Вопрос №9

Раздел 2. (задания по чтению)

Прочитайте тексты и установите соответствие между текстами и их заголовками: к каждому тексту, обозначенному буквами А-G, подберите соответствующий заголовок, обозначенный цифрами 1-8. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании есть один лишний заголовок. 

1. A useful gadget                                                    
2. Safer than ever!
3. Saving money
4. New thinking - environmental friendly
5. Human threat
6. Wind farm
7. Newcoming disaster
8. Fast-growing technology

A. Solar heat can be stored in solar panels so it is available on demand at any time. In a solar efficient designed house, the building elements store the energy for nighttime comfort and for cloudy days. Some solar technologies require no additional costs. Solar equipment costs less than other alternatives to buy and has lower running costs.

B. Volkswagen will soon announce the first car made out of carbon-reinforced rubber with an internal floating passenger capsule. Tests have shown that even at impact of 160 km per hour the car simply bounces back to its original shape and the passengers (provided they are strapped in) remain a bit shaken but unhurt.

C. Sometimes it appears that the human mark on this planet is indelible. In only a blink of geological time, 200 years or so, human construction and expansion has resulted in the destruction of more than one-fifth of the world's forests, the melting of the polar icecaps, and the creation of a huge hole in the ozone layer. Additionally, industrial activity has damaged rivers and oceans. Environmental scientists and activists warn that humankind could very well destroy the planet.

D. The latest phone that looks like a wristwatch presented by Sieko at the Tokyo Hi-Tec exhibition features a button that when pressed can locate your position anywhere in the world to within a two-metre square. It will be essential equipment for adventurous travelers and dodgy taxi drivers.

E. Harvest time in Esperance is constant. As long as the wind blows - which is pretty much all the time - nine identical wind turbines reap the benefits of the dependable winds. These sleek, white, robot-like wind turbines loom up on the horizon. They're not only functional machines that help provide electricity for this coastal town, but they're also drawcards for curious tourists.

F. Biometrics involves the use of physical or biological characteristics to identify individuals. Biometric security systems operate by storing a digitised record of some unique human feature. Systems using fingerprints, hands, voices, irises, retinas and faces are already on the market. Others using typing patterns and even body odours are in various stages of development.

G. Some scientists predict that if we think of ecology we should think of changing our thinking completely. For instance, by 2058 with help of new technology Britain may announce that pollution levels are one twentieth of what they were in the year 2000. This is largely due to all non-local road transport being safely underground and the recycling of industrial by-products before reaching the atmosphere.

Вопрос №9

Раздел 2. (задания по чтению)

Прочитайте тексты и установите соответствие между текстами и их заголовками: к каждому тексту, обозначенному буквами А-G, подберите соответствующий заголовок, обозначенный цифрами 1-8. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании есть один лишний заголовок. 

1. Colours that tell

2. Dressing up

3. The power of goodbye

4. Judging by appearances

5. Be polite

6. Indicating movements

7. Useful advice

8. Overall impression

A.It may seem strange that it should be like this but when you have an interview, your education, knowledge and experience may be less important than the impression you make on the people interviewing you. Experts say that it doesn’t take long to create a really good or bad impression, some estimate it’s a few seconds. Many employers check perspective employees for what they call professionalism: this often includes appearance - so make sure you have washed your hair, cleaned your shoes and are wearing the right sort of clothes.

B.Remember the interviewers must have liked your application, so you only have to live up to their expectations! Before you go into the interview room, take a deep breath. If you think about something nice that brings you a feeling of happiness then you will smile, and give an impression of confidence. Make sure that you take all the right papers with you - if you forget something, you could look unprofessional. If they ask why you left your last job, don’t give a long explanation.

C.When the interview is over, remember that people from the company may still be assessing you even after you have left the interview room. So don’t forget to say goodbye to the receptionist or anyone else you spoke to when you arrived. The people of the company may watch how you behave and communicate as you can become the member of the staff. Ignoring someone might cost you the job you have tried so hard to get.

D.The colours you choose to wear may also contribute to the overall impression you make. Colour analysts tell us that people wearing red clothes are showing that they have confidence while wearing yellow shows openness. If you choose to wear green, this tells people you’re compassionate, while the colour orange conveys happiness. However, you might not want to go along to a job interview dressed in all the bright colours, and you will probably choose something more neutral: such as brown, grey, and black.

