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.

This museum is much more interesting than that one.

This university building is not as large as that one.

We discussed the most important problems at the meeting yesterday.

The more often you use English words in speech, the better you learn them.

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

No student of this group was in Kiev.

Some of the students will go on an excursion tomorrow.

Any museum of Kiev is of great interest to us.

Some two million people live in Kiev.

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

My friend left Kiev for Moscow.

Boris and I played chess after dinner.

They will be glad to see us in Kiev again.

The first view of Kiev gives you a feeling of a big city.

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

KIEV

The land of the Ukraine is vast and beautiful, its fields are fertile, and the energy of the mighty Dnieper River is enormous. The Ukraine represents a large economic region in Europe. In Soviet times many giant industrial enterprises, dams and hydro-electric stations, thousands of factories, collective and state farms, new cities and towns came into being in the Ukraine.

Kiev is the capital of the Ukraine. It is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. Its population is some two million people.

Kiev is the largest center of national Ukrainian culture. There are many research institutes, the Academy of Science of the Ukraine, many higher and hundreds of secondary schools in Kiev. The University which bears the name of Shevchenko stands in the center of the city. Kiev has a history that goes back for more than ten centuries.

Kiev is a highly developed industrial city. There are many engineering, instrument-building, food processing and light industry establishments in Kiev. The Kiev plants and factories produce complex automatic lathes, excavators, sea and river ships, motor-cycles, electrical measuring instruments, planes, machine-tools, artificial fibers and diamonds. The Ukrainian scientists discovered the way of manufacturing artificial diamonds and developed the methods of electric welding. They made progress in nuclear physics, chemistry and other branches of science.

The Ukraine exports manufactured goods to more than 70 foreign countries. The Ukraine develops the relationships with Russia and other countries in political, economic and cultural spheres.

КОНТРОЛЬНОЕ ЗАДАНИЕ №1.

ВАРИАНТ 3.

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

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

б) признаком мн. ч. имени сущ.

в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени сущ.

The country exports its products to 40 countries.

The exports consist of non-ferrous metals, machinery, chemical equipment,

Etc.

What is your teacher’s name?

The scientists achieved great results in this branch of science.

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

His sister is a ten-year-old girl.

This power-station equipment is quite new.

The lecturer named cotton yarn production figures in his report.

The new institute building is not far from my house.

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

The Moskva River is not as wide and deep as the Neva.

This street is as wide as the next one.

The Trans-Siberian railway is much more longer than any railway in the

World.

The longer I stayed in Minsk, the more I liked it.

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

There are some faculties in our Institute.

Some 20 students took part in sport competition.

Any result in our experiment is of great importance for the whole research.

No one knew about this discovery.

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

This student took an active part in the public life of his Institute.

The achievements in science will provide for the progress in economy.

Machine-builders use the latest technical achievements in their work.

The extra-mural students received paid leaves for their exams.

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

MINSK

Minsk is the capital of Byelorussia, its political, economic and industrial center. Before the revolution it was a provincial town with some 100,000 inhabitants. Years of development transformed Minsk entirely. Today it is a large modern city with a population of some 800,000 people.

2. Minsk is a cultural and scientific center of Byelorussia. It has many museums, but perhaps the most famous are the Museum of the 1^st Congress of the RSDLP and the Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War.

Before the revolution there was not a single higher educational establishment in Minsk. There are now nearly thirty educational establishments including the University and many scientific research institutes.

Nowadays Minsk is a city of highly developed industry. The powerful MAZ lorries of the Minsk Automobile Works are famous not only in the country but far beyond its borders. The designers of the Minsk universal electronic computers, the most popular in the country, were awarded the State Prize. Farmers highly appreciate the new Minsk tractors which are highly reliable and easy to work. The Minsk Tractor Works is one of the biggest industrial enterprises. Every day hundreds of bright newly painted machines leave the factory gates. With each passing year the tractor builders perfect their skills and improve the technology of production.