КОНТРОЛЬНАЯ РАБОТА № 2

 Вариант 3

1. Перепишите следующие предложения. Подчеркните в каждом из них глагол-сказуемое и определите его видо-временную форму и залог. Переведите предложения на русский язык. В разделе (б) обратите внимание на перевод пассивных конструкций.

а) 1. We went to Tom's house and walked up to the front door.

2. The second visitor was smoking by the window.

б) 1. English is spoken all over the world.

2. All the questions on the paper must be answered.

2. Перепишите следующие предложения. Подчеркните в каждом из них модальный глагол или его эквивалент. Переведите предложения на русский язык:

1) You must come and see our new flat.

2) Can I have your pencil for a moment?

3) His wife has to stay at home with their little son.

4) They shouldn't speak about speak about it now.

3. Перепишите следующие предложения. Подчеркните Participle I и Participle II и установите функции каждого из них, т. е. укажите, являются ли определением, обстоятельством или частью глагола-сказуемого. Переведите предложения на русский язык:

1) Turning round he saw a thin pale boy of about eight.

2) The passengers were getting out of the plane.

3) You must learn all the words given on page 125.

4) We haven't met since our school years.

4.Перепишите и переведите следующие предложения. Укажите номера предложений, в которых слова с окончанием -ing являются герундием.

1) An American thinks more about choosing his car than choosing his wife.

2) Looking through the magazine I met the description of that car.

3) I couldn't help noticing some typical American signs.

4) The reconstruction requires large capital investments.

5. Прочтите и переведите тексты. (тексты 1 и 2 перевод письменный)

PRIMARY EDUCATION

Primary education is up to the age of about eleven, covering nursery school or classes (3 to 5), infant school (5 to 7) and junior school (7 to 11).

For a long time the spread of nursery education was inadequate to the needs of the country. Due to mass pressure on the Tory government, enlarged provision of nursery education has been planned beginning with 1973 and over the next ten years, though attendance will be voluntary and mainly part-time. This means that the working –class mother who chooses to send her child to nursery school must also arrange to have him transferred to or from that school at midday. Only about 15 per cent of children will be able to attend full-time nursery schools, after which they go to a primary school.

Compulsory education begins at five when children go to infant school, at seven they go to junior schools. It is assumed that by the time children are ready for junior school they will be able to read and write and do simple addition and subtraction of numbers.

The curriculum in the junior schools is arranged more formally into individual subjects. The children have set periods of arithmetic, reading and composition. They will do other subjects too: nature study, history, geography, singing, drama, physical education, religious instruction, and so on.

SECONDARY EDUCATION

The transition from primary to secondary school is made between ten-and-a-half and twelve years, when almost every child is entitled to sit for the selective eleven-plus examination. Special tests are set to diagnose each child’s ability and children are then allocated to grammar schools (some 17 – to 20 per cent), to technical schools (1 -2 per cent), or to modern schools (some 65 to 70 per cent). These are the three main types of secondary schools, alongside with some comprehensive schools, which are open to all children of eleven years of age irrespective to their ability.

EXAMINATIONS

At sixteen pupils of grammar, comprehensive or technical schools take their General Certificate, Ordinary level examinations (GCE O-level).

Pupils of modern schools, after completing five years of secondary education, take their Certificate of Secondary Education examinations (CSE).

Both GCE and CSE examinations are conducted not by the schools, but by special examining boards. All examinations are fee-paying but the fees are paid by the local education authorities.

FURTHER EDUCATION

Further education may be academic or vocational. It is voluntary and fee-paying, though financial assistance in the form of grants or scholarships at colleges and universities is available to students.

Children from the middle and upper classes tend to follow an academic educational career which leads them into the 6^th forms of the grammar or comprehensive schools, where they stay till eighteen years of age and prepare for Advanced level examinations to University or Polytechnic.

Three-fifth of the boys and nine-tenth of the girls of school-leaving age get no further education and, for those who do get it, the education is overwhelmingly vocational and available only so long as their employer chooses to release them from work.

Primary and secondary schools of all kinds provide full-time education; further education may be part-time education.