Suffered, was dropped, of the world, was taken, were advisable, trip to, to accept, were suspicious, comes to an agreement, would meet, into quarrels, be easy, set off on

The League of Nations was to be an organization where representatives of the world's nations (1)... and settle their differences by discussions instead of war. It had taken Wilson months of hard bargaining to persuade the other Allied leaders (2)... this plan. Now he faced a battle to persuade Congress and the American people to accept it, too.

Wilson knew that this would not (3).... Many Americans were against their country becoming permanently involved in the problems of Europe. And they (4)... of the League of Nations. Wouldn't joining such an organization mean that the United States might be dragged (5)..., perhaps even wars that were none of its business?

Wilson tried to remove such fears. But as the months passed it began to seem that he was failing to do so. After another (6)... Europe he returned to America, tired and ill. But he boarded a special train and (7)... a speaking tour of the western United States to plead for the League.

The tour was never completed. On September 25, 1919, the exhausted Wilson (8)... a severe stroke. He (9)... back to Washington, his health broken for ever. In March 1920, the Senate voted against the United States joining the League of Nations, and the idea (10)....

From his invalid's armchair in the White House a sick and disappointed Wilson spoke the last words on the subject. "We had a chance to gain the leadership (11)... We have lost it and soon we shall be witnessing the tragedy of it all."

 

 

Задание 3.

а) выберите соответствующий вариант

1. There are... people in the room. I'm not alone.

a) a few b) a little c) few d) все не верно

2. The newspaper... about a dozen passengers had been injured in an accident.

a) talked b) told c) spoke d) все не верно

3. Of course, I am always punctual myself,...?

a) don't I b) am I c) aren’t 't I d) все не верно

4. The library is mine, but nothing... that book of poetry belongs to me.

a) besides b) except c) unless d) все не верно

5. Не used his briefcase... a table to rest his notes on.

a) as b) like c) for d) все не верно

6. I can't find my umbrella; I've a feeling I... have left it on the bus.

a) can b) ought c) might d) все не верно

I. Joan suggested... for a picnic in the afternoon if it didn't keep on raining.

a) go b) going c) to go d) все не верно

б) поставьте глагол в соответствующей форме

8. Ever since Dan met Maria, he (8) (not to be able) to think about anyone else.

9-10. We (9) (to fly) to Crete next Friday. The plane (10) (to take) off at 7 a.m.

11. She realized that it (11) (to be) completely dark and she had been walking for a long time.

12. If I were offered a job abroad, 1(12) (to take) it if conditions were good.

13-14. While the bus (13) (to go) along the motorway last night something very strange (14) (to happen).

15. If I continue with my diet I (15) (to lose) 10 kilos by the end of the month.

Задание 4. Составьте предложения из данных слов

1.Experience, not, but, have, he, a lot of, may, is, easy, he, to deal with

2.Sank, top, ground, the, reaching, the, we, mountain, of, to, the

3.Part, are, to be, the, many, city, there, found, of, this, cafes, in

4.Want, tell, on, her, I'll, that, phone, the, you, her

5.Explanations, with, asked, as, satisfied, additional, he, wasn't, answer, for, he, the

6.Knew, would, he, me, introduce, better, her, if, her, to, he

7.Not, the, as, usually, champion, as, he, playing, does, tennis, well, is

8.Is, him, no, it, that, wrong, use, he, to, is, explaining

9.Of, strong, face, the, to see, enough, his, light, the, wasn't, expression

10.Read, you, directions, and, drive, map, will, the, if, give, I, you?

 

Задание 5. Заполните пропуски подходящими по смыслу предлогами, артиклями, союзами, местоимениями, наречиями или вспомогательными глаголами

On the morning of Friday, August 3, 1492, an Italian adventurer named Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain to find a new way (1)... Europe to Asia. His aim was to open up a shorter trade route (2)... the two continents. In Asia, he intended to load his three small ships (3)... silks, spices and gold, and sail back to Europe a rich man.

