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KATEGORIJA A1, A2, A3 - ANGLEŠČINA KOT 1. TUJI JEZIK
PART ONE – READING COMPREHENSION
ŠIFRA TEKMOVALCA: ________________________________
PART ONE
TASK ONE
______ / 10 points
TASK TWO
______ / 10 points
TASK THREE
______ / 10 points
TASK FOUR
______ / 10 points
TASK FIVE
______ / 10 points
POINTS TOTAL
______ / 50 points
1. OCENJEVALEC (ime in podpis)
2. OCENJEVALEC (ime in podpis)
Draga dijakinja, dragi dijak,
preden začneš reševati naloge, pozorno preberi vsa navodila in prosi nadzorne profesorje za pojasnilo, če česa ne razumeš.
Kasneje, med reševanjem nalog, ne sprašuj. Piši čitljivo, s kemičnim svinčnikom ali z nalivnim peresom. Če se zmotiš, napačno
rešitev enkrat prečrtaj in zraven dopiši pravilno rešitev. Popravki naj bodo jasni. Korekturnih in drugih pripomočkov ne uporabljaj. Za
reševanje nalog v prvem delu imaš 60 minut časa.
ŽELIMO TI VELIKO USPEHA.
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PART ONE – READING COMPREHENSION
TASK ONE
Read the text carefully and find the expressions which are defined in the table below. The order of these
expressions is the same as in the text. Write your answers next to their definitions.
Sleep at Art Basel Miami Beach? Are You Kidding?
Adapted from: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/fashion/03BASEL.html?ref=style&pagewanted=print (December 3rd 2010) By GUY TREBAY
“Now! Now!” Klaus Biesenbach commanded in his thick “Das Boot” accent. “We have 100 bottles of Champagne on the beach and
it’s illegal! Come!” Mr. Biesenbach, who holds the august-sounding title of director of MoMA P.S. 1 in Queens and chief curator at
large at the Museum of Modern Art, was leading a select group of revelers down to the ocean from the pool at the Delano hotel in
Miami Beach.
This was on Thursday near midnight, just moments after the conclusion of a raucous poolside performance orchestrated by the
artist Mariah Robertson that used the Delano pool as a backdrop for a tribute, sort of, to the film director Busby Berkeley, one that
dipped into the talent pool of greater Miami to come up with a cappella singers, dancers, synchronized swimmers, a full carnival
band and several people who disported themselves charmingly if gratuitously in the nude.
Mr. Biesenbach had promised in an e-mail sent earlier in the week that the presentation would be a challenge to the “borders of
review, parade, orchestra, improvisation and concert.” But, honestly, what isn’t during the hedonistic whirlwind of Art Basel Miami
Beach?
By Sunday, Miami Beach will go right back to its vaguely drowsy pre-Christmas lull. But for these four days, particularly along the
strip of hotels lining Collins Avenue, a prevailing “Day of the Locust” atmosphere challenges anybody’s ideas about what constitutes
a circus. On the street side of the Delano, a near-mob formed on Thursday, one crowd of people in their finery clamoring to join a
second mob in glad rags, packed sardine-tight inside the immense curtained lobby of the hotel. Just as those in the first group made
it inside to join the second, Mr. Biesenbach and his crowd of the art world elect were sneaking out the back way and onto the sand.
There they commenced their own party, in defiance of local ordinances, and kept it going until almost dawn.
“Still awake,” Mr. Biesenbach wrote in a text message very early Friday morning. “Made no sense to sleep.”
Who sleeps during Art Basel? Who has the time to pause during a seemingly endless round of dinners and parties and after-parties
and after-after-parties, usually followed by a last stop at le Baron. That pop-up club is run here every year during Art Basel by André
Saraiva, the tiny, charming Frenchman who years ago took a tiny, seedy bar in an unlikely bourgeois part of Paris and turned it into
the epicenter of a certain kind of cool. Somehow Mr. Saraiva always manages to look chipper and well rested. How he manages
this is a mystery. Perhaps Wallace Stevens was right when he noted that the air is special in Florida.
