If I were ...

-If I… (1-to be) you I… (2-not to see) too much of young Brown.

-Why shouldn't I, Dad? What… (3-to be) wrong with him?

-Well, Kate, if you … (4-to be) older you … (5-to understand).

-And if you … (6-to be) younger, perhaps you … (7-to like) him.

-You just … (8-to start) a new job. If I… (9-to be) in your place, I… (10-to be) very careful in choosing friends.

-If you… (11-to be) in my place you… (12-not to choose) differently.

Young people… (13-not to be) what they… (14-to use) to be. If I… (15-to be) Minister of Education I… (16-to do) something about it.

-If I…(17-to be) Queen I… (18-to have) a young Minister of Education.

Задание 7 Ответьте письменно на вопросы, употребляя условные предложения.

1. What would you do, if you met the President of the country in the street?

2. Where would you go, if you planned your holidays now?

3. What would you buy, if you won 10 000 dollars?

4. What museum will you visit, if you go to St.Petersburg?

5. How would you feel if you had 5 children?

6. What would you do if your friend lie to you?

7. What things would you take with you, if you went to live on an isolated island?

Задание 8 Выучите 50 слов по теме “ Reading habits”.

Задание 9 Cоставьте и запишите рассказ на тему “Мои предпочтения в чтении книг.” Расскажите его.

Задание 10 Подберите текст для дополнительного чтения (10 тысяч знаков) и выполните соответствующие задания (см. контр. работу №1, вариант I):

Контрольная работа №6 Вариант 2

Задание 1 Прочитайте и переведите текст. Составьте словарь

незнакомых слов.

A. Pushkin

1. The year of 1998 was announced by UNESCO the Year of Pushkin. In this way the mankind paid tribute to the genius of the Russian literature in commemoration of his 200^th anniversary, which was celebrated world wide in June 1999.

A. Pushkin was a Russian poet, novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer. He is considered his country’s greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. He is the author of “Yevgeny Onegin”, “Little Tragedies”, “The Queen of Spades”, “Boris Godunov” and wonderful verses and fairy tales.

2. We have grown up with his learned cat, who walked round and round the oak-tree, singing songs as he circled right, and telling tales as he circled left. _______1_______. Later we experienced Onegin’s boredom, Tatiana’s unrequited love, Godunov’s uneasy conscience, Herman’s tension at the gaming table, Saliere’s jealousy of Mozart, and heard the dead steps of the Stone Guest and the thundering hooves of the Bronze Horseman.

3. His life was no less exciting than his works. He was born in Moscow on the 6^th of June 1799. His father came of an old boyar family. His mother was a granddaughter of Abram Hannibal, who, according to family tradition, was an Abyssinian princeling bought as a slave at Constantinople (Istanbul) and adopted by Peter the Great and became his comrade in arms. Pushkin immortalized him in an unfinished historical novel, Arap Petra Velikogo (The Negro of Peter the Great). Like many aristocratic families in early 19^th century Russia, Pushkin’s parents adopted French culture. Alexander and his brother and sister learned to talk and to read in French. _______2_______. From his old nurse Arina Rodionovna Yakovleva, a freed serf, he heard Russian folktales. During summers at his grandmother’s estate near Moscow he talked to the peasants and spent hours alone, living in the dream world of an imaginative child. He read a lot and gained stimulus from the literary guests who came to the house.

In 1811 Pushkin entered the newly founded Imperial Lyceum at Tsarskoye Selo and there began his literary career. Here he wrote a number of verses following the style of the Romantic poets.

4. While at the Lyceum Pushkin also began his first completed major work, the romantic poem Ruslan and Lyudmila with an old Russian setting and making use of Russian folklore. It brought Pushkin fame, and Zhukovsky presented his portrait to the poet with the inscription “To the victorious pupil from the defeated master”.

5. In 1817 Pushkin accepted a post in the foreign office at St. Petersburg. _______3_______. In his political verses and epigrams he made himself the spokesman for the ideas and aspirations of the participants of the Decembrist rising of 1825. For these political poems, Pushkin was banished from St. Petersburg to a remote southern province.

He travelled in the Caucasus, the Crimea and gained the impressions for his “southern cycle” of romantic narrative poems: “Kavkazsky plennik” (The Prisoner of the Caucasus), “Bratya razboyniki” (The Robber Brothers”), and “Bakhchisaraysky fontan” (The Fountain of Bakhchisaray).

6. In 1823 he started to work on his central masterpiece, the novel in verse “Yevgeny Onegin” (1833).

From 1820 to 1824 he stayed in Kishinyov and Odessa. He led the life of a society, fought several duels, and was discharged and exiled to Mikhaylovskoye, near Pskov. _______4_______. Alone and isolated, he wrote “Tsygany” (The Gypsies), “Yevgeny Onegin”, the poem “Graf Nulin” (Count Nulin), the historical tragedy “Boris Godunov”.

