Вариант 2

I. Запишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на зна-чение слова there.

1. There is no atmosphere on the Moon and because of this there is no life there.

2. There will be a number of tables, schemes and diagrams in this article.

II. Запишите и переведите предложения. Объясните, на что указы-вает в слове wheel окончание -s, как с апострофом (’), так и без него:

а) глагол-сказуемое в Present Simple в 3-м лице единственного числа;

б) множественное число имени существительного;

в) притяжательный падеж имени существительного, стоящего в единственном или во множественном числе.

1. There was something wrong with the front wheels of the car.

2. They used a very strong metal for the wheels’ spokes.

3. The boy wheels his bicycle into the yard in early spring.

III. Запишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на особенности перевода имени существительного с левым определением.

1. Heavy automobile traffic ruined the road surface many years ago.

2. A new research program required carrying out numerous experiments.

3. The local government promises to begin the railway bridge const-ruction next year.

IV. Запишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на степени сравнения прилагательного и наречия.

1. Rational use of natural resources is the most vital problem of the country’s national economy.

2. The heavier the bodies, the stronger will be the force of gravity between them.

3. The old microscope was more valuable for our research than the new one.

V. Запишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на значение неопределенных и отрицательных местоимений.

1. Nobody knows anything about this problem.

2. Will you carry out any experiment in our research laboratory this year?

3. We invited some skilful workers for the construction of the sporting

complex.

VI. Запишите предложения. Выпишите из них сказуемые, опре-делите их видо-временные формы и укажите их инфинитив. Пере-ведите предложения.

1. At the meeting they are discussing the advantages and disadvantages of a new processor.

2. The more automation develops, the more important is the role of the machines.

3. Radar devices will find still wider application in airplane and ship navigation.

VII. Прочитайте весь текст и постарайтесь понять его содержание. Перепишите и письменно переведите абзацы 2, 3 и 5.

CANADA

1. The land of Canada lies between the two oceans: the Atlantic and the Pacific. With the total area (land and fresh water) of 3.851.809 square miles, it is the largest country in the Western hemisphere. The country has two official languages: French and English.

2. Canada is a country with a well-developed educational system. There are about 300 institutions which provide courses of university standard. All the provinces have their own universities giving courses in science, engineering, medicine and so on. In 1882 the Royal Society of Canada was established. The Society consists of members belonging to the five sections: humanities and social sciences in French; humanities and social sciences in English; chemical, mathematical and physical sciences; geological sciences; biological sciences. The Society’s aim is to coordinate and stimulate Canada’s intellectual life and to assist the development of national economy.

3. Canada is the fourth largest trading nation in the world. It is world-known as a forest country because they cover more than half the land area of the provinces and extend to the Arctic Circle. About 17 per cent of production of all the primary industries – forestry, pulp-and-paper, mining, agriculture, fisheries – comes from the forests. The forests are the source of almost a third of all Canadian export, and of this third pulp-and-paper accounts for about 70 per cent.

4. Deep within the ancient rocks there are rich resources of iron, gold, silver, nickel, copper, platinum, cobalt and uranium. In the south of Quebec Province, the biggest of Canada’s ten provinces, there are the largest resources of asbestos in the world. As a result, asbestos industry became a many-dollar-a-year industry in Canada. Another province – Alberta – has tremendous oil fields and vast resources of natural gas and coal. Edmonton, its capital, is the oil centre of Canada.

5. The capital of Canada is Ottawa which is encircled and crossed by three rivers and a canal. It is a city where government and commerce intermingle. But the largest city is Montreal, which is built around a mountain on a green island. Although Montreal is situated 1,000 miles from the ocean, it is a seaport, one of Canada’s most important.

VIII. Прочитайте 4-ый абзац текста и ответьте на вопрос: Why does asbestos industry belong to the group of the most highly developed in-dustries of Canada? Запишите и переведите вопрос и ответ.