Far from looking fatigued, the people at the celebrations that were taking place on the beach and beyond looked serene and
energized. On Thursday evening alone, an enterprising and well-networked visitor could have selected from a menu of events that
included a private Bruce Weber cocktail wingding on the lawn at the Standard, a raucous take-the-streets celebration of the mural
project called Wynwood Walls, a private seated dinner for 100 or so given by the immensely rich real estate developer Aby Rosen
and his wife, Samantha Boardman, at the W Hotel and a competing sit-down dinner at Cecconi’s restaurant at Soho Beach House,
hosted by Stefano Tonchi, the editor of “W.” —.
“I haven’t stopped for a minute since I got here,” Becca Cason Thrash, the Texas socialite, collector and philanthropist said at the
“W” dinner, as waiters circulated with trays of crab puffs and rolls of bresaola. Ms. Thrash stopped to correct herself. Her eyes
saturated by two days of intensive art-viewing, at the main Art Basel fair and its satellites like Nada, Pulse and Scope, she had in
fact taken a breather before Thursday evening’s social marathon for a visit to the Webster, the high concept fashion store operated
by a French cognac heiress and her partner in a restored Art Deco pile on Collins Avenue.
“I couldn’t look at any more art, so I went shopping for clothes,” and that revived her, Ms. Thrash said at the “W” party, showing off
the black cashmere turtleneck that was among her purchases. What she found most restorative about her trip to the Webster was
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not the selection of clothes by European designers (she is a serious couture client) or the potatoes with caviar at Kaviar Kaspia, the
store’s in-house restaurant.
No, what refreshed her were the Webster’s deep pre-holiday discounts. “They had my three most favorite words in the world,” Ms.
Thrash said. “Forty percent off.”
1.
a keeper of a cultural heritage institution
2.
people who are celebrating or take pleasure in partying
3.
the setting of an event
4.
naked
5.
a creation written or spoken without preparation
6.
a temporary pause or decline in activity
7.
to begin
8.
the time in the morning at which daylight begins
9.
completely exhausted
10.
a person who is or seeks to be prominent in fashionable society
_____ / 10 points
TASK TWO
Read the article from TASK ONE again and mark in the table below whether the statements are true (T), false (F)
or not given (NG) according to the text.
T/F/NG
1.
Mr. Biesenbach invited the guests to follow him from the beach to the hotel.
2.
Miami Beach will stay lively all December after Art Basel.
3.
Mr. Biesenbach and his crowd partied almost all night.
4.
Mr. Biesenbach wrote a text message after he got up.
5.
Mr. Saraiva never looks tired because he lives a healthy life-style.
6.
Thursday night offered a variety of happenings.
7.
Ms. Thrash has been active in different ways during Art Basel.
8.
The Webster is run by a Frenchwoman.
9.
Ms. Thrash has had the black cashmere turtleneck for a long time.
10.
Ms. Thrash’s favourite dish is potatoes with caviar.
_____ / 10 points
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TASK THREE
Read the text and choose from the list below the best part of the sentence to fill each of the spaces (1–10).
Write your answers in the table below.
Green, but Still Feeling Guilty
Adapted from: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/garden/30guilt.html?ref=style (September 29th 2010) By Joyce Wadler
JOSH DORFMAN, author of “The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living,” could not be accused of failing
to live green. He and his partner, Stephanie Holzen, a former stuntwoman, and their 5-month-old son, Shep, recently moved to a
rental in a Victorian house in Crested Butte, Colo., where, __1__, the renovated stairway is made from reclaimed barn wood. Their
furniture is also made from recycled wood and steel; in fact, the coffee table is wood that was reclaimed twice, having been
salvaged from reclaimed wood that was being made into flooring.
Mr. Dorfman, 38, and Ms. Holzen, 35, use natural cleaning products, and are “constantly” drinking out of their Brita pitcher, __2__.
