At the Institute

1. Victor Pavlov is a first- year student. He studies at the Polytechnical Institute. First - year students study mathematics, physics, chemistry, elements of machines, a foreign language and a number of other compulsory subjects.

2. On his working days Victor gets up very early. He lives alone now as his parents work in the Far North and will come back only next summer. After breakfast Victor goes to the Institute by metro. It takes him half an hour to get to the Institute. As a rule the lectures begin at 9 o’clock. Every day he has three lectures or seminars on different subjects.There is a lunch hour after the second class.

3. Victor Pavlov’s Institute is very large. The student body is about 12.000. The building of the Institute houses not only lecture-halls but also laboratories and workshops. The Institute has seventeen faculties on different specialities: metallurgy, engineering, chemistry, electronics, power plant construction, radio engineering, etc.

4. The academic year begins in September. It lasts ten months and ends in June. There are two terms in the course of the academic year. So students take their exams twice a year. During the terms students attend lectures, carry out laboratory tests and do practical work. The course of studies is four years.

5. From the very first many students start independent work in students’ scientific societies. They make a deep investigation of the problems they study, do collective research, and develop instruments and apparatus.

Задание VIII. Письменно ответьте на вопросы по тексту:

1. Where does Victor Pavlov study? 2. What subjects do the students take in the first year? 3. Why does Victor live alone? 4. How long does it take him to get to the Institute? 5. What kind of work are the students in scientific societies engaged in?

Вариант 3

Задание I. Образуйте, где возможно, множественное число существительных; переведите на русский язык:

Driver, story, foreman, sand, hero, crisis, pellet, lime, datum, money.

Задание II. Переведите на русский язык, обращая особое внимание на притяжательную форму существительных:

1. the laboratory assistant’s unsuccessful experiments;

2. the workshop’s daily routine;

3. metallurgists’ first melt;

4. the drivers’ second shift;

5. the plant’s new plan for the next decade

Задание III. Употребите прилагательное, данное в скобках, в нужной форме (сравнительной или превосходной степени); переведите на русский язык:

1. After the chemical experiment my hands were (dirty) than yours. 2. I find French (interesting) than History. 3. The fascilities of the blast furnace shop are not the (modern) at the metallurgical plant. 4. Alex is the (intelligent) student in our group. 5. Good health is (good) than money.

Задание IV. а) Напишите словами следующие количественные числительные:

65, 0, 134, 11, 219, 12.370, 5.129.018, 342, 13.601, 48.

б) Переведите словосочетания на английский язык, употребляя порядковые числительные:

сорок второй день, двадцать восьмой текст, тринадцатое примечание, третья статья, сороковой урок, тысячная плавка.

Задание VII. Прочтите и письменно переведите текст на русский язык: