Английский язык
Контрольная работа №1
Вариант 2
Задание 1. Прочитайте текст и переведите его письменно.
The Bald Eagle
In 1782, soon after the United States won its independence, the bald eagle was chosen as the national bird of the new country. American leaders wanted the eagle to be a symbol of their country because it is a bird of strength and courage. They chose the bald eagle because it was found all over North America.
Today, the bald eagle has almost disappeared from the country. In 1972 there were only 3,000 bald eagles in the entire United States. The reason for the bird’s decreasing population is pollution, especially pollution of the rivers by pesticides. Pesticides are chemicals used to kill insects and other animals that attack and destroy crops. Unfortunately, rain often washes pesticides into rivers. Pesticides pollute the rivers and poison the fish. Eagles eat these fish and then the eggs eagles lay are not healthy. The eggs have very thin shells and do not hatch. Because many of the eggs did not hatch and produce more eagles, the number of eagles quickly became smaller.
Today, the American government and the American people are trying to protect the bald eagle. The number of bald eagles is slowly increasing. It now appears that the American national bird will survive.
Задание 2. Заполните пропуски, выбрав правильную форму глагола to be: am, is, are.
1. You … a student. 2. His little brother … a schoolboy. 3. Her parents … at home. 4. Our teacher … at the library. 5. The cars … in the street. 6. Our college … in the centre of the town. 7. I … at school. 8. They … good sportsmen. 9. We … workers. 10. You … my friends. 11. She … a film star. 12. I … a nurse.
Задание 3. Заполните пропуски, выбрав правильную форму глагола to have: have or has.
1.Peter … a tape recorder. 2. You … many relatives there. 3. My sister … music lessons once a week. 4. The children … many toys. 5. We … coffee in the afternoon. 6. Her mother … a piano. 7. Jane … a bookshelf. 8. I … a bath once a week. 9. You … a sister. 10. We … much snow this winter. 11. They … breakfast at half past seven. 12. I … his textbook on physics.
Задание 4. Раскройте скобки, поставьте глаголы в соответствующую форму Present Simple.
1. The engineer (to go) to the plant.
2. The girls (to sing) very well.
3. The trees (to grow) well.
4. My friend (to try) to do his.
5. We (to talk) about the weather.
6. Helen (to wash) her clothes.
Задание 5. Составьте предложения.
1. have, at our factory, a good laboratory, we
2. writes, exercises, at the blackboard, the teacher
3. an engineer, in, my brother, the plant, is
4. goes, every morning, to the medical college, Peter
5. visits, William, every summer, her parents
6. my free time, at the sport club, I, spend
Задание 6. Запишите существительные во множественном числе.
way, year, letter, pipe, uncle, aunt, nurse, son, daughter, pig, tube, name, meal, glove, room, day, duty, hand, song, industry, beauty, mouse, woman, news, life, leaf, shelf, trousers, scissors, loaf, piano, zero, class, child, box, bench, love, watch, month, information, deer, friend, wish, tomato

Задание 7. Прочитайте текст и выполните задания после текста.
The invention of the phonograph happened quite by accident. Thomas Edison moved to Menlo Park, New Jersey, in 1876, where he established an industrial research laboratory. There Edison worked on a carbon telephone transmitter (угольный микрофон) to improve the existing Bell system. In that laboratory a year later Edison invented the phonograph while trying to improve a telegraph repeater. He attached a telephone diaphragm to the needle in the telegraph repeater to produce a recording that could be played back. After some improvements to the machine, he recorded the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb” and played the recognizable reproduction of his voice back to an astonished audience.
So he invented the machine that could “write sounds”. That was the first gramophone. He also made a machine that showed moving pictures: it was a kind of a box with a hole in front. When one looked into the hole and turned the wheel, he could see “a film”, but the film lasted only for about twenty seconds, and only one man at a time could see it. Of course, those were not the moving we see all over the world today, but Edison is famous for this invention as well as for many others.
Задание 8. Ответьте на вопросы по тексту, выбрав один из предложенных вариантов.
1. How did the invention of the phonograph happen?
1) It was quite unplanned. 2) It was Edison’s principal project.
3) It was not surprising to anybody. 4) It took many years of research.
2. How was the phonograph made?
1) With a telephone needle and a recorder. 2) By playing back a recording.
3) By using a carbon transmitter. 4) From a combination of telephone and telegraph parts.
3. How did Edison test his new invention?
1) He made improvements to the machine. 2) He used carbon transmitter.
2) He read a children’s poem. 4) He recorded the audience’s voices.
4. What did the people feel when they heard the rhyme from the machine?
1) They were impressed. 2) They were angry.
4) They were happy. 4) They were not interested.
5.What other machine did Edison invent?
1) A camera. 2) A film projector. 3) A wheel. 4) A telephone receiver.
6.Who could see the moving pictures through the hole?
1) The audience if they came in time. 2) One person at a definite time.
3) Nobody else but only one person at a time. 4) Only one man at one and the same time.
Задание 9. Вставьте правильную глагольную форму.
Butterflies
Butterflies are among the most beautiful insects. The metamorphosis of the rather dull, ugly larva of the butterfly, the caterpillar, into the delicate flying palette of the adult butterfly (1) … the human imagination for millennia.
It (2)… as a metaphor of hope and the longing for spiritual transformation of the soul as well as the transformation of the body. The form, symmetry and colour of the butterfly (3) … it to be a favourite subjects of artists wishing to capture the beauty of Nature on canvas. A butterfly (4) … female and has an important role in the symbolism of female life. The transformation of the pupa into butterfly (5) … as analogous to the transformation of an immature girl into a beautiful woman. The natural beauty of the butterfly (6) … with the beauty of woman. Why (7) … we … some things beautiful and others not? Why do we naturally prefer some tastes? Beauty (8) … .
Nature, Youth and Health (9) … attractive. Certain types of landscapes attract. Views of mountains (10) … because they suggest mystery and unexplored lands. The reasons why we now find things beautiful gradually (11) … in us over hundreds of thousands of years.

1

1) are capturing

3) has captured

2) captured
4) capture
2
1) is serving
3) has served

2) serves
4) serve
3
1) have led
3) is leading

2) led
4) had led
4
1) considers
3) is considering

2) is considered
4) has considered
5
1) is seen
3) saw

2) sees
4) has seen
6
1) is linking
3) links

2) is linked
4) linked
7
1) do / think
3) have / thought

2) are / thinking
4) are / thought
8
1) is attracted
3) attracts

2) is attracting
4) has attracted
9
1) is
3) are

2) to be
4) being
10
1) attract
3) attracts

2) is attracting
4) are attracted
11
1) are developed
3) develop

2) are developing
4) developed

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