Moscow is one of the world’s cultural and scientific centers.

The first mentioning of Moscow in chronicles dates back (относится) to

1147.

The collections of the Historical Museum acquaint visitors with the history of

The Russian State.

The researcher states that the new method of work is of great importance for

The fulfillment of the plan.

II. Перепишите и письменно переведите предложения, содержащие определения, выраженные сущ.

They discussed the economic development plan.

The International Tchaikovsky Competition and the International Ballet

Competition took place in Moscow.

III. Перепишите и письменно переведите предложения, содержащие различные виды сравнения.

This film is much more interesting than that one.

My friend is as old as I am.

The more you read, the better you know the subject.

The second text is not as difficult for translation as the first one.

IV. Перепишите и письменно переведите предложения, обращая внимание на неопределенные местоимения.

There are some 150 museums in Moscow.

Any museum of Moscow is of great interest to us.

Do they take any books with them?

V. Перепишите и письменно переведите предложения. Определите видовременную форму глагола (время и залог).

In 1980 the best sportsmen from five continents met in Moscow.

This girl took part in the International Ballet Competition in Moscow.

Moscow plants produce such goods as lorries and vehicles, instruments,

Industrial equipment, etc.

He will be glad to visit Moscow again.

VI. Прочтите и устно переведите с 1-го по 5-й абзацы текста. Перепишите и письменно переведите 1, 2 и 4-й абзацы текста.

MOSCOW

Moscow became the capital of Russian State in 1918. In those difficult post-revolution days the work started on the first plan for the economic construction and reconstruction of Moscow.

Now Moscow’s boundaries expanded considerably. In 1972 Moscow covered 878.7 sq. km. and its population was about 8 million people. Today Moscow is an advanced industrial mega polis. Moscow is a main production and technical base of the country’s industry. There are many new industries in Moscow now, such as: machine-tool building, instrument-making, radio-engineering, electronics, chemical industry, etc. Moscow plants produce such goods as lorries, and passenger vehicles, sea-going and river vessels, diesel locomotives, precision instruments and other types of industrial equipment.

Thousands of Moscow citizens work at the plants and enterprises of these industries. And new residential districts are built for them.

Moscow is a multinational capital. People of different nationalities study side by side in its institute halls and library reading-rooms. They work together at numerous factories and plants of the great city. Moscow has a lot of higher schools with more than 1,000,000 students.

Moscow is the heart of the cultural life of the country. The city has some fifty theatres, many concert halls, numerous cinemas, about one hundred and fifty museums, many stadiums and sport halls.

КОНТРОЛЬНОЕ ЗАДАНИЕ №1.

ВАРИАНТ 2.

I. Перепишите и письменно переведите предложения. Определите, какой частью речи являются слова с окончанием “S”:

a) показателем 3-го лица ед. ч. глагола в Present Simple;

б) признаком мн. ч. имени сущ.

в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени сущ.

He works only five days a week.

We all know the works of this great writer.

We visited Kiev’s famous St. Sophia Cathedral.

The Ukraine represents a large economic region in Europe.

II. Перепишите и письменно переведите предложения, содержащие определения, выраженные сущ.

There are many new machine building factories in the country.

These engineers deal with cosmic ray studies.

The Kiev underground is short, but beautiful.

This light industry establishment is not far from our Institute.

III. Перепишите и письменно переведите предложения, содержащие различные виды сравнения.