Вариант 4

I. Поставьте глагол to be в нужной форме. Согласуйте его с подлежащим.

Model: My mother's smile ...pleasant.

My mother's smile is pleasant

1. I think your advice ... always useful.

2. The letter ... so informative!

3. His office ... in London.

4. All the furniture ... home-made.

5. ... he in a hurry?

6. Most young people ... fond of sport.

7. What factories ... your city famous for?

8. What... the main rivers of Ukraine?

II.Заполните пропуски прилагательными в сравнительной или превосходной степени. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. She thinks he's ... man in the world, smart

2. You must have as ... sugar as possible, little

3. This way is ... than that one. short

4. She will get... when she gets ... thin, old

5. Our flat is ... than yours, comfortable

6. His plan is ... of all. good

7. Do you know that the Dead Sea is ... in the world? salty

8. These trousers are too small. I need ... size. large

III. Раскройте скобки и поставьте глаголы в Present Simple или Present Continuous.

Model: I... usually (go) to work by bus.

I usually go to work by bus.

1. She (not often / write) to me.

2. The book (describe) the museums of our town.

3. She usually (read) the newspaper at breakfast but she (not / read) it today.

4. They (work) at this problem at present.

5. What language they (speak) in Holland?

6. My friend always (tell) me the truth, but I see that she (tell) me a lie now.

7. My vacation (come) to an end.

8. Tom usually (play) football but today he (play) tennis.

IV. Раскройте скобки и поставьте глаголы в Past Simple или Present Perfect.

1. I (read) this book when I was a child.

2. I just (post) the letter.

3. At last she (do) everything, now she can go to bed.

4. He (leave) a moment ago.

5. ... you ever (be) to the Crimea?

6. Ring them up, they (return).

7. When ... the lecture (begin)?

8. I (get) a fax from Boston an hour ago, but I (not / answer) it yet.

V. Заполните пропуски модальными глаголами can, can't, could, couldn't, must, mustn't, didn't have to, had to и переведите на русский язык.

1. Ann ... play the piano very well.

2. They ... be present at the conference yesterday.

3. You ... to translate this letter at once

4. We ... go to Spain for our holidays last summer.

5. I... play tennis yesterday. I... go to the dentist.

6. My mother ... take the dog for a walk. I did it myself.

7. I... smoke in here.

8. All visitors ... report to reception.

VI. Прочтите и переведите текст.

Covent Garden

Covent Garden used to be Britain's biggest market for flowers, fruit and vegetables. If you went in the afternoon, you only saw enormous iron and glass buildings and a few tourists.

But if you went there at four o'clock in the morning, you would have seen that the iron and glass buildings had come to life. Hundreds of men and women were buying and selling flowers, fruit and vegetables. Cars and lorries filled the whole area. They took all the things to be sold to hundreds of shops over London and southeast England. By midday, the farmers who had come to sell their fruit and vegetables would have gone home. So would the shopkeepers, the lorry-drivers and the porters. London's 300-year-old fruit market was moved in 1974 to its new site at Nine Elms because the old one was too small. In 1980 a reconstructed market with about 50 small shops, cafes and restaurants was opened in the old market. Street actors and musicians show their performances under the iron and glass buildings. The whole area has a new atmosphere.

Next to the old market stands the Covent Garden Opera House. It is open almost the whole year, and when the operatic company is resting or touring, the ballet company takes the stage. The ballet is a newer art for Covent Garden than the opera, but the ballet company has already become an international one since it has been going on tours abroad and has made the name of Covent Garden famous.