Вариант 2

I. Перепишите следующие предложения. Определите по грамматическим признакам, какой частью речи являются слова, оформленные окончанием -s и какую функцию это окончание выполняет, т. е. служит ли оно:

а) показателем 3-го лица единственного числа глагола в Present Indefinite;

б) признаком множественного числа имени существительного;

в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени существительного (см. образец выполнения 1).

Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. Не works only five days a week.

2. We all know the works of this great Soviet writer.

3. We visited Kiev's famous St. Sophia Cathedral.

II. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их, обращая внимание на особенности перевода на русский язык определений, выраженных именем существительным (см. образец выполнения 2).

1. These engineers deal with cosmic ray studies.

2. The Kiev, underground is short, but beautiful.

3. This light industry establishment is not far from our Institute.

III. Перепишите следующие предложения, содержащие разные формы сравнения, и переведите их на русский язык.

1. This museum is more interesting than that one.

2. We discussed the most important problems at the meeting yesterday.

3. The more often you use English words in speech, the better you learn them.

IV. Перепишите и письменно переведите предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на перевод неопределенных и отрицательных местоимений.

1. No student of this group was in Kiev.

2. Some of the students will go on an excursion tomorrow.

3. Any museum of Kiev is of great interest to us.

V. Перепишите следующие предложения, определите в них видовременные формы глаголов и укажите их инфинитив; переведите предложения на русский язык (см. образец выполнения 3).

1. My friend left Kiev for Moscow.

2. Boris and I played chess after dinner.

3. They will be glad to see us in Kiev again.

VI. Прочтите и устно переведите на русский язык с 1-го по 4-й абзацы текста. Перепишите и письменно переведите 1, 2 и 4-й абзацы.

KIEV

1. The land of the Ukraine is vast and beautiful, its fields are fertile the energy of the mighty Dnieper River is enormous. The Ukraine represents a large economic region in the USSR. In Soviet times many giant industrial enterprises, dams and hydro-electric stations, thousands of factories, collective and state farms' new cities and towns came into being in the Ukraine.

2. Kiev is the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. It is one of the most beautiful cities in the Soviet Union. Its population is some two million people.

3. Kiev is the largest centre of national Ukrainian culture. There are many research institutes, the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, many higher and hundreds of secondary schools in Kiev. The University which bears the name of Shevchenko stands in the centre of the city. Kiev has a history that goes back for more than ten centuries.

4. Kiev is a highly developed industrial city. There are many engineering, instrument-building, food processing and light industry establishments in Kiev. The Kiev plants and factories produce complex automatic lathes, excavators, sea and river ships, motor-cycles, electrical measuring instruments, planes, machine-tools, artificial fibres and diamonds. The Ukrainian scientists discovered the way of manufacturing artificial diamonds and developed the methods of electric welding. They made outstanding progress in nuclear physics, chemistry and other branches of science.

5. The Ukrainian Republic exports manufactured goods to more than 70 foreign countries. The achievements are so great thanks to the efforts of the Ukrainian people and the fraternal assistance of the other Soviet people.

VII. Прочтите 5-й абзац и вопрос к нему. Из приведенных вариантов ответа укажите номер предложения, содержащего правильный ответ на поставленный вопрос.

Why are the achievements of the Ukrainian Republic so great?

1. The achievements are so great thanks to the efforts of the Ukrainian people.

2. The achievements are so great thanks to the efforts of the other Soviet people.

3. The achievements are so great thanks to the efforts of the Ukrainian people and the fraternal assistance of the other Soviet people.