Test 4
Досуг и увлечения
Раздел 2. (задания по чтению)
В3
Прочитайте тексты и установите соответствие между заголовками 1–8 и текстами
А–G. Запишите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую букву только один
раз. В задании есть один лишний заголовок.
1. THE WAR OFFICE PROPAGANDA
2. CHANCES FOR SIGHTSEEING
3. WINNING DRESSES
4. STARS ARE ALWAYS STARS
5. BRIGHT IMAGES
6. TO HONOUR THE FORMER STAR
7. MEN AND WOMEN IN ART
8. A NEW GAME WEEK
A. There are many stops on the trail of an Oscars campaign. Nominees do face time at the
galas for the various guilds (writers, directors, producers). And then there’s the daytime
meet-and-greets at American Film Institute and the nominees luncheon for the Academy
Awards themselves. But the clothes get louder where the cameras get brighter at the
Golden Globes and later the SAG Awards. A highly subjective ranking of how stars
showed up and showed off.
B. “Act of Valor” blends fiction and realism, casting active-duty service members as Navy
SEALs (the babes and the bad guy are actors). But some critics question whether the
Pentagon has played too large a role in this big-budget Hollywood picture.
C. In her best, loosest moments, Twyla Tharp choreographs the way Woody Allen writes –
with a keen understanding of personality, idiosyncratic rhythm and the essence of the
performer. In much the same way that Allen crafted the title character of “Annie Hall”
(1977) to distill perfectly Diane Keaton’s offbeat hesitancies and craziness Tharp created
the leading male role in “Push Comes to Shove” (1976) to tease out the contradictions,
playfulness and sexual tension coiled up inside ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov. The
portrait still feels right all these years later, even when danced by another man in entirely
different circumstances.
D. America’s favorite quiz show “Jeopardy!” is coming to Washington again for a Power
Players Week. It’s only the third Power Players Week in the show’s 28-year history; the
first time was in 1997, and the other time was in 2004. The syndicated hit’s producers
haven’t announced who will compete this year, but don’t expect a lot of politicians who
are now in office.
E. The new Mob Museum in Las Vegas, which opened Feb. 14, is a late-generation design
that uses many of the same tools and techniques one finds at similar venues focused on
subjects where popular culture and history are too complicated to be understood. Think
of the International Spy Museum or the Crime Museum (billed as “a must-see for CSI
fans”), both in Washington and both conveniently located in a neighborhood near the
Mall where the white marble of history blends into the neon lights of food, drink and fun.
F. And yet as you wander through this exhibition of 77 works by 35 (mostly unknown)
artists, many of which have never been seen outside of France, there’s always the
possibility that something more is happening. The show is heavy with portraits, in part
because female artists were allowed to pursue portraiture as a form more in keeping with
gender expectations. Yet many of these relatively conventional portraits are uncommonly
interesting, especially those of male sitters. Is there a psychic reversal here, an inversion
of the usual power dynamic between the “male” gaze and the submissive “female”
subject?
G. The public of the previous years loved celebrities – their generals, athletes and film stars
– but until New York Daily News photographer Harry Warnecke put them on the Sunday
Magazine. Most people only knew shapes and shadows of famous faces awash in
smudged newsprint. Dwight Eisenhower and Roy Rogers came to life in bright tricolor
prints, a process so rare and complicated few photographers used it. That’s one of the
reasons why the National Portrait Gallery is exhibiting “In Vibrant Color: Vintage
Celebrity Portraits from the Harry Warnecke Studio,” which opens on Friday.
Тексты
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Прочитайте текст. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений А7–А14 соответствуют
содержанию текста (1– True), какие не соответствуют (2– False) и о чём в тексте не
сказано, то есть на основания текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного
ответа (3– Not stated).
In concert: Guns N’ Roses at Fillmore Silver Spring
Guns N’ Roses stepped onto the Fillmore Silver Spring stage a few ticks after midnight on
Friday morning and didn’t pack it up until 3:04 a.m. It wasn’t a rock concert. It was a hostage
situation.
Where did these guys even find the dare to call themselves Guns N’ Roses? Led by the band’s
only original member, frontman Axl Rose, this unfocused eight-man crew pranced and preened
with the enthusiasm and talent of a tribute band. For three torturous hours, the guys sucked the
life force from some of the most anthemic rock songs ever written - “Sweet Child O’ Mine,”
“Paradise City” and “November Rain” among them.
To call it a train wreck wouldn’t be right. Train wrecks are fast and violent. This was like being
stuck in gridlock traffic behind a garbage truck in August.
Since Guns N’ Roses’ beloved original lineup dissolved in the mid-’90s, Rose has become a
master of this brand of show business. Fans stuck around him for 15 years but the 2008 opus
only proved how far he had fallen. Now, at age 50, Rose is touring with this version of Guns N’
Roses as the band prepares to take part in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April.
Dreamers dreamed that this warm-up tour of relatively intimate club dates might include some of
the band’s early members - guitarists Slash and Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, drummer
Steven Adler - that fantastic collision of characters that made Guns N’ Roses so magnetic 25
years ago when its album “Appetite For Destruction” gave rock-and-roll its last massive
injection of sex and danger.
Instead, Rose has surrounded himself with sloppy, unimaginative players that make him sound
dated, safe and sexless. They had no command of pace or rhythm on Friday morning. Drum fills
were dashed off. Guitar leads were hurried. And anytime Rose left the stage for one of the
dozens of breathers he took throughout the set, the band would wander off into instrumental dead
zones, as if trying to discover the intersection of pathetic and insulting.
