Вариант 1

ЗАДАНИЯ к упражнениям:

1. Перепишите предложения и переведите их на русский язык, повторив тему «Инфинитив», «Причастие», «Герундий». Инфинитив, причастие или герундий подчеркните.
2. Перепишите предложения и переведите их на русский язык, повторив тему: «Модальные глаголы и их эквиваленты». Подчеркните модальные глаголы и их эквиваленты, определите их время.
3. Перепишите предложения, выпишите глагол-сказуемое, определите его время. Предложения переведите.
4. Прочитайте и устно переведите текст на русский язык.

Задание № 1

1. He was always the last to understand a joke. 2. Use the given words in the following sentences. 3. To listen to his wonderful stories is always pleasant. 4. That annoying buzz is coming from the fluorescent light. 5. Gregory left the room without saying a word. 6. We prefer travelling by air.

Задание № 2

1. We were to meet at the railway station at 12 o'clock. 2. Do we have to stay in town the whole summer? 3. Children shouldn't smoke. 4. Parents must take care of their children.

5. I'm sorry, I shan’t be able to come at 6 o'clock tomorrow.

Задание № 3

1. When I arrived, Tom was lying on the sofa and speaking over the phone. 2. If I continue with my diet I shall have lost 10 kilos by the end of the month.3. Have you seen the Loch Ness monster? 4. Mr. Brown read that book a few weeks ago. 5. This time tomorrow they will be sitting in the train on their way to Chicago. 6. The teacher asks us many questions at the English lessons.

Задание № 4

The United States of America

The United States lies in the central part of the North American Continent between the two oceans: the Atlantic Ocean to the East and the Pacific Ocean to the West. Friendly Canada to the north and friend­ly Mexico to the south are the only countries bordering it.

The USA consists of three separate parts. They are the Hawaiian Islands, situated in the central part of the Pacific Ocean, Alaska se­parated by the Canadian territory and the rest major part of the USA.

The states differ very much in size, population and economic deve­lopment.

There are many big cities and towns in the USA: New York, San Francisco, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles are the biggest of them.

The United States of America is a federal republic. The gov­ernment is divided into three branches: legislative (the US Congress), executive (the President and his Administration) and judicial (the US Supreme Court).

There are two main political parties in the USA: the Democratic (symbolized by a "donkey") and the Republican (its symbol is an "ele­phant"). The US President is both head of state and government. He is elected for a four-year term. Presidential elections are held every leap year on first Tuesday after first Monday in November. The President is assisted by Secretaries who are the heads of the executive departments.

The Supreme Court consists of Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices who are appointed for life. It is supposed to decide whether a law of the Congress or an executive order of the President is constitu­tional or not.

The form of US government is based on the Constitution of September 17, 1787, adopted after the War of Independence. In December 1791, the Congress adopted ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights. The latter enumerated what the government controlled by the oligarchy was not going to be allowed to do, which was, of course, an important democratic gain for people.

The Congress of the United States is composed of two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Senate represents the states and the House represents the population according to its distrib­ution among the states. All states have electoral requirements of the same nature. First of all they are residence requirements.

Through its power over the purse, the US Congress can control much that relates to foreign policy, also it is a governmental body that determines taxation.

Each of the fifty states of the USA has a constitution patterned after the federal Constitution, with its divisions of power: legislative, exec­utive, and judicial.

The Presidency means not only a man: means an institution — the "executive branch" of the government.

The Supreme Court is the highest court in the country and the head of the judicial branch of US government. Also there are about ninety district courts in different parts of the United States.