- •I Choose the right answer and prove it by the text.
- •II Choose the ending of the question to which the answer is “Yes” and
- •III Decide whether the following statements are True or False and
- •IV Vocabulary: Match these phrasal verbs with their meanings.
- •I Tick the right answer
- •II Decide whether the following statements are True or False and
- •III Tick the right answer
- •IV Vocabulary: Match these phrasal verbs with their meanings. Note that there is one explanation you do not need to use.
- •I Decide whether the following statements are True or False and justify your answers by quoting the text.
- •II Choose the adjectives to describe the school.
- •III Choose the right answer and quote where indicated.
- •IV Vocabulary: Match these words from the text with their meaning.
- •II Circle the letter corresponding to the best answer. Prove your choice by quoting from the text where indicated.
- •III Among the following titles circle the most suitable for this text and
- •IV Decide whether the following statements are True or False and
- •I Circle the letter corresponding to the best answer. Justify your
- •II Circle True or False and justify your answer by the text. Mark the
- •III Vocabulary: Match these words from the text with their meaning.
II Circle the letter corresponding to the best answer. Prove your choice by quoting from the text where indicated.
1 Where does the action take place? (Quote)
a) In France b) In Britain c) In Switzerland
2 Who is the main character?
a) Robin Beresford b) Adam Scott c) Rosenbaum
3 What is Adam Scott?
a) He’s a commuter b) He’s a soldier c) He’s a musician
4 Where has he been? (Quote)
a) To a concert b) To a meeting c) To the pictures
5 Where does he decide to go afterwards? (Quote)
a) To a restaurant b) To a friend’s c) To a hotel
6 What does he want to do? (Quote)
a) To enjoy himself b) To hide c) To have a good night’s rest
7 What does he suddenly realise?
a) He’s no longer alone in the room.
b) Goldilocks is there in the room with him.
c) There’s a bear in the place.
III Among the following titles circle the most suitable for this text and
explain your choice.
1 Breaking In
2 Tracked Down
3 Lost in Geneva
4 Police in Action
IV Decide whether the following statements are True or False and
justify your answers by what is said or implied in the text.
1 It was early in the morning.
T |
F |
2 Adam was very watchful as soon as he was in the street.
T |
F |
3 Adam noticed a man who was hurrying.
T |
F |
4 He realised the man was British.
T |
F |
5 Adam was a well-educated man.
T |
F |
6 He saw some musicians walk out of the front door of the empty
coach.
T |
F |
7 He climbed on to the coach which had parked nearby.
T |
F |
8 Adam recognized a friend at the hotel.
T |
F |
9 He pretended he had put up at this hotel.
T |
F |
10 Adam’s clothes were shabby and dirty.
T |
F |
11 Adam was awake when someone came in.
T |
F |
12 The girl mistook him for one of the musicians in the orchestra.
T |
F |
13 Adam imagined that his name would mean something to her.
T |
F |
14 Robin Beresford had a sense of humour.
T |
F |
THE END
TEXT 5 BEAUTY SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
from “Sister Carrie” by Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (1871 – 1945) – an American writer
(“Sister Carrie”, 1900, is a novel about a young country girl Caroline Meeber who moves to the big city where she starts realising her own ‘American Dream” by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress. It has been called ‘the greatest of all American urban novels’.)
The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended. When each individual realises for himself that this thing primarily stands for and should only be accepted as a moral due – that it should be paid out as honestly stored energy and not as a usurped privilege – many of our social, religious, and political troubles will have permanently passed. As for Carrie, her understanding of the moral significance of money was the popular understanding, nothing more. The old definition: «Money: something everybody else has and
I must get, » would have expressed her understanding of it thoroughly. (10) Some of it she now held in her hand – two soft, green ten-dollar bills – and she felt that she was immensely better off for the having of them. It was something that was power in itself. One of her order of mind would have been content to be cast away upon a desert island with a bundle of money, and only a long strain of starvation would have taught her that in some cases it could have no value.
The poor girl thrilled as she walked away from Drouet ['dru:e]. She felt ashamed in part because she had been weak enough to take it, but her need was so dire, she was still glad. Now she would have a nice new jacket! Now she would buy a nice pair of pretty button shoes.
(20) She would get stockings, too, and a skirt, and, and – until already, as in the matter of her prospective salary she had got beyond, in her desires, twice the purchasing power of her bills.
She conceived a true estimate of Drouet. To her, and indeed to all the world, he was a nice, good-hearted man. There was nothing evil in the
fellow. He gave her the money out of a good heart – out of a realisation of her want. He would not have given the same amount to a poor young man, but we must not forget that a poor young man could not, in the nature of things, have appealed to him like a poor young girl. Femininity affected his feelings. He was the creature of an inborn
(30) desire. Yet, no beggar could have caught his eye and said, “My God, mister, I’m starving,” but he would gladly have handed out what was considered the proper portion to give beggars and thought no more about it. There would have been no speculation, no philosophising. He had no mental process in him worth the dignity of either of these terms. In his good clothes and fine health, he was a merry, unthinking moth of the lamp. Deprived of his position, and struck by a few of the involved and baffling forces which sometimes play upon man, he would have been as helpless as Carrie – as helpless, as pitiable, if you will, as she.
NOTES
one of her order of mind – someone who thought like she did
strain – physical or mental pressure
dire – horrible
button shoes – high boots with buttons
purchasing power – the value of money, measured by how much it can buy
want –a state of extreme poverty
moth of the lamp – a flying insect like a butterfly that flies mostly at night and is attracted by light
involved and baffling forces – forces that are complicated and difficult to understand
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