Иностранный язык (английский) (часть 1)

Контрольная работа
I. Переведите следующие предложения, выбирая правильный артикль: определённый, неопределённый или нулевой (отсутствие артикля).
1. Can you tell me … way to the nearest supermarket?
2. He does his best to speak … English fluently.
3. In my opinion, the government do not do enough to help … homeless.
4. What did you have for … breakfast this morning?
5. … women live longer than … men.
II. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на модальные глаголы.
1. You mustn’t phone him at work. Personal calls are not allowed in his company.
2. We were no longer able to talk with the crew of the plane a few minutes after take-off.
3. Following a long period of unemployment and casual work he could eventually find a decent job.
4. I have to finish my Master’s thesis by May.
5. I was to hurry because the lesson started at 8am.
III. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на степени сравнения прилагательных и наречий.
1. She’s by far the smartest man I’ve ever seen.
2. It’s the silliest excuse I’ve ever heard.
3. The closer we got, the more nervous I became.
4. The harder he works, the more successful he becomes.
5. This project is by far more time-consuming than the other one we managed last year.
IV. Переведите следующие предложения на русский язык, выпишите глаголы-сказуемые и определите их время и залог.
1. You have just had your exam results and realize that you will have the opportunity to join a friend of yours in England doing the same course.
2. From a business point of view, the advantages of using email have allowed us to work at a much faster rate than in the past.
3. To be honest, as a parent of young children, I’m in two minds and rather worried about the Internet.
4. All we ask you to do is to fill in the questionnaire after you’ve used the products to let us know what you think of them, and say whether or not you’ll buy them again.
5. This paper has recently been published in one of the IEEE journals.