Контрольная работа по Английскому языку на тему: "ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS"

I. Запишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на степени сравнения прилагательного и наречия. 1. A wider application of computers makes our labour easier and more efficient. 2. The newer the equipment, the higher is labour productivity. 3. This book gives the most detailed explanation of different mining techniques.

II. Запишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на значение неопределенных и отрицательных местоимений. 1. Will anybody analyze these data in your scientific laboratory? 2. Any industrial enterprise should provide safe labour conditions for workers. 3. These researchers are doing some important work at our mine.

III. Запишите предложения. Выпишите из них сказуемые, определите их видо-временные формы и залог. Переведите, обращая особое внимание на перевод пассивных конструкций. 1. The commission will consider this offer carefully before accepting it. 2. Mining at large scale requires the use of draglines, trucks, conveyor, jacks and shearers. 3. Coals occurring below 100 m are usually deep mined. 4. The results of this research work were often referred to by the professor.

IV. Запишите предложения и подчеркните в них модальный глагол или его эквивалент. Переведите. 1. You should try to find out as many facts as possible about history of surface mining. 2. The team of experts is to analyze the present situation connected with our city’s ecological problems. 3. The young engineer was allowed to apply the mobile equipment in his field experiments. 4. This production process had to be further improved by new technical means.

V. Запишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на разные значения слова it. 1. It is said that the first mines were organized in Ancient Greece some 1,500 years ago. 2. It is China which leads the world in coal extraction. 3. Longwall mining is the principal method of mining. It accounts for about 50 percent of underground production.

VI. Запишите и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на бессоюзные дополнительные и определительные придаточные предложения. 1. It is well-known electronics has made great progress over the last decades. 2. Amount of the pollutants the enterprises throw into air depends on the quality of purifying installations.

VII. Прочитайте весь текст и постарайтесь понять его содержание. Перепишите и письменно переведите части 1, 2 и 3. ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS 1. One of the most important issues of environmental protection today is rational use of natural resources. Today industrially developed countries extract about 30 tons of minerals a year for each person, but only 1.0-1.5 per cent of them are consumed in different products. So, man’s economic activity results in huge amounts of wastes polluting the atmosphere, water resources, soil. 2. Further increase in world population needs the development of industry which is impossible without development of new deposits of natural resources. As we deplete the existing deposits, we begin to exploit the deeper ones, those lying at greater depths of the earth. Scientists are working at the technical aspects of their development. But one should remember that the exploitation of one resource must not affect and damage the others....


VIII. Просмотрите 4-ю и 5-ю части и ответьте на вопрос: What should be done to achieve “rational use” of natural resources? Запишите и переведите вопрос и ответ.