Column a Column b

a) period of ten years, e.g. 1960-1969

b) describe

c) unable to settle; unable to relax or be still; wanting or needing to move

d) disappointment; state of having lost belief in something

e) goodbye

f) weapons; guns

g) without decoration; plain

h) strong; powerful; confident

i) criticize, make fun of or attack people's behaviour or society

(for their wickedness, foolishness, etc.)

j) neither very good nor very bad; second-rate

k) clearly; in detail

I) examine carefully part by part; analyze

m) one of the parts into which something can be divided

EXERCISE 2: Choose the correct answer according to the passage.

1. Ernest Hemingway's style

A) was extremely satirical

B) influenced a great many American writers

C) made him the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

D) was criticized by most of the serious novelists

E) was analytical and critical

2. Until Sinclair Lewis,

A) no other writer had used satire

B) American writing was considered mediocre

C) the only successful writer was Ernest Hemingway

D) American life did not feature in novels

E) no American author had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

3. According to the passage, many authors of the "Jazz Age"

A) were disillusioned because of the war

B) received awards such as the Nobel Prize for Literature

C) had a mediocre style

D) wrote about the realities of American life

E) were criticized by American society

EXERCISE 3: Complete the sentences by selecting words from COLUMN B in EXERCISE 1.

1. He had described his home town so _____to me that on my first visit there, I felt as if I had been there before.

2. Can you pick me up in an hour as I have a few ________to make before we finally leave?

3. She gets really___________ if she stays in one place for longer than about three months.

4. I want a very simple,_______________ dress with no ribbons, bows or lace.

5. In his books, Charles Dickens clearly_______ the poverty of nineteenth-century England.

ВАРИАНТ 5

READING 1

PACIFIC SALMON FOR THE JAPANESE

Nobody eats as much Pacific salmon as the Japanese, who consume the fish raw, pickled, baked, salted, fried, smoked and put in soup. They eat salmon liver, and salmon skulls, and they process the fish into burgers and sausage. They eat 300,000 tons of the fish each year, a third of the world's total catch. The center of it all is Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market, the largest on earth. Long before sunrise, the market is buzzing. Hundreds of men and women rush around between stalls, shout orders at one another, slice fish, work the telephones, and joke under bright strings of lights that shine down on acres of iced-down fish steaks, shark fillets, and thick red slabs of tuna stacked like wood. The concrete floors are newly washed and swept. The whole place smells fresh, like the sea.

EXERCISE 1: Find words or phrases in the passage which mean the same as:

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