Контрольное задание № 2 Вариант № 2

Задание I. Перепишите предложения, подчеркните сказуемое главного предложения и определите видо-временную форму и залог глагола. (Напри­мер, was going - Past Continuous Active от глагола to go).

1. Some attempts to find the metal in the free state were made ten years ago.

2 It is thought that this island was a tropical zone millions of years ago.

3. A lot has been discovered about journeys to the South Pole.

4 Language helps us to make the best of our life.

Задание 2. Перепишите предложения, подчеркните модальный глагол и переведите предложение на русский язык.

1. You can calculate the depth of the water at that point.

2 They had to watch the experiment carefully.

3 You should get acquainted with these foreign tourists.

Задание З. Перепишите предложения и переведите их, обращая внима­ние на эмфатический оборот "it is(was)... who (that)...".

1. It was he who understood the significance of this theory two years ago..

2 . It was the book that was written after discovery of radium...

Задание 4. Перепишите предложения и переведите их, обращая внимание на перевод слов "it", "there".

1. It is not likely that modem explorers will use dogs for their journeys into this continent.

2 It is believed that it takes most of us a long time to master our own language.

3 There is plenty of oxygen in water.

Задание 5. Напишите предложения в отрицательной форме и переведите их.

1. The first mention of Moscow dated back to 1147.

2 Many famous people have used the Reading Room at the British Museum for their studies.

3 He likes to sing English songs.

Задание 6. Составьте предложение из следующих слов и переведите ei на русский язык.

In Europe, one of the, Great Britain, most powerful, is, capitalist countries.

Задание 7. Прочтите, перепишите и закончите предложение, используя одно из слов в скобках.

In the period of England's industrialization Birmingham and Sheffield played the leading role in the creation of England's ... . (time, canals, classes, ii dustry, parliament)

Задание 8. Прочтите текст, перепишите и переведите письменно 1, 2, 5 абзацы. Используйте словарь для нахождения значений новых слов.

Anthony Leeuwenhoek and his discovery

1. Man has an urge to find things out. He is a great discoverer whose сuriosity to know is never satisfied. Here we shall follow one of the greatest explorations ever made by man - the difficult and dangerous voyage of discovery into tl world of tiny life that exists around us, but of which we can see nothing unless v bring the microscope to our aid.

2 . In 1632 a man was bom whose eager curiosity was to give the first clue to the source of infectious diseases. He was Anthony Leeuwenhoeck, a Dutchrm who began experimenting with lenses. Hemounted them in little metal tubes such a way that they would magnify objects as much as possible.

3 His patience was rewarded. He developed a microscope which could magnify things to one hundred times their natural size. He observed the world to tiny life which was very small and couldn't be seen by the naked eye or through an ordinary magnifying glass.

4 The great day came when he turned his attention to examining a drop of water. To his greatest surprise he saw that the drop of water was a world of its own. The microscope showed that this clear drop of water was full of tiny little creatures that moved in their continuous activity. Leeuwenhoeck worked out a way of calculating just how many of them lived in a drop of water. The answer came to "more than two million seven hundred thousand of these creatures - more than the population of the whole of Holland" in those days.

5. Since the time Leeuwenhoeck made his first striking observations, he had been writing letters to the Royal Society in London. The first drawings of germs ever made appeared in a letter he sent to the Royal Society in 1683. But that was only the beginning. He started putting everything he could think of under the lenses of his microscopes. Everywhere he found evidence of minute life that has been unsuspected before.

6 . He had made many discoveries, but although he was very quick in mind, even up to his death at the age ninety-one, it never occurred to him that the para­sites he had discovered might possibly have something to do with infectious dis­ease.

Задание 9. Ответьте на вопрос письменно на английском языке, ис­пользуя текст ."What did Leenwenhoeok see when he turned his attention to ex­amining a drop of water?"

Задание 10. Составьте 4 вопроса разного типа к предложению: "Не wrote about his observations to the Royal Society".

Задание 11. Прочитайте и переведите письменно текст.