Cadastre Background

Контрольная работа №1 Вариант 1

Задание 1. Перепишите следующие предложения. Определите по грамматическим признакам, какой частью речи являются слова, оформленные окончанием -s (-es), и какую функцию это окончание выполняет, т.е. служит ли оно:

a) показателем 3-го лица единственного числа глагола в Present Indefinite;

b) признаком множественного числа имени существительного;

c) признаком притяжательного падежа имени существительного.

Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1) The Romans had a significant need for good roads.

2) In 1718 Jovani Jacomo Marioni developed the first cadastre based on using scientific methods.

3) Water boils at 100° Centigrade.

4) My friend’s car is very expensive.

Задание 2. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их, учитывая особенности перевода на русский язык определений, выраженных существительными.

1) Modern rail transport systems first appeared in England in the 1820s.

2) A tunnel is an underground or underwater passage for an automobile road or railway.

3) Multipurpose cadastre contains data on the objects of different type.

Задание 3. Перепишите следующие предложения, содержащие разные формы сравнения, и переведите их на русский язык.

1) Text 2 is not as difficult as Text 1.

2) The more we develop roads the better infrastructure we have.

3) The most expensive highways are in Germany.

Задание 4. Перепишите и письменно переведите следующие предложения на русский язык, обращая внимание на перевод неопределенных, отрицательных и указательных местоимений

1) Some of Roman roads remained from ancient times.

2) There is nothing interesting to see in this part of the town.

3) This experiment will last two hours.

Задание 5. Перепишите следующие предложения, определите в них видовременные формы глагола и укажите их инфинитив. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1) Nobody knows when the wheel first appeared.

2) He has worked for this travel agency for six years.

3) In the future people will have cars with better conveniences.

4) These systems were the first practical form of mechanized land transport.

Задание 6. Прочтите текст и письменно переведите на русский язык 1-й и 2-й абзацы.

Cadastre Background

1. Obtaining the data used as a basis for land evaluation is connected with a need to prepare cadastre according to residential areas. Emergence of cadastre is deeply rooted into ancient times. Thus, the early information on cadastral survey carried out to register the lands in Ancient Egypt indicating boundaries and areas of the land plots dates from 3000 BC.

2. Anyhow the term “cadastre” widely-used in the world practice has been in use since the time of August, the Roman Emperor (27 BC – 4 AD) when there was adopted registration unit for collecting the land contribution called “caputigum” and introduced the population registration “caputigum registrum”. Eventually these words merged into one –“capitastrum” and later into the word “catastrum”. As a matter of fact the jobs dealing with population registration, land division into plots, an exact measurement of their borders, determination of the land quality, mapping these areas and plotting on the stones their borders, numbers, juridical status, the name of land owner and amount of tax were the first cadastre of the Roman empire.

3. In the middle ages the contents of cadastral surveying and the main principals of keeping land cadastre did not change practically. Land surveying remained purely linear and was carried out using rope and rod; there was not applied geometrical knowledge and calculations.

Задание 7. Прочтите последний абзац текста и ответьте письменно на следующий вопрос:

What instruments were used in land surveying in the middle ages?