Контрольная работа по Английскому языку на тему: "ЕNVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION"

I. Образуйте:

1. Существительные, используя суффиксы -at(ion), -ment:

   • to form

   • to combine

   • to pollute

   • to protect

   • to improve

   • to agree

   • to environ

   • to achieve
     
      

     2. Прилагательные, используя суффиксы -ic, -al:

   • nature

   • science

   • occasion

   • base

   • physics

   • class

   • 3. Наречия, используя суффикс -ly:

   • actual

   • direct

   • quick

   • rapid

   • simple

   • 4. Прилагательные, используя префиксы -in, -un:

   • complete

   • able

   • attentive

   • natural

   • direct

   • necessary

   • 5. Глаголы, используя суффикс -en:

   • loose

   • tight

   • strength

   • II. Переведите письменно предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на перевод пассивных форм сказуемого:

   • The highest rate of motion is observed in the middle of the ice stream, approximately along its axis.

   • Not all precursors of earthquakes can be detected only by instruments.

   • Most volcanic eruptions are produced by the plate motions.

   • For millions of years rocks at and near the surface of the earth have been crumbling under the weather.

   • Various parts of the earth have been and are being affected by sudden movements along fractures in outer crust.

   • Landslides may be found at elevations ranging from lofty mountain peaks to the sea floor.

   • Most of the known natural seeps of oil and gas were found in seismically active regions.

   • This problem must be solved in the nearest future.

   • III. Подчеркните в каждом из предложений сказуемое и укажите его форму. Переведите предложения на русский язык:

   • We solved this problem with the help of computers.

   • Energy occurs in several forms.

   • Measurements have shown that temperature increases.

   • Geologists are still searching for new mineral deposits.

IV. Поставьте сказуемые в нужную форму. Переведите предложения.

1. What (happen) if there is another catastrophe like the one at Chernobyl?

2. Many species of animals (disappear) now.

3. The clouds (protect) the Earth from the Sun.

4. Geologists (find) a large mineral deposit last month.

5. A few minerals, such as quartz, (be) stable under quite a range of conditions.

6. Aluminum cans (be) one of the first widely recycled consumer products in the USA.

7. World climatic patterns constantly (change).

8. Seismologists long (recognize) a difficulty in accounting for deep earthquakes.

V. Выберите правильную форму сказуемого. Предложения запишите на правой стороне тетради.

1. Geology … us to unlock the mysteries of our environment.
   a. help
   b. helps
   c. helped

2. What (happen) when the increasing solar radiation gradually affects the Earth?
   a. happened
   b. happen
   c. will happen

3. Before 1950 Indonesia … twice as much rainforests as it … today.
   a. have
   b. has
   c. had

4. Observations showed that a movement … between the time of the surveys.
   a. has occurred
   b. have occurred
   c. had occurred
   
    

   5. The process of metamorphism … … deep beneath the earth’s surface and … on all rocks.

   6. Australia’s forests … fast now.

   7. What … you … when the accident happened?

   8. Natural catastrophes … in the past, and they … surely … in the future.

   YI. Подчеркните в каждом предложении модальный глагол или его эквивалент. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

5. Anti-virus software may not protect your computer against every new virus.

6. Great Britain has to buy large quantities of oil and gas.

7. Certain physical characteristics of the deeper layers can be deduced from the surface.

8. Earthquakes must be considered as a necessary evil, as they are among the geophysical processes that the earth will never be without.
   
    

9. These data are to be checked.

10. Where could these creatures have come from?

11. Will the planets be able to survive any cosmic catastrophe without any significant change in their orbital parameters?

12. About 80% of all our domestic waste can be recycled.

YII. Выберите нужный модальный глагол. Предложения запишите на правой стороне тетради и переведите.

1.  The colour, shape and size of a given mineral … vary greatly.

2. … you explain the difference between bedding and cross-bedding?
   
    

   VIII. Подчеркните в предложениях причастия. Переведите предложения на русский язык.
   
   1. One kind of garnet used for jewelry is pyrope, which has a deep blooded colour.
   2. It is dangerous to drink polluted water or breathe polluted air.

3. Perhaps various international organizations will be able to avoid the disasters threatening the natural world and all of us.

4. Geologists study the processes acting on and within the Earth.

5. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
   
   IX. Соедините придаточные и главные предложения. Запишите их на правой стороне тетради и переведите.
   
   1. Waste recycling saves money …
   
   2. Sedimentary rocks were formed from particles …
   
   3. The stream is no longer able to transport all the material …
   
   4. Rocks piled one on top of the other …
   
   5. There are social and political problems …

6. A glacier is a mass of ice …

a. which have to be taken into account.

Прочитайте и устно переведите текст на русский язык

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

About two hundred years ago a man lived in harmony with nature. But in the 20th century with rapid growth of science and technology, human achievements in conquering nature became so great that man’s economic activities began to produce an increasingly negative effect on the biosphere and endanger all living matter: plants, animals, people....

Выполните следующие упражнения к тексту:

 When did human achievements in conquering nature become great?

What is a major problem in the world today?

 When do pesticides and chemical fertilizers pollute streams and ground water?

 How does Greenpeace work?
 

II. Подберите к существительным из списка А прилагательные из списка В.

A:

growth

achievements

matter

rains

water

organization

way

scenery

B:

international

III. Составьте предложения. Запишите их на правой стороне тетради и переведите.

Nature attracts a lot of people …

A major problem in the world today …

Tins, paper-bags, rubbish and bottles pollute nature …

Greenpeace always works …

About two hundred years ago …

Pesticides and chemical fertilizers pollute streams and ground water …

IV. Предложения, не соответствующие содержанию текста, измените соответственно тексту. Запишите на правой стороне тетради и переведите.

About three hundred years ago man lived in harmony with nature.

Greenpeace works in four ways.

Lots of tourists leave their litter lying about.

Acid rains do not affect forests and buildings.

The actions of Greenpeace are always nonviolent.

A major problem in the world today is the construction of new power stations.

V. Сопоставьте предложения на английском и русском языках. Предложения на русском языке запишите на правой стороне тетради.

Man’s economic activities produce negative effects on the biosphere.

 

YI. Заполните пропуски в предложениях данными словами.

(attracts, pollute, scenery, conditions, science, strata)

1. When you pollute something, you make it dirty or dangerous for other people or animals.

2. Nature attracts a lot of people who sometimes prefer to spend their holidays outdoors.

3. Lots of tourists enjoyed the beautiful scenery.

4. Under surface strata, rocks are relatively easily altered.

5. Geology is a science which deals with the history of the earth.

6. An earthquake usually folds strata of the rocks.

YII. Составьте предложения из следующих слов. Переведите их.

1. works/a/way/always/Greenpeace/peaceful/in/.

2. streams/chemical/ground/pollute/water/fertilizes/and/pesticides/and/.

3. a/environment/destruction/problem/of/the/natural/major/.

4. animals/some/are/danger/in/.

5. countries/many/laws/have/no/pollution/against/.

6. achievements/nature/human/conquering/in/great/became/.

УПII. Переведите письменно 3-й абзац.