Вариант 3.

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 третьего лица единственного числа глагола в Present Simple;

б) признаком множественного числа имени существительного;

в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени существительного.

Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. Ukraine’s first President was Leonid Kravchuk.

2. ‘Pechersk’ means ‘a town of caves’.

3. Libraries now often use CDs to keep information.

II. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их, обращая внимание на особенности перевода на русский язык определений, выраженных именем существительным.

1. The Kyiv Mohyla Academy was the first university in Eastern Europe.

2. Those Kievska Rus princes were famous for their unity.

3. The Golden Gate underground station is very beautiful.

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

1. The Dnipro river is one of the most celebrated rivers of the world.

2. The longer the river is the longer is its way to the sea.

3. This city is more modern than that one.

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

1. Any inhabitant of Kyiv can speak Ukrainian and Russian.

2. No river is as great as the Volga.

3. Can you find any caves in this region?

V. Прочтите и устно переведите на русский текст. Перепишите и письменно переведите текст.

Пояснения к тексту:

elder – старший scattered – разрозненный, раздробленный Prince – здесь: князь was granted – был пожалован, был удостоен Metropolitan – митрополит

Great Famine – великий голод Deliberately starved – намеренно заставил голодать Nuclear meltdown – ядерный взрыв First ever democratically elected – впервые за всю историю демократически избранный

Kiev (kyiv)

1. Kiev is one of the oldest and the most beautiful cities in the world. The most remarkable places of interest in Kyiv are: Golden Gate, one of the few remaining fortifications from the times of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, the Pecherska Lavra Monastery which is almost 1000 years old, Kreshchatik Street, the central street of the city of Kyiv and its symbol, many cathedrals, churches, monasteries, palaces, and parks.

2. Legend says that at the end of the 5th century, three brothers, Kiy, Shchek and Khoriv, and their sister, Lybid, founded a town and named it "Kyiv" after their elder brother Kiy.

3. The early settles of Kiev built their citadel on the steep right bank of the Dnipro river to protect themselves from nomadic tribes. By the end of the 9th century, when the Kievska Rus princes united scattered Slavic tribes, Kiev was the political, cultural and economic centre of the Eastern Slavs with its position in the middle of trade routes between the Vikings and the Greeks.

4. Kiev’s development accelerated during the reign of Prince Vladimir the Great in the XX-XI centuries. After the death of the great Kiev’s Prince Vladimir Monomakh (XII cent.) it was a long period of feudal wars for Kievska Rus. Foreign powers were quick to take advantage of this situation. In the autumn of 1240, the Tartar-Mongols captured Kiev. Kiev fell into a prolonged period of decline. The Tartar-Mongols ruled for almost a century. Despite foreign rule, Kiev retained its artisan, trade and cultural traditions. In the 14th century, the Kiev region became the cradle for the modern Ukrainian nation. In the 15^th century Kiev was granted the "Magdeburg Rights", which permitted more independence of the city in matters of international commerce.

5. The Kyiv Mohyla Academy, founded by Metropolitan P. Mohyla in the 17th century, became the first university in Eastern Europe.

6. V.I. Lenin and his Bolshevik Party seized power and expanded their sphere of control into Ukraine after the revolution of 1917. Kiev became the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

7. Leader of the USSR J. Stalin caused the Great Famine of 1932-33: he forcibly collected grain and deliberately starved to death nearly ten million people. Nazi Germany began World War II and entered Kyiv in September 1941. The Nazi razed the city. In November 1943, Soviet forces liberated the city/ The Soviet domination of Ukraine lasted for almost the next fifty years.

8. Attention from the West turned to Ukraine after the nuclear meltdown at the Chernobyl power plant in April 1986. The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic proclaimed Ukraine's sovereignty in July 1990. In a referendum the people of Ukraine endorsed independence and voted L. Kravchuk as Ukraine's first ever democratically elected President on December 1, 1991.