1. Now New York includes five boroughs: Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Richmond.

2. Manhattan is the smallest of the five city boroughs in size.

3. New York's two biggest airports are both in Queens area.

4. Most of the city's theatres are situated on Broadway.

II. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их, обращая внимание на особенности перевода на русский язык определений, выраженных именами существительными, (см. образец 2).

1 Today Manhattan is the centre of business life of the country.

2. The city traffic is very heavy.

3. There are a lot of art galleries and many impressive art museums in New York.

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

1 New York is one of the largest and most interesting cities in the world.

2 The more you walk about New York the more you are amazed.

3. A greater proportion of New Yorkers live at a lower level than the average for the US.

4. Brooklyn is not so popular with tourists as Manhattan is.

IV. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующие предложения, обращая внимание на перевод неопределенных и отрицательных местоимений.

1. Brooklyn has more people than any other part of the city.

2. Among the inhabitants of New York one can meet people of almost all nations.

3. The main New York Public Library, with some 25,000,000 volumes is one of the world's greatest centres of research.

4. In the 19th century Manhattan was mostly swamp; people lived in houses which were nothing more than rows of dark cages: no lighting, running water or windows.

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

1. Numerous bridges link Manhattan Island with the opposite shores.

2. Dutch colonists bought Manhattan Island from Indians for 24 dollars and a barrel of rum.

3. Everywhere in New York you will see sky-scrapers.

4. The Statue of Liberty was a present from France in 1876 for the hundredth anniversary of American independence.

VI. Прочитайте и устно переведите весь текст. Перепишите и письменно переведите 1,2, и 4-ый абзацы текста.

NEW YORK

1. New York is the largest metropolis in the United States. Officially it is City of New York, and popularly it is called New York City. It was founded by the Dutch more than three hundred years ago at the mouth of the Hudson River. In 1626 Dutch colonists set up here the first settlement, named New Amsterdam. They bought Manhattan Island from Indians for 24 dollars and a barrel of rum. The Americans say that it was the best business deal ever made in New York. In 1664 the colony was captured by British fleet under Duke of York and renamed New York. In the 18th century New York grew into the largest city of the USA.

2 New York is difficult to describe. You can say anything you like about it and always be right; if you listen to different people talking about it, they can each describe a different town. For some, it's a centre of art, music and theatre; for others, a city of finance and politics.

First of all, New York is the greatest seaport in the USA. More than half the trade of the USA goes through the city. It is also a great financial centre where "money-making" is the main law of life. It is the symbol of big business and its Wall Street has become a nickname for big monopolies all over the world. Economic and financial power of the US is concentrated in the sky-scrapers of Wall Street, in the world's exchange, in the banks, among them the oldest in the city. The Bank of New York was founded in 1784. New York is the leading textile centre of the country and its clothes industry. It has a considerable printing industry and many book-shops. It is also undoubtedly one of the centres of social and spiritual life of America.

3 Now New York includes five boroughs: Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Richmond. The population of New York now is 8 million people - 16 million if you include the suburbs and another 4 million come to the city to work here but live elsewhere. Among the inhabitants of York one can meet people of almost all nations. The citizens speak seventy-five different languages. It is even called "Modern Babylon".

4. New York is a city of striking social contrasts. It is a place where most of millionaires live and at the same time a greater proportion of New Yorkers live at a lower level than the average for the US.

5. New York is not just one city, but many cities which crowd together in one place. There are the busiest cities which die each day at five o'clock, neon pleasure cities whose bars and cinemas are full with noisy crowds and sad cities where no trees grow. New York is all of these and more.

Пояснения к тексту :

Stock Exchange - фондовая биржа

borough (амер.) - городской район

elsewhere - (где-нибудь) в другом месте

 to die – затихать

VII. Прочитайте 3-ий абзац текста и вопрос к нему. Из приведенных вариантов ответов укажите номер предложения, содержащего правильный ответ на поставленный вопрос.

What is the population of York if you include the suburbs?

1. The population of New York is 8 million people if you include the suburbs.

2. The population of New York is 4 million people if you include the suburbs.

3. The population of New York is 16 million people if you include the suburbs.

Контрольная работа №2.

Для того, чтобы правильно выполнить задание N 2 необходимо усвоить следующие разделы курса английского языка по рекомендованному учебнику:

1. Видо-временные формы глагола: а) активный залог -формы Simple (Present, Past, Future); формы Continuous (Present, Past, Future); формы – Perfect ( Present, Past, Future); 6) пассивный залог - формы Simple (Present, Past, Future).

2. Модальные глаголы: а) модальные глаголы, выражающие возможность: can (could), may и эквивалент глагола саn – to be able to;6) модальные глаголы, выражающие должествование: must, его эквиваленты to have to, to be to, should.

3. Простые неличные формы глагола: Participle I (Present Participle), Participle II (Past Participle) в функциях определения и обстоятельства, Gerund - герундий, простые формы.

4. Определительные и дополнительные придаточные предложения (союзные); придаточные обстоятельственные предложения времени и условия.

5. Интернациональные слова.

Тренировочные упражнения