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Kostroma was awarded with a Honour Flag of the Europe Council.
Kostroma is especially beautiful if you look at the city from a high hill. The
noted poet Demyan Bedny said in one of his poems, "Kostroma is a city of
smiles". This is due to the people who like their town and always welcome
guests.
II. Выполните письменно грамматические задания.
1. Раскройте скобки. Обратите внимание на образование и перевод при-
даточных предложений времени и условия.
1) We (not begin) until Mr. Brown (come).
2) I am afraid the train (start) before we (arrive) home.
3) I'm sure they (write) to us when they (know) our new address.
4) You (be) late if you (not take) a taxi.
5) If you (help me) I (do) it.
6) As soon as I (read) the newspaper I (return) it to the library.
2. Переведите предложения, учитывая разные функции глаголов to be, to
do, to have.
1) Did he have to do this job yesterday?
2) I was to finish this translation at 10 o'clock but couldn't do it.
3) I do like music. I am listening to it now.
4) What do you do?
5) He is a student, isn't he?
6) Peter was doing his lessons from 3 till 8 o'clock p. m.
3. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на модальные глаголы и их
эквиваленты.
1) Will he have to get up early?
2) You ought to return these books to me on time.
3) It may rain tomorrow. Take your umbrella!
4) Could you give me the menu, please?
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5) You shouldn't go too close to the car!
6) I am to meet Mrs. White at the library today.
4. Вставьте вместо точек нужные модальные глаголы или их эквивален-
ты. Переведите предложения на русский язык.
1) ... I do it now?
2) When will they ... to meet us at the station?
3) Who ... make a birthday cake in your family?
4) You ... to watch TV after 10 p.m. when you were a child.
5) Peter failed at the exam. You ... help him.
6) Helen ... to play the piano.
5. Переведите предложения. Определите время и залог сказуемого.
1) The actor is being laughed at.
2) Was Alex met by Mr. Green at the airport?
3) These letters will have been looked through by Thursday.
4) Has the mail been delivered?
5) A watched pot never boils.
6) He used to go to the Crimea.
6. Раскройте скобки, поставив глаголы в нужной форме в Passive Voice.
1) The telephone (to invent) by Alexander Bell.
2) The letters (to send) by this time yesterday.
3) The British Museum (to visit) by a lot of tourists every day.
4) His report (to listen to) tomorrow.
5) Has this house (to build) by the Browns recently?
6) What subject you (to teach) at the moment?
7. Задайте вопросы 4-х типов к данным предложениям.
1) This difficult task must be done by Mr. Smith together with his son right
now.
2) He had to come back home at 7 o'clock on Monday.
8. Переведите предложения на английский язык.
1) – Когда Вы закончили школу?
– Я закончил школу № 34 в городе Костроме в 2010 году.
2) – Где Вы учитесь?
– Я только что поступил в Костромской государственный универси-
тет им. Н. А. Некрасова. Через пять лет я закончу университет.
3) – Ваш друг первокурсник?
– Нет, он студент второго курса заочного отделения.
4) – Кто он по профессии?
– Менеджер.
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Т Е К С Т Ы Д Л Я Д О П О Л Н И Т Е Л Ь Н О Г О Ч Т Е Н И Я
INTERNET AND MODERN LIFE
The Internet has already entered our ordinary life. Everybody knows
that the Internet is a global computer network, which embraces hundred of millions
of users all over the world and helps us to communicate with each other.
The history of Internet began in the United States in 1969. It was a military
experiment, designed to help to survive during a nuclear war, when everything
around might be polluted by radiation and it would be dangerous to get out for
any living being to get some information to anywhere. Information sent over the
Internet takes the shortest and safest path available from one computer to another.
Because of this any two computers on the net will be able to stay in touch
with each other as long as there is a single route between them. This technology
was called packet switching.
Invention of modems, special devices allowing your computer to send the
information through the telephone line, has opened doors to the Internet for
millions of people.
Most of the Internet host computers are in the United States of America. It
is clear that the accurate number of users can be counted fairly approximately,
nobody knows exactly how many people use the Internet today, because there
are hundred of millions of users and their number is growing.