All their personal-care products are organic, and Mr. Dorfman’s clothes are made from organic cotton and recycled materials —
__3__, which, he said, is made from recycled soda bottles.
But they have one great greenie flaw: they are addicted to disposable diapers. “We tried cloth and think it’s totally unrealistic,” Mr.
Dorfman said. Like the rest of America, he said, they have gravitated toward disposable diapers “__4__. It’s plastic derived from
petroleum. You use them once and then they get tossed in a landfill. It’s a terribly inefficient use of natural resources.
“Not only do I feel guilt, __5__. But it’s the most functional diapers we’ve found. They keep my son dry. They don’t irritate his skin.
They don’t clump up and get really heavy. They happen to work the best, __6__.”
The couple have found a way to lessen their pain — though it may be tricky for those without the lightning reflexes of a stuntwomanturned-mom. “Because we feel guilty about using disposable diapers, __7__,” Mr. Dorfman explained in an e-mail. “What this
means is that we pay close attention to Shep to determine when he’s about to pee or poop and then race to the shower so that he
doesn’t soil his diaper so we can use it longer. We’ve actually gotten pretty good at reading the signs.”
Living in an environmentally responsible way, for the truly observant greenie, can be difficult. Certainly it is sensible to take the
position, __8___, that guilt is neither healthy, nor a motivation for long-term change. But when one is acutely concerned about doing
the right thing, it can be difficult not to feel guilty on occasion.
Those who skim the surface of the earth’s crust in their needlessly huge fossil-fuel vehicles, __9__, may never give such matters a
second thought, focused as they are on getting to the mini-mart and saying to the clerk, “A six-pack of your finest spring water, my
good fellow. And would you mind triple bagging it?” But for those who are concerned about green, __10__.
as do Mr. Dorfman and several others interviewed
and that’s annoying
life is fraught
we’ve begun practicing ‘elimination communication’
I feel hypocritical
tossing their foam coffee cups out the window
he happily notes
including his Nau blazer
so there is no need for disposable water bottles
and that’s really environmentally sinful
_____ / 10 points
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TASK FOUR
Read the text and put the words from the box into the correct space. Write them in the table below.
There are two extra words.
Service Members Face New Threat: Identity Theft
Adapted from: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/technology/07identity.html?pagewanted=2&ref=technology (December 6th 2010)
By MATT RICHTEL
regard, conclusion, poor, turned, abuse, personnel, cascade, realities, investigation, heightened, vulnerability, journalists
The government warns Americans to closely guard their Social Security numbers. But it has done a __1__ job of protecting those
same numbers for millions of people: the nation’s soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.
At bases and outposts at home and around the world, military __2__ continue to use their Social Security numbers as personal
identifiers in dozens of everyday settings, from filling out health forms to checking out basketballs at the gym. Thousands of soldiers
in Iraq even stencil the last four digits onto their laundry bags. All of this is putting members of the military at __3__ risk for identity
theft.
That is the __4__ of a scathing new report written by an Army intelligence officer __5__ West Point professor, Lt. Col. Gregory
Conti. The report concludes that the military needs to rid itself of a practice that has been widespread since the 1960s. “Service
members and their families are burdened with a work environment that shows little __6__ for their personal information,” the report
says, adding that the service members, “their units, military preparedness and combat effectiveness all will pay a price for decades
to come.”
Representatives for the military say they are aware of the problem and are taking steps to fix it, with the Navy and Marines making
efforts in the last few months. The Defense Department said in 2008 that it was moving to limit the use of Social Security numbers,
and in a statement last week it said the numbers would no longer appear on new military ID cards as of May.
But Colonel Conti said in an interview that the situation had not really changed: “The farther you get away from the flagpole at
headquarters, those policies get overturned by operational __7__.”
Social Security numbers are valuable to thieves because they often serve as a crucial identifier when dealing with banks and credit
card companies. In the wrong hands they can lead to a __8__ of problems, like ruined credit and, in turn, challenges for military
personnel in getting security clearances or promotions.
