Контрольная работа по Английскому языку на тему: "Nature and Environmental Problems"

Задание 1. Прочитайте и устно переведите весь текст, а абзацы 2, 3, 4, и 5 переведите письменно: Nature and Environmental Problems Nature is the world around us, except for human-made phenomena. As humans are the only animal species that consciously, powerfully manipulates the 56 environment, we think of ourselves as unique and special. We acknowledge that in an objective view we are merely one of many organisms, and that we are not able to survive outside the natural world of air, earth, water and life. Still we tend to be poor leaders in the “hierarchy” of animal life. Despite our greatness, too often we waste; we destroy, and are too self-centered and shortsighted. Earth is so large, that even if humans destroy themselves, plus most other life forms, there will still be nature. The soil, oceans, atmosphere and weather would still interact with solar power to allow some life to exist. Earth cannot be a barren place like the moon. Humans can, then, reduce our planetary paradise into sort of a hell, but cannot, we may believe, destroy the planet itself.....

Задание 2. Прочитайте весь текст. Являются ли предложения ниже правильными или неправильными или искомой информации нет в тексте: 1. Global warming problem has been much exaggerated by politicians. 2. Solar power as far as the Sun is there will always allow some life to exist. 3. Everything that surrounds us is stable and unchangeable. 57 4. Developed countries are notorious for producing an excessive amount of waste or garbage. 5. Climate change is yet another environmental problem that has surfaced in the last couple of decades. 6. Waste disposal as one of the urgent environmental problems has been successfully solved in all countries.

Задание 3. Составьте вопросы к тексту из слов, расположенных не по порядку: 1. Earth/ be/ a barren place/Can/ like the moon? 2. is/What/facing/ types of environmental problems/ our planet? 3. humans/ Are/the only/ animal species? 4. humans/ Do/stop / think/ you/ can/ climate change? 5. can be/ the biggest/ to the living nature/ threat/ What? 6. changed much/ in the area/ Has/ you live/ the climate?

Задание 4. Ниже даны слова и словосочетания на русском языке, найдите в тексте их эквиваленты на английском: Изменения окружающей среды, стихийные бедствия, вид, экосистема, озоновый слой, времена года, глобальное потепление.

Задание 5. Соедините определение и термин:

1. an old-fashioned bedroom a. It’s a nine-to-five job every weekday. 2. a full-time job b. It’s very big with a cooker, a fridge, and a long dining table. 3. a two-storey building c. All the furniture from the 1930s. 4. A labour-saving device d. It’s a pretty house with two bedrooms upstairs. 5. An open-plan kitchen e. The house in which we can hear our neighbors through the wall. 6. A semi-detached house f. It’s a device that does some work 58 Term Definition for you, e.g., you do not need to wash the plates as a dishwasher will do it for you.

Задание 6. Откройте скобки и поставьте прилагательные в сравнительную или превосходную степень: A: How are you enjoying the new house? B: It is nice. It is (1)__________ (spacious) than our old house and one of the (2)______ (good) things is having our own garden. A: So it is much (3) _______ (good) here than in London, then? B: Well, I am not sure. (4)_______ (bad) thing about London was the pollution – and it is certainly (5)________ polluted here in the country. And I suppose it is (6)________ (stressful). I sleep (7)______(soundly) here without all the noise. But I miss the cultural diversity of London. Shopping there was much (8) _______ (interesting) than it is here.

Задание 7. Выберите нужный вариант выделенного слова: 1. Do you have any/some plans for the summer? 2. Suddenly anyone/someone entered the room. 3. Is anything/something wrong with Ann? No, there is nothing/something wrong with her. 4. Did you go somewhere/anywhere yesterday? 5. I haven’t got no/any idea where he is. 6. Would you like some/any tea?

Задание 8. Вставьте необходимую форму глагола: And so the days passed. The children (1)________ (not to go) to school, and Mother spent every day in her room writing stories. Sometimes she managed to sell a story to a magazine, and there (2) ________ (to be) cakes for tea. The children did not forget the father but they (3)_______ (not to talk) about him much as they (4) ________ (to know) that Mother was unhappy. She (5) ______ (to tell) them they were poor now. But it (6)________(to be) difficult to believe as there was enough to eat and they (7)_______ (to wear) the same nice clothes. But then there were three wet days, it was very cold. “Can we (8)________ (to light) a fire?” asked Bobbie. 59 “We can’t have fires in June,” said Mother. “Coal (9)________ (to be) very expensive.” After tea, Peter told his sisters, “I have an idea. I (10)______ (to tell) you about it later…” And two nights later Peter asked the girls to help him. On the hill, just above the railway station, there were some big stones in the grass. Between the stones the girls saw a small heap of coal. “I found it,” said Peter. “Help me to carry it up to the house.” (From The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit)

Задание 9. Поставьте слова в скобках в правильную форму: Imagine that you had to choose between financial ______ (to succeed) and a good (1)________ (to educate). Many (2)_________ (intelligence) young people today face this choice. When he was 17, Michael Furdyk sold an online company he had co-founded for more than $1,000,000. While his business was a success, Michael didn’t have time to earn a high school diploma - though (3) ________ (luck) he has one now. The number of teens doing business on the Internet is (4) ______ (to impress). Starting with an (5) _________ (expensive) computer - even one under $500 - it is (6) ________ (possibility) to turn your hobby into a big business.

Задание10. Вставьте артикли, где это необходимо: 1. In my opinion, _____ education should be free. 2. ____ education I got at school was excellent. 3. I’d like my children to have ____ good education. 4. ___ car is expensive to own and run but it’s a reliable form of transport. 5. Unfortunately, ____ car is a major cause of air pollution and global warming. 6. In some cities ____ cars have been banned from the centre.

Задание 11. Определите функцию окончания –s в следующих предложениях: 1. “Friday night arrives without a suitcase Sunday morning creeping like a nun Monday's child has learned to tie his bootlace See how they run” (The Beatles) 2. “We would shout and swim about The coral that lies beneath the waves” (The Beatles) 60 3. “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” 4. (George Orwell)