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1.	International Higher School (IHS) is the latest addition to the list of abbreviations of Russian universities and colleges. The study at IHS is connected with cooperation with foreign schools of higher learning. This partnership does not take the form of probation. A student of one of the ten IHS departments studies at once at two departments, doing some terms at home and others at similar departments abroad, and receives a diploma of an international standard.
2.	IHS operates on a contract basis. Contracts are signed both with teachers and students. IHS guarantees its students maintenance grants, accommodation and the possibility to work after classes. Though the work is not very complicated (record-keeping and business correspondence, for instance) it provides an additional earning and more practice in the foreign language.
3.	After a colloquium a student’s curator proposes, depending on what the student knows, an individual plan of studies and a schedule of its fulfillment. A compulsory subject is English (for foreigners - Russian) and another foreign language, for instance, Flemish, if Belgium is a partner country according to the student’s plan. Not only a secondary school leavers can enroll at IHS but also people with a higher school diploma who require not five or six but only two years to graduate from IHS. Not only Muscovites and students from partner countries can study at IHS departments (law, history, political science, management, music, the arts, linguistics, economics and ecology), but also young people from Russian provinces and CIS countries. The two demands common for all are, first, no politics and, second, no clarification of national relations. The school trains only professionals.
4.	IHS is one of the first non-state schools of higher learning in Russia. So far they have no experience and the attitude to them differs. Some people do not accept private higher schools with tuition paid for regarding them as far removed from democracy. Others welcome non-state higher schools precisely for their democratism, since it is not the selection committee but the entrant himself that decides where to study and who will teach him. One thing that is for sure is that there has appeared an alternative to state higher school.

Пояснения к тексту.

probation – стажировка

maintenance grant – стипендия

accommodation – местожительство

record-keeping – делопроизводство

Flemish – фламандский язык

CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) – СНГ (содружество независимых государств)

so far – пока что

I. Какое из данных утверждений выражает основную идею текста?

a) В России начали появляться частные вузы, но отношение к ним неоднозначно.

b) Уровень подготовки специалистов в частном вузе значительно выше, чем в государственном.

c) Выпускники Международного вуза проходят стажировку в соответствующем вузе за границей.

II. Запишите номер абзаца, в котором Вы найдете ответ на вопрос.

How many departments are there at the new higher school?

III. Расположите данные пункты плана в последовательности, соответствующей содержанию текста.

1. The main aim of IHS is to train highly skilled professionals.

2. IHS cooperates with a similar higher school in partner countries.

3. A private school of higher learning is a new phenomenon and not everybody approves of it.

4. IHS provides students with everything necessary for their studies.

IV. Запишите заголовок к тексту (по-английски).

V. Переведите письменно 2 и 3 абзацы текста.

КОНТРОЛЬНАЯ РАБОТА № 3

Вариант A

Для выполнения данной контрольной работы рекомендуется найти по словарю значения заданных слов и словосочетаний, постараться их запомнить, а затем перейти к выполнению контрольной работы.

throughout, to appoint, to represent, power, through, legislative, to depend on, to manufacture, trade, to provide, appliance, to become, to prefer, urban, rural, entertainment, to hire, to tend, rather.

Лексика

I. Выберите слово, близкое по значению данному.

1. main	a) chief	b) little	c) general
2. manufacture	a) improve	b) change	c) produce
3. quiet	a) clean	b) calm	c) high
4. appliance	a) area	b) service	c) apparatus

II. Выберите слово, противоположное по значению данному.

5. cool	a) hot	b) cold	c) warm
6. minority	a) quantity	b) majority	c) number
7. urban	a) rural	b) international	c) official
8. native	a) personal	b) foreign	c) different

III. Выберите русский вариант, соответствующий данному английскому.

9. in addition to	a) в соответствии с b) кроме c) согласно
10. rather quiet	a) довольно тихий b) гораздо тише c) не такой тихий
11. throughout the country	a) за пределами страны b) внутри страны c) по всей стране
12. for many years	a) через много лет b) в течение многих лет c) когда-нибудь

IV. Найдите слово, выпадающее из данной тематической группы.