Прочитайте следующие утверждения и определите , являются ли они, согласно тексту, верными (Т), неверными (F) или не обсуждаются совсем (N).

1. There are no seals, penguins and seagull - like birds in Antarctica.

2. Oil-storage tanks and dumps of garbage are unmistakable signs of man.

3. Antarctica is the only continent that belongs to the whole world.

4. Antarctica is the territory of permafrost.

5. There is no need to protect Antarctica because it is the world’s cleanest spot.

Расположите следующие предложения в таком порядке, чтобы получилось краткое изложение содержания текста.

1. The research being done on the frozen continent cannot be carried out anywhere else.

2. Antarctica seems lifeless but a closer look reveals an amazing abundance of life.

3. The human invaders of Antarctica have already created an awful mess on the continent.

4. The permanent bases of different countries were set up to conduct scientific research.

5. News of the environmental pollution has unleashed a global wave of concern about Antarctica’s future.

Задайте 5 вопросов к тексту.

 

Задание 2. Раскройте скобки, поставив глаголы в нужном времени пассивного или активного залога.

1. This time next week I (have) a lovely time. 2. I (know) the results in a week. 3. I’ll come at 3 p.m. – Good. I (expect) you. 4. When I get home my dog (sit) at the door waiting for me. 5. I hope you (stay) at home tomorrow. 6. By the end of next year I (be) here for 25 years. 7. I’ll still be here next summer but Tom (leave). 8. You (recognize) her when you see her. She (wear) a yellow hat. 9. I (finish) this book by tomorrow evening. 10. Tom (not/pass) his examination. He hasn’t done any work for it.

 

ВАРИАНТ 6

Задание 1. Переведите текст и выполните задания к нему:

Nobody knows what the first language was. But scientists feel sure that nobody speaks it today because all languages change and keep on changing as long as people use them. One language may change in different ways in different places and grow into several languages.

If we could meet the people who spoke English five hundred years ago, we probably couldn′t understand much what they said.

English itself is a mixture of several languages. Scientists believe that these languages and many others all grew out of the same language which they call Indo-European. Nobody speaks it now. But some of its descendants are Latin, German, English, French, Greek, Russian and many of the different languages spoken in India.

Britain and America were once described as nations divided by a common language. Just what is difference between the English spoken in Britain and America?

The first English settlers to reach America arrived in Virginia in 1607 and in Massachusetts in 1620. They all spoke English of the early seventeenth century – the language of Shakespeare and Milton. Most of them came originally from the south and south-east of England. Although some of them had spent some years of exile in Holland they spoke with the accents of the southern part of their home country. To a large extent they kept that form of speech, but they soon learned to give old words new uses. They also took words from the local Indian languages for plants and animals that were new to them.

Until the Declaration of Independence in 1776 over two-thirds of the settlers in what later became the U.S. came from England. After that date many other people came to make a new life for themselves in the New World. These included Irish, French, Germans, Dutch, Italians, Slavs, and Scandinavians. All these people gave new words to the language of North America. The Negroes who had been taken from Africa as slaves to work on the rice and cotton plantations added words and structures from their own native languages. Some people today think that the very American expression O.K. comes from a similar expression which was brought to America by the Negroes.

All these people contributed in various ways to the language which was to become American English. Most civilizations and cultures – in their writings, traditions, folk stories – have traces of the old language.

1. Дайте развернутый ответ на вопросы по тексту.

  1. Do people in Britain and America speak the same language?

    2. What words did the first English settlers take from local Indian languages?

  3. What peoples gave new words to the language of North America after 1776?

   4. What is English now?

2. Прочитайте следующие утверждения и определите, являются ли они согласно тексту верными (Т), неверными (F) или не обсуждаются вообще (N):

1. English as well as many other languages grew out of the same language.

2. If you met the people who spoke English five hundred years ago, undoubtedly you could understand what they said.

3. Britain and America were once described as nations divided by a common language.

4. The Egyptian king Psammetichos decided to learn which of the world′s languages was the oldest.