1. Our university trains students in many specialized fields.

2. Trains from Moscow arrive in St.Petersburg at the Moscow railway station,

3. Flats in new houses are very comfortable.

4. This building houses a new chemical laboratory.

II. Перепишите и переведите следующие предложения. Обратите внимание на разные способы перевода существительных в функции определения.

1. The University trains specialists in different fields of knowledge.

2. He passed his graduation examinations with excellent marks.

3. Students carry out their laboratory tests in modern laboratories.

III. Перепишите следующие предложения, содержащие разные формы сравнения, и переведите их на русский язык.

1. There are more than 50 schools of higher learning in St. Petersburg.

2. Mathematics is as important for technical students as physics.

3. These machine tools are not so efficient as the new ones.

4. The more systematic are our studies, the deeper is our knowledge.

IV. Перепишите и письменно переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на перевод неопределенных местоимений и наречий.

1. Some electric devices find wide application in every house.

2. Tell us everything about your Institute.

3. We couldn't find this book anywhere.

4. Many tourists come to the beautiful city every year.

V. Перепишите следующие предложения, определите в них видовременные формы глаголов и укажите их инфинитив; переведите предложения на русский язык (см. образец выполнения 3).

1. The dean will come here later.

2. The student made no mistakes in his translation.

3. Economics is the study of economies.

4. The city lies on forty-two islands.

VI. Прочитайте и устно переведите на русский язык с 1-го по 5-ый абзацы текста. Перепишите и письменно переведите 1, 2-й и 4-й абзацы текста.

St.PETERSBURG

1. St. Petersburg is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Its history is inseparable from the history of the Russian people and dates back to the beginning of the 18th century. The city was founded by Peter the First in 1783 on the banks of the Neva. The city lies on forty-two islands. Three hundred and sixty bridges cross the river and canals in the city.

2. St. Petersburg is famous for its revolutionary past, its heroism during the Great Patriotic War. Leningrad stood against the enemy for nine hundred days and over half a million people died in the blockade but did not let the enemy come into the city.

3. Today St. Petersburg is a centre of industry, science and culture both of Russia and the world. It has about 300 research and design institutes and more than 40 higher educational establishments with a total of about 275 000 students. The city is known for its highly developed industry, powerful turbines, various machine tools, electronic and transistor devices.

4. St. Petersburg is called the city of museums; it has about 50 historical, art, revolution and memorial museums. Among them are the State Hermitage, one of the world's largest art galleries and museums of the history of culture, the State Russian Museum and others. There are 14 theatres, 40 palaces, 50 cinemas, many libraries, parks and squares here too. Many of the city's architectural compositions linked by a common artistic aim, stand along the banks of the Neva and one can regards the panorama of the Neva banks as the architectural centre of the city. Many famous architects and sculptors and designers worked there,

5. One can't but mention about famous places of sightseeing: they are Peter the Great's Summer Palace, Admiralty, St. Isaac's Cathedral, Alexander Column, Statue of Peter the Great. The environments of the city are as famous as the city itself: Petrodvorets, Lomonosov, Pushkin, Pavlovsk and Gattchina. Many tourists come to the beautiful city every year, admiring the work of world-famous architects, painters and sculptors, coming into contact with the history of this wonderful city and meeting its hospitable and friendly people.

Пояснения к тексту

to date back - относится к ...

to come into contact with - соприкасаться с….

VII. Прочитайте 1-4-й абзацы текста и вопрос к ним. Из приведенных вариантов ответа укажите номер предложения, содержащего правильный ответ на поставленный вопрос.

How is St. Petersburg called?

 I St. Petersburg is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

2. St. Petersburg is a centre of highly developed industry, science and culture.

3. St. Petersburg is called the city of museums.

ВАРИАНТ 4.

I. Перепишите предложения. Определите по грамматическим признакам, какой частью речи являются слова, оформленные окончанием - s, и какую функцию это окончание выполняет, т.е. является ли оно:

а) показателем 3-го лица единственного числа глагола в Present Simple;

б) признаком множественного числа имени существительного;

в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени существительного (см. образец выполнения 1).