Test 4 r.P.Warren "All the king’s men"

1. Analyze the point of view from which the story is told:

1. What is the way the story is told? In whose person?

2. How does a narrator come through?

3. If we have to do with a first-person narrator:

Is he a protagonist, telling his own story?

Does the narrator's personality affect his ability to interpret the events or the other characters correctly?

4. What is the narrator's attitude to what he is telling us? to the reader?

5. Is the narrator reliable? Can we trust his judgement? Is the narrator theauthor's mouthpiece?

2.Translate the following sentences using the active vocabulary of the text:

1. Непрофессионалу было очень сложно обнаружить недостатки в работе этого компьютера.

2. Она не могла представить себе всю сложность ситуации, в которой она оказалась.

3. Мысли в его голове проносились одна за другой, он никак не мог сконцентрироваться на какой-нибудь одной.

4. Перед тем как принять решение, они долго размышляли над ним.

5. Плохо сформулированные выводы портили впечатление об огромной работе, проведенной исследователями.

6. Начинающий велосипедист врезался в забор и повредил обод своего велосипеда.

7. Количество умерших от СПИДа за последнее время возросло во всем мире, в том числе и в России.

8. Этот адвокат имел репутацию умного, добросовестного и прямолинейного человека.

9. Полицейские на машине долго гнались за преступником, пока, наконец, не настигли его.

10. В течение нескольких десятков лет археологи производили раскопки египетских гробниц, пытаясь как можно больше узнать о жизни египетских фараонов.

11 После обеда многие гости захотели прогуляться по парку и полюбоваться его тенистыми аллеями.

12. Как писал великий русский поэт А.С.Пушкин, осень - это очарованье для души и глаз.

Test 5

Each passage below is followed by questions based on its content. Answer all questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage.

I. 'My father is not very well,' said Eleanor.

John Bold was very sorry - so sorry. He hoped-it was nothing serious, and put on the unmeaningly solemn face which people usually use on such occasions.

'I especially want to speak to you about my father, Mr.Bold. Indeed, I am now here on purpose to do so. Papa is very unhappy indeed, about this affair of the hospital. You would pity him, Mr.Bold, if you could see how wretched it has made him'.

'Oh, Miss Harding!'

'Indeed you would - any one would pity him; but a friend, an old friend as you are - indeed you would. He is an altered man; his cheerfulness has all gone, and his sweet temper, and his kind happy tone of voice; you would hardly know him if you saw him, Mr.Bold, he is so much altered; and -and - if this goes on, he will die.' Here Eleanor had recourse to her handkerchief, and so also had her auditors; but she plucked up her courage, and went on with her tale. 'He will break his heart, and die. I am sure, Mr.Bold, it was not you who wrote those cruel things in the newspaper "

John Bold eagerly protested that it was not, but his heart smote him as to his intimate alliance with Tom Towers. "No, I am sure it was not; and papa has not for a moment thought so;

you would not be so cruel - but it has nearly killed him. Papa cannot bear to think that people should so speak of him, and that everybody should hear him so spoken of. They have called him avaricious, and dishonest, and they say he is robbing the old men, and taking the money of the hospital for nothing.'

'I have never said so. Miss Harding. I -'

'No,' continued Eleanor, interrupting him, for she was now in the full Hood tide of eloquence; 'no, I am sure you have not; but others have said so; and if this goes on, if such things are written again, it will kill papa. Oh! Mr.Bold, if you only knew the state he is in I Now papa does not care much about money.'

Both her auditors, brother and sister, assented to this, and declared on their own knowledge that no man lived less addicted to filthy lucre than the warden.

1. According to the passage, Eleanor believes her father will die because,

1. he is suffering from a deadly disease

2. he has told her so

3. he is very depressed

4. John Bold ntends to kill him

5. he plans to commit suicide

2. Of which of the following has Eleanor's father been accused?

I. Greed

II. Theft

III. Blackmail

1. I only

2. II only

3. III only

4. I and II only

5. and III only

3. Eleanor believes all the following about her father EXCEPT that he

(A) has been greatly transformed

(B) is guilty of the charge against him

(C) cares what people think of him

(D) is pitiable in his anguish

(E) is greatly afflicted by his troubles

4. It can be inferred that John Bold

(A) has something to do with Eleanor's father's problems

(B) is indifferent to what Eleanor thinks about him

(C) lied about Eleanor's father for his own personal gain

(D) believes Eleanor's father is an evil person

(E) is one of the old men cheated by Eleanor's father

5. In the last line, the term "filthy lucre" means

(A) tobacco (B) stealing (C) extravagance (D) money (E)gambling

II. I smiled: I thought to myself, Mr. Rochester is peculiar - he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his orders.