E.Try to move in certain way at an interview - how you move your body or how you sit can indicate what kind of person you are - for example, a certain attitude can make you appear to be shy, or conversely, dependable and honest. It is important to avoid any kind of defensive movements, because doing things like not making eye-contact, or crossing your arms, can seem to be very negative. There are other things that can give bad impression too, such as turning your body away from the person you’re talking to, or constantly touching your clothing or jewellery.

F.Do you know what 80-90 per cent of candidates never remember to do when they go into the interview room? The answer is smile! So make you eye-contact with the person you’re going to talk to and smile as soon as you enter the room but follow the interviewer’s lead on whether or not to shake hands. Wait to be told where to sit and do not use first names unless the interviewer expects you to.

G.First impressions are vital. For many employers, neat and tidy hair and smart clothes are as important as qualifications. What factors contribute to that vital first impression? It varies a lot according to our culture. For example, in the United States tall people are considered more reliable and serious in business. In many cultures physically attractive people are thought of as warmer, kinder, more sociable and even more intelligent.

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Вопрос №9

Раздел 2. (задания по чтению)

Прочитайте тексты и установите соответствие между текстами и их заголовками: к каждому тексту, обозначенному буквами А-G, подберите соответствующий заголовок, обозначенный цифрами 1-8. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании есть один лишний заголовок. 

1. First stage of writing

2. Personal letter

3. How to write formal letters

4. A joke

5. Written assignment

6. Opinion essay

7. Importance of letter-writing

8. Applying for a job

A. Letter writing is an important part of world business. Studies show that people who write well are more likely to have successful careers. Skill in writing business and personal letters can make a difference in life. For example, a well-written letter applying for a job may lead to a fine position. A good personal letter can build or keep a valuable friendship.

B. For many courses in the University, the majority of your marks will be based on your written work. It is essential that you develop your skills as a writer for the different disciplines in which you study. Most departments offer advice and guidelines on how to present your written assignments. But you should be aware that the requirements may vary from one department to another.

C. The earliest stage of writing is called pre-writing and depends on direct representation of objects, rather than representing them with letters or other symbols. Evidence for this stage, in the form of rock and cave paintings, dates back to about 15,000 years ago, although the exact dates are debatable. This kind of proto-literate cave painting has been found in Europe, with the best known examples in South-Western France, but also in Africa and on parts of the American continent.

D. During his holidays a schoolboy decided to write a letter to his friend. He sat down at his writing table and wrote: “Dear Dick!” He thought a little and wrote: “I am writing to you because I have nothing to do.” After that he thought for a long time and at last wrote: “I’m afraid I must stop writing because I have nothing to say. Yours, Tom Brown.”

E. It is important to have a good strong opening if your writing is aimed at persuading people to change their views. You can start by presenting the opposite point of view to your own, using expressions like “Some people argue ...” etc. This is usually followed by linking words which serve to introduce the other side of the argument. You can personalise the argument by using real examples. Group what you want to say into main topic areas.

F. Use the first paragraph to state your reason for writing. If you are replying to an advertisement you should mention where you saw it. In the second paragraph draw attention to what makes you a particularly suitable person for the post. Use present tenses to highlight your present situation and skills. Use the present perfect to describe relevant recent experience. Use the past tense to describe relevant achievements in the past. Don’t use informal expressions.

G. It is important to remember that a letter is a form of communication. Formal letters are always written with a particular purpose in mind. The purpose sometimes stressed at the beginning of the letter. However, you do need to open your letter with something that will be appropriate for the reader and will capture the reader’s attention. Once you have your purpose in mind, you have to give the reader some background information and then you should continue with your message. The tone and level of formality that you use will affect how successful you are at communicating your message.

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Вопрос №9

Раздел 2. (задания по чтению)

Прочитайте тексты и установите соответствие между текстами и их заголовками: к каждому тексту, обозначенному буквами А-G, подберите соответствующий заголовок, обозначенный цифрами 1-8. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании есть один лишний заголовок. 

1. Fashion hurts

2. Personal style

3. More money - more fashionable

4. Fashion victims

5. What fashion is

6. A new factor to be fashionable

7. Sensible advice on shopping

8. How to wear stylishly

A. Wearing too much of one thing is never a good idea whether it is jewellery, make up, designer clothes or perfume. The right style tactic is to create a single focal point. It might be a designer T-shirt or some unusual boots or perhaps a trendy jacket. If you wear them all at once, they just complete for attention. Wear one fashion item at a time and keep the rest simple.

