№9 Прочитайте текст еще раз и ответьте на вопросы к нему:
1) Who worked in the silk-making industry?
2) Who could wear silk in China?
3) What was silk used for during the Han Dynasty?
4) When and where was the Silk Road opened?
№10 Найдите в тексте английские эквиваленты следующих слов и выражений и составьте свои предложения с ними:
(1) сумели, преуспели, (2) роскошный, (3) крестьяне, (4) в общих чертах
(5) для декоративных целей, (6) денежный стандарт, (7) вышитый кусочек ткани, (8) открытия, (9) навязать, (10) постепенно распространился
№11 Заполните таблицу существительными, глаголами и прилагательными, где возможно:
| глагол | существительное | прилагательное |
| valuable | ||
| government | ||
| to value | ||
| various | ||
| to differ | difference | different |
| development | ||
| to provoke | ||
| decorative | ||
| success | ||
| to reserve |
№12 Найдите в тексте антонимы к следующим словам:
(1) failed, (2) more, (3) native, (4) to finish, (5) cheap, (6) war, (7) civil, (8) found
(9) slowly, (10) workers
Вариант 3
№1 Перефразируйте следующие предложения, употребляя инфинитивную конструкцию сложное дополнение (Complex Object) вместо придаточных дополнительных предложений или переделывая два предложения в одно. Переведите предложения на русский язык:
1 I expect that he will understand your problem and help you to solve it.
2 He knows that my mother is a very kind woman.
3 Jane saw her neighbor. He opened the door of his flat and went in.
4 I should like to see how he would say it to my face.
5 I hate it when people speak so cynically.
6 He heard that somebody called his name.
№2 Перефразируйте следующие предложения, употребляя инфинитивную конструкцию сложное подлежащее (Complex Subject). Переведите переделанные предложения на русский язык:
1 It was proved that the beginning of the 17th century was a hard time for Russia.
2 It is reported that the flood has caused much damage to the crops.
3 It is believed that the original Roman calendar was a lunar calendar.
4 It turned out that .the look of the city changed drastically during the Soviet times.
5 It seemed that the discussion was coming to the end.
6 It is considered that his invention is very important.
7 It is reported that the excavations are not finished yet.
№3 Перепишите и переведите предложения на русский язык, подчеркните герундий и укажите его форму:
1 The Russian general was supposedly trying to stop the massacre and even went as far as to order the destruction of the bridge to Warsaw over the river Vistula river with the purpose of preventing the spread of violence to Warsaw from its suburb.
2 After entering Moscow, the Grand Armee, unhappy with military conditions and no sign of victory, began looting what little remained within Moscow.
3 Gaining these two hills cost the Japanese 1280 killed and wounded.
4 The Japanese Imperial Headquarters fully understood the necessity of destroying Russian ships.
№4 Перепишите и расположите по порядку:
a) предложения с инфинитивной конструкцией сложное подлежащее (Complex Subject)
b) предложения с инфинитивной конструкцией сложное дополнение (Complex Object)
c) предложения с независимой причастной конструкцией (Absolute Participial Construction)
Подчеркните конструкции и переведите предложения на русский язык:
1 With the prices going higher and higher and wages frozen, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the British housewife to make both ends meet.
2 Have you ever seen him dance?
3 One can watch more and more people move into history from other areas of research.
4 They seem to have taken advantage of the favorable conditions.
5 The pleasant day passing, we started home.
6 The main object of the interview was to assess the candidate and suitability, special consideration being given to the factors of general intelligence, previous education, training and experience.
7 My brother wanted me to bring this rare book.
№5 Найдите ошибку в предложениях и исправьте ее (ошибка в использовании относительных местоимений). Перепишите исправленный вариант и переведите его на русский язык:
1 This school is only for children who first language is not English.
2 Ben’s father that used to be a teacher now works for a TV company.
3 Where’s the nearest shop who sells newspapers?
4 The driver which caused the accident was fined 500$.
5 A mystery is something who cannot be explained.
6 I won’t be able to do much, but I’ll do the best whose I can.
7 Unfortunately we couldn’t go to the wedding whom we were invited to.
№6 Перепишите следующие предложения. Укажите в них зависимый и независимый причастный оборот и переведите их на русский язык.
1 The project abandoned, the leadership in this field passed to another institute.
2 When being a student, he used to study at the library.
3 Herodotus, "the father of history", traveled extensively, visiting all the places of the greatest interest.
4 His work is not only a narration of the deeds of real men and a description of foreign places; it is also the expression of a whole man, representing all the world seen through the eyes of one man.
5 By this time having got used to the atmosphere of the big city, he no longer felt a stranger.
6 Having got what he wanted he took off his hat and left.
7 No country's history has been more closely found to immigration than that of the United States. During the first 15 years of the 20th century alone, over 13 million people came to the United States, many passing through Ellis Island, the federal immigration center that opened in New York harbor in 1892.
№7 Перепишите предложения, подчеркните в них герундиальный комплекс и переведите на русский язык.