Columbus first sailed south to the Canary Islands. Then he turned west across the unknown waters of the mid-Atlantic Ocean. Ten weeks (4)... leaving Spain, he stepped ashore on the beach of a low sandy island. Columbus believed that he (5)... landed in the Indies, a group of islands close (6)... the mainland of India. For this reason, he called the friendly, brown-skinned people (7)... greeted him "los Indies" — Indians.

In fact, Columbus was not near India. It was not the edge of Asia (8)... he had reached, but islands off the shores of a new continent. Europeans would soon name (9)... new continent America, but (10)... many years they went on calling its inhabitants Indians. Only recently have these first Americans (11)... described more accurately as "native Americans" (12)... Amerindians.

There were many different groups of Amerindians, which lived (13)... separate groups called "tribes." These tribes followed very different ways of life. Some were hunters, some were farmers. Some were peaceful, others warlike. They spoke over three hundred separate languages, some of (14)... were as different from one another (15)... English is from Chinese.

 

ВАРИАНТ 2

Задание 1.

 

THE BRYANSK REGION

Choose the right variant.

The Bryansk 1._____ was formed on 2. ______ 1944. The official symbols of the Bryansk region, Flag, Emblem and Anthem 3. ______ determined by the Regional Law "About the Symbols of the Bryansk Region", 4. ______ in 1998. Its Emblem symbolizes the unity of the 5. ______ great Slavonic nations. It reflects the traditional spiritual 6. _____ of Bryanskers; in particular, the battle glory, industrial mastery, arable farming. The Flag of the Bryansk region is a red banner with its Emblem in the centre. The song "The Bryansk forest" by S.Katz and A.Sofronov is the Anthem of the Bryansk region.

The region consists of 7. ___ districts and has 16 cities (5 of them are "sub-regional" ones), and 27 urban-type settlements. The largest cities are Bryansk, Klintzy, Novozybkov, Dyatkovo.

The Bryansk region stretches 270 km from west to east and 240 km from north to south. The total area is 8. _____. The population is 9. ____ people (1 mln is urban). The Bryansk region borders 10. ____ the Chernigov, Sumi regions of the Ukraine, the Gomel, Mogilev regions of Byelorussia, the Smolensk, Kaluga, Oryol and Kursk regions of the RF. There are many large and small rivers 11. _____ the territory of the region. The 12. _____ among them are the Desna (1,187 km), the Iput and the Besed. There are 49 large 13. ____ lakes in the region. The largest ones are Besdonnoye, Krugloye, Svyatoye. The region has a 14. _____ climate with warm summers and cold winters. The Bryansk region is rich in 15. ____ which occupy one third of the total area. There are both needleleaf and broadleaf forests as well as mixed ones. A lot of different animals and birds live there.

The 16. ______ development of the region began in the 16th century. Since then iron-producing, glass-producing, timber-processing factories appeared there. At the beginning of the 19th century textile industry began to develop near the town of Klintsy. Now the main industry is machine-building. Machine-building plants produce Diesel engines, diesel locomotives, refrigerator sections, irrigation and agricultural machines, tractors, instruments and equipment. Our 17._____ also produce steel, timber, cement, brick, mineral fertilizer, different consumer goods and foodstuffs.

Agriculture also plays an important 18. _____ in development of the region. The leading branch of agriculture is 19. _____-breeding. Our farms produce milk and beef, pork, mutton, chicken-meat and eggs. Livestock-breeding is closely connected with 20.____-growing, Farmers grow different grain-crops, potatoes, feed-crops and industrial crops. Grain crops are sown on large areas, but their yields are not high. The climate of the Bryansk region is favourable for growing such crops as winter-wheat and rye, spring barley, buckwheat, silage corn, potatoes. 21. _______ are grown all over the region. Their yields are high. Industrial crops such as sugar-beets, flax, tobacco and others occupy an important place in crop-growing. Sugar beets are grown in the Brasovo, Komarichy and Sevsk districts. Flax is grown in the Kletnya, Rognedino and Zhukovka districts.

