KONKURS Z JĘZYKA ANGIELSKIEGO English Pass-Port DLA GIMNAZJÓW POWIATU JASIELSKIEGO

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KONKURS Z JĘZYKA ANGIELSKIEGO „English Pass-Port” DLA GIMNAZJÓW POWIATU JASIELSKIEGO

Zadanie 1

Przeczytaj uważnie podany tekst, a następnie wykonaj dwa ćwiczenia pod tekstem:

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Basil Hallward was a successful artist. One day, his friend Lord Henry Watton, saw one of his paintings. It was of a very handsome young man called Dorian Gray and when Lord Henry saw it, he wanted to meet this young man. A few days later, Lord Henry and Dorian Gray met at Basil’s house and went for a walk in the garden.

‘A, how lucky you are to be so young. There is nothing in the world so important as youth!’ said Lord Henry to Dorian. ‘But time is your enemy.’

They went inside to see the portrait and Dorian looked at his own picture intensely. ‘I would love to stay young forever and for the picture to grow old instead. Oh, why did you paint this picture, Basil? Why should it stay young while I grow old? I want the picture to change. And I want to stay as I am.’ Dorian was falling in love with his own picture.

A few weeks later, Dorian met an actress called Sybil Vane. She was seventeen and very beautiful. Dorian didn’t tell Sybil his name and she called him Prince Charming. He said, ‘I am in love with you, Sybil, and I’m going to marry you.’ Sybil’s brother was worried about this mysterious young man and his relationship with Sybil. ‘If that man harms my sister, I’ll kill him, he said to a friend.

But Sybil’s brother was a sailor and had to go off to Australia. One night, Dorian took his friends to see Sybil acting as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. She acted terribly and after the performance, Dorian spoke to Sybil. He was very angry with her. ‘But how can I pretend to be Juliet now that I know what real love is,’ she said to him. Dorian replied, ‘I loved you because you were a good actress. Now I don’t love you any more.’ Then he left Sybil.

When he got back home, Dorian looked at his portrait again. Somehow it was different. The face in the picture now had a cruel smile. Then Dorian remembered his wish. He thought about his cruelty to Sybil. Tomorrow, he would see her and be good to her and make up for what he had done. But the next day, Lord Henry brought Dorian some terrible news. Sybil had killed herself! Lord Henry told him not to worry and that their marriage was impossible anyway – she was just an actress. When Lord Henry left, Dorian looked at his picture again. He realized that he would stay young and handsome forever and that the face in the picture would become ugly, old and cruel.

The years went by, but Dorian Gray stayed young and handsome. He enjoyed all the pleasures there were in life. However, his portrait changed and showed all the terrible secrets of his life. Dorian became more and more obsessed with the picture as the face in it became old and ugly. On Dorian’s thirty-eighth birthday, Basil Hallward, the painter, came to see Dorian. ‘I’m going to Paris for some time. But I want to warn you that people are saying terrible things about you and your life,’ he said. Dorian decided to show Basil the portrait and to tell him his secret. Basil was horrified when he saw the face and told Dorian to change his life. Suddenly, Dorian became very angry with Basil. He took a knife and stabbed Basil several times. The next day, Dorian got rid of the body. Nobody would ever miss Basil Hallward. They would think he was still in France.

Later that night, Dorian was in a bar talking to two women. One of the women said to him, ‘Ah, I remember you. You are Prince Charming, aren’t you?’ A sailor in the bar heard this. It was Sybil’s brother and he realized that the man was his sister’s fiancé from eighteen years ago and he wanted to kill him. But when he saw Dorian’s face clearly and it looked like a face of a young man of twenty, he let him go.

‘I nearly killed that boy,’ said the sailor. ‘Boy?’ said the woman. ‘I first met him eighteen years ago but his face hasn’t changed in all that time.’ A week later, Dorian was in the country staying with some friends, when he realized that the sailor was following him. He became very afraid. The next day, he went out walking with some of his friends who were shooting. His friends shot at an animal and there was the cry of a man. He ad killed the sailor who had been following Dorian. Dorian decided to change his life.

‘Maybe if I have a better life, the face in the picture will not be so ugly and horrible.’

But when he looked at the portrait, it was even more horrible than before. He decided to destroy the picture. He picked up a knife and stabbed the painting. There was a loud cry and a crash.

The servants were very afraid. They went into the room. On the wall, they saw the portrait of Dorian gray as a young, handsome man, on the floor was a dead man, with a knife in his heart. It was the other Dorian Gray, his face old, ugly and horrible.

A/ Zdecyduj, czy następujące zdania są prawdziwe (True) czy fałszywe (False). Napisz obok zdań literę T lub F.

1. Basil Hallward painted a portrait of Dorian Gray.

2. Lord Henry had met Dorian before he saw the portrait.

3. Dorian made a wish to stay young and for his portrait to become old instead.

4. Dorian et and fell in love with a beautiful young painter called Sybil Vane.

5. Sybil’s brother wanted to kill Dorian when he proposed marriage to Sybil.

6. Sybil killed herself after Dorian had left her.

7. On his thirty-eighth birthday, Dorian killed Basil, because Basil told him to change his lifestyle.

8. Sybil’s brother followed Dorian and shot Dorian’s friend.

9. Dorian finally decided to destroy the portrait with an axe.

10. When the servants found Dorian, his face was old and horrible.

B/ Wybierz właściwe zakończenie zdania a, b, lub c, zakreślając odpowiednią literę.

