Контрольная по дискурсивной практике

Контрольная работа № 9
по дисциплине «Дискурсивная практика» для студентов 5 курса
специальности «Английский язык» заочного отделения

Variant I
I. Correct the mistakes if any.
Rythmic, gazeteer, devination, occultism, primoniton, chor, fluetist, prophit, hiperbola, apostroph, clishe.
II. Fill in the blanks with the words from the box.
exchange, scholarship, public libraries, collections, publications, cataloging, copyright, private library, librarianship, copy, printed, librarians, interlibrary loans
The Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LC) was founded in 1800 for the use of both houses of Congress, the President and the Vice-President. In 1814 during the war with Great Britain the enemy soldiers marched into Washington, set fire to the Capitol and destroyed LC. After the end of hostilities, the Congress set about replacing the __________ on a far grander scale than the original one. In 1815 Jefferson’s __________ was bought and it was the foundation of a new LC – very different from the one that had been bu
t. In 1840 it started a wide ___________ program with many libraries both at home and abroad. In 1871 the _____________ act of 1846 was broadened to require the deposit of a ______ of any ____________ matter in LC and soon it became the largest library in the country. In 1897 LC moved to its present premises.
The 19th century closed with a rise of professionalism in education, the spread of free _________, the establishment and growth of colleges and universities throughout the country and the increase of popular, cheap _____________. The resultant creation of libraries in every town and on every university campus called for organization and agreement on the science of ______________. Outstanding ____________ tried to work out a basic set of rules by which all books will be identified and classified in a similar way so that anyone could quickly find what he was looking for. They wanted shared or centralized ____________ and felt the...