Контрольная работа по Английскому языку на тему: "Development of the Prison System"

1. Перепишите следующие предложения. Определите по грамматическим признакам, какой частью речи являются слова, оформленные окончанием –(e)s, и какую функцию это окончание выполняет, т.е. служит ли оно: показателем 3-го лица единственного числа в Простом настоящем времени; признаком множественного числа имени существительного; показателем притяжательного падежа имени существительного. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. The Russian Criminal Law defines the general principles of criminal responsibility.

2.  Electoral law divides Great Britain into 650 constituencies.

3. Citizens’ exercise of their rights and freedoms is inseparable from the performance of their duties.

2. Переведите предложения на русский язык, выпишите инфинитив смыслового глагола.
 

1. Don’t forget to study the new amendment!                               

2. Let’s check this parcel.                

3. Stay in the room while awaiting lawyer.
 

3. Перепишите следующие предложения, найдите и подчеркните в них подлежащее и сказуемое. Переведите предложения на русский язык.
 

1. The Human Rights Committee was established on the 20^th of September 1976.

2. The General Assembly has the right to discuss the powers and functions of all other United Nations organs.

3. The basic source for the information of criminalistic methods and means are natural, technical and social sciences.
 

  4.    Перепишите следующие предложения, подчеркните модальные глаголы или их эквиваленты и укажите их значение, подчеркните подлежащее и сказуемое в предложении. Переведите предложения на русский язык.
 

1. The judges ought to act according to the law.

2. Any convicted person may present his application for revision of the judgment.              

3. All laws and other acts of state bodies in Russia shall be promulgated on the basis of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.                                   

4. The punishment should be just in respect to each criminal and at the same time it should encourage the correction of the convicted persons.
 

5. Поставьте  глагол, данный в скобках, в соответствующей личной форме. Укажите лицо и число глагола.
 

1. Justice in our state (to administer) on the basis of the equality of all citizens before the law.

2. Most of American penal codes (to come) down from common law.                    

3. The committee still (to discuss) the bill.

4. The courts impose imprisonment on persons who (to commit) grave offences.  

6. Переведите на английский язык, используя конструкции  общего и специального вопроса

 

1. Какие типы тюрем существуют в США?

2.  Какие предметы изучают студенты в юридическом институте?

3.Что должен знать юрист о человеческой психологии?
 

7. Перепишите следующие предложения, содержащие разные формы сравнения прилагательных, подчеркните их и переведите предложения на русский язык.
 

1. Betrayal of the Motherland is the gravest of crimes against the people.                 

2. Under Russian criminal law deprivation of liberty is one of the most gravest penalties.

3. The more exact and just is the punishment, the greater will be the educational value of a court sentence.
 

8. Переведите на русский язык, подчеркивая Причастие I или причастие II, указывая в круглых скобках, является ли оно определением, обстоятельством или частью глагола-сказуемого.
 

1. About one third of all convicted juveniles are sentenced to measures of punishment not including deprivation of freedom.

2. When asked about the investigation of the crime, he told us many interesting facts.

3. Judging from

worldwide practice it is impossible to avoid judicial mistakes in all the cases.

4. Leading international non-governmental organizations involved in the fight for human rights are participating in this conference.

5. Voting independently, the General Assembly and the Security Council elect the judges of the International Court of Justice.
 

2. Перепишите и письменно переведите тексты.

Письменно выполните задания
 

Development of the Prison System

A prison is an institution for the confinement of persons convicted of serious crimes or felonies. In the 19^th and 20^th centuries, imprisonment replaced corporal punishment, execution and banishment as the main means of punishing serious offenders. Historically exile, execution and corporal punishment were the most common penalties for criminal acts.  Until the late 18^th century, prisons were used mostly for the confinement of debtors who could not pay, of  offenders awaiting trial, and of those convicted persons waiting for their sentences—death or exile—to be put into effect. ...

 

Перепишите предложения. Письменно ответьте на вопросы

1. What is a prison?
2. What were the means of punishing offenders before the 19^th century?
3. How were prisons used until the late 18^th century?
4. When did the prison begin to be used as a place of punishment?
5. Why did reformers fight for solitary confinement of criminals?
6. What is the “silent system”?