Most of those incidents affect individuals or households and do not make headlines. But in June, the Richmond County district
attorney in Staten Island announced the indictment of a gang of identity thieves who victimized, among others, 20 soldiers at Ford
Hood, Tex. According to the district attorney’s office, the soldiers’ Social Security numbers were stolen from the base by a former
Army member who moved to New York, and the thieves then made 2,515 attempts to __9__ the soldiers’ identities, obtaining
checkbooks or credit cards in their names.
Officials said some of the soldiers had been singled out because they were stationed in Iraq or Afghanistan where they would be
slow to catch on to the fraud. That is precisely the fear of military officials concerning the __10__ of soldiers.
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8
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10
_____ / 10 points
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TASK FIVE
Read the text and the sub-headlines below. Write in the table which paragraph (1 – 9) of the article each subheadline refers to. There is one extra sub-headline.
Stockholm Hit by Blasts After E-Mail Warning
Adapted from: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/world/europe/12sweden.html?_r=1&hp (December 11th 2010) By CHRISTINA ANDERSON and JOHN F. BURNS
1 - One man was killed and two other people were injured when two explosions hit the heart of Stockholm’s city-center shopping
district on Saturday evening, the police in the Swedish capital said. The country’s foreign minister called the blasts a terrorist attack,
and an e-mail to news organizations minutes before the blasts seemed to link them to anger over anti-Islamic cartoons and the war
in Afghanistan.
2 - The police said that a car parked near the busy shopping street of Drottninggatan exploded first, shortly before 5 p.m. Stockholm
time, and that the wreckage of the vehicle included gas canisters. A second blast followed minutes later, and about 200 yards from
the first. A man’s body, with blast injuries to his abdomen, was discovered after the second explosion.
3 - Swedish newspapers portrayed the dead man as a suicide bomber, and the newspaper Aftonbladet said on its Web site that he
had been carrying pipe bombs and a backpack full of nails. But the police declined to confirm this. “We are in the middle of a
technical investigation, and we are working methodically to find out what happened,” said a police spokeswoman, Petra Sjolander,
who refused to speculate about whether the blasts were a terrorist attack.
4 - An editor at the Swedish news agency Tidningarnas Telegrambyra, Dan Skeppe, said the agency had received an e-mail
minutes before the blasts; it was also addressed to Sweden’s security police, and included a sound recording addressed to
“Sweden and the Swedish people.” Mr. Skeppe said the recording cited Swedish “silence” over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad
drawn by the artist Lars Vilks, criticized Sweden’s 500-soldier military contingent in Afghanistan and threatened attacks on Swedes.
5 - The Stockholm blasts seemed certain to cause widespread shock in Sweden. The country has long prided itself on having
created a stable and peaceful society at home, and on having avoided involvement in the upheavals that have ravaged much of the
rest of Europe in modern times, including World War II.
6 - It has previously escaped the types of bombings mounted elsewhere in Europe since the 9/11 attacks in the United States. The
Swedish military’s current deployment in Afghanistan, adding signals intelligence specialists to a NATO-led combat mission under
American command, is a rare departure from the country’s usual pattern of avoiding involvement in military alliances.
7 - Another major change has been the impact of heavy immigration, especially Muslims. Their growing numbers, and the furor
surrounding Mr. Vilks, have contributed to a rise in tensions that have led to increased support for a right-wing anti-immigration
party, the Sweden Democrats, which won 20 seats this summer in a general election. The party, blaming immigration for increased
crime rates, has focused its ire on the Muslim population, which accounts for about 5 percent of Sweden’s 9.3 million people.
8 - Mr. Skeppe said the address in the e-mail indicated it had also been sent to Sweden’s security police, but there was no
indication what sort of an attack was planned, or when. “They didn’t mention that anything specific would happen at all,” he said.
Several Swedish news organizations described the e-mail as having been sent anonymously. The e-mail’s reference to Mr. Vilks, a
64-year-old artist and free-speech activist, pointed to the deep anger in the Muslim world over Mr. Vilks’ drawings of the Prophet
Muhammad in 2007.
