Test One, страница 57 - гдз по английскому языку 10 класс контрольные задания Афанасьева, Михеева

Unit four. Il. Reading Tests - страница 57.

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NEF Test One. Read the texts (A–F) and match them with the titles (1–7). There is one title you don't have to use.

Titles:

1. A worked-out pattern of a happy life

2. They are missing a lot

3. Advice and explanation for younger people

4. My speedy way with words

5. What people require to achieve is the state of contentment

6. A number of words a person can learn

7. Words to get each other's thoughts and ideas

A. Some forty years ago I became a local reporter and was sent to learn criminal journalism and, not least shorthand.1 For any reporter it was essential. For one who, like me, wanted to do court work it was the essence of life. Our tutor in shorthand was Police Sergeant Woodhead who had considerable court experience. He passed on to us the need for total accuracy,2 neatness and care. I loved the lessons, got huge pleasure from them. My shorthand abilities became much better during the first month.

B. You know, in my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, I’m really getting older but I can see the result of optimal behaviour.

C. That’s the trouble with3 your generation. All the things in life that were put here to savour,3 you eliminate. Save time, save work, you say. When you’re my age, and I’m nearly 70, you’ll find out it’s the little savours and little things that count more than big ones. A walk on a spring morning is better than an eighty-mile ride in a car, you know why? Because it’s full of flavours, full of a lot of things growing. You’ve time to seek and find. I know – you’re after the broad effect now. I suppose that’s fit and proper and yet, see the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for.

D. Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard? I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers because they never see them slowly. If you showed a driver a green blur, “Oh yes!” he’d say, “that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden!” White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. Do you think all of them understand how far this is from real life?

E. We have everything we need to be happy but we aren’t happy. Something is missing. We try to find answers in the books we read but they are not there. It is not books you need, it’s some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. And don’t forget about love. The key word is love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love and love what you write. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

F. When a lot of people live in the same place and talk the same way, the words they use are called a language. We use words all the time to tell other people what we are thinking and we want to be sure that they can understand us. That is why we have languages. If each person had his own special words and his own way of talking, no one would be able to understand what anybody else was saying. We have to agree on what a word means and how to use it so that we can understand each other.

Texts	A	B	C	D	E	F
Titles

Решение 2.

Прочитайте тексты (A–F) и соотнесите их с заголовками (1–7). Один заголовок лишний.

Ответ:

A - 4. My speedy way with words (Мой быстрый способ обращаться со словами)

B - 1. A worked-out pattern of a happy life (Выработанная модель счастливой жизни)

C - 3. Advice and explanation for younger people (Совет и объяснение для молодых людей)

D - 2. They are missing a lot (Они многое упускают)

E - 5. What people require to achieve the state of contentment (Что людям требуется для достижения состояния удовлетворенности)

F - 7. Words to get each other's thoughts and ideas (Слова для передачи мыслей и идей друг друга)