контрольная по английскому
Контрольная работа №2
Вариант №3
2. Перепишите и письменно переведите следующие предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на перевод местоимений.
1. Any exhibit of this museum is valuable.
2. Does he know any foreign languages?
3. One must do it.
4. It is too much for me.
5. This was pleasant.
6. They greeted each other.
7. Who knows this story?
8. We haven’t seen your paper.
9. I know these songs.
10. He told us something.
5. Прочитайте и письменно переведите предложения на русский язык, содержащие такие модальные глаголы, как can, may, must, should и другие.
1. We can see the lake from our bedroom window .
2. You must keep it a secret.
3. Are you able to speak any foreign languages?
4. They must have gone out.
5. It may be true.
6. Jack ought not to go to bed so late.
6. Переведите абзацы 2, 3, 4 текста “The United Kingdom”
The United Kingdom
The United Kingdom, officially the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is an island nation and constitutional monarchy in north-western Europe, member of the European Union (EU).
Great Britain is the largest of the British Isles. It comprises, together with numerous smaller islands, England and Scotland, and the principality of Wales. Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, occupies the north-eastern part of the Island of Ireland.
The United Kingdom is bordered to the south by the English Channel, which separates it from continental Europe, to the easy by the North Sea, and to the west by the Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The only land border is between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The total area of the United Kingdom is 242 sq. km. The capital and the largest city is London.
England and Wales were united administratively, politically, and legally by 1543. The crowns of England and Scotland were united in 1603, but the tow countries remained separate political entities until the 1707 Act of Union, which formed the Kingdom of Great Britain with a single legislature. From 1801, when Great Britain and Ireland were united, until the formal establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922, the kingdom was officially named the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The mainland of the Island of Great Britain is 974 km at its widest; however, the highly indented nature of the island’s coast-line means that nowhere is more than about 120 km from the sea.
The climate of the United Kingdom is mild relative to its latitude, which is the same as that of Labrador in Canada. The mildness is an effect of the warm Gulf Stream. This current brings the prevailing south-west winds that moderate winter temperatures and bring the depressions which have the main day-to-day influence on the weather. The western side of the United Kingdom tends to be warmer than the eastern; the south is warmer than the north. The mean annual temperature is 6°C in the far north of Scotland; 11°C in the south-west of England. Winter temperatures are rarely higher than 32°C. The sea winds also bring plenty of moisture; average annual precipitation is more than 1,000 mm.
The population of United Kingdom is more than 56 mln people, but it is one of the world’s leading commercial and industrialized nations. In terms of gross national product (GNP) it ranks fifth in the world, with Italy, after the United States, Japan, Germany, and France.
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What is an effect of the warm Gulf Stream?