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True or False questions. / Верны или неверны следующие утверждения?
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1. Great Britain is a constitutional monarchy. This means that it has a president as its Head of the State.
2. Like the constitutions of most other countries, the British constitution is set out in a single document.
3. The three elements, which make up the Parliament – the Queen, and two chambers known as the House of Lords and the elected House of Commons – are constituted on different principles.
4. In reality, the House of Lords is the only one of the three which is true power.
5. By custom, Parliament is never informed about when all important international treaties and agreements are ratified.
6. Translate into English the following sentences using Past Simple Passive. / Переведите на английский язык, используя прошедшее неопределенное время в страдательном залоге:
1. Парламент был разделен на две части еще во времена феодального строя.
2. В прошлом месяце обе палаты были собраны по случаю торжественного открытия Парламента.
3. Вчера на заседании этот законопроект был обсужден и одобрен Палатой Лордов.
4. На прошлой неделе, очередная сессия палат была открыта речью Ее Высочества.
5. В 1992 году в Палата Лордов была составлена из 1112 членов
7. The parts of a text are given below. You should read them and put in logical order, consulting the previous text. / Ниже приведены разделенные части текста. Ваша задача состоит в том, чтобы сопоставить в нужном порядке, опираясь на предыдущий текст:
| a) It was the party of the trading and manufacturing classes. The Labor Party was formed in 1900. It was founded by the Trade Unions, but had not done much to change the conditions of working class. |
| b) A parliament is the group of people who make the laws of their country. British parliament consists of two Houses: the House of Lords and the House of Commons and the Queen as its head. |
| c) Members of the House of Commons belong to different political parties, and the party which gets the majority of seats in the House is called the ruling party, and the others – the oppositions. The main British political groups are the Conservative and Labor Parties and the Party of Liberal Democrats. |
| d) But the monarchy today has practically no power. The monarch reigns with the support of the parliament. |
| e) The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy. This means that it has a monarch (a king or a queen) as its head of state. |
| f) The House of Commons plays the main role in lawmaking. It consists of 650 members of Parliament who are elected for a period of Five years. |
| g) The House of Lords has more than 1, 000 members, although only about 250 take an active part in the work of the House. The members of the House of Lords are not elected, they inherit their seats in Parliament. The chairman of the House of Lords is the Lord Chancellor and he sits on a special seat called the Woolsack. It shows that wool made England rich. |
| h) Everything today is done in the Queen’s name (Her Majesty the Queen Elisabeth II). She approves all the Ministers, including the Prime Minister. |
| i) The Conservative Party is the ruling party, the Labor Party – the opposition to the Conservatives. The Conservative Party is often called the Tory Party. It is the party of big business, industry, commerce and landowners. The Conservative Party and the Liberal are more than three hundred years old. The Liberals were called “Whigs”. |
| j) Among the other political parties of Great Britain there are Social Democratic Party, the Scottish National and Welsh Nationalist Parties, the Communist Party of Great Britain. |