Контрольная работа №1. VI вариант. I.  Перепишите следующие предложения. Определите по грамматическим…

Контрольная работа №1.

VI вариант.

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

а) показателем 3 лица единственного числа глагола в Present Indefinite;

б) признаком множественного числа имени существительного;

в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени существительного.

г) Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. The “Big Ben” clock weighs 13, 5 tons.
2. Farmers use many natural resources, such as soil, sunshine, water and air.
3. Ann’s friends are on the farm now.

II. Перепишите следующие предложения. Переведите на русский язык предложения, содержащие разные формы сравнения.

1. The Volga is longer than the Kama.
2. Oil is lighter than water.
3. New discoveries and farming techniques make agriculture more productive, efficient, and    friendly to the environment.
4. His work is not as difficult as mine.
5. The more experiments we carry out, the more data we obtain.

III. Перепишите следующие предложения, подчеркните в каждом из них модальный глагол или его эквивалент.

1. Anyone can may a mistake.
2. You may go when you’ve finished.
3. People should treat each other better.
4. Her English is very poor, she must study very hard.
5. He read everything on the subject he could find in the rich university library.

IV. Перепишите  следующие предложения, подчеркните в каждом из них глагол-сказуемое и определите видовременную форму и залог. Переведите предложения на русский.

1. Modern agriculture depends heavily on engineering and technology.
2. We will make the final decision when we all finish reading the report.
3. It was raining when we left the building.
4. We’ll be discussing this question tomorrow morning.
5. Have you already had lunch?

V. Заполните бланк.

Application form.

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VI. Переведите текст.

Press in the United Kingdom

I he daily circulation of papers in Britain is just over 14 million copies, which is about 3 papers for every 4 households.

All British papers can be classified into two major groups: quality and popular papers.

A quality paper is a serious national paper that aims at the educated reader. Quality papers contain detailed news coverage and comment, authoritative editorials, a wide range of topical features written by experts in their field, arts and literary reviews and much professional advertising. The quality papers are the «Times», the «Guardian», the «Independent», the «Daily Telegraph» and the «Financial Times».

A popular paper is a newspaper whose format and content is designed for the undemanding reader. Most popular papers are tabloids, i.e. papers with small-size pages (conventionally about 30 cm by 40 cm). They have brief and direct news reports and a large number of photographs. Emphasis is put on personal stories (especially when sensational, or involving a figure in the public eye such as a member of the royal family), and importance is also given to sports and to entertaining features such as cartoons and contests.

Newspapers in Britain are mostly owned by individuals or by big publishing companies called the «empires», not by the government or political parties. The editors of the newspapers are usually allowed considerable freedom of expression. This is not to say that newspapers are without political bias. The political tendency of quality papers varies from conservative (the «Daily Telegraphs) or independent/conservative (the «Times» and the «Financial Times») to centre (the «Independent») and liberal (the «Guardian»). Popular tabloids like the «Daily Express», the «Daily Star» and the «Sun», for example, usually reflect conservative opinion in their comment and reporting, while the «Daily Mirror» has a more left-wing bias.

In addition to national daily newspapers there are nine national papers published on Sundays. Most of «Sundays» contain more reading matter than daily papers, and several of them include «colour supplements)) -separate colour magazines which contain photographically-illustrated feature articles. There is also quite a number of regional papers - usually evening papers or weeklies.