Another extremely productive period is connected with Boldino, a family’s estate near Nizhny Novgorod. There he wrote the so-called “Little Tragedies” – “Skupoy rytsar” (The Covetous Knight), “Motsart I Salyeri” (Mozart and Salieri), “Kamenny gost” (The Stone Guest), and “Pir vo vremya chumy” (Feast in Time of the Plague) and the famous short story “Pikovaya Dama” (The Queen of Spades).

7. Eventually, he was allowed to return to St. Petersburg. Soon marriage to one of the leading beauties of the society brought its problems. Pushkin was mortally wounded defending his wife’s honour in a duel. And died on February 10, 1837.

Pushkin’s use of the Russian language is astonishing in its simplicity and profundity. His novel in verse “Yevgeny Onegin” was the first Russian work depicting contemporary society and pointing the way to the Russian realistic novel of the mid-19^th century. _______5_______. Pushkin was the creator of the Russian literary language and stood as the cornerstone of Russian literature, “the beginning of beginnings”. Pushkin has thus become an inseparable part of the literary world of the Russian people. He also exerted a profound influence on other aspects of Russian culture, most notably in opera.

8. Pushkin’s work has struck an echo all over the world with its nobility of conception, its emphasis on civic responsibility, its life-affirming vigour, and its confidence in the triumph of reason over prejudice, of human charity over slavery and oppression.

His works are translated into all the major languages. They are transcending national barriers expressing most completely Russian national consciousness.

Задание 2 Соотнесите пробелы в тексте 1-5 с предложениями A-F, используйте каждое предложение только один раз. Одно задание является лишним.

A The children were left much to the care of their maternal grandmother, who

told Alexander stories of his ancestors in Russia.

B Pushkin’s importance as a great national poet was recognized even during

his lifetime.

C He joined the Green Lamp association founded for discussion of literature

and history but in reality a branch of a secret society, the Union of Welfare.

D Pushkin was a profoundly Russian poet, but, at the same time, he

expressed the humanistic aspiration and hopes of all mankind.

E Although the two years at Mikhaylovskoye were unhappy for Pushkin, they

were one of his most productive periods.

F We were fond of his exiled Prince, who was turned into a bumble-bee so

that he could fly to his father’s court and sting his wicked aunt on the nose.

Задание 3 Напишите ответы на следующие вопросы.

1. When was the 200^th anniversary of Pushkin celebrated?

2. Which of Pushkin’s characters have been mentioned in this text?

3. Who were Pushkin’s parents?

4. Who and what influenced much to develop young Pushkin’s interest to Russian culture?

5. When and how did Pushkin’s literary career begin?

6. Why and where was Pushkin banished from St. Petersburg?

7. What are very productive periods in Pushkin’s literary life?

8. How did Pushkin die?

9. What is Pushkin’s influence on Russian culture?

10. What do we admire Pushkin for?

Задание 4 Восстановите следующие вопросы.

1. you/ read/ one of Pushkin’s poems/ at the moment?

2. what/ you/ read/ when we came?

3. he/ finish his report on Pushkin’s poems/ by the end of next week?

4. how many chapters of “Yevgeny Onegin”/ you/ already read?

5. who/ write “Little Tragedies”?

6. Pushkin’s works/ translate/ into all the major languages?

7. who/ like/ Pushkin’s poems in your family?

8. when/ Russia and the mankind/ celebrate/ Pushkin’s 210^th anniversary?

9. he/ write the article about Pushkin’s childhood/ before he visited Tsarskoye Selo?

10. Pushkin’s importance as a great national poet/ recognize/ during his lifetime?

Задание 5 Поставьте глаголы в скобках в нужную форму.

1. When I (be tired), I read some of Pushkin’s verses and feel relaxed.

2. If you go with me to the library, you (borrow) the book which you need for your report about Pushkin.

3. If I were you, I (try) to learn some of his poems by heart.

4. If they had read the article about Pushkin’s literary career, they (answer) all the questions at the exam.

5. When my child (ask) me to read him a fairy tale, I always choose one of Pushkin’s fairy tales.

6. If your pen friend (want) to know more about Russian poets, you can buy and send him the last edition of Russian poetry anthology.

7. If Pushkin (be not exiled) to Mikhaylovskoye, probably he would never have written his famous novel in verse.

Задание 6 Поставьте глаголы в нужную форму и определите тип (0, 1, 2, 3) условного предложения.

1 I (wear) some warm clothes today, if I were you.

2 You (not| have) the accident if you’d been more careful.

3 If I (have) enough money, I’d buy a new car.

4 If you (wait) for a few minutes, I’ll come into town with you.

5 People (like) Robert more if he didn’t always talk about himself.

6 If he (make) a promise, he always keeps it.

7 I (not| leave) my last job if the wages had been better.

8 I’ll go out this evening if I (not| be) too busy.

9 He always (get) angry if you talk to him about politics.

10 If you go out without a coat, you (catch) a cold.

Задание 7 Заполните пробелы словами: who, what, where, which, why, when.