9 - Publication of the drawings in Swedish newspapers drew widespread condemnation in the Muslim world and death threats
against Mr. Vilks, who has since lived under police protection. In March this year, Colleen R. LaRose, an American who has
converted to Islam and used the pseudonym JihadJane, was charged with trying to recruit Islamic terrorists to kill Mr. Vilks.
Murder attempt.
No suggestion as to what will follow.
Long time of non-interference.
Connection between the attack and the cartoons.
Message of criticism.
Diversion from the usual.
Corpse found.
Barely controlled hostility on the rise in politics.
Presidents to meet.
No confirmation at this point.
_____ / 10 points
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KATEGORIJA A1, A2, A3 - ANGLEŠČINA KOT 1. TUJI JEZIK
PART TWO – CULTURE AND CUSTOMS
PART THREE – LANGUAGE IN USE
ŠIFRA TEKMOVALCA: ________________________________
PART TWO
TASK ONE
______ / 10 points
PART THREE
TASK ONE
______ / 10 points
TASK TWO
______ / 10 points
TASK THREE
______ / 10 points
TASK FOUR
______ / 10 points
POINTS TOTAL
1. OCENJEVALEC (ime in podpis)
______ / 50 points
2. OCENJEVALEC (ime in podpis)
Draga dijakinja, dragi dijak,
preden začneš reševati naloge, pozorno preberi vsa navodila in prosi nadzorne profesorje za pojasnilo, če česa ne razumeš.
Kasneje, med reševanjem nalog, ne sprašuj. Piši čitljivo, s kemičnim svinčnikom ali z nalivnim peresom. Če se zmotiš, napačno
rešitev enkrat prečrtaj in zraven dopiši pravilno rešitev. Popravki naj bodo jasni. Korekturnih in drugih pripomočkov ne uporabljaj. Za
reševanje nalog v drugem delu imaš 45 minut časa.
ŽELIMO TI VELIKO USPEHA.
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PART TWO – CULTURE AND CUSTOMS
TASK ONE
Circle the correct answer.
1. The first James Bond film, released in 1962, is titled
a) From Russia with Love.
b) Goldfinger.
c) Live and Let Die.
d) Dr. No.
c) Manchester.
d) London.
2. The Beatles were formed in 1960 in
a) Nottingham.
b) Liverpool.
3. Which of the novels below did Jane Austen not write?
a) Emma.
b) Sons and Lovers.
c) Pride and Prejudice. d) Sense and Sensibility.
4. Who was the lead vocalist of Queen, a British rock band?
a) John Lennon.
b) Elton John.
c) Freddie Mercury.
d) George Michael.
5. Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher were members of which band?
a) Oasis.
b) Duran Duran.
c) The Rolling Stones. d) Simply Red.
6. The main character in the British sitcom Only Fools and Horses is called
a) Marlene.
b) Boycie.
c) Del Boy.
d) Denzil.
c) Emily Brontë.
d) William Shakespeare.
c) Jude Law.
d) Hugh Grant.
7. Who wrote the novel David Copperfield?
a) Charles Dickens.
b) James Joyce.
8. The film Four Weddings and a Funeral stars
a) Pierce Brosnan.
b) Sean Connery.
9. What is the name of the main female character in the novel Wuthering Heights?
a) Jane.
b) Emma.
c) Deidre.
d) Catherine.
10. Who won the best British Female Solo Artist Brit Award in 2010?
a) Amy Winehouse.
b) Katy Perry.
c) Lady Gaga.
d) Lily Allen.
_____ / 10 points
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PART THREE – LANGUAGE IN USE
TASK ONE
Read the following text and put the verbs in brackets into the correct form. Write your answers in the table
below.
When a Backpack Falls From a Helicopter, It’s Back to Square One
Adapted from: http://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/when-a-backpack-falls-from-a-helicopter-its-back-to-square-one/?pagemode=print
(December 3rd 2010) By BRIAN FISHER
Thursday, Dec. 2
Two days ago I rejoiced in finding all my lost items __1__ (bury) in the sand after the flash flood. My dentist __2__ (please) that I
even found my toothbrush, stuck in a bamboo clump. But a day later, I lost everything — specimens, all my notes, money and car
keys.
