Контрольное задание № 2 Вариант № 4

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. Scientists will perhaps learn a great deal about how peoplelived in the ancient world.

2 Certain soil minerals bring about changes in the size or shape of plants,

3 The explorers have shown that the climate in Antarctica is possible even for untrained men.

4 They never carried the fire to the new place.

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

1. You may have heard the story about the tower of Babel.

2 Engineers must prepare detailed drawings from which a machine could be made.

3 Your son has to continue your work.

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

1. Roald Amundson was the first to reach the South Pole.

2. It was the book "Kdn-Tike" that was very popular in those years.

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

1. It is unlikely that the Polar darkness will be defeated soon.

2 It is thought that this land was a tropical zone many years ago.

3 There are no people on earth taller than he.

Задание 5. Напишите предложения в отрицательной форме и пере ве­дите их.

1. She speaks English well.

2 He is going to the USA this year.

3 He can sing English and American songs.

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

one of the, is, the fog, worst features, of London

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

Football which began in England in the 19th century has spread all over the world only in the next....

(population, interest, century, science, meetings)

Задание 8. Прочтите текст, перепишите и переведите письменно 1,2, 3, 5 абзацы. Используйте словарь для нахождения значений новых слов

Thor Heyerdahl's First Voyage

1. In 1947 a book was written which became one of the most popular books of the day. It was translated into many languages and over two and a half million copies were sold. In this book Thor Heyerdahl, then aged 33, described his fourt-housand mile journey on a raft across the Pacific.

2 . For over three months Thor Heyerdahl and his five companions had bat­tled with storms, sea-monsters and lonelines. Various unexpected dangers con­fronted them in that vast sea with its species of animal life.

3. When the courageous Norwegian came home from the expedition he was welcomed as a hero. He was especially glad to be invited to give lectures in many countries, for it provided the opportunity to explain the theory which had inspired his journey.

4 . "This was not merely a dare-devil adventure", Heyerdahl said. My jour­ney was to help solve a mystery that had puzzled scholars for years. It has always been believed that the Polynesian islanders had originally come from Asia. But af­ter I found new ma terial covering over a thousand years of Polynesian life and customs, I formed my own theory - that they had come from South America". When Heyerdahl announced his idea scholars challenged him to prove his theory. He made an attempt to do so by his voyage.

5. One day he heard a legend. An old man living on the South Sea island told him about an old Polynesian Sun-god with a white face called Tiki. Tiki brought his people to live on the South Sea islands, after they had left their own home which was somewhere in a big country behind the sea. "Where was Tiki's home?" Thor wonde red and finally decided that it had been in South America, in Peru. Why Peru? Because the Incas, the early Peruvian Indians, also have a legend telling about gods with white faces who went beyond the sea. The early Peruvians also had colossal stone statues which were very much like stone human figures found on the island.

6 . Thor Heyerdahl was not only a fine researcher - but also a man of great darmg and courage. He set out on his unique voyage to prove that the Perurians could have made the same journey from South America centuries ago.

Задание 9. Ответьте на вопрос письменно на английском языке, ис­пользуя текст: "What was the mystery that had puzzled scholars for years?"

Задание 10. Составьте 4 вопроса разного типа к предложению: "Не could find new materials about Polynesian life and customs."

Задание 11 Переведите устно с 1-го по 3-й абзац на русский язык. Перепишите и переведите письменно 1-й и 2-й абзацы.

ROBOT TECHNOLOGY

1. Robots are machines of a special type. They are considered to replace man wherever he is to do hard, monotones or hazardous work .Robots are sohpicticated machines Many of them fitted with artificial intellect systems, special programming devices and electronic controllers. Then development required the work of specialists in several technical fields, together with specialists in biophysics and physiology.

2. The idea of robot technology was born in 1940s , when the foundation of atomic power engineering- the basis of technological progress were laid. The materials, scientists must deal with , are radioactive .Besides, the equipment used in obtaining and studing them is dangerous for man. At the same time work with radio-active substances ,assembly and disassembly of atomic reactors the serving of machines and devices in radioactive zones require human effort. Remote-controlled equipment help to solve this problem.

3. Research into radioactive materials is becoming ever more complicated, new problems are arising in atomic engineering and space technology. This calls for newer manipulators and devices to be handled by an operator. An analysis of these ideas and their solutions has two entirely different approaches. The first one is to bring the operator as close to the object as possible, the other requires remote control. Both approaches have already found practical application not only in atomic engineering but in underwater exploration as well.

4. Our research and design organizations create robots for assembling various electronic circuits. Mention should be made that robots are in wide use for performing welding and painting.

5. Robot technology emerged at the junction of two sciences - machine mechanics and control theory.Its further progress requires a wide application of modern control machines and systems, handled by scientists specializing in the theory of working processes, biology and physics.

Задание 12 Письменно ответьте на следующий вопрос.

What does the further progress of robots technology require?