Контрольная работа по Английскому языку на тему: "Eifman's Ballet"

Контрольная работа №4

Задание №1

Rewrite the sentences in the Present Perfect using the adverbs already, just. Model: My brother is going to repair the tape-recorder.

My brother has already repaired the tape-recorder.

1. I am going to have some practice at the laboratory. 
2. I am going to clean the flat.
3. They are going to have a rest in the country, aren’t they? 
4. Ann is going to turn off the gas. 
5. The boy is going to brush his clothes, isn’t he? 

   Задание №2

   Write questions to the parts of the sentences in bold type.

   1. I leave for the Institute at eight o'clock. 

   2. I go to the Institute by bus.

   3. It has taken me three hours to do my homework. 

   4. David has already repaired the radio. 

   5. Tom and Lucy arrived ten minutes ago.

    

   Задание №3

   Write the following sentences in indirect speech using the Future-in-the-Past:

1. She asked me: “Will you be angry with me?” 

2. I said: “I’ll be too busy tomorrow”. 

3. We said: “We’ll take four exams in summer”. 

4. Ann said: “I’ll have a better command of the language, if I read English books”. 

5. The students said: “We’ll work hard at our pronunciation. We want to get rid of our mistakes.”
 

Задание №4

Write the following sentences in indirect speech using the Past Perfect:

1. Roger said: “My uncle has been here more than once.” 
2. Alice asked me: “Did you spend much time there?”
3. Ben asked me: “When did you join our circle?” 
4. She said: “Our group has worked in the lab today.”

5. Bill said: “I remember she was good at singing.”
 

Задание №5

1. Read the text and give written translation of the marked passage.

Eifman's Ballet

When Boris Eifman founded his contemporary ballet troupe in 1977, he was not out to change Soviet dance. As he tells it, his work was simply "dissonant" with the conservative style of the day.

"I was trying to do what I wanted, what I felt in the art," says the acclaimed choreographer. "I wanted to stage my ballet and express my feelings, my thoughts." What Eifman merely calls "dissonance", however, was in fact a passionate infusion of artistry, philosophy and the occasional turned-out foot into the stolid world of classical ballet.

[After more than 20 years of a non-altogether-harmonious relationship with Russia's ballet establishment, the Boris Eifman Ballet Theatre is finally getting real recognition from its home country. In the autumn of 1999, the Russian government named the troupe an Academic Theatre - an honour that recognizes the group's enduring contribution to choreographic arts. What's more, that bastion of classical ballet, the Mariinsky Theatre, invited the troupe to its stage for the first time in 1999 - a sign that Eifman and his troupe have risen into the echelons of St. Petersburg's very high arts.]

Kudos for Eifman's work has been long in coming. Despite enormous popularity among Russian audience and critics from the very beginning, the company was nearly crippled by the government's censorial hand. Throughout the 22 years Eifman has run his troupe, he has consistently been championed more by Moscow and the West than by St. Petersburg. "Eifman as a choreographer was first supported in Moscow by Moscow theatres, Moscow critics," said Gennady Albert, a rehearsal coach and director of Eifman's company. Perhaps the most praise for Eifman's work has resounded from the West. The New York Times critic Anna Kisselgoff said: "A ballet world in search of a major choreographer need search no more. He is Boris Eifman."

Eifman, none the less, is unrelenting in his drive for fulfillment. "Those positive reviews oblige us to be worthy of those critics," he said in one of his interviews. "They have put a very high value on us, but that simply shows us the level at which we must aim in our work." Eifman says the transition from skepticism and censorship to outright acceptance and glory has changed him little. "So many years have passed... and my sensibilities have changed somewhat," he said. "But in my work I preserved one line, one type of theatre and one style. More opportunities have appeared for the realization of my ideas, but I haven't changed myself."

 

2. Find in the text English equivalents for the following words and expressions:

1. современная балетная труппа 
2. прославленный хореограф 
3. ставить балет 
4. получить признание 
5. несмотря на
6. публика 
7. управлять труппой 
8. цензура 
9. полное одобрение
    

   3. Write whether the following statements are right or wrong:

   1. B. Eifman has just founded his contemporary ballet troupe. 

   2. He wanted to stage his ballet and express his thoughts. 

   3. The Boris Eifman Ballet Theatre got real recognition very quickly. 

   4. He as a choreographer was first supported in Moscow by Moscow critics. 

   5.Eifman's conception of art has not changed over the years.