Контрольная работа по Английскому языку на тему: "OUR UNIVERSITY"

1. Изучите (прочтите и устно переведите) подготовительный текст о ТвГТУ. Выполните задания после текста и подготовьтесь рассказать о нашем университете и своей будущей специальности.

OUR UNIVERSITY

Tver Technical University is one of the old and big higher schools in our country. It was established in 1922 as Moscow Peat Institute. In 1958, it was transferred to Kalinin. Peat Institute was reorganized into polytechnic in 1965. Later, in 1994, it was restructured and became Tver State Technical University.

More than 5,000 students study at the university. The university consists of six studying buildings and several dormitories. The classrooms and lecture halls, laboratories, and workshops are equipped with up-to-date instruments, computers, machine tools, audiovisual resources, and other training appliances. There is a rich

library, four reading-rooms, dining halls, and a sports complex at our disposal. Thus, the university has all the facilities necessary for our successful studies and rest.

Education at the university is organized in three modes: full-time, part-time, and correspondence. I am taking a correspondence Bachelor’s course at the Institute of Additional Professional Education of the university. My chief subject is …

I enjoy my studies and hope that a degree will help me in my career development.

1.1. Выпишите из текста английские эквиваленты следующих слов и словосочетаний, запишите в тетради в два столбика (выражение на русском языке – эквивалент на английском). Выучите наизусть.
 

1.2. Ответьте письменно на следующие вопросы и используйте их в качестве плана устного ответа. Вопросы и ответы переведите письменно.

a. What is your name? What course are you taking at the university? 

b. Is our university one of the old and big higher schools in Russia? 

c. When was Tver State Technical University established?

d. What is its history? 

e. How many students study at the university? 

f. What does the university consist of? 

g. Does the university have all the facilities necessary for our successful studies? 

h. How is education at the university organized? 

i. What is your chief subject?

j. What is your future speciality connected with? 

k. What subjects do you study? 

l. Where can you work after graduation?

m. Why did you choose this course?
 

2. Перепишите и письменно переведите следующие предложения, выделенные многозначные слова выпишите и определите часть речи.

1. The Reading Room of the Library of Congress houses a great collection of reference books.

The Houses of Parliament are situated in the centre of London on the banks of the Thames. -

Since 1770, there were many brilliant inventions in the automobile industry.

The production of motor cars in Great Britain was stopped since there were severe speed limits.

The Earth is the only planet having liquid water.

It is useful to remember that the industrial revolution began only at the end of the 18th century.

The centre of the city is called downtown. It consists of stores, banks, government buildings and cultural attractions.

–What is it? – It’s our new residential area. 

It was at the end of the 18th century when our town was planned and redesigned.

One can find a lot of sights and places of interest in Tver.

– Where is that place? – Which one? – The one we talked about yesterday.

That suburbs are the places pleasant to live in is a controversial idea.

3. Существительное в функции определения (словосочетания с существительными). Перепишите и письменно переведите следующие словосочетания.

1. a sugar cane – a cane sugar 

a bank credit – a credit bank

a garden flower – a flower garden 

a quality standard – standard quality 

the Tver Technical University student, the Tver Technical University Student Conference, the Tver Technical University Student Conference agenda.
 

4.  Выберите верный вариант глагола. Полученные предложения запишите и переведите на русский язык.

1. Yesterday Nick say / says / said that he reads / had read / was read much during his winter holidays. 

Hello! Where … you do go/ are going / does go? – Nowhere in particular. I just take / took/ am taking a walk. 

You can’t come in here – the room is cleaning / is being cleaned / is clean. 

She can / may / should speak French well. 

May / Can / Must I come in? 

We must / had to / could take the exam last week. 
 

5. Перепишите и письменно переведите предложения, выпишите инфинитив или инфинитивный оборот.

Skyscrapers are convenient and comfortable buildings to live and work in.

To travel long distances to the centre is always a challenge because of the traffic concentration. 

To travel long distances to the centre they take turns driving each other to work. 

We know the Empire State Building in New York to have been the world’s highest structure for 40 years from 1932.

A skyscraper is assumed to be the symbol of wealth and power.

The noise and chaos of downtowns make people move to the suburbs.

6. Перепишите и переведите предложения. Выпишите -ing формы. Определите, какой частью речи являются выписанные слова.

The designing of the new furniture took all his energy and time. 

They were working slowly.

To write quickly is tiring.

We know of his beginning this work.

7. Перепишите и письменно переведите предложения. Подчеркните в английском предложении обороты с неличными формами английского глагола (инфинитив, причастие, герундий). Английские обороты, как правило, соответствуют русским придаточным предложениям.

Experts expect the new submersible craft to move round the ocean floor like a sports car. 

The new submersible craft is expected to move round the ocean floor like a sports car. 

At the Paris Exhibition people watched the Ruslan airplane carry a great amount of cargo. 

Very high temperatures often cause certain materials to break. 

By 1960, the number of cars in the world had reached 60 million, no other industry having ever developed so quickly. 

Cars with internal combustion engines having appeared, the automobile industry began to develop rapidly.

8. Определите тип (1–4) следующих деловых писем (a–c). Ответы запишите, например: 1b, 2а и т.п. Выпишите ключевые слова, подтверждающие Ваш выбор. Один вариант типа письма лишний.

(1) Offer Letter (2) Inquiry Letter (3) Order Letter (4) Letter of Complaint

1. (а) I am writing to complain about ineffective work of your book service centre. On February 3, I ordered from you one copy of Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. The book arrived by mail and I found that some of the pages were transposed so that the book was not usable. As a result, I was left without a needed book. I hope it would be possible for you to replace it as soon as possible. I look forward to your answer.

(b) I’d like to book a single room in your hotel from August 1 till August 10.

Could you please tell me the price per night including breakfast and dinner if  possible? Do you have airport transfer and car rent service?

(c) Your company has been our customer for a long time. We appreciate your loyalty and thus would like to offer you our new product – electronic paper shredder. It is very easy to use and would become a very useful device in your office! If you place an order before the end of this month, you may get it with a 50% discount.
 

9. Переведите (устно) текст по специальности (по вариантам в соответствии с последней цифрой зачетной книжки). Текст выдает преподаватель.

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SYSTEMS OF MANUFACTURING

The English system of manufacturing was an early system of industrial production that required skilled machinists who were required to produce parts from a design or model. But however skilled the machinist, parts were never absolutely identical, and each part had to be manufactured separately to fit its counterpart. This was almost always done by one person who produced the completed item from start to finish.

The growth of the use of Interchangeable parts and mass production led to the system disappearing from mainstream industry. Mass production using interchangeable parts was first achieved in 1803 by Marc Isambard Brunel in cooperation with Henry Maudslay, and Simon Goodrich, under the management of (with contributions by) Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham the Inspector General of Naval Works at Portsmouth Block Mills at Portsmouth Dockyard for the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War. By 1808 annual production had reached 130,000 sailing blocks. This method of working did not catch on in general manufacturing in Britain for many decades, and when it did it was imported from America, and became known as the American system of manufacturing, even though it originated in England. ...