Вариант №1. Контрольная работа № 2 по английскому языку для студентов заочного обучения

1 Курс , 2 семестр

1. Переведите предложения (Страдательный залог):

1. A catalogue is enclosed with this letter.

2. This model was advertised on the radio.

3. The problem was settled yesterday.

4. These conditions are included in the offer.

2. Переведите предложения с модальными глаголами:

1. Can you come tomorrow?

2. They should send a letter of confirmation in French.

3. Should you leave now for the airport?

4. They cannot meet him.

5. May I come in?

6. I must go home tonight.

3. Закончите следующие предложения, используя слова: today / this year / this term etc:

1. I saw Tom yesterday but I haven’t seen him today.

2. I read a newspaper yesterday but I ………………today.

3. Last year the company made a profit but this year………

4. Tracy worked hard at school last term but…………….….

5. It snowed a lot last winter but ………………

6. Our football team won a lot of games last season but we………..

4. Прочитайте и переведите диалог. Определите время:

Dave: Have you traveled a lot, Jane?

Jane: Yes, I’ve been to lots of places.

Dave: Really? Have you ever been to China?

Jane: Yes, I’ve been to China twice.

Dave: What about India?

Jane; No, I haven’t been to India.

5. Определите время:

1. She painted the ceiling yesterday.

2. I will learn French.

3. I am speaking English now.

4. I speak English.

5. This time last year I was living in Washington.

6. He has lost his key.

7. Have you been running?

8. He had gone home.

9. It had been raining.

6. Переведите следующие предложения:

1. During the last few years we have witnessed remarkable progress in the space research techniques.

2. In recent years electron microscopy has revealed a lot of important details in the structure of microorganisms.

3. This year he has written two papers.

4. I have recently collected interesting biological material.

5. I have often attended seminars on genetics.

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7.Задайте вопросы к следующим предложениям:

1. He has become a well-known chemist since then.

2. I’d been working hard all day.

3. She is driving to work.

4. I shall work in London.

5. Scientific and personal contacts have been improved.

8. Прочитайте и переведите текст:

THE BRITISH WAY OF LIFE.

Almost every nation has a reputation of some kind. The French are supposed to be merry; the Germans dull, formal Fond of military uniforms; the Americans boastful, energetic. The English are reputed to cold, reserved, rather haughty people who do not shout in the streets. They are steady, easy-going and fond of sport. People in England do not shake hands as much as people do in Europe.

The English are a nation of stay-at-homes. “The Englishman’s home is his castle” is the saying known all over the world. It is true that English people prefer small houses, built to house one family, perhaps with a small garden.

The fire is the focus of the English home. What do other nations sit round? The answer is they don’t. They go out to cafes or sit round the cocktail bar. For the English it is the open fire and the ceremony of English tea. Tea is part of prose of British life, as necessary as potatoes or bread. It must be made “just like mother makes it”, one teaspoonful of tea for each person.

It is drunk with or without sugar but almost always with milk.

The English people often say something about the weather when they begin the conversation. In fact, people talk about the weather more in Britain than in most parts of the world. For one thing, the weather in Britain changes very quickly. One day may be wet and the next day may be fine. The Englishmen often say:” Other countries have climate, we have weather”. For another thing, the weather is a safe topic for conversation. It plays a big part in the lives of the British people. Every daily newspaper publishes a weather forecast. Both the radio and the television give the weather forecast several times each day.

The club is decidedly British institution. Club membership is a part of clubmen professional and business life. Membership of the club is regarded as carrying a certain social prestige. Most of the clubs are old. They derived from coffee-house, where Englishmen gathered for company and conversation. The members of all clubs are to be elected. There exist school clubs and college clubs, political clubs and cultural clubs, town clubs of all sorts. Sixty years ago, clubs were regarded to be only male territory. Now nearly all the clubs are open for both men and women.