Тест I

I. Образуйте правильную неличную форму глагола.

SPACE SHUTTLE

A space shuttle is a reusable 1) (crew) spacecraft first 2) (launch) in April 1981 by the USA. It was developed by NASA to reduce the costs of 3) (use) space for commercial, scientific and military purposes. After 4) (leave) its payload in space, the space-shuttle orbiter can be available 5) (use) again. Out of four orbiters “Challenger” is known 6) (explode) in the midair in 1986 7) (kill) all seven members of the crew, the accident 8) (result) from the failure of one of the solid fuel boosters. Flights resumed with 9) (redesign) boosters in 1988. “Endeavour” 10) (replace) “Challenger” was built in 1992. In 1988 the USSR was reported 11) (produce) a shuttle of similar size and appearance to the American one. The first Soviet unmanned shuttle “Buran” 12) (drive) by the “Energiya” rocket was launched in 1988.


II. Определите, в какой из подчеркнутых частей предложения содержится ошибка.


13. The word “utopia”, coined from the Greek, is known to have been first used in the
A B
16^th century by Sir Thomas Moore in his book “Utopia” as the name of an island

where an ideal commonwealth is supposed to be existed.
C
14. Society seem to want kids to grow more quickly offering them rewards for being
A B
more adult-like, but children need to be valued for who they are and not for
C
something in the future.

15. So that to find the derivation of words, etymologists are known to trace a word
A B C
back to its original form and meaning.

16. Introducing communication satilites has made it possible for live radio and TV
A
broadcasts of events taken place in a particular place to be carried around the world.
B C
17. Electricity and magnetism are the same thing seen from different points of view,
A
or, to put it in another way, they are both names for the way in which everything
B
behaves when to be examined closely enough.
C
18. In ancient times, light was thought by some philosophers to be the property of
A
the eye, while heat was regarded as having been an invisible all-pervading fluid.
B C
19. Microsoft has become a world leader in “vapourware”, new software announced
A
long before it is ready for market, then delayed as the company is busy eliminate
B C
bugs and changing specifications.


III. Выберите правильный ответ.

• Artificial intelligence (AI) is often based on parallel (20) _____, with several processes (21) _____ at the same time rather than subsequently. This is the feature of neural network (22) _____ the processes of human brain.

20. (A) process (B) processing (C) processed
21. (A) carrying out (B) to carry out (C) being carried out
22. (A) reflecting (B) reflected (C) to reflect

• Benjamin Franklin widely (23) _____ as an American statesman helping (24) ____ the American Declaration of Independence was also a scientist. He is credited with the invention of lightning conductor, by making a strip of copper (25) _____ down from the top of the chimney directly to the ground, thus (26) _____ the lightning away from the house.

23. (A) knowing (B) known (C) being known
24. (A) to frame (B) to have framed (C) framing
25. (A) to run (B) run (C) running
26. (A) to deflect (B) deflecting (C) deflected

• For practical purposes the steam engine was invented by James Watt, the Scottish engineer, other people (27) ____ steam engines of some kind before. Watt is known (28)______ a special condenser for collecting the steam and re-using it so that the engine would run for long periods without (29) ____ too much energy.

27. (A) developing (B) to develop (C) having developed
28. (A) to fit (B) fitting (C) to have fitted
29. (A) waste (B) wasting (C) wasted

• Galileo seems (30) ____ of the microscope as well. But the first standard microscope (31) ____ minute organisms like bacteria was invented by Anton Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), the Dutch anatomist.

30. (A) to think (B) to have thought (C) thinking
31. (A) for examining (B) to examine (C) having examined

• The first photograph was produced by the French chemist J.N.Niepce in 1822, (32)_____ in collaboration with Lois Jacques Daguerre, a French painter, who invented his own process (33) ____ permanent images by using sunlight on chemically (34) ___ paper.

32. (A) having worked (B) working (C) worked
33. (A) of producing (B) of produced (C) produced
34. (A) treating (B) being treated (C) treated



IV. Определите, есть ли в строке ошибка лишнее слово, нарушающее смысл, и выпишите его.

ARCHEOLOGY: A SCIENCE OR NOT?

35. Science requires the formulation of laws being based
36. upon experimental observations that made under different
37. conditions with using deductive logic. There is no archeological
38. law be comparable with Newton’s laws of motion,
39. nor are repeated definitions always possible.
40. Applying this definition archeology is not a science.