Vocally, Rose sounded battered but not beaten. And he made up for any botched notes with
those iconic moves, furiously pacing the stage, leaning against phantom walls, doing that snakey
thing with his hips. His physicality was the only thing connecting him to a more glorious past.
So why did he keep leaving the stage? It only served as a repeated reminder of the Guns N’
Roses we weren’t seeing.
A7
Guns N’ Roses started the show at twelve sharp.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
A8
Guns N’ Roses had a new eight-membered staff.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
A9
The concert produced a terrible impression on the audience.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
A 10
Axl Rose is still giving a lot of concerts all over the world.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
A 11
Some former musicians will participate in the warm-up tour.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
A 12
“Appetite For Destruction” was a hit album for all rock-n-roll industry.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
A 13
Today’s Guns N’ Roses cannot co-operate properly on the stage.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
A 14
Rose could remind of himself only by his gestures.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
Раздел 3. (задания по грамматике и лексике)
Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами
в конце строк, обозначенных номерами. В4–В12 так, чтобы они грамматически
соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый
пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию В4–В12.
В4
В5
B6
В7
В8
B9
В10
B11
B12
Big salary, private screening room – and now another perk of
_______ president of the Motion Picture Association of
America: An Oscar vote. When former Sen. Chris Dodd
______ the job last March, he also received a membership in
the academy, complete with voting rights and an invitation to
his first-ever awards ceremony. “This is my maiden voyage,”
Dodd told us on Thursday from L.A. As an academy member,
he received all _____ “For Your Consideration” screeners and
took his voting duties seriously: “I should probably ________
more in the theater. Martin Scorsese does not make movies for
a DVD player. I ______not 37 years in politics and not learn
anything,” he said.
He’s got a full schedule of meetings, parties and after-parties,
where he’s power-networking like crazy: “The value for me is
_______ into people I should know.” One new challenge:
Trading business cards. “I never had one in my life before,” he
told us. “I have to remind _____ to hand them out.”
Sacha Baron Cohen. Dodd and wife Jackie will walk the red
carpet of the Kodak Theatre. Since Eastman Kodak filed for
bankruptcy last month, a judge released the company from
____ expensive naming-rights deal. The gold “Kodak” sign is
still on the front of the building, but academy president Tom
Sherak said Wednesday that broadcasters and presenters
_______ the unwieldy new name of the retail/entertainment
complex instead.
BE
GET
THAT
SEE
SPEND
RUN
ME
IT
USE
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буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами В13–В18 так, чтобы они грамматически и
лексически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными
словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию В12–В18.
Art in focus: Frida Kahlo
В13
В14
В15
В16
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В18
Few artists can summon _____ interest like Mexican painter
Frida Kahlo, whose physical torment, excited wedded life and
famous lovers could have come straight from a telanovela.
Yet Artisphere’s new exhibit, “Frida Kahlo: Her Photos,”
opening tonight, isn’t ______ as sexy as you hope it will be.
The exhibit features mostly keepsakes dug up from the ______
archives of Kahlo and her husband, Diego Rivera. Tucked
away for 50 years were thousands of images Kahlo collected
from family, friends, lovers and other _______, as well as a
few shots she took herself.
But what’s on the walls at Artisphere are copies. The ____
photos went on display in 2007 at the Frida Kahlo Museum in
Mexico, and have remained there since. The perfectly agedlooking tears and wrinkles that _____ can make out at
Artisphere are thanks to a careful process used to make
facsimilies of the worn, wrinkled originals.
SEX
NEAR
SEAL
ART
ACT
VIEW
Раздел 4 (задания по письму)
С1
Для ответа на задание С1 используйте бланк №2.
При выполнении задания С1 особое внимание обратите на то, что ваши ответы
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объёма, а также часть текста письма, превышающая требуемый объём – не
оцениваются.
You have 30 minutes to do this task.
You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen friend Minnie.
…I was watching the Oscar nominations this year and was so surprised to see dogs as
nominees. I couldn’t have thought that animals were taken as serious artists…
By the way I’ve seen a nice comedy lately. Do you have any favourite style in movies?
Do you like musicals? Do you fancy watching an old film, somewhat of the eighties or
something like?
White a letter to him and answer his 3 questions.
Write 100–120 words. Remember the rules of letter writing.
Ключи
Раздел 2
Задание В3
4 - extra
Тексты
A
Заголовки 3
B
1
C
6
D
8
E
2
F
7
G
5
Задание А7–А14
A7 – 2; A8 – 2; A9 – 1; A10 – 3; A 11 – 2; A 12 – 1; A13 – 1; A14 – 1.
Раздел 3
Задание В4-В12
B4 – being; B5 – got; B6 – those; B7 – have seen; B8 – didn’t spend; B9 – to run; B10 – myself;
B11 – its; B12 – will use.
Задания В13-В18
B13 – sexual; B14 – nearly; B15 – sealed; B16 – artists; B17 – actual; B18 – viewers.
Раздел 4
Задание С1
Dear Minnie,
I’m glad to receive a letter from you. I hope everything is all right. The Oscar nomination
you write about is always a big event in your country but not as such as in mine. I didn’t either
know that dogs could be awarded any prizes especially in filming business. It’s also a surprise to
me. I just wonder what they value when they try to find the winner.
As for my preferences in movies I really like thrillers. There’s something in them that
makes me feel agitated while watching the film. Musicals and comedies may also be nice, I
think. I had to wind up.
See you soon,
Mike.