Контрольная English as a world language

Вариант 1.1

I. Перепишите и переведите следующие предложения.Определите по грамматическим признакам, какой частью речи являются слова с окончанием -sи какую функцию это окончание выполняет, т. е. служит ли оно:

а) показателем 3-го лица единственного числа глагола в PresentIndefinite;

б) признаком множественного числа имени существительного;

в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени существительного.

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1.Economists study our everyday life. The economists’ studies should be strictly objective and scientific

2.He does a lot of different things in his spare (free) time.

3. His friend’s teacher works at the university.

4.By the time George’s father was born the family owned considerable property.

5.There were a lot of students at this professor’s lecture.

II. Перепишите и переведите следующие предложения, содержащие разные формы сравнения прилагательных, подчеркните в предложениях формы сравнения:

1.The simple ideas are always the best

2.This method of work is the most efficient compared with all the other methods.

3.The more he studies, the better are his results in the examinations.

4.The next fifteen years were the happiest of Washington’s life.

5.More and more soldiers were sent to the front

III. Перепишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на особенности определений, выраженных именем существительным, подчеркните их:

1. This research center is famous not only in our country but throughout (all over) the world.

2.Some of our academy teachers do a lot of research concerning this problem.

3.He is on his business trip at the moment.

4.The city transport system is not very well organized.

5.The laboratory equipment is not very modern.

IV. Перепишите и переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на перевод личных, неопределённых и отрицательных местоимений:

1.Nobody knows anything about the origin of this strange phenomenon.

2.Hehad some interesting information about the achievements in his field.

3.They had noany relatives in this town.

4.He needs someone who is an expert in this field.

5.None of the young men enjoyed the film.

V.Перепишите и переведите следующие предложения; подчеркните в каждом из них глагол-сказуемое и определите его видо-временную форму и залог:

1.Today we live in an age of science and technology.

2.British geodesist, George Everest, completed the trigonometrical survey (тахеометрическаясъемка) of India, on which depended the accurate mapping of the subcontinent.

3. It will be much colder tomorrow.

4.She was sitting there doing nothing

5.The group of researchers will be analyzing the results of the experiment tomorrow morning.

Задание: переведите текст устно, а подчеркнутые предложения – письменно.

English as a world language.

1.English is one of the major languages in the world and geographically it is the most widespread language on Earth, with 400 million speakers. In Shakespeare’s time, for example, only a few million people spoke English, and the language was not thought to be very important by the other nations of Europe, and was unknown to the rest of the world.

2.English has become a world language because of its establishment as a mother tongue outside England, in all the continents of the world. This exporting of English began in the seventeenth century, with the first settlements in North America. Above all, it is the great growth of population in the United States, assisted by massive immigration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, that has given the English language its present standing in the world.

3.People who speak English fall into one of three groups: those who have learned it as their native language; those who have learned it as a second language in a society that is mainly bilingual; and those who are forced to use it for a practical purpose, administrative, professional or educational.

4.English is the language of business, technology, sport, and aviation. English has the largest vocabulary with approximately 500,000 words and 300,000 technical terms. One person in seven of the world’s entire population belongs to one of these three groups. Incredibly enough, 75% of the world’s mail and 60% of the world’s telephone calls are in English.