7. Прочтите 5-й абзац текста и ответьте на вопрос

Why is Washington often called the city of blacks?

ВАРИАНТ 3

1.Образуйте множественное число следующих существительных.

a fact, a day, a plane, a sheep, a postman, a tooth, a phenomenon.

2.Переведите предложения на английский язык.

1.Мы жили в доме твоей тети.

2.Ты видел жену мистера Келли?

3.Любимый цвет Анны - красный.

3.Вставьте пропущенные глаголы to do, to be, to have в нужной форме.

1. … you work that evening?

2. Where … they going today?

3. Tom … not work in evening.

4. Barbara … breakfast at home yesterday.

4.Поставьте следующие предложения в прошедшее, а затем в будущее время.

1. There are some mistakes in his dictation.

2. There is not a hotel in this town.

5.Из данных предложений выпишите и переведите на русский язык те, в которых есть модальные глаголы или их эквиваленты.

Nick plays chess rather well. He will be able to take part in competitions. Now he is to work much with his trainer.

6. Прочитайте и устно переведите текст. Перепишите и письменно переведите 1,2 и 4-й абзацы.

THE BRITISH MUSEUM

1. The British Museum, comprising the national museum of archaeology and ethnography and the national library ,is the largest and richest of its kind in the world.Built in the middle of the last century, it is situated in Bloomsbury, a district in central London.

2. Anthony Panizzi designed the plans for the construction of the famous circular Reading Room at the British Museum; and it occupies the site of the former interior courtyard. The domed roof of the Reading Room is forty-seven metres in diameter.

3. The first thing which strikes a visitor on entering the Reading Room is its unusual shape. It is a perfect circle. The superintendent and his assistants sit in the centre of the room and they issue and collect books. The catalogues are kept in a slightly larger circular space behind them, and from this circumference of catalogues, long rows of reading desks radiate to the outer walls, like the spokes of a wheel.

4. The British Museum has an enormous range of galleries,but they no longer contain the objects relating to natural history which formed such an important part of the original bequest. These are now housed in another museum. The British Museum contains books and manuscripts: Greek, Roman, West Asiatic and British, as well as oriental antiquities. It has a department of ethnography. Ethnography is concerned with primitive peoples and their cultures in various stages of development as revealed by their tools, ritual objects and various crafts. This collection is so vast that only a tiny percentage is on show to the general public. Then there is a department of prints and drawings. There are also departments devoted to maps, coins and metals. Visitors interested in horology can see a fascinating array of clocks and watches. Those who are interested in philately can view a magnificent collection of postage stamps.