III. Speaking

Talk about the school where you study at. Include this information:

• school facilities;

• the teaching staff;

• school traditions.

Examination card № 18

I. Reading

Read the text and decide if the statements are T (True) or F (False).

I was visiting Naples, Italy, last November, eating my favourite Neapolitan food (pizza - did you really have to ask?), when I heard startling news: if the mayor of this delightfully anarchic town has his way, tens of thousands of pizzerias all over Europe might be changing their menus, if not their very names. Mayor Antonio Bassolino, it seems, has petitioned the Italian government, and thereby the European Union, for controlled-name status for Neapolitan pizza.

Now, I need no convincing that the best pizza in the whole wide world comes from Naples, but much as I love it, I can happily make do with Neapolitan pizza from New Haven, Chicago, even Naples, Maine. But if Bassolino is successful, the only pizzas that can legally be called pizza Napoletana will be those from Naples, Italy - made with Neapolitan flour, Neapolitan yeast and Neapolitan water and baked in a Neapolitan wood-fired oven. For the rest of the world, "flat bread in the Neapolitan style" may become the accepted name. Somehow, it doesn't have the same ring to it.

While it seems silly to legislate the definition of pizza, what's happening in Naples is a very small part of an important European movement to protect traditional foods from the galloping globalism that threatens the entire world of food and wine. Foods are no longer exclusive to their place of origin. And for that reason alone, I'm all for it, even though the movement sometimes comes off as ridiculous.

Taken from "Food Court" by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, Food & Wine, August 1999

1. The author assumes that we know that pizza is her favourite Neapolitan food.

2. The author is from Naples, Italy.

3. Bassolino has asked his government for controlled-name status of pizza from Naples, Italy.

4. According to the author pizza from Naples, Italy, is the only pizza worth eating.

5. In the author's opinion all good pizzas should be made with ingredients from Naples.

6. The author thinks that "Flat bread pizza in the Neapolitan style" doesn't sound right.

7. "Galloping globalism" most likely means the fast-paced rotation of the Earth.

8. The economy of Naples is suffering from Neapolitan pizza being on worldwide menus.

9. The author hates pizza from all other places but Naples, Italy.

10. The author believes Mayor Bassolino's petition could be seen as silly.

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