B. Fashion does not just depend on one person’s idea of a new line or a different look, but on something much wider. It expresses a feeling for what is going on in the world around. It is a mirror in which are reflected the events, ideas and interests of an entire era. Dress designers, the artists of the fashion world, try to interpret these influences and express them in the fashions they produce.

C. Following the latest fashion trends can be unhealthy. Things we wear can lead to stomach problems, rashes, backache and painful feet. Very tight clothes can prevent people moving naturally. If you wear trousers or skirts that are too tight around the waist, this can cause stomachache. Rashes can be caused by an allergic reaction to synthetic material. And last, but not least - wearing shoes with high heels can lead to foot and back problems.

D. There are some people who take a fashion trend and follow it slavishly. They don’t care whether it looks good on them or not, whether it is appropriate or whether they are wearing it in excess. For these people fashion sense is more important than common sense. They will go out in the latest spring fashions even is it is snowing or wear high-heeled shoes to a picnic in the woods.

E. A heightened awareness of the role image plays means that many men today also buy fashion magazines, and spend hours shopping and going to the hairdressers. This is not because they find these activities enjoyable. It is because they realise the way they look has an influence on professional success. Of course it does play a role, and this can be a cause of anxiety for many men as well as women.

F. Oh, when do I dress up? Every day and for every event. I have developed my personal dress code. There are many different levels of dressing up. There is ‘going drinking and dancing’ dressing up, when I usually wear pants with a cute shirt. And then there is ‘going to a wedding’ dressing up, when it’s more formal. And finally, there is work dressing up, and that’s when I am more professional.

G. There are people who buy a completely new wardrobe every season. This is fine if you happen to have a lot of money, of course. However, this costs them a fortune and makes it obvious to everyone else that they have fallen to an obsession with fashion. Instead, look critically at your clothes and follow the trends that really suit you. Buy cheap, wear often and invest in classic items that never go out of fashion. That will save your money and you won’t run the risk of becoming a fashion victim.

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Вопрос №9

Раздел 2. (задания по чтению)

Прочитайте тексты и установите соответствие между текстами и их заголовками: к каждому тексту, обозначенному буквами А-G, подберите соответствующий заголовок, обозначенный цифрами 1-8. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании есть один лишний заголовок. 

1. Dancing helps to overcome difficulties

2. Boy’s talents

3. Youth’s life in Bronx

4. Popularity of breakdance

5. Hip-Hop movement

6. Senseless Life

7. Youth’s hobbies in Belafonte’s film

8. Personal view of the film

A. These three young men belong to ‘Hip-Hop’. This movement developed during the seventies in the USA, especially in the New York Bronx. It includes rap-songs, graffiti paintings as well as breakdance. For young boys and girls this movement is becoming more and more a kind of expression. They see it as a way to achieve something. Here they can express their longing for admiration, their desires and their disappointments.

B. For too many young people in the USA - especially those living in slums such as the New York Bronx - life seems to be without sense. “Only living people are able to cry. People murder people. A world without sense.” This is their reaction sung in a rap-song.

C. The film isn’t a copy of usual breakdance films. Belafonte shows more. He shows the life of youth in the Bronx and their thrilling joy of life. And he demonstrates breakdance in nearly acrobatic pictures. Little Lee, whose feet seem to be of gum when the rhythm of breakdancing not only as a means of earning some cents. For him it is more than just dancing. In it he expresses his disappointments and his longing for something better.

D. Those young people - Black and White - create a world of their own - a wild, crazy, colourful world, and the rhythm of their music is their pulsation. For a short time they forget the cruelty of daily life in a world without illusions and without pity. The film tries to seize light and darkness of that life.

E. So it is understandable why little Black Lee is breakdancing in the streets of New York, why Ramon - an unemployed white boy who is painting the white trains of the New York subway -considers himself to be an artist. And Kenny, who is unemployed, too, as a disc jockey produces his own music, mixing it with the help of things like dropping watertaps or brushes, thus producing a truly fascinated music. The reaction of his audience speaks for itself.

F. My first impression was that the problem dealt with is not presented as cliches, everybody gets a lot background information. In an interview Harry, Belafonte said: “I’ve followed break-development attentively. It is an outcry of a youth we all have forgotten. A shriek of a youth without future in reality, with true ‘no future’...”

G. Breakdance, graffiti-painting, rap-songs, Hip-Hops... - fascinating words, but what about their background? What make Black youth in the USA engage in such admittedly impressive hobbies? “Beat Street”, a film produced by Harry Belafonte, provides some information. There a lot of pros and cons about this film, a lot of different opinions about it.

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