As we __3__ (leave) the lake camp to return to Palm Canyon, a freak storm arrived that brought hail, wind and rain. The helicopter
veered around the storm and the highest peaks. Along the journey, my backpack __4__ (fall) out and is now somewhere resting in
the Makay.
Now, with my few belongings in a plastic bag and without a tent, mat or sleeping bag, I prepare myself to start our collections again
from scratch. At one level it is liberating __5__ (not burden) with all the items we think are necessary — the simpler we make our
lives, the richer the experience becomes — but it is hard to lose collections and notes.
To clear my head, I leave camp to try to find a way up to the plateau behind it. After about an hour of climbing, at times up almost
vertical cliffs, I reach a shallow shelf. I am surprised to find the decayed remnants of a wooden ladder. Farther out, at the very end
of the shallow cave, I can make out a wooden tomb. __6__ (not want) to disturb this sacred resting place, I quickly make my way up
another ridge, following the path of one of the most beautiful and largest butterflies of Madagascar, Pharmacophagus antenor.
Near the plateau, the majestic view of canyons and forest __7__ (extend) out below my feet. The Makay is not only a biological
treasure, but an important cultural heritage site for the local ethnic groups. How __8__ (this area/should/preserve) for those living
here? Our presence here will encourage other biologists or even tourists to venture here to explore canyons. The Bara, who live
here now, are not prepared for the effects of tourism. Change seems almost inevitable, but we must find a way to limit the impact
and prepare the local people.
I return to camp to the news that we __9__ (eat) Roxy for dinner. Roxy, a brown-haired sheep that has entertained us during the
day and kept us awake at night, is now the main course. The solemn moment is quickly forgotten as we eat our first meat in over a
week. Tomorrow we are off to a small lake lined with palm trees to try __10__ (catch) a large Nile crocodile.
1.
6.
2.
7.
3.
8.
4.
9.
5.
10.
_____ / 10 points
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TASK TWO
Put the words in brackets into their correct form – WORD FORMATION. Write your answers in the table below.
Is It Traditional or Modern? Both, With Nods to Kafka and Fellini
Adapted from: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/arts/music/30tales.html?ref=music (September 29th 2010) By ALLAN KOZINN
Soon after Peter Gelb was appointed general manager of the Metropolitan Opera in 2004, he began inviting Broadway directors and
Hollywood filmmakers to stage productions at the house, a __1__ (CONTROVERSY) move, given the differences between opera’s
traditional values and those of contemporary theater and film. But Mr. Gelb argued that those differences are precisely the point:
that fresh ideas will __2__ (SURE) the Met’s artistic vitality. And though there have been hits and misses, Bartlett Sher’s
magnificent production of Offenbach’s “Contes d’Hoffmann,” first seen last season, has been one of this policy’s vindications.
The production returned to the Met on Tuesday with a mostly new cast and with the French __3__ (CONDUCT) Patrick Fournillier
making a belated house debut with a lively performance.
Mr. Sher’s vision has retained its combination of charm and slightly unsettling power. In some ways, it is solidly traditional. His
fascination with the work’s psychological underpinnings, after all, only amplifies what Offenbach tells us explicitly: that the three
women Hoffmann pursues disastrously represent aspects of his current flame, Stella, and that the villains who thwart him are
connected, too.
What Mr. Sher offers is modernist imagery. In interviews, he has invoked Kafka and Fellini, and his staging — with attractive, __4__
(COLOUR) sets by Michael Yeargan and fantastically motley, era-spanning costumes by Catherine Zuber — is packed with nods to
both. Figures with a Kafkaesque pallor and dourness circulate through alternately nightmarish and circuslike crowd scenes that
__5__ (EVOCATION) Fellini. The production is often busy, but that suits Hoffmann’s psychological clutter.
Giuseppe Filianoti, as Hoffmann, looks like a young Charlie Chaplin and brings a compelling combination of swagger and __6__
(VULNERABLE) to the role. His voice is warm and powerful, and in Hoffmann’s most passionate music — the duets “C’est une
chanson d’amour” and “O Dieu! De quelle ivresse” — he is completely __7__ (CONVINCE).
