Контрольная работа по Английскому языку на тему: "Sherlock Holmes"

Вариант 5

I. Translate sentences. Define the verb tense, the voice (Active or Passive), the Infinitive (I form of the verb). Переведите предложения и определите видовременную форму глаголов залог (активный или страдательный) и инфинитив:

1. He didn’t see anything while the meeting was going on.
2. Nowadays six countries top the list in the Eastern education market: China, Japan, Singapore, India, Thailand and the Philippines.
3. By law, everything was taught in the local language.
4. Questions are being asked about global warming across northern Russia.
5. A passenger will be permitted to take up to 10 containers with.

II. Translate sentences. Pay attention to the Modal Verbs and their equivalents. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на модальные глаголы и их эквиваленты:

1. We were to send out the invitations a week ago.

2. I think I ought to go alone.

3. All shareholders must receive an invitation to the AGM; however, they needn’t attend.

4. They’ll be able to pay them the occasional visit.

III. Translate sentences. Define Participle I and Participle II. Переведите предложения и определите Participle 1 и Participle II (см. образец и приложение по грамматике).

1. Labour politicians, having helped to create this mess, react with a mixture of bogus statistics and liberal platitudes.

2. He was a high-school teacher briefly in Russia, teaching about 20 kids per class.

3. The place feels so Italian that I was waiting for the mafia to burst in with machine guns blazing.

4. Loanwords are words taken directly into a language with little or no translation.

5. Texan burglar Brad Skimpton spent two hours preparing bags full of the things he wanted to steel.

IV. Translate sentences. Pay attention to the Absolute Participle Construction.  Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на независимый причастный оборот (The Absolute Participle Construction – см. приложение по грамматике).

1. Member nations are required to subscribe to the capital stock of the World Bank, each being given a quota which is related to the member’s national income and position in the world trade.

2. The goods having been loaded, the dockworkers left the port.

3. The 1980s transformed modern computers, each having been shrunk to a desk top size.

V. Translate sentences, define forms of the Gerund. Переведите предложения, определите формы Gerund (см. приложение по грамматике).

1. We have succeeded in entering a new competitive market.

2. A village correspondent criticized the Ministry of Culture and the editorial offices of the republican newspapers for their not paying sufficient attention to remote districts.

3. She regrets living so far from her family.

VI. Translate sentences, pay attention to peculiarities of the following words and word combinations translation. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на следующие сочетания: both/both … and; either/either … or, neither/neither … nor .

1. Both of these apartments were good.

2. He hasn’t been to either of those exhibitions.

3. Neither he nor she took part in the races.

7. Rewrite and translate the text in written. Прочитайте и переведите письменно

текст.

Sherlock Holmes

Museum is situated at the northern end of Baker Street, a minute's walk from Baker Street Tube Station. It is a Grade II Listed lodging house. Holmes' apartment, comprising 2 rooms, is on the first floor. Large new souvenir shop, antique and ephemera sales on the ground floor. The entire second and third floors and attic contain the new exhibition area, featuring several life-size wax figures from the more exciting and best known Sherlock Holmes adventures. London's Baker Street was the home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, and it's here that Holmes buffs will find a statue and museum dedicated to the Victorian crime fighter. Even more fun is exploring the landscapes that inspired him. Try donning a deerstalker hat on a wild winter's day on Dartmoor in Devon, the setting for The Hound of the Baskervilles. The South Downs, where Holmes' rural retreat was located, are an easy day trip from London, or a stop here on route to Brighton. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle known for creating Sherlock Holmes, one of the most famous fictional detectives, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1855, and studied medicine at Edinburgh University. Here he met Dr Joseph Bell, one of his lecturers, who relied only on observation, logic and deduction and diagnosis. This was the persona for Sherlock Holmes. In 1887, and now a doctor in practice, Conan Doyle published a Study in Scarlet. It was to be the start of 60 adventures for Holmes and his partner Dr. Watson, which would involve three other novels, and five volumes of short stories....
 

7. Make General (2) and Special (2) questions to the I-st abstract of the text.

Поставьте к I абзацу текста общий (2) и специальный (2) вопросы.

8. Make Disjunctive (2) and the Alternative (2) questions to the last abstract of the text. Поставьте к последнему абзацу текста разделительный (2) и альтернативный (2) вопросы.

9. Write out sentences with equivalents of modal verbs. Define which modal verbs they correspond to. Выпишите из текста предложения с заменителями (эквивалентами) модальных глаголов. Определите: каким модальным глаголам они соответствуют.