The Bryansk region 22. ______ a lot of environmental problems. They are air, water and land pollution, 23. _____ erosion, extinction of wildlife. The ecological situation, in many parts of the region is critical especially in the south-western districts that suffered 24. ____ the Chernobyl disaster and to such towns as Fokino and Bryansk. The main sources of air pollution are industrial enterprises and transport. Water pollution and depletion of ground waters is another problem. Our lakes and rivers are being filled with oil, mineral fertilizers, chemicals, organic substances. One of the most important problems in the region is soil erosion. More than 150 thousand hectares of soil suffer from water erosion and about 2 thousand hectares from wind erosion. Radioactive contamination of the environment is a very serious problem. 22 districts of the region suffered from it as a result of the Chernobyl catastrophe. The total contaminated area is 11,868 square km where 500 thousand people live. The main task of our time is nature 25. _____, that is rational use, reproduction and conservation of natural resources, protection of the natural environment from pollution arid destruction.

 

1.	a. district	b. area	c. region	d. land
2.	a. the 5th of July	b. the 5th of June	c. the 15th of July	d. the 15th of June
3.	a. have been	b. be	c. had been	d. were
4.	a. passes	b. passing	c. passed	d. pass
5.	a. two	b. three	c. four	d. five
6.	a. values	b. prices	c. costs	d. expenses
7.	a. 25	b. 26	c. 27	d. 28
8.	a. 24,900 km^3	b. 29,400 km^3	c. 34,900 km^3	d. 39,400 km^3
9.	a. 1,300,000	b. 1,500,000	c. 1,700,000	d. 1,900,000
10.	a. on	b. by	c. in	d. with
11.	a. on	b. by	c. in	d. with
12.	a. long	b. longer	c. longest	d. most long
13.	a. physical	b. natural	c. organic	d. original
14.	a. temperate and subtropical	b. arctic and continental	c. subtropical and continental	d. temperate and continental
15.	a. lakes	b. rivers	c. fields	d. forests
16.	a. educational	b. scientific	c. agricultural	d. industrial
17.	a. enterprises	b. works	c. farms	d. plants
18.	a. party	b. role	c. act	d. trick
19.	a. cattle	b. animal	c. livestock	d. dairy-stock
20.	a. field	b. plant	c. crop	d. agriculture
21.	a. Tomatoes	b. Potatoes	c. Onion	d. Carrots
22.	a. has	b. have	c. had	d. is having
23.	a. soil	b. air	c. water	d. land
24.	a. of	b. with	c. from	d. -
25.	a. environment	b. protection	c. ecology	d. defense

 

1. Напишите предложения с модальными глаголами ought to, must, should, have to, be to, переведите их.

2. Напишите пять английских пословиц и дайте их русские эквиваленты.

3. Переведите следующие вопросы на английский язык. Ответьте на вопросы.

1. Как Вас зовут?

2. Сколько Вам лет?

3. Когда Вы родились?

4. Где вы родились?

5. Когда Вы пошли в школу?

6. Где вы учились после школы?

7. Какую специальность Вы получили?

8. Где Вы сейчас обучаетесь?

9. Где вы живете?

10. Чем известен Ваш населенный пункт?

 

4. Составьте 10 предложений с любыми словами и словосочетаниями из данного списка:

a democratic federal state, a parliamentary monarchy, a republic, an unwritten constitution, appointive MPs, archbishops, bill, by secret ballot, chamber, citizen, city of federal importance, common law, constituency, custom, deputy, former, government, head of the state, hereditary peers, law lords = lords of appeal, life peers, local self-government, monarch, prime minister, royal assent, sovereign, statute, subject, suffrage, the Bill of Rights, the cabinet, the Chairman of the Government, the Council of Federation, the executive power, the Federal Assembly, the House of Commons, the House of Lords, the judicial power, the legislative body, the legislative power, the Magna Carta, the majority party leader, the Petition of Right, the Privy Council, the representative body, the State Duma, the Supreme Court, the voting age, to exercise power, to initiate.

5. Прочитайте данный отрывок статьи из газеты Moscow News. Подчеркните все подлежащие, выпишите все сказуемые (спрягаемую часть). Переведите статью.

 

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