О.В. Сиполс
DEVELOP YOUR READING SKILLS:
COMPREHENSION AND TRANSLATION PRACTICE
ОБУЧЕНИЕ ЧТЕНИЮ И ПЕРЕВОДУ
(АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК)
Учебное пособие
5-е издание, переработанное и дополненное
Москва
Издательство «ФЛИНТА»
2023
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УДК 811.111 25(075.8)
ББК 81.432.1-8я73
С39
Сиполс Ольга Вильновна – доцент Кафедры иностранных языков
Российской академии наук
Рецензент
д-р филол. наук, проф. Н.М. Разинкина
Сиполс О.В.
С39
Develop Your Reading Skills: Comprehention and Translation
Practice. Обучение чтению и переводу (английский язык) :
учебное пособие / О.В. Сиполс. – 5-е изд., перераб. и доп. –
Москва : ФЛИНТА, 2023. – 330 с. – ISBN 978-5-89349-953-7. –
Текст : электронный..
Основной целью пособия является развитие и совершенствование
навыков чтения и понимания оригинальных текстов на
английском языке. Первая часть пособия посвящена формированию
умения узнавания в тексте лексических единиц и грамматических
структур и перевода их на русский язык, во второй
представлены обучающие тесты, которые предназначены для
развития и контроля навыков беспереводного чтения и понимания
текста.
Для студентов, аспирантов и преподавателей высших учебных
заведений, а также всех изучающих английский язык.
УДК 811.111 25(075.8)
ББК 81.432.1-8я73
ISBN 978-5-89349-953-7
© Сиполс О.В., 2007
© Издательство «ФЛИНТА», 2007
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СОДЕРЖАНИЕ
Предисловие
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От автора
Part I: Vocabulary and grammar practice
Chapter one
Unit 1. Text: Encyclopedias
Unit 2. Texts: 1. Adrenalin, 2. The Jutes, the Saxons and the
Angles
Unit 3. Text: Stem Cells
Unit 4. Text: Van Gogh
Grammar: Past and Future Simple Active
Grammar: Past Participles, Ellipsis
Grammar: Present Participles
Unit 5. Text: The Gene of Speech
Unit 6. Text: Man and the Environment
Unit 7. Text: History of Universities
Grammar: Present, Past and Future Simple Passive
Unit 8. Text: A Sophisticated Evaporation Scheme
Grammar: Present, Past and Future Progressive Passive,
the Infinitive: Indication of Purpose
Unit 9. Text: Areas of Study
Unit 10. Text: Smallpox
Grammar: The Passive Voice: Difficult Cases
Grammar: Modal verbs: may, can/be able to, must
Grammar: Progressive, Perfect and Perfect Progressive
Active, Model verbs: to have to
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Grammar: Present Simple Active, there is/are, Articles 20
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Grammar: Present, Past and Future Perfect Passive, Passive
structures with the impersonal 'it', Conditional Clauses,
Negation
Unit 11. Text: The Ancestry of Birds
Unit 12. Text: Scientific Research
Unit 13. Text: Global Warming
Academic style
Avoiding noun repetition
Unit 14. Text: DNA to Unravel the History of Humans
Grammar: '-ing' Forms
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86
Grammar: Perfect Infinitives after some reporting verbs 90
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Unit 15. Text: Where Do We Come From?
115
Grammar: Participle Clauses with their own subject 119
Unit 16. Texts: 1. Gene Therapy, 2. The Human Genome,
3. Climate Change Impact
Model verbs: will/would
Unit 17. Text: Concrete
Grammar: the Infinitive construction 'subject + verb
+ noun/pronoun +infinitive'
Chapter two
Unit 18. Text: MyGrid Computer System
Grammar: 'To'- infinitive as the subject, Model verbs:
should
Unit 19. Text: Communication Satellites
Unit 20. Text: Death Penalty
Grammar: 'For'- phrase: 'for + noun/pronoun +
infinitive'
Unit 21. Texts: 1. Climate Change in Europe, 2. Water and
the Earth
Grammar: Model verbs: will/would + Present and
Perfect Infinitive, can/could, may/might + Perfect
Infinitive, should + Perfect Infinitive, must + Perfect
Infinitive, Result Clauses, Infinitives of the verbs
'to give, to form, to make, to produce, to yield' as a
connective link
Unit 23. Texts: 1. History Teaching in Britain, 2. Symbolic
language
Grammar: 'Should' in subordinate clauses, Functions
of' 'should', Model verbs: to be to
Unit 24. Texts: 1. Sedimentary Rocks, 2. Language and
Thinking
Grammar: Emphasis: Cleft sentences
Unit 25. Text: Problems of Garbage Disposal in Britain
Grammar: Emphasis: 'do' before verbs, Functions
of 'do'
Unit 26. Texts: 1. Languages, 2. Water, 3. Governments and
Companies, 4. Ethics and Archaeology
123
Grammar: Gerunds, the Infinitive construction 'subject
+ verb + infinitive', the … the construction, Negation,
128
137
140
145
145
147
149
Grammar: 'To'- infinitive after nouns, Gerunds:
construction 'subject + verb + noun/pronoun + gerund' 153
160
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168
Unit 22. Text: What Influences Success in Higher Education? 174
Grammar: Conditional clauses, Functions of 'would' 175
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Grammar: Inversion, Concessive clauses, 'what' in noun
clauses as subject
Unit 27. Text: Ecobalance
Grammar: Inversion
Part II: Comprehension practice
Practice test 1: Education
Practice test 2: Computer Technology
Practice test 3: Genetic Engineering
Practice test 4: Man and Nature
Practice test 5: Ecology
Practice test 6: Historical Wonders
Practice test 7: Physiology and Diseases
Practice test 8: Language
Practice test 9: Political, Social and Economic Issues
Practice test 10: Unusual Things
Practice test 11: Arts
Practice test 12: Culture
Practice test 13: Some Theoretical Issues and Scientific
Discoveries
Key
Grammar index
Glossary
Библиография
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