1 A: This is the shop ……… has just opened.

B: Oh good. I want to look in here.

2 A: Which of those men was your uncle?

B: He was the one ……… was carrying a briefcase.

3 A: Is this the café ……… you met Sarah?

B: Yes, this is the one.

4 A: Who was the girl ……… said hello to us?

B: She’s the girl ……… car I bought last week.

5 A: Did you ask Joanne to the party?

B: Yes. I asked her on the day ……… she phoned.

6 A: It’s very cold outside today.

B: I know. That’s the reason ……… I’m wearing my coat.

7 A: What’s in that bag?

B: Just some clothes ……… I’m taking with me.

8 A: Have you seen my glasses?

B: They’re on the table, ……… you left them.

Задание 8 Выучите 50 слов по теме “Ways of Reading”.

Задание 9 Cоставьте и запишите рассказ на тему “Мои предпочтения в чтении книг.” Расскажите его.

Задание 10 Подберите текст для дополнительного чтения (10 тысяч знаков) и выполните соответствующие задания (см. контр. работу №1, вариант I):

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Таблица неправильных глаголов

N	I	II	III	IV	translation
1	be	was/were	been	being	быть
2	become	became	become	becoming	становиться
3	begin	began	begun	beginning	начинать(ся)
4	bind	bound	bound	binding	переплетать
5	blow	blew	blown	blowing	дуть, раздувать
6	break	broke	broken	breaking	ломать(ся)
7	bring	brought	brought	bringing	приносить
8	build	built	built	building	строить
9	buy	bought	bought	buying	покупать
10	catch	caught	caught	catching	ловить
11	choose	chose	chosen	choosing	выбирать
12	come	came	come	coming	приходить
13	cost	cost	cost	costing	стоить
14	cut	cut	cut	cutting	резать
15	deal	dealt	dealt	dealing	иметь дело
16	do	did	done	doing	делать
17	draw	drew	drawn	drawing	рисовать, тащить
18	dream	dreamt	dreamt	dreaming	мечтать
19	fall	fell	fallen	falling	падать
20	feel	felt	felt	feeling	чувствовать
21	find	found	found	finding	находить
22	fly	flew	flown	flying	летать
23	forget	forgot	forgotten	forgetting	забывать
24	forgive	forgave	forgiven	forgiving	прощать
25	get	got	got	getting	получать
26	give	gave	given	giving	давать
27	go	went	gone	going	идти
28	grow	grew	grown	growing	расти
29	have	had	had	having	иметь
30	hear	hear	heard	hearing	слышать
31	hit	hit	hit	hitting	ударять
32	hold	held	held	holding	держать
33	keep	kept	kept	keeping	держать, хранить
34	know	knew	known	knowing	знать
35	lay	laid	laid	laying	класть, положить
36	learn	learnt	learnt	learning	учить, узнавать
37	leave	left	left	leaving	уезжать
38	lie	lay	lain	lying	лежать
39	lose	lost	lost	losing	терять
40	make	made	made	making	делать
41	mean	meant	meant	meaning	иметь в виду
42	meet	met	met	meeting	встречать
43	pay	paid	paid	paying	платить
44	put	put	put	putting	положить, класть
45	read	read	read	reading	читать
46	ring	rang	rung	ringing	звонить
47	run	ran	run	running	бежать
48	say	said	said	saying	говорить, сказать
49	see	saw	seen	saying	видеть
50	sell	sold	sold	selling	продавать
51	send	sent	sent	sending	посылать
52	set	set	set	setting	ставить, налаживать
53	shake	shook	shaken	shaking	трясти
54	shine	shone		shining	светить
55	shut	shut	shut	shutting	закрывать
56	sing	sang	sung	singing	петь
57	sit	sat	sat	sitting	сидеть
58	sleep	slept	slept	sleeping	спать
59	smell	smelt	smelled	smelling	нюхать, пахнуть
60	speak	spoke	spoken	speaking	говорить
61	spend	spent	spent	spending	проводить, тратить
62	spread	spread	spread	spreading	раскидывать(ся)
63	stand	stood	stood	standing	стоять
64	steal	stole	stolen	stealing	воровать
65	swear	swore	sworn	swearing	клясться
66	swim	swam	swum	swimming	плавать
67	take	took	taken	taking	брать
68	teach	taught	taught	teaching	учить, обучать
69	tear	tore	torn	tearing	рвать
70	tell	told	told	telling	сообщать
71	think	thought	thought	thinking	думать
72	throw	threw	thrown	throwing	бросать
73	under-stand	under-stood	under-stood	under-standing	понимать
74	wake	woke	woken	waking	просыпаться
75	win	won	won	winning	побеждать
76	write	wrote	written	writing	писать

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