ПКВЯз АНГЛ Практикум по аналитическому чтению и письменной речи

Выберите правильный вариант: The Capitol, where the Congress meets, is a very high and beautiful building with white marble columns.

Выберите правильный вариант: There was a common belief that all birds choose their mates on February 14th, a pleasant, if slightly inaccurate notion which still survives in some districts as a tale told to children.

Выберите правильный вариант: The Valentine card that we know today came into being during the eighteenth century when the expensive gifts of earlier years had gone out of fashion.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях? A) Leading Soviet artistes, among they David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter, and the conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvenski, were heard not only in the music of Shostakovitch, but in music from the general repertory. B) In 1969 the theme of the festival was a country - Italy. Подберите правильный ответ

Выберите правильный вариант: However, it has its origins in the older, pre-Christian mid-winter festival called Yule.

Выберите правильный вариант: It is said that in 1812 when England was at war with America, the British captured the city, and some of the buildings, including the Capitol and the house of the president, were set on fire.

Заполните пропуск: There are 60 bridges and 4 tunnels in the city, most of which connect the boroughs to each other. Some of the bridges are privately owned and toll is ________ be paid.

Выберите правильный вариант: Like many similar customs, this was a morning activity, the earlier the better.

Заполните пропуск: Between the 20th and 60th Streets it ________ a street of shops and department stores.

Выберите правильный вариант: A bang on the knocker and the sound of hastily retreating footsteps warned the inmates of the house that one of these secret packages had arrived, but the giver, or his messenger, took care to be out of sight before the door could be opened.

Выберите правильный вариант: It is not clear which of the two is really the lovers’ saint and so far as we know, there is no historical reason why either of them should be so regarded.

Выберите правильный вариант: Washington was founded in 1791. It became the capital of the United States of America.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях? A) It is full of contrasts. In San Francisco you would like to wear your overcoat sometimes. B) The north-western part of California has a very pleasant climate. Подберите правильный ответ

Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: The federal government, through the President and Congress, can legally set holidays only for federal employees and for the District of Columbia.

Заполните пропуск: It explained why the Congress on July 2 “unanimously” by the votes of 12 colonies (with New York abstaining) had resolved that “these United Colonies are, and ________ right ought to be Free and Independent States.”

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Выберите правильный вариант: In the days before Guy Fawkes Day, some children may be seen going about the streets with their faces blackened, and wearing some kind of disguise.

Заполните пропуск: The 50 stars - white on a blue field represent the 50 states and the 13 stripes represent 13 original English colonies, which ________ 1776 became free and independent of England.

Заполните пропуск: Egg-rolling is a traditional Easter pastime which still flourishes ________ northern England, Scotland, Ulster, the Isle of Man, and Switzerland.

Выберите возможные варианты: Washington has wooded areas and red-brick houses.

Выберите правильный вариант: They are: Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, May Day, Spring Bank Holiday and Late Summer Bank Holiday.

Выберите правильный вариант: The White House, the residence of the president, is the oldest public structure in the capital and one of the most beautiful.

Выберите правильный вариант: With the coppers they get they buy fireworks.

Выберите правильный вариант: Christmas is celebrated universally as the birth of Christ.

Выберите правильный вариант: Nothing in or on the parcel indicated whence it had come, for secrecy was considered essential, and a great part of the fun of St. Valentine’s Eve consisted in trying to identify the unknown giver.

Заполните пропуск: This is evidently the older form ________ the custom, since egg-rolling does not appear to have been originally a game to be lost or won.

Заполните пропуск: Early in the 20th century, as a result of racial antagonism in other sections of the city, the blacks moved to Harlem and formed a majority ________ the population.

Выберите правильный вариант: Besides public holidays, there are other festivals, anniversaries and simply days, for example Pancake Day and Bonfire Night, on which certain traditions are observed, but unless they fall on a Sunday, they are ordinary working days.

Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: One of the reasons for the festival’s success is that it is easy for the visitors to make their arrangements, since Festival programmes are published as early as March, and the booking opens soon afterwards, at the beginning of April.

Выберите правильный вариант: November 5th is a day on which traditionally children are allowed, under proper supervision, to let off fireworks, to make a bonfire and burn on it the figure of a ragged dummy (a “guy”) made of old clothes, straw, and - if possible - one of father’s oldest hats.

Выберите возможные варианты: And the whole of this city, with its long wide avenues, with shady trees on both sides, its low buildings and its crowds of government officials, is unlike New York with its sky-scrapers and its noisy streets.

Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: The Festival Society which takes care of all these matters not only arranges for the visitors’ tickets but also reserves accommodation.

Выберите правильный вариант: In the North the U.S. is bordered by Canada, and in the South it borders on Mexico.

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Укажите функцию выделенного слова в предложении: An attraction for those visitors who enjoy a colourful if rather noisy spectacle is the Military Tattoo which has become a regular feature of the Edinburgh Festival.

Выберите правильный вариант: Countless generations of young people have acknowledged St. Valentine as the friend and patron of lovers, and, according to a country tradition which was known at least as early as the fourteenth century, so have the birds.

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Выберите правильный вариант: The most important cities of the USA are: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and others.

Выберите правильный вариант: The method of choosing sweethearts on St. Valentine’s Day varied in different times and places.

Заполните пропуск: Puerto Ricans form the second largest group within Harlem, living mainly in the eastern part of the district (Spanish Harlem). Most of the houses ________ Harlem are in a dreadful need of repair.

Выберите правильный вариант: Helda, dressed in white fur, handed out presents at Yule.

Заполните пропуск: Harlem covering the north central section ________ Manhattan is almost a city within a city.

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях? A) The headquarters of the United Nations is located in New York. B) There are eight public holidays a year in Great Britain, that is days on which people need not go in to work. Подберите правильный ответ

Выберите правильный вариант: May Day falls on the first Monday in May.

Выберите правильный вариант: He has been compared to both the Celtic Spirit of Winter and the Norwegian god Odin.

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Выберите правильный вариант: St. Valentine’s Day, February 14th, has been a customary day for choosing sweethearts and exchanging love-tokens from time immemorial.

Выберите возможные варианты: Among the newer buildings one of the most imposing is the National Gallery of Art.

Выберите правильный вариант: The main part of the United States consists of several physical divisions, including highlands and lowlands regions.