Контрольная работа по Английскому языку на тему: "Грамматика, лексика, чтение”

Задание 1. Прочитайте и устно переведите весь текст, а абзацы 2, 3, 4, и 5переведите письменно:
 

Even in this age of high-technology many people who live in cities and work full-time with computers see only little nature intimately. Anyway we all аre still aware of the weather and the seasons. We all know that a short, rainy winter day is less pleasant than a warm sunny June day. Most of us enjoy the return of spring, and we mostly have certain pleasant or striking memories we associate with each season.......


Задание 2. Прочитайте весь текст. Являются ли предложения ниже  правильными или неправильными или искомой информации нет в  тексте:

Global warming problem has been much exaggerated by politicians.
Solar power as far as the Sun is there will always allow some life to exist.
Everything that surrounds us is stable and unchangeable.
Developed countries are notorious for producing an excessive amount of waste or garbage.
Climate change is yet another environmental problem that has surfaced in the last couple of decades.
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:

Earth/ be/ a barren place/Can/ like the moon?
is/What/facing/ types of environmental problems/ our planet?
 humans/ Are/the only/ animal species?
 humans/ Do/stop / think/ you/ can/ climate change?
 can be/ the biggest/ to the living nature/ threat/ What?
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:

 an old-fashioned bedroom
a full-time job
a two-storey building
A labour-saving device
An open-plan kitchen
A semi-detached house

Задание 6. Откройте скобки и поставьте прилагательные в сравнительную или превосходную степень:

It is (1)__________ (spacious) than our old house and one of the (2)______ (good) things is having our own garden.
So it is much (3) _______ (good) here than in London, then?
(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.
Shopping there was much (8) _______ (interesting) than it is here.

Задание 7. Выберите нужный вариант выделенного слова:

Do you have any/some plans for the summer?
Suddenly anyone/someone entered the room.
Is anything/something wrong with Ann? No, there is nothing/something wrong with her
Did you go somewhere/anywhere yesterday?
I haven’t got no/any idea where he is.
Would you like some/any tea?

Задание 8. Вставьте необходимую форму глагола:

 

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.

“Can we (8)________ (to light) a fire?” asked Bobbie. “Coal (9)________ (to be) very expensive.” After tea, Peter told his sisters, “I have an idea. I (10)______ (to tell) you about it later…”

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:

In my opinion, education should be free
  education I got at school was excellent.
I’d like my children to have _ good education.
 car is expensive to own and run but it’s a reliable form of       transport.
Unfortunately, _____ car is a major cause of air pollution and global  warming.

In some cities____cars have been banned from the centre.

Задание 11. Определите функцию окончания –s в следующих  предложениях:

“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)
 

“We would shout and swim about

The coral that lies beneath the waves” (The Beatles)

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

(George Orwell)