Section 4. Listening/Composition

Double amputee Oscar Pistorius, known as the 'Blade Runner' due to the prosthetic carbon fibre limbs he uses, already made history when competing at the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu. The 25-year-old has had to field numerous questions over the years about whether his artificial legs giving him an unfair advantage. He was banned from competing alongside able-bodied athletes but he overturned this ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. And although that has not stopped the sniping, Pistorius is desperate to put the issue to one side.

Oscar Pistorius will become the first amputee sprinter to compete in the 2012 Games, he will also defend his (sport class) T44 titles in the 100m, 200m and 400m at the Paralympics, but he has a modest target in London. 'A decent position in the semi-final,' he added. 'I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. 'I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to. 'I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, "Can you just pass me my leg?" But I don't ever think about my disability."

Section 5. Response Rate/Sight Translation

A. be far ahead of – выяснить - flag down a passing car- получить пожизненный запрет – reinstatement of/in smth -– иметь серьезное преимущество по сравнению с кем-л - lose (out) to smb – обвинить кого-л в чем-л - throwing game (intentionally losing game) – устраивать серию договорных игр –- to acquit smb of conspiracy - морочить, обманывать - apocryphal story - лишить титула чемпиона страны - least of all - принудить - the joke was on them - повышать уровень толерантности – embarrass smb -– преодолеть скрытое предвзятое отношение - insensitive remarks – антисемитско-окрашенные высказывания - to have an axe to grind with smb— допускать возможность чего-либо – have demeaning views of smth - коллективный опыт - paragon of virtue – бесцеремонный - qualify for the finals - надменное чванство - be on the wane - беспощадная машина победы – put up for auction - memorabilia vendor - исключать из – human rights protest – быть в центре внимания прессы – enjoy bipartisan support - Удалить с поля – score a point – выйти в финал – dismissal of the skipper – положение вне игры в раке – kick penalty – пытаться перехватить мяч - hit the target – вести счет пробежкам – bowl out – серия бросков (в крикете) – reveal true identity;

B. намного опережать - figure out - поймать машину - received a lifetime ban – восстановление - be heavily favored against - проиграть кому-либо - indict smb for smth – договорная игра – to fix series - обвинить в тайном сговоре - to defraud - недостоверная(апокрифическая) история - be stripped of national title - менее всего - coerced him into – они остались в дураках - enhance tolerance – ставить в неудобное положение -– resolve any latent prejudice - нетактичные высказывания - anti-Semitic tinged remarks –точить зуб на кого-либо – to concede the reality of – иметь пренебрежительное мнение - pooled experiences - воплощенная добродетель – unapologetical - выйти в финал – – overbearing arrogance – ослабевать, идти на убыль - ruthless winning machine – выставлять на аукцион – компания по продаже памятных вещей – be expelled from – протест против нарушения прав человека - be in the media spotlight – пользоваться поддержкой обеих партий - send off – получить очко –reach the final – удаление капитана команды—be off-side at the ruck – забить штрафной – committ a tackle - попасть в цель – score up runs – выбить, вывести из строя – over – назвать себя (свое истинное имя);

SPORTS

1. Hoaxes and cheats in sport. The 1904 Olympics. Fred Lorz. New York native Fred Lorz cruised to the marathon finish line in three hours, 13 minutes -- far ahead of his nearest competitor. Lorz had already broken the tape, posed for photographs with then-first daughter Alice Roosevelt and made ready to receive his gold medal when organizers figured out how he'd established such a lead: by flagging down a passing car and riding 11 miles as a passenger. Lorz claimed his own short cut was a practical joke but still received a lifetime ban from the sport, though track officials later allowed him to run again. He celebrated his reinstatement by winning the Boston Marathon the next year.

2. Hoaxes and cheats in sport The 1919 Chicago White Sox. Major League Baseball was a national institution in the early years of the 20th century -- the All-American game -- and the best team in baseball was the Chicago White Sox. But despite being heavily favored against the Cincinnati Reds, the Sox lost to the Reds in eight games in the then best-of-nine World Series. A grand jury indicted eight White Sox players for throwing (i.e., intentionally losing) games, including pitcher Eddie Cicotte and outfielder "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, who admitted that the team had received money from gamblers to fix the series. A court later acquitted the players of conspiracy to defraud the public, but baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned them for life. The national feeling over the event was summed up in an apocryphal story about a young boy who approached Jackson outside the courthouse and begged: "Say it ain't so, Joe."

3. Hoaxes and cheats in sport. The 1936 Olympics Dora Ratjen. There was nothing at all feminine about Dora Ratjen, who competed in the high jump at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Least of all "her" real name. Dora was, in fact, actually Hermann Ratjen, a detail not discovered until after the Second World War, when he was found working as a waiter -- not a waitress -- in Hamburg. Ratjen claimed that leaders of the Hitler Youth had coerced him into binding his genitals and competing as a woman. But in the end, the joke was on them and their theories of Aryan superiority: Ratjen finished fourth, behind three actual women.

