Контрольное задание № 4. 1. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующие предложения, содержащие инфинитив, причастие I и герундий

ВАРИАНТ 9

1.Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующие предложения, содержащие инфинитив, причастие I и герундий.

1). They denied stealing the money.

2). He can remember being in hospital when he was four.

3). Julia has been ill but now she’s beginning to get better.

4). I was very tired. I tried to keep my eyes open but I couldn’t.

5). I’d love to have gone to the party but it was impossible.

2. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующие предложения, содержащие обороты с причастием I.

1). He was in London for two years working as a tourist guide.

2). Margaret had an accident driving to work yesterday.

3). Having spent nearly all our money, we couldn’t afford to stay in a hotel.

3. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующие предложения, содержащие фразовые глаголы.

1). The film was a bit boring at first but it picked up later on.

2). She’s very upset but she’ll get over it.

3). The police are going to look into the break-in at the college.

4). There was a rumour that Nissan was trying to take over Fiat.

5). The government did away with free school lunches last year.

4. Прочитайте и устно переведите следующий текст на русский язык, а затем выполните задания к нему.

Many researchers believe that apes can communicate with human beings. Investigations made at several laboratories in the United States and elsewhere indicate that chimpanzees and gorillas are capable of understanding language and using linguistic responses at the level of a four-year-old child. Washoe, an adult chimpanzee who was raised as if she were a deaf child, can translate words she hears into American Sign Language. Koko, a 400-pound lowland gorilla, is claimed to have understood a poem written about her. Tests of Koko's auditory comprehension show that she is able to make discriminations between such words as "funny," "money," and "bunny."

The scientists at the forefront of this research admit that their work has been severely criticized. The skeptics in general claim that apes' language behavior is merely imitative. For this behavior to be called "language," it must also be communicative. The proponents of ape language counter that those who deny the validity of this research have never worked with apes. They point out that new fields of investigation always create controversy. They add that subhuman primates have not been taught to speak, however, because the outer layer of their brain hemispheres is not sufficiently refined.

1. Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?

(A) Research into apes' imitative behavior

(B) Studies done in language abilities of primates

(C) Communicative behavior of subhuman primates

(D) Uses of American Sign Language in research

2. According to the passage, ape language researchers say that apes can

(A) understand spoken language

(B) speak

(C) think

(D) write poetry!

3. Washoe is

(A) a four-year-bid child

(B) a deaf gorilla

(C) a scientist

(D) a chimpanzee that uses signs

4. According to the passage, ape-human communication is

(A) accepted by scientists

(B) rejected by researchers

(C) treated skeptically by some scientists

(D) unquestioned

Письменно переведите на русский язык весь текст.