Nowadays the most popular Internet service is e-mail. Most of the people
use the network only for sending and receiving e-mail messages. They can do it
either they are at home or in the internet clubs or at work. Other popular services
are available on the Internet too. It is reading news, available on some dedicated
news servers, telnet, FTP servers, etc.
In many countries, the Internet could provide businessmen with a reliable,
alternative to the expensive and unreliable telecommunications systems its own
system of communications. Commercial users can communicate cheaply over
the Internet with the rest of the world. When they send e-mail messages, they
only have to pay for phone calls to their local service providers, not for international
calls around the world, when you pay a good deal of money.
But saving money is only the first step and not the last one. There is a
commercial use of this network and it is drastically increasing. Now you can
work through the internet, gambling and playing through the net.
However there are some problems. The most important problem is security.
When you send an e-mail your message can travel through many different networks
and computers. The data is constantly being directed towards its destination
by special computers called routers. Because of this it is possible to get into
any of the computers along the route, intercept and even change the data being
sent over the Internet. But there are many encoding programs available. Notwithstanding,
these programs are not perfect and can easily be cracked.
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Another big and serious problem of the net is control. Yes, there is no effective
control in the Internet, because a huge amount of information circulating
through the net. It is like a tremendous library and market together. In the future
the situation might change, but now we have what we have. It could be expressed
in two words. an anarchist's dream.
POLICE ACADEMY IN NEW YORK
The principal agency for carrying out the education and training function
within New York City Police Department (anorganization of almost 35.000 police
and civilian personnel) is Academy.
Five sections organize the work of the Academy: Recruit training section
Advanced and specialized training section; firearms section; training services
section and administrative section. The key units are the first three.
The Academy works at the Police Academy building 235 East 20th Street,
New York City, which was built in 1964. The police laboratory is on the eighth
floor. The fifth floor is principally devoted to classrooms. The master desk is on
the third floor. The auditorium, with 495 seats, the police museum and a recruit
master desk share the second floor and the first floor is occupied by the gymnasium
and open campus. The pool is located in the basement, as are the physical
school offices and a garage with accommodation for 38 cars.
The usual routine consists of 3 hours per day of physical training for the recruit
and 4 hours per day of academic training. (They have a 50-minute class period).
The current academic program in the recruit curriculum is divided into 5
parts and consists of 312 hours of academic instruction. There are, in addition,
192 hours of physical instruction and 56 hours in firearms, making a total recruit
program of 560 hours.
The recruit makes acquaintance of the development of legal process in society
(e. g. cooperation with government agencies, the courts, criminal law and
modus operandi, etc.). Police recruit training includes subject matter which will
provide a better understanding of human behavior and which will develop
proper attitudes on the part of police (psychology and the police, human relations,
crime and delinquency causation, police ethics, etc.).
NATIONAL EMBLEMS
England The national emblem of England is the red rose. It was the emblem
of two most powerful feudal families – the House of Lancaster and the
House of York. The Lancastrians had the emblem of the red rose, the Yorkists’
emblem was the white rose. The struggle between the families for the English
throne lasted for 30 years and was called the War of the Roses (1455–1485).
The rivalry between the Roses ended by the marriage of Henry VII (the Lancastrian)
with Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV (the Yorkist). The red
rose has since become the national emblem of England.
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Scotland The thistle is the national emblem of Scotland. According to
a legend the people of that country chose the plant because it saved their land
from foreign invaders many years ago.
In very ancient times the Northmen once landed somewhere on the east
coast of Scotland to conquer the country. The invaders intended to attack the
Scottish soldiers by surprise. So they took off their shoes so as to make the least
noise possible. But one of the Northmen stepped on a thistle. The sudden and
sharp pain he felt caused him to shout. The alarm was given in the Scottish
camp. Thus the invaders’ plans were destroyed. That’s why the thistle was taken
as the national emblem of Scotland.
Wales Welshmen all over the world celebrate St David’s Day by wearing
either leeks or daffodils. The link between the leek and St David is the belief
that he is supposed to have lived for several years on bread and wild leek.
The daffodil is also closely associated with St David, due to the belief that
it flowers on that day. It becomes an alternative to the leek as a Welsh emblem
in the 20th century, because some thought the leek vulgar.