That is an achievement: if we are to care about Hoffmann at all, we must __8__ (BELIEF) in his amorous attachments, even if one
is to a mechanical doll (Olympia) and another to a cynical courtesan (Giulietta) in league with a demon.
Offenbach also gives us a saner view, by way of Nicklausse, Hoffmann’s loving, poetic muse, who patiently attends him as he
pursues his women and leads him back to his typewriter in the epilogue. Ms. Lindsey sang and acted the role with an exquisite
suppleness that perfectly offset the quiet madness of Mr. Filianoti’s Hoffmann __9__ (PORTRAY).
Hoffmann’s women have sometimes been sung by a single soprano. It makes sense __10__ (PSYCHOLOGY), but there is
something to be said for splitting them, not least the possibility of assigning the four very different characters to sopranos with
different vocal qualities. Here, Anna Christy painted Olympia’s flighty ornamental music in bright textures and had no problem with
its difficult filigree. Hibla Gerzmava, as Stella and Antonia, and Enkelejda Shkosa, as Giulietta, both in their house debuts, brought
darker timbres to their roles, and Ms. Gerzmava made the most of Antonia’s wrenchingly beautiful “Elle a fui, la tourterelle.”
1.
6.
2.
7.
3.
8.
4.
9.
5.
10.
_____ / 10 points
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TASK THREE
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. Do
not change the word given. You must use either three (3) or four (4) words, including the word given.
1. A top fashion designer makes Mr Crandal's clothes. (made)
Mr Crandal ________________________________________ by a top fashion designer.
2. My mother told me that I should take up photography. (encouraged)
My mother ________________________________________ up photography.
3. It is believed that the politician was robbed as he was walking his dog. (to)
The politician is believed ________________________________________ robbed as he was walking his dog.
4. He hasn't decided whether to apply for the post or not. (mind)
He hasn't ________________________________________ whether to apply for the post or not.
5. Alice probably missed the bus as she was late for school. (may)
Alice ________________________________________ the bus as she was late for school.
6. My cousin Peter looks just like his father, my ucle. (after)
My cousin Peter ________________________________________ father, my uncle.
7. Chief Inspector Thomas Richardson is investigating this murder case. (looked)
This murder case ________________________________________ by Chief Inspector Thomas Richardson.
8. I went to the information desk so that they would give me information on the delays. (order)
I went to the information desk ________________________________________ information on the delays.
9. It was wrong of you to accuse your boss of making the mistake. (not)
You ________________________________________ your boss of making the mistake.
10. It seems that nobody is working today. (seems)
Nobody ________________________________________ today.
_____ / 10 points
REGIJSKO TEKMOVANJE IZ ANGLEŠKEGA JEZIKA – KATEGORIJA A1, A2, A3
2. 2. 2011
TASK FOUR
Correct the mistakes in the following sentences. If the sentence is correct, write RIGHT on the line, and if it is
wrong, cross out the ONE WORD that is wrong and write the correct answer.
1. A woman from London is suing a Florida theme park because she says that their roller coaster is too frightened.
2. I've been looking forward to be introduced to my boyfriend's family.
3. I found an Internet agency that specializes for getting tickets for sporting events.
4. In the end, we did get a place in the pub that my brother had recommended.
5. Paragliding first become popular in the 1970s and it is estimated that there are 400,000 paragliders in Europe alone.
6. If you want to have your say, come to our next meeting on Friday 10th.
7. If you have any questions, please, rise your hands.
8. Do you understand that my 2 million euros are at steak? The situation has become too risky.
9. The journey time between London and Reading will be reduced for 10 minutes.
10. They took after more workers during the harvest.
_____ / 10 points