Контрольная работа № 1

I вариант

I. Перепишите следующие предложения и переведите их, обращая внимание на особенности перевода на русский язык определений, выраженных именем существительным.

1. More than 1,400 readers of Cosmopolitan have applied to become a London Tube train driver.

2. Employees in large multinational companies have excellent career opportunities if they are willing to travel.

3. Direct Sun is a low-budget holiday website.

4. The company started by selling raw chocolate to other chocolate manufactures.

5. In the last two years sales growth has slowed down.

6. The company decided to develop a new product such as a low-fat chocolate drink.

II. Перепишите следующие предложения, содержащие разные формы сравнения прилагательных, и переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. Direct Sun has a good customer base, but it wants a bigger catalogue of holidays to offer.

2. The best candidate should fill the vacant position.

3. The least successful candidates can be offered a part-time job during his/her probation.

4. Most of the best ideas are discovered by accident.

5. A new model of the car is safer than the old ones.

6. Some people will buy a new product as the product enhances their status – makes them feel more important.

III. Перепишите и письменно переведите предложения, обращая внимание на перевод неопределенных и отрицательных местоимений.

1. Some people take a career break to do something adventurous like sailing around the world.

2. The previous manager had no clear strategy for developing sales in the area.

3. The staff did not seem to have any ideas about the future of the company.

4. Other people will buy any “green” product which reduces waste.

5. There is nothing wrong with copying and improving the ideas of others.

6. There are no new ideas.

IV. Перепишите следующие предложения, определите в них видо-временные формы глаголов и укажите их инфинитив; переведите предложения на русский язык. Запишите 2, 3, 4 предложения в вопросительной и отрицательной формах.

1. It has always been a classic thing for boys to want to be train drivers.

2. London Underground described the response to its single advertisement as exceptional.

3. London Underground will hire more women next year.

4. In the 1970s Herta Herzog was working for the advertising agency in New York.

5. We have recently started a new company.

6. We’ll talk about our marketing strategy.