1 His saying this made all the difference.
2 Much depends on your taking the job.
3 Henry was put in charge of the party, but the doctor objected to that, saying he was physically unfit for such a job.
4 There was no question of anybody not having enough work to do.
5 You are responsible for the work being done in time.
№8 Прочитайте и письменно переведите 1, 4, 7 абзацы текста:
1) Nineveh was an important city in ancient Assyria. This "exceeding great city", as it is called in the Book of Jonah, lay on the eastern bank of the Tigris in modern-day Mosul, Iraq. Ancient Nineveh's mound-ruins, Kouyunjik and Nabī Yūnus are located on a level part of the plain near the junction of the Tigris River. Situated at the confluence of the Tigris and Khosr, Nineveh was an important junction for commercial routes crossing the Tigris. Occupying a central position on the great highway between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, thus uniting the East and the West, wealth flowed into it from many sources, so that it became one of the greatest of all the region's ancient cities.
2) It was Sennacherib who made Nineveh a truly magnificent city (c. 700 BC). He laid out fresh streets and squares and built within it the famous "palace without a rival". It comprised at least 80 rooms, of which many were lined with sculpture. A large number of tablets were found in the palace. At this time the total area of Nineveh comprised about 1,800 acres. The enclosed area had more than 100,000 inhabitants, placing it among the largest settlements worldwide.
3) Before the excavations in the 1800s, historical knowledge of the great Assyrian empire and of its magnificent capital was almost wholly a blank. Vague memories had indeed survived of its power and greatness, but very little was definitely known about it.
4) Today, Nineveh's location is marked by two large mounds, Kouyunjik and Nabī Yūnus or "Prophet Jonah", and the remains of the city walls. The Neo-Assyrian levels of Kouyunjik have been extensively explored. The other mound, Nabī Yūnus, has not been extensively explored because there is a Muslim shrine dedicated to that prophet on the site. However, Iraqi excavations on Nabī Yūnus in 1990 exposed a number of large Neo-Assyrian sculptures that appeared to be the entrance to a palace. In the 19th century, the French consul at Mosul began to search the vast mounds that lay along the opposite bank of the river. The Arabs whom he employed in these excavations, to their great surprise, came upon the ruins of a building at the mound of Khorsabad, which, on further exploration, turned out to be the royal palace of Sargon II, which were largely explored for sculptures and other precious relics.
5) The ruins of Nineveh are surrounded by the remains of a massive stone and mud brick wall dating from about 700 B.C.E. About 12 km. in length, the wall system consisted of an ashlars stone retaining wall about 6 m. high surmounted by a mud brick wall about 10 m. high and 15 m. thick. The city wall was fitted with fifteen monumental gateways. Five of the gateways have been explored to some extent by archaeologists.
6) The ruin mound of Kuyunjik rises about 20 m above the surrounding plain of the ancient city. Its upper layers have been extensively excavated and several Neo-Assyrian palaces and temples have been found there. In 1990, the only Assyrian remains visible were those of the entry court and first few chambers of the Palace of Sennacherib.
7) In the Bible, Nineveh is first mentioned in Genesis 10:11: "Ashur left that land, and built Nineveh." Though the Books of Kings and Books of Chronicles talk a great deal about the Assyrian empire, Nineveh itself is not again noticed till the days of Jonah. Nineveh was the flourishing capital of the Assyrian empire. Its ruin and utter desolation are foretold. Its end was strange, sudden, and tragic. According to the Bible, it was God's doing, his judgment on Assyria's pride. In fulfillment of prophecy, God made "an utter end of the place".
№9 Прочитайте текст еще раз и ответьте на вопросы к нему:
1) What made Nineveh one of the greatest cities in the east?
2) What is Nineveh like today?
3) What is Sennacherib famous for?
4) Who destroyed Nineveh according to the Bible?
№10 Найдите в тексте английские эквиваленты следующих слов и выражений и составьте свои предложения с ними:
(1) жители, обитатели, (2) расплывчатые воспоминания, (3) по-настоящему великолепный город, (4) остатки городской стены, (5) пророчество,
(6) оказалось, (7) процветающий, (8) древние руины курганов, (9) к (их) великому удивлению, (10) драгоценные останки
№11 Заполните таблицу существительными, глаголами и прилагательными, где возможно:
| глагол | существительное | прилагательное |
| visible | ||
| to locate | location | local |
| to oppose | ||
| surprise | ||
| surrounding | ||
| to appreciate | ||
| desolation | ||
| occupation | ||
| prophetic | ||
| to extend |
№12 Найдите в тексте антонимы к следующим словам:
(1) exit, (2) modern, (3) tiny, (4) died, (5) declining, (6) destroyed, (7) lower,
(8) the smallest, (9) unknown, (10) thin
Вариант 4
№1 Перефразируйте следующие предложения, употребляя инфинитивную конструкцию сложное дополнение (Complex Object) вместо придаточных дополнительных предложений или переделывая два предложения в одно. Переведите предложения на русский язык:
1 We know that Olga had requested a bishop and priests from Rome.
2 She expected that her brother will bring her a book.
3 The boy noticed a bird. It flew on to the bush near the window.
4 Napoleon ordered to blow up the Kremlin.
5 I heard that he entered the faculty of history.
6 I don’t like that you repeat this nonsense.
7 I felt that somebody touched me lightly on the shoulder.
№2 Перефразируйте следующие предложения, употребляя инфинитивную конструкцию сложное подлежащее (Complex Subject). Переведите переделанные предложения на русский язык:
1 It appeared that the system was based on phases of the Moon.