Контрольная работа по Английскому языку на тему: "Mining"

1) Подчеркните местоимения в следующих предложениях. Переведите предложения на русский язык:

1. Do you have any practical training in addition to your lectures and practical classes?  

2. He discovered that a body loses as much motion as it gives to another body.

3. Those experiments are hard to carry out.

4. Is there any additional information on the formation of the diamonds? – Nothing new.

5. This igneous rock is very common.

6. Trolls are everyone’s favorite bogey in Ireland and England.

7. If a dog goes inside a coal mine, someone who works in the mine will be killed (English miners’ superstition)

8. It was bad luck to enter a mine if you met a red headed woman on the way to work (common miners’ superstition).

2) Объясните употребление или отсутствие артиклей. Предложенияпереведите:

1. He works as a mining engineer.

2. In 2006, there were over 2,200 active mines, quarries, and offshore drilling sites on the continental land mass of the United Kingdom.

3. The United Kingdom is the fourth largest producer of natural gas in the world, after Russia, the United States, and Canada.

4. Diamonds are pure carbon and the hardest mineral of all.

5. The uranium mining area of Krasnokamensk is situated in Eastern Siberia.

6. Roman miners dug vertical shafts and horizontal galleries and adits.

3) Подчеркните прилагательные. Переведите предложения на русский язык:

1. The Cullinan was later cut into nine large stones and about 100 smaller ones.

2. The second largest stone, the "Star of Africa II" or "Cullinan II," is 317 carats.

3. As well as other numerous innovations in the life of Russia successful gold exploration and mining were introduced by Peter the Great.  

4. Due to a greater Palladium to Platinum ratio of its ores, Russia is the world's leading palladium producer.

4) Переведите предложения на русский язык. Составьте вопросы к выделенным словам:

1. They were investigating the formation of diamonds at the moment.  

2. The students will be taking their exams for two weeks in June.

3. They are working in the laboratory carrying out a very important experiment.

4. In few months he’ll be speaking fluently.

5) Переведите текст на русский язык со словарем:

Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an orebody, lode, vein, (coal) seam or reef, which forms the mineralized horizon and package of economic interest to the miner. In 2005, Russia ranked among the leading world producers or was a significant producer of such mineral commodities as aluminum; arsenic; asbestos; bauxite; boron; cadmium; cement; coal; cobalt; copper; diamond; fluorspar; gold; iron ore; lime; lithium; magnesium compounds and metals; mica, sheet, and flake; natural gas; nickel; nitrogen; oil shale; palladium; peat; petroleum; phosphate; potash; rhenium; silicon, sulfur; titanium sponge; tin; tungsten; and vanadium.

Following the mineral fuel industry, the next leading branch of the mineral industry, in terms of its contribution to the national economy was the metallurgical sector, which contributed 19% of the value of industrial production, accounted for 11.1% of the value of industrial capital stock, and employed 9.3% of the industrial labor force. In 2005, a total of 1,071,000people were employed in the mineral extraction sector and made up 1.6% of the country's labor force. Investment in mineral extraction and metallurgy accounted for about 20% of total investment in the Russian economy.

6) Составьте к тексту не менее четырех вопросов разного типа, чтобы они покрывали содержание.