Канада 4

Контрольная работа по английскому языку № 2

для студентов I курса очно-заочного факультета ЛГТУ

всех технических специальностей

Вариант 4

THE DISCOVERY OF CANADA

1.Nearly a thousand years ago men from Norway called Norsemen voyaged to this side of the Atlantic Ocean. When they returned home they told of visiting "The Land of the Vine". This may have been the mainland of Canada, it may have been the United States, but one thing is certain - they "discovered" America about five centuries before Columbus.

2.500 years later John Cabot sailed from England to the shores of Canada, seeking a new way to China. Cabot was disappointed with the rocky coast which he found. He saw no living soul, and soon returned to England. He died, not realizing that the land he had found would yield as great riches as any of the countries of the East.

3.About 40 years later Jacques Cartier made two voyages from France. On the first voyage he visited some of the islands in the Gulf of St Lawrence. On the second voyage, a year later, he sailed up the broad St Lawrence River as far as the Indian village, Hochelaya, where Montreal now stands. Later he spent the winter at Quebec. It is said that Quebec is an Indian word meaning "narrows". The city is located at the first narrow place in the St Lawrence River.

4.In 1603 Samuel Champlain sailed from France to explore Canada. He travelled up the St Lawrence River as far as Montreal. Above Montreal he found rapids where the river flowed swiftly over ledges of rock, making it impossible for his ships to go further. These rapids were one of the reasons for growth of Montreal. Montreal was said to be at the "head of navigation", since it was as far as most oceangoing ships could sail.

5.With the building of the St Lawrence seaway, the rapids have disappeared. Oceangoing freighters can now sail as far inland, or away from the ocean, as the head of Lake Superior. The following year Champlain returned to the new land with his fellow-countrymen, and a group of Frenchmen. They planned to form a colony, that is make homes for themselves in this country.

6.On St John's Day they saw a broad river flowing into the sea. This Champlain named the St John River. At its mouth now stands the city of St John. Further West along the coast De Monts and his party landed and built a fort at the mouth of a river now known as the St Croix. Today this river forms the boundary, or border, between New Brunswick and the United States.

7.The early explorers found in Canada people who were strange to them and whose language they did not understand. These are the Indians. It is natural, therefore, that we have in Canada many place-names which come to us from the Indians. Wabane, Chicoutimi, Saskatchewan, and Miramachi are some. Indeed the name Canada itself is said by some people to come from an Indian word.

I. Прочитайте текст и переведите письменно на русский язык 1-5 абзацы.

II. Задайте все виды вопросов к данному предложению.

They lay in the sun for half an hour.

III. Раскройте скобки, употребляя глагол в требуемой форме активного или пассивного залога.

1. Nobody (to see) him yesterday. 2.The telegram (to receive) tomorrow. 3.He (to give) me this book next week. 4. The answer to this question can (to find) in the encyclopedia. 5. We (to show) the historical monuments of the capital to the delegation.

IV. Выберите слова, которые могут согласовываться с глаголом “to be” как в единственном так и во множественном числе:

Police, surroundings, news, politics, ink, team, earrings, clothes, coal.

V. Переведите на английский язык следующие предложения, используя все времена активного или пассивного залога.

1. Её отправили в больницу два дня назад. 2. Вчера нас послали в лабораторию. 3. Это сочинение было написано на прошлой неделе. 4. Вся группа должна прочитать эту статью. 5. Мою подругу каждый год посылают за границу.

VI. Сделайте верный выбор: “what” or “that”.

1. He wasn’t surprised at ___ he saw. I told him ___ to expect. 2. I did ___ I could. 3. I did everything ___ I had to do. 4. Show me ___ you’ve got in your hand. 5. I didn’t know ___ you had promised the children to take them to the zoo.

VII. Вставьте артикль в следующих предложениях, где это необходимо.

1. He comes from ___ very old country on ___ Nile. It is called ___ Ethiopia. Ethiopia is ___ beautiful mountainous country. He is ___ young man. He wants to become ___ engineer. He is very happy to be ___ student of ___ St. Petersburg University. He spends ___ lot of time at ___ library reading and studying different subjects. Very often in ___ evening his new friends and he walk about ___ city talking about their native countries.