4. Charlie Ward, the Knicks point-guard, has been meeting monthly with a select group of New York City Rabbis and Hebraic scholars, team sources confirmed, to enhance his religious tolerance and assure, entering the season, that he avoid the kind of insensitive, anti-Semitic tinged remarks that embarrassed the team last year. Summoning reporters to his locker after a recent team practice, Ward was anxious to show the strides he'd made and to reveal himself in a reformed light. Saying he had no axe to grind with anyone and had resolved any latent prejudices, he insisted that he held no demeaning views of Jews, but maintained they were people with "money and big noses." Clarifying his stance, Ward conceded the reality of "The Holocaust" but said his own numbers put the Jews perished under the Nazis at "somewhere between two and three hundred." That figure, he stressed, came from the pooled efforts of "me, Larry and Allan" (his teammates) to "get the numbers right.". "That's still bad," he said. "Two or three hundred. That don't make [the Nazis] good”

5. Schumacher was not exactly a paragon of virtue during his first career. He even strong-armed his own brother Ralf once. It was part of what made him Michael Schumacher. Unapologetically aggressive – and brilliantly fast. Outside of Germany and Ferrari people didn’t much like him or his smugness. But that was fine. You couldn’t argue with his achievements. Not so any more. Schumacher qualified eight places behind Nico Rosberg in Budapest – the latest proof that he has lost the pace that once made him such an unstoppable force. His skills are clearly on the wane. He should walk away because he’s no longer fast enough and his overbearing arrogance can no longer be excused as that of a ruthless winning machine.

6. Tommie Smith, famous for his iconic Black Power Salute at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, has put his gold medal and running shoes up for auction with a New York-based memorabilia vendor. Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos were expelled from the Games and USA team for their human rights protest on the podium, where the American 200 meters runners bowed their heads and offered a raised-fist salute wearing single black gloves during the hymn sounding. M.I.T. Memorabilia's Gary Zimet has set the initial bid at $250,000 with the sale scheduled to close on November 4. Smith, now 66 and living in Georgia declined to comment on the auction to the San Jose Mercury News. "He feels that what he did ruined his life in many ways, and he simply doesn't want to put himself in the media spotlight," Zimet said.

(Black Power Salute - The two U.S athletes received their medals shoeless, but wearing black socks, to represent black poverty. Smith wore a black scarf around his neck to represent black pride, Carlos had his tracksuit top unzipped to show solidarity with all blue collar workers in the U.S. and wore a necklace of beads which he described "were for those individuals that were lynched, or killed and that no-one said a prayer for, that were hung and tarred.)

7.On Monday in Canberra, the Australian government released its annual budget, one that promises a A$1.5 billion surplus for the year, but little was said of the potential impact of the budget on Australian sport in an Olympic year when Australia is looking to earn the fewest medals since the 1996 Games in Atlanta. There were no apparent surprises for the sports sector in Australia in this budget. Sport is an important part of Australian culture and the development of sport enjoys bipartisan support. The Active After School investment reflects a commitment to support participation and engagement in physical activity and sport.

8.World Cup final. France beat 14-man Wales 9-8 to reach the World Cup final in a controversial match at Eden Park in Auckland that saw Sam Warburton sent-off in the first-half. Mike Phillips scored the only try of the match in the second-half but Warren Gatland's side were denied a first appearance in a World Cup final and the aftermath will be dominated by Warburton's dismissal. Wales had enjoyed a 70 per cent territorial dominance in the opening 15 minutes before the dismissal of their skipper after 18 minutes. Irish official Alain Rolland adjudged that the 23-year-old had committed a spear tackle on Vincent Clerc although the winger had been released from Warburton's grasp before landing on his back. Wales had led 3-0 at that point through James Hook’s eighth minute penalty, after Thierry Dusautoir was offside at the ruck, but Morgan Parra kicked two first-half penalties to give France a 6-3 half-time lead.

9. Former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan hit a team of amateur players for six when he donned a fat suit, wig and mask to take part in a village match. The 36-year-old turned out for Goldsborough Cricket Club 2nds and successfully fooled members of opposition side Dishforth as he scored 28 runs. Then they were bowled out in 12 overs for a record low of just five runs - with all ten batsmen going for a duck and the runs coming from four byes and a leg bye. But Vaughan, who had scored 5,719 runs in test matches at an average of 41, helped his new teammates to an unlikely win in the rematch with just two balls remaining. Having used the assumed name of Gary Watson, Vaughan then took off his disguise and revealed his true identity to shocked opposition players. The stunt was arranged by NatWest Cricket Club, as part of its campaign to generate £20m worth of additional support for the game at community level.