1. Прочтите текст и ответьте устно на следующие вопросы:

1. Who founded Sydney?

2. What part does Sydney play in Australia?

SYDNEY

1. Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, and the largest city in Australia, is built around the shores of Port Jackson, the site of the first settlement in Australia.

2. In 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip arrived in Botany Bay with the first thousand white people to settle the new land in the South. Eighteen years previously Captain James Cook had discovered and taken possession of the eastern portion of the continent. Soon realising that no substantial settlement could flourish in the swamp lands and poor soil of Botany Bay, Phillip sailed a few miles northward and selected as the site for the first settlement the land surrounding a small bay, which he named Sydney Cove, after Lord Sydney, the British Home Secretary.

3. Today Sydney has a population of about two million people and is the main port of Australia. It possesses several spacious parks in the very centre of the city; Hyde Park, the Domain, and the Botanic Gardens, all being within a few minutes’ walk of the General Post Office. Sydney provides and administers the transport, commercial, financial and other services. In addition, it supplies an increasing proportion of the nation’s manufacture requirements.

2. Переведите в письменной форме абзацы 1, 3.

3. Назовите номер абзаца, в котором Participle I (причастие I) является определением. Выпишите это предложение и переведите его на русский язык.

4. В каких функциях употреблено причастие I в приведенных ниже предложениях? Переведите предложения на русский язык:

1. Visiting Canberra the tourists will be interested to inspect the public buildings, the most important being Parliament House.

2. In Parliament House there are many paintings, statues, busts and medallions, portraying prominent figures in Australian public life.

3. The Australian National University, standing on a site of some 200 acres in the north of Canberra, was founded in 1946.

5. Назовите номер предложения, в котором Participle II (причастие II) является определением, и переведите это предложение на русский язык:

1. The design of the city was won by a Chicago architect, W.B. Griffin, in 1911.

2. The design won by a Chicago architect, W. B. Griffin, in 1911 was a notable piece of town-planning.

3. The design won by a Chicago architect in 1911, they began to put it into life.

Вариант 2

1. Прочтите текст и ответьте устно на следующие вопросы:

1. What is the highest building in Washington?

2. What is the most interesting museum in Washington?

WASHINGTON

1. Washington, the capital of the United States, is situated on the Potomac River in the District of Columbia. Washington is not the largest city in the United States but in the political sense it is the most important city.

2. Washington has one major business and that business is government. Many people living in Washington work for the federal government. At 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue there is the White House where the President lives and has his office.

3. The Capitol, with its great Hall of Representatives and the Senate, is the highest building in Washington. There is a law against building structures more than 90 feet high in the capital. With its beautiful buildings and its tree-lined avenues Washington attracts a lot of visitors.

4. The capital has world-known art galleries, museums and monuments. One of the most interesting museums in Washington is the National Art and Space Museum. The museum has aircraft and spacecraft that were important in aviation history. There are even rocks that the astronauts brought to the Earth after their Moon landing.