Контрольная работа: по Английскому языку 11
8. I don’t know who this company was founded by.
9. Children musn’t watch TV so late.
10. All the furniture in my parents’ house is made of wood.
II.
1. Having heard the steps, she rose her head.
2. What were you doing during an interval? – We went to the refreshment room.
3. This play is worth seeing.
4. This dress fits you very well.
5. In summer I am going to visit as much sights in Moscow as possible.
6. I was surprised at, having seen her in the hall.
7. The book didn’t impress me at all.
8. Everything around was covered with snow.
9. I would like to be in the fresh air now.
10. It isn’t worth thinking about it.
SUMMARY
This story is called “The end of Christy Tucker” and it is written by Erskine Caldwell.
This story is about a black man Christy Tucker who lives at the plantation owned by Lee Crossman.
The main characters are Christy Tucker and Lee Crossman.
The action takes place at the plantation. Lee Crossman is greedy and cruel. He hates black men and treats them like animals. He sends for Christy. Christy rides on the mule to the plantation office. He says Lee that he can raise many more cotton on that land with a gang plow. Christy tells his boss that he buys the radio on time, catches a few rabbits and sells their hides for a little money, repairs the fence around his house and his wife raises a few chickens. But Lee Crossman considers Christy a biggity man and he wants to be as white men. Lee Crossman is angry very much and strikes Christy with a heavy strap. Christy says that he isn’t doing anything except catching a few rabbits and raising a few chickens and things like that. Christy thinks Mr. Lee will be pleased if he puts some new pickets in his fence. Lee is so angry he can’t speak after that. He runs to the closet and gets his pistol. He turns around and fires it at Christy three times.
The main idea of this story is racism. Lee Crossman is a racist and he hates black men very much. He supposes he can do anything with black people, or “niggers” as he calls them. He kills Christy Tucker for no special reason, just because he is angry with Christy.
EDUCATION IN USA
If all good people were clever and all clever people were good, the world would be nicer than ever.
I think that education is a key to a good future. And schools are the first step on the education-way. Schools help young people to choose their career, to prepare for their future life; they make pupils clever and well-educated. They give pupils the opportunity to fulfill their talent.
Americans place a high value on education. Universal access to quality education has been one of the nation’s historic goals. American’s first college, Harward, was founded in 1636. In 1865 education was becoming available to all. The peculiar feature of American education is the absence of national administration. Each of the 50 states controls and directs its own school.
GENERAL PATTERN OF EDUCATION IN THE USA.
The general pattern of education in the USA is an eight-year elementary school, followed by a four-year high school. This has been called 8-4 plan organization. It is preceded, in many localities, by nursery schools and kindergartens. It is followed by a four-year college and professional schools. This traditional pattern, however, has been varied in many different ways. The 6-3-3 plan consists of a six-year elementary school, a three-year junior high school, and a three-year senior high school. Another variation is a 6-6 plan organization, with a six-year elementary school followed by a six-year secondary school.
American education provides a program for children, beginning at the age of 6 and continuing up to the age of 16 in some of the states, and to 18 in others.
The elementary school in the United States is generally considered to include the first six or eight grades of the common-school system, depending upon the organization that has been accepted for the secondary school. It has been called the "grade school" or the "grammar school".
There is no single governmental agency to prescribe for the American school system; different types of organization and of curriculum are tried out.
The length of the school year varies among the states. Wide variation exists also in the length of the school day. A common practice is to have school in session from 9:00 to 12:00 in the morning and from 1:00 to 3:30 in the afternoon, Monday through Friday. The school day for the lower grades is often from 30 minutes to an hour shorter. Most schools require some homework to be done by elementary pupils.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, HIGH SCHOOLS AND INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING
There are eight years of elementary schooling. The elementary school is followed by four years of secondary school, or high school. Often the last two years of elementary and the first years of secondary school are combined into a junior high school.
The school year is nine months in length, beginning early in September and sometimes a shorter one in spring. There are slight variations from place to place. Students enter the first grade at the age of six and attendance is compulsory in most states until the age of sixteen or until the student has finished the eighth grade.