X. Translate into English:

1. Они ехали по широкой дороге, по обе стороны которой росли деревья. 2. Он пригласил нас обоих, но я знал, что он не хочет видеть ни одного из нас. 3. Она либо очень больна, либо ушла. В любом случае мы не можем открыть дверь. 4. Обе эти комнаты очень мрачные. Боюсь, ни одна из них мне не подойдет. 5. В каждом конце коридора была дверь. 6. Двое из них не смогли прийти, но каждый из них имел серьезную причину. 7. Ты можешь взять любой из моих фотоаппаратов. 8. Оба, я и мой брат, были молоды и сильны. 9. К этому времени ни одна из его сестер не вышла замуж. 10. Передай это сообщение папе и маме, боюсь, я не увижу ни одного, ни другого.

XI. Choose between much and many, (a) little and (a) few to use in the following sentences:

1.______ is spoken about it, but _____ believe it. 2. Those days he was very busy and he saw _____ of his old friends. 3. Last week there was so ______ rain that I wasn’t able to go out. 4. She was glad to see me because I was English and she knew _____ English people. 5. There isn’t ______ harm in it. 6. I have so _____ things to do that I don’t know which to do first. 7. Say _____ and do _____. 8. Mary had slept ______ last night and she had a headache. 9. Ann had not ______ visitors lately. 10. They didn’t earn ______ money and lived in the country.

XII. Translate into English:

1. Сколько иностранных языков вы собираетесь учить? 2. Я прочел много книг по этому вопросу. 3. Какие перчатки ты хочешь купить? – Те, что на витрине. 4. Вряд ли есть что-нибудь, чего он не видел. Его ничем не удивишь. Разве что у вас есть что-нибудь особенное. 5. Налейте мне молока. 6. Нет смысла волноваться об этом. 7. Если вам не нравится этот костюм, я могу вам предложить другой. 8. Когда увидишь остальных, напомни им о нашем уговоре. 9. Не весь снег еще растаял. 10. Он, по-видимому, выдумал эту историю с начала до конца.

XIII. Write the following numerals in English:

1, 22, 3, 4, 11, 14, 47, 18, 200, 100, 1100, 356, 21, 1000000.

XIV. Complete the sentences:

I was born in _____. Now I am a student. I am _____ years old. I began to go to school in 19___. I finished ten-year school in _____ and went to college. In ____ I began to go in for sports. I took part in the competitions in ____. I won _____ place. In ____ we have got a new flat. We live on the _____ floor.

Контрольная работа № 3

I. Read the text. Elections in Great Britain

The maximum life of the House of Commons has been restricted to five years since the Parliament Act 1911. The franchise (right to vote) became universal for men in the nineteenth century. Women's suffrage came in two stages (1918 and 1928).

For parliamentary elections the United Kingdom is divided into 650 constituencies of roughly equal population. The average constituency contains about 60,000 registered votes. Any British citizen from the age of 18 registered as an elector for the constituency elects a single member to the House of Commons.

Voting is on the same day (usually on Thursday) in all constituencies, and the voting stations are open from 7 in the morning till 9 at night. Each voter has only one vote, if he knows that he will be unable to vote, because he is ill or has moved away or must be away on business, he may apply in advance to be allowed to send his vote by post. Voting is not compulsory. But in the autumn of each year every householder is obliged by law to enter on the register of electors the name of every resident who is entitled to vote. Much work is done to ensure that the register is complete and accurate. It’s only possible to vote at the polling station appropriate to one’s address.

Britain has a two-party system. From 1832 to 1918 the dominant parties were the Conservatives on the one hand and the Whigs or Liberals on the other. Later the Labour party backed by the trade unions replaced the Liberals as the main party of reform, and since 1924 the political scene has been dominated by the Conservative and Labour parties.

The Conservative party or the Tories is the party supported traditionally by the rich and the privileged – the monopolists and land-owners. It expresses the interests and views of the propertied class.

The formation of the Labour party at the beginning of the century was a victory of the labour movement. But Labour Government showed no radical change in policy from the Tories. From the very beginning there were two main trends within the party – the left socialist trend represented by the party’s rank-and-file members, and the right-wing trend represented by the party’s top leadership. In fact, it’s sometimes extremely difficult to tell the difference between the Labour and the Conservative policies.

As in Britain the political scene is dominated by the Conservatives and the Labour Party, in every constituency each of this parties has a local organization whose first task is to choose the candidate and which then helps him to conduct his local campaign. Any British subject can be nominated as a candidate, there is no need to live in the area, though peers, clergymen, lunatics and felons in prison are disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons.

There are usually more than two candidates for each seat. The candidate who wins the most votes is elected. This practice is known as the majority electoral system.