Ireland The emblem of Ireland is the shamrock. The Ireland wear the emblem
on St Patrick’s Day, March 17, in memory of Ireland’s patron saint.
A popular idea is that when St Patrick explained the doctrine of the Trinity
to the pagan Irish, he used the shamrock, a small white clover bearing three
leaves on one stem, as an illustration of the mystery.
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of the outstanding contemporary English
composers. He is famous for his electric, rock-based works which helped revitalize
British and American musical theatre in the late 20th century. Lloyd Webber
was born on March 22, 1948 in London. He studied in Magdalen College,
Oxford, and at the Royal College of Music. While a student he began collaborating
with Timothy Rice on dramatic productions. Rice wrote the lyrics to
Lloyd Webber's music. Their pop oratorio for children earned world-wide
popularity. It was followed by the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar" (1971),
an extremely popular work that blended classical forms with rock music to tell
the story of Jesus' life. This show was one of the longest-running musicals
in Britain.
In his next major musical, "Cats" (1981), Lloyd Webber set to music verses
from a children's book by T.S. Eliot. It is about the life of cats that love and
suffer like people. "Cats" became the longest-running musical in the history of
British theatre. They eclipsed all other performances staged in Britain and
America for many years. In 1986 Lloyd Webber composed a hugely popular
musical version of "The Phantom of the Opera". This musical strikes the spectators'
imagination with superb music, powerful and captivating melodies, which
have become classical.
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Lloyd Webber's other musicals include "Song and Dance" (1982), "Starlight
Express" (1984) and "Aspects of Love" (1989).
Lloyd Webber's best musicals were brilliant spectacles that featured vivid
melodies and forceful dramatic staging. He was able to blend such disparate
genres as rock and roll, English music-hall song, and operatic forms into music
that had a wide popular appeal.
In 1992 Queen Elizabeth II dubbed Webber a knight.
ISAAC NEWTON
Isaac Newton, the man of powerful mathematical ability, was born
into a family of a farmer in 1642, the year Galileo died. The early days of
Isaac's life were rather unhappy. The child was so weak and slow-witted
that his grandmother had pity on him and didn't send him to school till the
boy was twelve. While at school and later at Cambridge Newton studied
with no particular distinction, though he was extremely skilful in making
models, intricate mechanical toys, sunclocks and so on.
His first "tutor" in science and the man who impressed Isaac most by his
great charm and popularity was Descartes, who died when Newton was eight
years old. Descartes' powerful imagination had enabled him to write not only serious
scientific papers but a great number of popular scientific books and even
science-fiction novels. In his serious scientific papers Descartes was able to concentrate
the most advanced scientific ideas of his time widely ranging from philosophy
to many fields of exact sciences including physics. In his fancy-novels
the features of real and imaginable worlds were so fantastically interconnected
that Isaac Newton was completely carried away by this brilliant, charming,
powerfully clever and so popular Frenchman in those years. Descartes' influence
on Newton can be felt in all the latter's works and through all his life. As to
scientific ideas it was much later, that Newton understood the weakness of Descartes'
approach to solution of specific problems.
Newton was personally an extremely odd character, very reserved and even
secretive. He never married. He knew enough to make him very self-critical, but
this made him even more resentful of the criticism of other people.
In 1684, Halley, Newton's friend, offered a prize for the solution of the celestial
body motion problem. Many men led up to it, but only one had the genius
to find the answer to it. That genius was Isaac Newton who had attracted little
notice of before that.
ADAM SMITH
Adam Smith, the great political economist and philosopher, was born in a
small fishing town near Edinburgh, in Scotland, on June 5, 1723. His father was a
customs officer, but he died before his son was born. In 1751 Smith was appointed
professor of logic at Glasgow University, and in a year he was transferred to the
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chair of moral philosophy. His lectures covered the field of ethics, rhetoric, jurisprudence
and political economy, or "police and revenue". In 1759 he published
his Theory of Moral Sentiments, embodying some of his Glasgow lectures. This
work was about those standards of ethical conduct that hold society together,
with emphasis on the general harmony of human motives and activities under a
beneficent Providence.
In 1776 Smith moved to London, where he published "An Inquiry into the
Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations", which examined in detail the consequences
of economic freedom. It covered such concepts as the role of self-interest,