Контрольное задание №1

ВАРИАНТ 5
I. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующие предложения, Принимая во внимание, что объектный и субъектный инфинитивные обороты большей частью соответствуют придаточным предложениям (см. образец выполнения 1).

1. 
   Automation is known to have speed up both the development of rocket
   production and that of nuclear industry.
   
2. 
   The new system of automatic control is likely to be used at this plant.
   
3. 
   We know the existence of life on the Earth to depend upon the continuous
   receipt of enormous quantities of energy from the Sun.
   

4. In recent years we have seen great progress take place in space research.
II. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующие предложения, учитывая различия в переводе зависимого и независимого причастных оборотов (см. образец выполнения 2).

1. 
   Automation having been firmly established in space research, our spaceships employ automatic instruments in the study of cosmic space.
   
2. 
   Having made many observations during their flights, cosmonauts successfully fulfilled their programme.
   
3. 
   Space research is being developed rapidly in our country, automation being widely used in space research.
   

III. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык следующие предложения, содержащие придаточные предложения условия (см. образец выполнения 3).

1. 
   Were this article on radio-electronics we should read it without dictionary.
   
2. 
   It would have been impossible to launch space rockets, if we had not had the necessary polymeric materials and synthetic fuels.
   

IV. Прочтите и устно переведите на русский язык 1—4 абзацы текста. Перепишите и письменно переведите 1—4 абзацы.
Пояснения к тексту
girdle — опоясывать
UN (United Nations) — Объединенные Нации
alone —только
OUTER SPACE AS AN AREA OF COOPERATION

1. 
   Space explorations was discussed at the 26th CPSU Congress as one of the global problems that concerns all the mankind. International sputniks and research rockets are launched systematically, the Earth is girdled' by an international space system which fulfils economic tasks and interstate and public space organizations are operating in the international arena.
   
2. 
   During the international flights the cosmonauts tested methods and means of studying the Earth from space, tested the processes of obtaining, in a state of weightlessness, materials with new or improved properties, and did medicobiological and physical research. Instruments and devices, developed by specialists of different countries either individually or jointly, were used for this purpose.
   
3. 
   At present the Interkosmos programme participants' new plans are being fulfilled. A transfer is now effected from separate, episodic experiments to the development of purpose-oriented, long-term plans of cooperation in all the five areas of the Interkosmos programme: space physics, space meteorology, space communications, space biology and medicine and the study of the Earth from outer space.
   

4. The 2nd UN Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space will convene in Austria this year, which will sum up the results of the work that has been done. It will also determine the quickest and most effective ways to use the achievements of space science and technology for boosting the economy of all states. Outer space should be used more actively for peace on Earth and promoting the well-being of nations.
5. International space flights developed into an important event in world cosmonautics. It was noted in Leonid Brezhnev's report at the 26th CPSU Congress that the range of our cooperation extends to more and more spheres. Cosmonauts of the fraternal countries are not working for science and the national economy alone. They are also performing a tremendously important political mission.
V. Прочтите 5-й абзац текста и вопрос к нему. Из приведенных вариантов ответа укажите номер предложения, содержащего правильный ответ.
Why do international space flights serve to the cause of peace?

1. 
   ... because they help to develop science.
   
2. 
   ... because they help to perform a tremendously important political mission.
   
3. 
   ... because they, help to develop national economy of different countries.