Контрольнаяработа№3(3 четверть)

1. Listen to the speaker and choose the best name for the text:

    a) The Tower of Babel (Вавилон)                                                  

    b) The worst punishment (наказание)

    c) English is the language of the future

2.Read the text and answer the questions:

                                            Means of writing and letters

   The earliest means of writing came from Greece. The Greeks made the first writing stylus and used it to write on wax-coated tablets were the first private letters. The inventor, a Greek scholar called Gadmus, wrote letters like this and sent them to his friends by foot messengers.

      1). Who made the first writing stylus?

      2). Did the Greeks write their messages on paper?

      3). How did Gadmus send his messages?

3.Fill the gaps with the right form of the verbs: be able to (will be able to):

    1) I…..to see him tomorrow.

    2) Kate…..to come and see us tomorrow.

    3) …she… to finish the story?

    4) How many pages …he… to translate?

    5) Some of my friends….. to find a summer job.

4. Translate the words from English into Russian:

    1) anyway                   6) nowdays             11) can

    2) to agree                  7) be right               12) several

    3) be wrong                8) to contribute     13) formation

    4) to interrupt            9) to prove              14) plural

    5) communication     10) for example      15) satellite