Вариант 2

I. Поставьте причастие настоящего времени в причастие прошедшего времени и переведите их.

1. tourists visiting the city –

2. a man leafing the hotel –

3. the woman crossing the street –

4. the candidate supporting the government –

II. Поставьте глаголы в скобках в причастия настоящего или прошедшего времени в нужной форме.

1. (found) in 1147 by Yury Dolgozuky, Moscow has become the largest centre of the country.

2. I watched him (work) at the text.

3. (Discuss) all their problems the students closed the meeting.

III. Перепишите и переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на модальные глаголы и их эквиваленты.

1. General elections to choose MP’s and the next Government must be held at least every 5 years.

2. You should work hard and be more attentive.

3. We are to be at the meeting at 5 today.

4. Financial Bills cannot be delayed by the House of Lord.

5. Only the Government will be able to solve all these economic problems in the country.

IV. Измените глаголы в действительном залоге на страдательный залог в предложениях и переведите их.

Образец: The students saw this English film. That English film was seen by the students. Этот английский фильм видели студенты.

1. The Cabinet, headed by the Prime Minister exercises the executive power.

2. Both Houses of Parliament must approve a new bill proposed by the Cabinet.

3. Pushkin wrote many poems and stories.

V. Определите время и залог сказуемого в следующих предложениях и переведите их.

1. He knows several foreign languages.

2. Are the students having a lecture on Criminal Law now?

3. The police broke into house and the kidnappers were arrested.

4. I am sure you will be good specialists.

5. I didn’t know he had left for Moscow.

6. My friend has been to London this year.

7. A wonder what were you doing at that time yesterday.

VI. Переведите предложения на русский язык обращая внимание на согласование времен.

1. My friend said that he had finished his scientific research the day before.

2. They said that they would take their exam on administrative Law.

3. I knew that Mr.Brown had returned last Sunday.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

1. Britain is a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch as head of State. Its formal title is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

2. Parliament comprises the House of Lords and the House of Commons, together with the Queen in her constitutional role. The Lords is made up of hereditary and life peers and peeresses and the two archbishops and 24 most senoir bishops of the established Church of England. The Commons is the elected House, consisting of 635 members of Parliament (MPs), each representing a local constituency area.

3. The two – chamber system has long been a feature of British parliamentary government, although over the years the balance between the two Houses has undergone a complete change. In modern practice the center of parliamentary power is in the Commons. Limitations on the Lords’ powers of legislative veto are based on the belief that the main function of the House is to complement the Commons and not to rival it.

4. General elections to choose MPs and the next Government must be held at least every five years. Voting, which is not compulsory, is by secret ballot and is from the age of 18. The candidate polling the most votes in a constituency is elected – there is no from of proportional representation.

5. Under the traditional two-party system governments are formed by the party which has majority support in the Commons.

I. Прочитайте и устно переведите весь текст. Перепишите и письменно переведите абзацы 1,2,3.

II. Выпишите из абзацев 4,5 предложения со словосочетаниями, в которых определение выражено существительными, и переведите их на русский язык.

III. Прочитайте следующие предложения, перепишите и переведите письменно предложение, которое правильно передает содержание текста.

1. General elections to choose MPs and the next Government must be held at least every four years.

2. General elections to choose MPs and the next Government must be held at least every five years.

Переведите текст письменно.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a constitutional monarchy. This means that the government of the United Kingdom consists of a hereditary sovereign, an elected House of Commons and a party hereditary House of Lords.

The sovereign has the title of King (or Queen). The Sovereign has very few functions that really matter, such as the functions of the arbiter of last resort (арбитр последней инстанции) in some matters/ These matters can be the dissolution of parliament (роспуск Парламента) and invitations to form a government when there is no clear majority. The Queen is Elizabeth II.

The supreme legislative power is vested in Parliament, Which sits for 5 years unless dissolved sooner. Parliament has two chambers: the House of Lords with about 830 hereditary peers, 26 spiritual peers, about 270 life peers and peeresses, and the House of Commons. The House of Commons has 650 popularly ellected members/ The House of Commons is the real governing body of the United Kingdom. In order to become a law, a new bill proposed by the Cabinet must be approved by both houses of Parliament. The Lords cannot veto a bill, but they can delay it for a maximum of one year. Financial bills cannot be delayed by the House of Lords.

The executive power of the Crown is exercised by the Cabinet, headed by the Prime Minister. The prime Minister, normally the head of the party commanding a majority in the House of Commons, is appointed by the Sovereign. The Prime Minister appoints the rest of the Cabinet. All ministers must be members of one or the other houses of the Parliament. They are individually and collectively responsible to the Crown and the Parliament. The Cabinet proposes bills and arranges the business of the Parliament.

Government in Britain since 1945 has alternated between only two political paries, the Conservatives (the Tories) and the Labour Party. No other party has been in office at all since 1945 and there have been no coalitions. The third long-established party, the Liberals, enjoyed moments of success, but no members of the Liberal Party has held government office since 1945.