The Open university

The Open University was founded in 1964 by the Labor Government for those people, for some reason, had not a chance to enter any of the universities, especially those above normal student age. It takes both men and women at the age 21 and over. At the beginning of the 1990s some 150000 students followed the Open University courses.

No formal academic qualifications are necessary for entry to these courses, but the standards of its degrees are the same as those of other universities. The first course began in 1971, and in a decade the number of undergraduates reached 65,000. It’s a non-residential ¹ university. In teaching the university uses a combination of television and radio broadcasts, correspondence courses and summer school, together with a network of viewing and listening centres ².

Lecturers present their courses on one of the BBC’s television channels and by radio. They have also produced a whole library of short course-books, which anyone can buy at bookshops. Students write papers based on the courses and discuss them with tutors at meetings or by correspondence once a month.

Degrees are awarded on the basis of creadit ³ gained by success at each stage of the course. Six credits are necessary for a BA degree ⁴ and eight credits for a BA Honors degree. The time of staying on at the Open University is unlimited.

Пояснения к тексту:

1. без постоянного помещения

2. видео- и аудио центры

3. «успешно» – оценка за сданные экзамены

4. степень бакалавра

5. Прочитайте 4-й абзац и вопрос к нему. Из приведенных вариантов ответа укажите номер предложения, содержащего правильный ответ на поставленный вопрос:

What are degrees awarded on?

… because students write papers.

… because the time of staying on at the Open University is unlimited.

… on the basis of credits gained by success at each stage of the course.

Вариант 5

1. Перепишите следующие предложения; подчеркните в каждом из них глагол-сказуемое и определите его видо-временную форму и залог. Переведите предложения на русский язык. В разделе б) обратите внимание на перевод пассивных конструкций (см. образец выполнения 1).

а) 1. The Science Museum houses the earliest English locomotive actually built (1784).

2. Cambridge University was exclusively for men until 1871.

б) 1. In the 1970s, most colleges of the Cambridge University opened their doors to both men and women, and almost all colleges now are mixed, but it will be many years before there are equal members of both sex.

2. The colleges are not connected with any particular study.

2. Перепишите следующие предложения; подчеркните Participle I и Participle II и установите функции каждого из них, т.е. укажите, является ли оно определением, обстоятельством или частью глагола-сказуемого. Переведите предложения на русский язык (см. образец выполнения 2).

Every college is governed by a dean.

A college is a group of buildings forming a square with a green lawn in the centre.

Mary (queen) had been living quietly in Suffolk (Саффолк – графство) while England was governed by a group of Protestant nobles acting as regents for the boy king.

The dominating factor in Cambridge is its well-known University, a center of education and learning, closely connected with the life and thought of Great Britain.

3. Перепишите следующие предложения; подчеркните в каждом из них модальный глагол или его эквивалент. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

In order to enter the university, one must first apply to a college and become a member of the university through a college.

Students studying literature, for example, and those trained for physics may belong to one and the same college.

The fact is that one is to be a member of a college in order to be a member of the University.

There are many libraries at Cambridge, and in one of them among the earliest books by Shakespeare and other great writers one may see an early description of Russia by an Englishman on diplomatic service there (in 1591) and a Russian reading book of the 17-th century.

4. Прочитайте и устно переведите на русский язык с 1 по 3 абзацы текста. Перепишите и письменно переведите 2 и 3 абзацы.