used by farmers.

7. Rainforests help to control global warning because they absorb carbon dioxide.

Test №4 (вариант 1)

Контрольная работа на повторение пройденного материала и материала, выносимого на самостоятельное изучение дисциплины.

Task №1.

I. Выделите суффиксы существительных и переведите слова на русский язык:

scientist, doctor, reporter, operator, measurement, multiplication, dimension, depth, width, beginning, division, production, drawing, conversion, subtraction, professor, specialist, profession, function, radiator.

II. Переведите сочетания слов, обращая внимание на значение предлогов:

of: the pressure of water, to speak of something, one of them.

to: to show to the students, to go to the factory, to turn to the right.

by: to operate by hand, to speak by telephone, by means of a battery, to sit by the window.

with: to illustrate with tables, to write with a pencil, a tube with water, to speak with our friends.

about: to speak about the lecture, to do about 15 experiments.

III. Напишите цифрами числительные:

the seventeenth, two hundred and sixty-one, the forties, the eighth, the eleventh, the seven hundred and seventy-fifth, five thousand eight hundred and one, one thousand three hundred, four hundred and ten.

IV. Переведите на английский язык порядковые числительные:

первый, второй, третий, одиннадцатый, двенадцатый, тринадцатый, пятый, семнадцатый, двадцатый, восьмой.

Task №2.

I. Укажите номера предложений, сказуемые которых стоят в страдательном залоге и переведите их на русский язык.

1. The history of Internet began in the United States in 1961.

2. Modern computers can be divided into several categories on the basis of cost and performance.

3. The Internet has already entered our life.

4. Electronic systems are being widely spread all over the world nowadays.

5. Most of the people use the Internet.

6. The term computer is often used to mean only the digital computer.

7. The most important problem is security.

8. Steps have been taken to increase the speed of sending up messages.

9. Since electronic computers were first used in scientific and engineering computation.

10. The international exchange programmes will be developed still further in future.

II. Выберите правильный перевод сказуемого:

1. Computers represent a completely new branch of science.

The engineers will represent a new generation of computers.

Modern computers are represented by this company.

a) представляли; b) представлены ; c) будут представлять; d) представляют.

2. The tests have been carried out well.

The tests were being carried out well.

The tests are being carried out well.

a) выполняются; b) выполнялись; с) были выполнены; d) будут выполнены.