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Вариант 1.4
Задание 1. Прочитайте и переведите данный текст.
European Mountain Ash
A most admired, showy ornamental tree that is easy to grow and super hardy. It grows about 20-25 feet tall with beautiful, lacy, fern-like foliage. In late spring the tree is admired with lovely white flowers. From mid-summer until late fall, bright orange-red berry clusters create a colorful show. The tree has graceful, upright form.
At the end of our garden, beside the pool, stands a mountain ash about forty feet tall. We used to try to keep it low by repeated cutting back, but it was all in vain: its slender branches shot up so rapidly that in short time it got back to its former height. So now it just goes its upright way.
The winter aspect of this tree is very impressive. In that season the smooth dark brown bark with the branches heavily covered with snow makes a beautiful picture. Though the branches are slender we have never known them to snap under the weight of snow, and storms have never broken one of them.
The buds are among the first to foretell spring by their early swelling. When the tree blooms in May it is covered with a loam of white. At this time visitors to the garden are surprised when they learn it is a mountain ash. They seem never to have realized the beauty of the blossoming tree.
But the mountain ash is at its loveliest in August, when the tree is loaded with heavy drooping clusters of orange berries.
Against a bright blue sky it is a gorgeous effect, indeed. But soon the birds come and strip it clean in a few hours, for they know the exact time when the berries are ripe.
Пояснения к тексту: hardy – (зимо)стойкий mountain ash – рябина cutting back – обрезка
Задание 2. Ответьте на вопросы к тексту.
1.How tall does the European mountain ash grow?
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2.What is this tree admired with in late spring?
3.How does this tree look like in winter?
4.When is the European mountain ash at its loveliest?
5.When are its berries ripe?
Задание 3. Сопоставьте следующие слова и словосочетания:
ornamental tree |
цвести |
be hardy |
почка(и) |
foliage |
обрезка |
berry/clusters of berries |
правильная форма |
an upright form |
ягода, гроздья ягод |
cutting back |
листва |
bud(s) |
быть выносливым |
bloom |
декоративное дерево |
Задание 4. Find the main parts of a European mountain ash.
Задание 5. Раскройте скобки и употребите глагол в нужном времени.
1.There is no need to take an umbrella with you. It (to rain).
2.How often you (to play) tennis?
3.I (to get) up at 8 o`clock every morning.
4.If you do not eat anything now, you (to be) hungry later.
5.Sue was not hungry, so she (to eat) anything.
6.We went to Kate`s house but she (to be) at home.
Задание 6. Заполните пропуски предлогами, где это необходимо.
1.After dinner he went … the library.
2.I showed the letter … director.
3.They will arrive … May.
4.He ran … road.
5.The meeting took place … Monday.
Задание 7. Разделите текст на смысловые части и кратко изложите его содержание на языке обучения.
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Вариант 1.5
Задание 1. Прочитайте и переведите данный текст.
FLOWERS
Flowers are a great treasure. They are delightful to look at because they have so many shapes and colors, and most of them have pleasant scent. It is mild in the tulip, overpowering in the jasmine, elusive in the violet, captivating in the carnation.
Flowers grow everywhere. There are flowers for all seasons and all places – flowers for spring, summer, autumn and winter. There are flowers of the fields and woods and hedgerows, of the seashore and the lake’s margin, of the mountain-side up to the very edge of the eternal snow.
Flowers are arranged and combined in different ways. They can be made into bouquets, garlands, wreaths, bunches and so on. Let us have a look at some of the flowers.
Daisy and Iris
The daisy is a small wild and garden flower. It has a yellow centre and white petals. The flower opens its eye to the day or when the day dawns. It opens widest when the sun is at its height and shuts when the sun goes down.
The iris is an ornamental plant remarkable for its handsome delicately-scented flowers and sword-shaped leaves. The iris and the daisy differ in this that the daisy opens widest when the sun shines brightly, and shuts altogether when the sun goes down; while the iris opens widest in darkness and closes when the sun shines full upon it.
It is worth while mentioning, too, that when the iris roots are dried, powdered and distilled it has the smell of violets.
Пояснения к тексту: daisy – маргаритка
sword-shaped – похожий на меч, мечевидный hedgerow(s) – живая изгородь, ограда
wreaths, bunches – небольшие букеты, цветочные композиции
Задание 2. Ответьте на вопросы к тексту.
1.Why are the flowers delightful to look at?
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2.Where and when can flowers grow?
3.How may flowers be arranged and combined?
4.What kind of flower is the daisy?
5.What is the iris remarkable for?
Задание 3. Сопоставьте следующие слова и словосочетания:
flower shapes and colors |
полностью раскрыться |
scent |
декоративное растение |
arrange flowers |
цветочные лепестки |
garlands |
луговой цветок |
wild flower |
венки (гирлянды) |
flower petal(s) |
располагать цветы |
ornamental plant |
запах |
open widest |
цветочные формы и цвета |
Задание 4. Find the flower species in the text.
Задание 5. Раскройте скобки и употребите глагол в нужном времени.
1.The swimming pool (to open) at 9.00 and (to close) at 6.30 p.m.
every day.
2.Tom usually wakes up early. Yesterday morning he (to wake up)
late.
3.Perhaps in the future men (to live) on the sea, away from the crowded & noisy cities on land.
4.What time banks (to close) in Britain?
5.I (not/to go) to work yesterday because I (not/to be) very well.
6.I (to have) a car but I (not/to use) it very often.
Задание 6. Заполните пропуски предлогами, где это необходимо.
1.I work … a department store.
2.I don`t work on Saturday.
3.Mozart was born … Salzburg …1756.
4.The office is … the first floor.
5.He went … the stairs.
Задание 7. Разделите текст на смысловые части и кратко изложите его содержание на языке обучения.
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Контрольная работа № 2
Вариант 2.1
Задание 1. Прочитайте и переведите данный текст.
STINGING AND PRICKLY PLANTS
Many plants have scent glands (scented geraniums, sweet herbs, etc.), and they easily give out scent when slightly pressed; the nettle as readily gives out its poison which the sharp hairs insert into the skin of the person touching it.
In Java, also, is found the Daoun Setan, or “Devil’s Leaf”. This plant is believed to cause pain lasting several hours and even death. There is also in India a nettle which stings so fiercely that it should be avoided at all times, for the pain from its poison is intense and sometimes it is said to produce symptoms like lockjaw.
In some cases a plant hair is converted into a kind of defensive weapon, as in the thorns of roses.
Different cactus plants possess remarkable prickles. Some of these prickles grow in tufts, and each one is extremely sharp-pointed. If you touch them your finger is instantly injured with a whole sheaf of them, and you are confronted with a difficulty of extracting them.
Thistles and many other plants of the same family have a hairy pappus attached to their seeds. This enables them to be carried by the wind, to some distance. They are sometimes carried to a considerable height, and the air is full of them; in fact, it seems to swarm with glittering, falling bodies, like a meteor shower.
Пояснения к тексту:
stinging and prickly – жалящий и колючий
glandular hairs – железистые волоски, волоски в форме железы resin – смола, канифоль, камедь
fierce(ly) – жестокий, яростный lockjaw – сжатие, тризм челюсти sheaf – сноп, вязанка, связка, пачка
Задание 2. Ответьте на вопросы к тексту.
1.What do many flowers have?
2.What is “Devil’s Leaf” believed to cause?