Believe me, I am not just being a smart alec. It so happens that I have actually tried Frame of Mind myself. The first time was the year I went all out to pass the civics final. I had to go all out, on account of I had not cracked a book all year. I really crammed, and all the time I was cramming I was concentrating on Frame of Mind. Just believe you can do a thing – sure. I made the lowest score in the history of Franklin High. “Thirty-three percent,” I said, showing my father the report card. “There’s your Frame of Mind for you.” He put it on the table without looking at it. “You have to reach a certain age and understanding,” he explained. “That’s the key to Frame of Mind.” “Yeah? What does a guy do in the meantime?” “Maybe you should study. Some kids learn a lot that way.”
That was my first experience with Frame of Mind. My latest one was for a promotion at the Austin Clothing Store. Jim Watson had a slightly better sales record and was more knowledgeable and skillful. Me, I had Frame of Mind. Jim Watson got the job. Did this convince my father? It did not. To convince him, something had to happen. To him, I mean. Something did happen, too, at the Austin Clothing Store. My father works there, too. What happened was that Mr Austin paid good money for a clever Easter window display. It’s all set up and we’re about to draw the curtain when we discover the display lights won’t work. I can see Mr Austin growing pale. He is thinking of the customers that could go right by his store in the time it will take him to get hold of an electrician.
This is when my father comes on the scene. “Is something the matter?” he says. “Oh, hello, Louis,” Mr Austin says. He calls my father “Louis.” Me, Joe Conklin – one of his best salesmen – he hardly knows. My father, a stock clerk, he calls “Louis.” Life isn’t always fair. “These darned lights won’t work.” “H’mm, I see,” my father says. “Maybe I can be of service.” From inside his pocket comes a screwdriver. Mr Austin looks at him. “Can you help us, Louis?” “No, he cannot,” I volunteer. “You think he’s Thomas Edison?” I don’t intend to say that. It just slips out. “Young man, I was addressing your father,” Mr Austin says, giving me a cold hard look. My father touches something with his screwdriver and the display lights go on.
What happened next was that the big safe in Mr Austin’s office got jammed shut with all our paychecks in it. From nowhere comes my father. “Is something the matter?” he says. “The safe, Louis,” Mr Austin is saying. “It won’t open, I was going to send for you.” “H’mm, I see,” my father says. “Can you help us, Louis?” Mr Austin inquires. I start to say he cannot, but I stop myself. If my father wants to be a clown, that’s his business. “What is the combination of this safe?” my father says. Mr Austin whispers the combination in my father’s ear. Armed with the combination, he starts twirling the knob. I can’t believe it: grown men and women standing hypnotized, expecting that safe door to open. And while they stand there, the safe door opens.
“Go ahead, say it was luck, my opening the safe today,” my father says. “OK,” I reply. Then I tell him what I saw in the faces of those people in Mr Austin’s office: confidence and trust and respect. “The key to Frame of Mind is you have to use it to give support to those who need it when there’s no one else to save the situation. Otherwise it will not work.”
A15
The narrator thought that his father
| 1) | believed that he was the luckiest man in the world. |
| 2) | was a knowledgeable and highly qualified man. |
| 3) | succeeded in almost everything he did. |
| 4) | didn’t mind being called a lucky man. |
A16
In paragraph 2 “I had to go all out” means that the narrator had to
| 1) | take the civics examination one more time. |
| 2) | take the civics examination in a different school. |
| 3) | try as hard as he could to prepare for the exam. |
| 4) | find somebody to help him pass the exam. |
A17
They didn't promote the narrator because he had
| 1) | proved less successful than Jim. |
| 2) | sold few records. |
| 3) | no Frame of Mind. |
| 4) | not reached the promotion age. |
A18
Mr Austin was in despair because
| 1) | the curtain wouldn’t draw open. |
| 2) | he couldn’t find an electrician. |
| 3) | the display had cost him a lot of money. |
| 4) | he was likely to lose some customers. |
A19
When Mr Austin called the narrator’s father “Louis” the young man felt
| 1) | proud of his Dad. |
| 2) | hopeful of his Dad. |
| 3) | jealous of his Dad. |
| 4) | sorry for his Dad. |
A20
The narrator was sure that
| 1) | his Dad would open the safe. |
| 2) | his Dad knew nothing about safes. |
| 3) | Mr. Austin wanted to make fun of his Dad. |
| 4) | Mr. Austin had sent for his Dad to open the safe. |
A21
According to Louis’ words, Frame of Mind worked if one was
| 1) | an expert in many fields. |
| 2) | ready to help other people. |
| 3) | a lucky person. |
| 4) | respectful and trustful. |
| По окончании выполнения заданий В2, В3 и А15 – А21 НЕ ЗАБУДЬТЕ ПЕРЕНЕСТИ СВОИ ОТВЕТЫ В БЛАНК ОТВЕТОВ № 1! ОБРАТИТЕ ВНИМАНИЕ, что ответы на задания В2 – В3, А15 – А21 располагаются в разных частях бланка. |
Раздел 3. Грамматика и лексика
| Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте, если необходимо, слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами B4 – B10, так чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы B4 – B10. |
Where did the Olympic Games come from?
