Контрольная работа № 1 Вариант № 2

Выполните следующие задания:

1. Образуйте форму множественного числа следующих существительных: work, capacity, power, fiber, element, flight, branch, method.

2. Напишите формы указательных местоимений в единственном и во множественном числе.

3. Образуйте степени сравнения следующих прилагательных и наречий: large, small, new, many, famous, interesting, general.

4. Прочтите и переведите тексты. Текст «А» переведите письменно и ответьте на вопросы после текста.

Text A. Robert Stephenson

Robert Stephenson, the son of George Stephenson was a British civil engineer. He is mostly well-known known for the construction of several notable bridges.

He was born in 1803. He was educated in Newcastle and at the University of Edinburgh. In 1829 he assisted his father in constructing a locomotive known as the Rocket, and four years later he was appointed construction engineer of the Birmingham and London Railway, completed in 1838.

Stephenson built several famous bridges, including the Victoria Bridge in England, the Britannia Bridge in Wales, two bridges across the Nile in Egypt and the Victoria Bridge in Montreal, Canada.

Questions:

What was Robert Stephenson's occupation? What construction projects (строительные объекты) did he design?

Text B. Communications and Control

Engineers in this field work on control systems and communication systems that are used widely in aircraft and ships, in power transmission and distribution, in automated manufacturing and robotics.

Major developments in this field are the replacement of analogue systems with digital systems and copper cables with fiber optics (optical fibers). Digital systems lower electrical noise. Fiber optics lowers interference, has large carrying capacity, and is extremely light and inexpensive to manufacture.

Text C. Computers Engineering

Computer engineering is now the most rapidly growing field. Computer engineers design and manufacture memory systems, central processing units and peripheral devices. Major developments in this field are microminiaturization (design of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) chips) and new computer architectures. Using VLSI, engineers try to place greater numbers of circuit elements onto smaller chips. Another trend is towards increasing the speed of computer operations through the use of parallel processors and superconducting materials.

5. Переведите на русский язык следующие слова: line, load, matter, mine, motion, output, relation.

6. Переведите на английский язык следующие слова: груз, линия, наблюдать, определять, основатель, основывать.

7. Переведите на русский язык предложение, содержащее модальный глагол или его эквивалент. The women were not allowed to tale their tea breaks until she had left.

8. Выпишите из текста «А» предложение, содержащее сказуемое в страдательном залоге. Переведите предложение на русский язык.

9. Составьте резюме, используя образец в Приложении.