«Контрольная работа №1 для студентов I курса специальности «Юриспруденция» »,
Английский язык в Краснодаре

II вариант I. Перепишите следующие предложения. Определите по грамматическим признакам, какой частью речи являются слова с окончанием –s- и какую функцию это окончание выполняет, т.е. служит ли оно: а) показателем 3-го лица единственного числа глагола в Present Simple; б) признаком множественного числа имени существительного; в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени существительного; Переведите предложения на русский язык. 1. Lawyer’s profession is rather difficult but interesting. 2. The jury finds the prisoners not guilty. 3. The police are searching criminals. II. Перепишите следующие предложения, содержащие разные формы сравнения, и переведите их на русский язык. Подчеркните формы сравнения в предложениях. 1.Contemporary criminals in Britain no longer face the death penalty instead they must spend years behind the bars. 2.The more we know the more forget 3. Madame Tussaud’s is the best known and most visited waxwork exhibition in the world. III. Перепишите и письменно переведите предложения на русский язык , обращая внимание на перевод неопределенных и отрицательных местоимений. 1.The constable took out his notebook “Do you wish to say anything?” 2.Perhaps , we will need some more information. 3.He wants to do the work in person , nobody will do it better. IV. Перепишите следующие предложения ; подчеркните в каждом из них модальный глагол или его эквивалент . Переведите предложения на русский язык. 1. The police have to bring prisoners to the court as soon as possible. 2. He couldn’t refuse to fulfill demands of the court .He may be released. 3. Without a warrant the police can enter the house only if “invited”. V. Перепишите и переведите письменно текст. If the defendant is found he may appeal (only on a point of law) to the Court of Criminal Appeal. The highest Court of Appeal is the House of Lords. In the case of a non-indictable offence, he is tried in the magistrates’ court, summarily, unless the defendant expressly wishes to be tried by a jury. The judicial Committee of the Privy Council (the office of the Privy Councillor is an honorable one, conferred, for example, on former Prime Ministers) is the final Court от Appeal for the colonies and until recently was also the final Court of Appeal for the Dominions. Apart from all these courts there are the special tribunals. These tribunals derive their authority from Parliament directly or through a Minister. Their powers vary from those of a purely advisory body to one of an arbiter. Examples of these are the Industrial Courts and the National Insurance Commissioners. In the case of the county police forces, the influence of the elected country councillors is reduced almost to vanishing point by the police being placed under the control of a Standing Joint Committee. Only half of the members of this committee are appointed by the country council and it is not responsible to the country council for its actions. Yet even this Standing Committee itself has very limited powers. The function of a judge is to interpret the laws and apply them accordingly. Judges are independent of either the executive or the legislative organ of the state. Right up to the end of the seventeenth century, they were more or less tools of their monarch. By the Ast of 1701, judges were given an independent position and could not be removed from their office except by a resolution of Houses of Parliament. The judges have been members of the upper class and also the vast majority of them still are today. They are people who have been to exclusive schools and then on to an exclusive university and to the Ins of Court. It is not surprising therefore that with the growth of the working class and the labour movement they are often biased in favour of their own class. It is not done blatantly, although there have been such cases; but in a system that allows them great latitude where crucial questions are involved between workers and employers or the capitalist state against workers and the labour movement, they know