1. Dorian made his wish because he …

a/ was extremely handsomeb/ wanted to be even more handsomec/ wanted to stay young

2. Dorian was angry with Sybil because …

a/ she only pretended to love himb/ she acted badlyc/ her brother didn’t like him

3. Over the years …

a/ Dorian didn’t change physicallyb/ Dorian became more handsome c/ Dorian’s face changed

4. Dorian killed Basil because basil …

a/ became very worriedb/ saw his portraitc/ told him to change his life

5. The sailor followed Dorian because he …

a/ wanted to see his faceb/ wanted to kill himc/ was afraid of him

6. Dorian destroyed the picture because he …

a/ wanted to kill himselfb/ thought it was horriblec/ wanted to become old

Zadanie 2.

Uzupełnij luki w tekście, wybierając jedną z podanych możliwości: a, b, c, lub d, zakreślając odpowiednią literę:

Buy Nothing Today

November 24th is America’s Buy Nothing Day. It takes place on the day after Thanksgiving Day, traditionally 1/ … shopping day in the American calendar. I Europe it is the last Saturday of November. The campaign 2/ … some time ago as a way of making fun of consumerism. Now it is being celebrated in more than forty countries. The day 3/ … encourages people not to bother shopping for what they do not really need began in the Pacific north-west in 1993. Now it has expanded, from events in thirty countries last year to forty-five this year.

‘Every year it gets bigger, says Kalle Lasn, the brain behind the campaign. ‘A lot of it is word of mouth. Individual people and organizations find out about the day from 4/ … . First we hoped to advertise it on television. But major television networks found reasons why they could not run a commercial telling people not to buy anything. First they said, “Don’t worry. There’s plenty of time.” But just before the day they told us all of the spots 5/ … sold out,’ he laughs. ‘Finally we reached a compromise and a thirty-second advert was 6/ … only once. It said, “The average North American consumes five times more than a Mexican, ten times more than a Chinese person, and thirty times more than a person from India. We are the most greedy consumers in the world. The world 7/ … die because of the way we, North Americans, live and act. Give it a rest. November 24th is a Buy Nothing Day.”

There have been some negative reactions, like: ‘if you 8/ … lie this country, then get out.’ But Lasn said the majority of reactions 9/ … positive. Now here are many groups around the world, in small towns in Hungary and in shopping centres in Japan. For example, one year in New York thousands of activists took over the Times Square for a dance party, other protesters targeted the 10/ … longest shopping avenue in Panama City. It looks as if the Buy Nothing Day is here to stay. Perhaps you would like to join us?

1. a/ biggerb/ the biggestc/ a bigd/ biggest

2. a/ has startedb/ has begunc/ startsd/ was started

3. a/ whatb/ whichc/ whend/ it

4. a/ one to anotherb/ themselvesc/ each otherd/ ourselves

5. a/ areb/ isc/ wasd/ were

6. a/ showsb/ shownc/ to showd/ show

7. a/ couldb/ oughtc/ mustd/ will be able to

8. a/ won’tb/ don’tc/ didn’td/ will

9. a/ have beenb/ arec/ wered/ had been

10. a/ worldsb/ worlds’c/ world’se/ world

Zadanie 3.

Dokończ każde zdanie tak, aby jego znaczenie było takie samo jak znaczenie zdania bezpośrednio powyżej. Podane frazy rozpoczynające zdania muszą być zachowane.

1. I haven’t seen him for a month.

It’s a month…………………………………………………………………………….

2. You should have your eyes tested.

It’s high time…………………………………………………………………………….

3. It was wrong of you to hit him.

You shouldn’t …………………………………………………………………………….

4. Can we hire a car from the airport?

Is it…………………………………………………………………………….

5. You are not obliged to buy anything if you don’t want to.

You don’t…………………………………………………………………………….

6. We need to check all the accounts very carefully.

All the accounts…………………………………………………………………………….

7. I’ve never known a more irresponsible secretary than Jane.

Jane is the…………………………………………………………………………….

8. What is the distance from London to Plymouth?

How…………………………………………………………………………….

9. May I close the window?

Do you mind…………………………………………………………………………….

10. Despite having to pay high taxes, he didn’t complain.

Although he…………………………………………………………………………….

Zadanie 4.

Przetłumacz podane zdania na język angielski. W przetłumaczonych już fragmentach Ne wolno niczego zmieniać.

1. Zastanawiam się, jak wysoki jest ten budynek. Wydaje się być wyższy niż Empire State.

I wonder………………………….………… . It seems…………………………………………the Empire State.

2. Gdyby papierosy były droższe, niektórzy palacze nie mogliby pozwolić sobie na kupowanie ich tak często.

If cigarettes………………………………..…………, some smokers……………………………………………to afford……………………………………… so often.

3. Zanim wyszedłem z biura, odebrałem więcej niż pięć telefonów.

By the time I ………………………………………my office, I ……………………………………… five phone calls.

4. Gdy tylko pogoda się poprawi, zaczniemy przygotowywać się do podróży.

As soon as ………………………………………, we ………………………………………ready for the trip.

5. Im więcej czasu spędzasz w pracy, tym więcej doświadczenia nabywasz.

The ………………………………………at work, ………………………………………

6. Nie mówmy im, co robić. Chciałbym wiedzieć, jak poradzą sobie z tym problemem.

………………………………………to do. I’d like to know………………………………………manage a problem like this.

7. Będziecie mogli przenieść się do pokoju o wyższym standardzie pod warunkiem, że zapłacicie więcej.

Provided……………………………………… you……………………………………… a higher standard room.