"The smile is very well," said he, catching instantly the passing expression; "but speak too."

"I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders."

"Paid subordinates ! What, you are my paid subordinate, are you? Oh yes, I had forgotten the salary! Well then, on that mercenary ground, will you agree to let me browbeat you a little?"

"No, sir, not on the ground; but on the ground that you did forget it, and that you care whether or not a dependent is comfortable in his dependency, I agree heartily."

"And will consent to dispense with a great many conventional forms and phrases, without thinking that the omission arises from insolence?"

"I am sure, sir, I should never mistake informality for insolence:

one I rather like, the other nothing free-born would submit to, even for a

salary."

"Humbug! Most things free-born will submit to anything for a salary;

therefore, keep to yourself, and don't venture on generalities of which you are intensely ignorant. However, I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy; and as much for the manner in which it was said, as for the substance of the speech; the manner was frank and sincere; one does not often see such a manner; no, on the contrary, affectation, or coldness, or stupid, coarse-minded misapprehension of one's meaning are the usual rewards of candour. Not three in three thousand raw schoolgirl governesses would have answered me as you have just done. But 1 don't mean to flatter you: if you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. And then, after all, I go too fast in my conclusions:

for what I yet know, you may be no better than the rest; you may have intolerable defects to counterbalance your few good points."

6. It can be inferred that Mr. Rochester is speaking to

(A) an enemy (B) a friend (C) a relative (D) an employee

(E) a colleague

7. According to Mr. Rochester, most people would agree with which of the follow-

(A) Honesty is the best policy.

(B) Virtue is its own reward

(C) A penny saved is a penny earned

(D) He who pays the piper calls the tune

6. Experience is the best teacher.

8.Which of the following does Mr. Rochester appear to value LEAST?

(A) honesty (B) informality (C) submissiveness (D) openness (E) generosity

9. Mr. Rochester's tone in the passage can be best described as

(A) sympathetic (B) pompous (C) humourous (D) loving (E) cynical

III. "But perhaps you are telling lies?" Raskolnikov put in.

"I rarely lie," answered Svldrigailov thoughtfully, apparently not noticing the rudeness of the question.

"And in the past, have you ever seen ghosts before?" "Y-yes, I have seen them, but only once in my life, six years ago. I had a serf, Filka; just after his burial I called out forgetting •Filka, my pipe!' He came in and went to the cupboard where my pipes were. I sat still and thought "he is doing it out of revenge,' because we had a violent quarrel just before his death. 'How dare you come in with a hole in your elbow,' I said. 'Go away, you scampi' He turned and went out, and never came again. I didn't tell Marfa Petrovna at the time. I wanted to have a service sung for him, but I was ashamed." "You should go to the doctor."

"I know I am not well, without your telling me, though I don't know what's wrong; I believe I am five times as strong as you are. I didn't ask you whether you believe that ghosts are seen, but whether you believe that they exist."

"NO, I won't believe it!" Raskolnikov cried, with positive anger. "What do people generally say?" muttered Svidrigailov, as though speaking to -himself, looking aside and bowing his head: "They say, 'You are ill, so what appears to you is only unreal fantasy.' But that's not strictly logical. I agree that ghosts only appear to the sick, but that only proves that they are unable to appear except to the sick, not that they don't exist." "Nothing of the sort," Raskolnikov insisted irritably.

"No? You don't think so?" Svidrigailov went on, looking at him deliberately. "But what do you say to this argument (help me with it);

ghosts are as it were shreds and fragments of the worlds, the beginning of them. A man in health has, of course, no reason to see them, because he is above all a man of this earth and is bound for the sake of completeness and order to live only in this life. But as soon as one is ill, as soon as the normal earthly order of the organism is broken, one begins to realize the possibility of another world; and the more seriously ill one is, the closer becomes one's contact with that other world, so that as soon as the man dies he steps straight into that world. I thought of that long ago. If you believe in a future life, you could believe in that, too."