Вариант 4

I. Прочтите и переведите текст:

Jazz at preservation hall

Preservation Hall, in New Orleans, is an old building that can hold only 125 people. But tourists, many of them serious music lovers, go there from all over the world and pay one dollar to sit on plain wooden chairs or benches or on the floor, crowded together.

At the front of the hall is a group of four, five or six musicians in their sixties, seventies, and even eighties, with their instruments. They play for more than four hours each night. Their music is a kind now rarely heard anywhere else - until recently the style had been all but forgotten and so had the musicians. Almost all of them had given up their music and 'were working at various different kinds of work or just wandering around with little purpose. Jazz music had gone on from New Orleans to spread around the world, but the early jazz style was no longer popular and had been forgotten.

One person who remembered and loved old New Orleans jazz was music historian William Russel. He found the legendary trumpet player working in a rice field, old and sick. It was Bunk Johnson. Though Johnson never got back his greatness, he awoke a new interest in his kind of music. Later, more of the old musicians were found, old groups were put together again, and with the opening of Preservation Hall, the real old jazz music and those who loved it began to go back to New Orleans.

The musicians seem to play as well as they ever did. They play the songs they want to play. Some of the groups even travel around the country, taking their music to the people.

Those people who hear this jazz know that Americans have been given a last chance to hear music that soon will never be heard again, played by those who created it-who themselves will soon be gone.

(From "Encounters". A Basic Reader)

II. Ответьте на вопросы:

1. How old are the musicians? 2. Where was Bunk Johnson found? 3. How many hours do they play? 4. Is that music popular? 5. What do the musicians play? 6. Why does the author say that Americans have been given a last chance to hear music that soon will be never heard, again?

3. Выпишите из текста интернациональные слова.

4. Определите по суффиксу часть речи:

empty, bravery, beauty, burn, dial, brainless, notable, vibrate

V. Выпишите из текста и переведите предложения: а) с модальным глаголом can, б) с глаголом в прошедшем неопределенном времени в страдательном залоге.

VI. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на выделенные слова:

a) The Olympic Games are held every four years in a different country. b) Do you play games?

a) He has no chance to win the game with his little brother. b) She stands a good chance of becoming a good actress. c) He chanced to be there at that time.

VII. Закончите предложения:

a) Are you going...? b) I haven't ... . c) They have been ... . d) They aren't asked ... . e) Do they study ...?

Вариант 5

I. Прочтите и переведите текст:

Cathedral of our lady of kazan in leningrad

On the right side of Neva Avenue is a majestic semicircular colonnade of four rows of Corinthian columns to form a square with statues, flower beds and a fountain. This is the colonnade of the Cathedral of our Lady of Kazan (Kazansky Sobor) erected between 1801 and 1811 by a Russian architect Andrei Voronikhin.

The architect had to solve a lot of difficult problems. By means of the colonnade, Voronikhin intended to have the side facade just as imposing as the front entrance. Emperor Paul wanted the cathedral built on the model of St. Peter's in Rome. Voronikhin's solution was both original and quite independent. This becomes obvious if the cathedrals are compared. In Rome, the columns form an enclosed square whereas in Leningrad, the wings of the colonnade fan out towards the Avenue, connecting the entire edifice with the surrounding streets. In Rome, the colonnade is barely linked with the cathedral's portico and is much smaller. The columns of the Cathedral of our Lady of Kazan are the same height as the portico.

Cast iron was used here for the first time for building the dome which measures 17 meters in diameter.

The brick walls of the cathedral are faced with a light porous stone found in the vicinity of Leningrad. This stone which was used for the columns and their capitals has an unusual quality: it is soft and can be cut with a plain saw, it gradually hardens, on exposure of the air. It is now as solid as brick.

On the western side of the square is an elegant cast-iron railing designed by Andrei Voronikhin, which is in complete harmony with the general ensemble.

(From the guidebook "Leningrad")

II. Ответьте на вопросы:

1. Where is the Cathedral of our Lady of Kazan? 2. When was it erected? 3. Who was the architect of the cathedral? 4. What was Voronikhin's solution? 5. What material was used here for the first time for building the dome?

3. Выпишите из текста интернациональные слова.

4. Определите по суффиксу часть речи:

untried, untouchable, tunable, subdivide, subdivision, standardize, weakly, soft, ordinal, opponent

V. Выпишите из текста и переведите предложения: а) с модальным глаголом have to, б) с глаголом to have в значении «имени,», в) с глаголом в настоящем неопределенном времени в страдательном залоге.

VI. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на выделенные слова:

a) He turned and saw us at last. b) The last turn of the river led them to a little village. c) The sick man took a turn for the better. d) They asked us questions by turns.

a) He looked ugly at that time. b) You gave me an ugly task and I don't know how to solve it! c) Have you read "The Ugly Duckling" in your childhood?

a) Who is standing there near the door? b) At last the car came to a stand. c) The Soviet stands at the Moscow International Book Fair were very popular among the visitors.

VII. Закончите предложения;

a) He is to be ... . b) They are going to ... . c) She could ... . d) Have they known ... ? e) We do not ... .