B4
| There are many different stories about the beginning of the Olympics. One myth says that Zeus himself started the Games. Athletic games __________________as an important part of many religious festivals in ancient Greek culture. | HOLD |
B5
| Spectators __________________ to watch the games also enjoyed the beauty of architecture and landscape. | COME |
B6
| Olympia was one of the oldest religious centers in the ancient Greek world. The __________________sight at Olympia was the gold and ivory statue of Zeus. | IMPRESSIVE |
B7
| The statue was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. This explains why Olympia __________________ as the site for the most important athletic competition. | CHOOSE |
B8
| Some athletes travelled hundreds of miles, from colonies. These colonies were as far away as modern Spain, Egypt, Ukraine and Turkey. Any free-born Greek (a man or a boy) __________________ take part in the Olympics. | CAN |
B9
| __________________ did not compete, they were also barred from attending the games, under penalty of death. Unmarried girls were allowed to attend. | WOMAN |
B10
| Unlike the modern Olympics, judges __________________ from all over the world, but were drawn from Elis, the local region which included Olympia. | NOT COME |
| Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст. Преобразуйте, если необходимо,слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами В11 – B16, так чтобы они грамматически и лексически соответствовали содержанию текста. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы В11 – В16. |
Arbor Day and Earth Day
B11
| The first Arbor Day took place in April, 1872 in Nebraska. It was the brainchild of Julius Sterling Morton (1832-1902), a Nebraska journalist and __________________ originally from Michigan. | POLITICS |
B12
| When he became a member of Nebraska's state board of agriculture, he proposed that a special day be set aside dedicated to tree planting and increasing __________________ of the importance of trees. Nebraska's first Arbor Day was an amazing success. More than one million trees were planted. | AWARE |
B13
| On April 22, 1970, Arbor Day __________________ were modified to emphasize the critical importance of the environment. | ACTIVE |
B14
| It was a time when cities were buried under theirown smog and polluted rivers caught fire. Earth Day was created to remind people of their __________________to protect the planet. | RESPONSIBLE |
B15
| Now Earth Day is celebrated __________________ around the globe. | ANNUAL |
B16
| What started as a day of national environmental recognition has evolved into a worldwide campaign to protect our __________________ environment. | GLOBE |
| Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами А22 – А28. Эти номера соответствуют заданиям A22 – A28, в которых представлены возможные варианты ответов. Обведите номер выбранного вами варианта ответа. | |
Tracy
Tracy was as excited as a child about her first trip abroad. Early in the morning, she stopped at a A22 ______ agency and reserved a suite on the Signal Deck of the Queen Elizabeth II. The next three days she spent buying clothes and luggage.
On the morning of the sailing, Tracy hired a limousine to drive her to the pier. When she A23 ______ at Pier 90, where the Queen Elizabeth II was docked, it was crowded with photographers and television reporters, and for a moment Tracy was panic stricken. Then she realized they were interviewing the two men posturing at the foot of the gangplank. The members of the crew were helping the passengers with their luggage. On deck, a steward looked at Tracy’s ticket and A24 ______ her to her stateroom. It was a lovely suite with a private terrace. It had been ridiculously expensive but Tracy A25 ______ it was worth it.
She unpacked and then wandered along the corridor. In almost every cabin there were farewell parties going on, with laughter and champagne and conversation. She felt a sudden ache of loneliness. There was no one to see her A26 ______, no one for her to care about, and no one who cared about her. She was sailing into a completely unknown future.
Suddenly she felt the huge ship shudder as the tugs started to pull it out of the harbor, and she stood A27 ______ the passengers on the boat deck, watching the Statue of Liberty slide out of A28 ______, and then she went exploring.
A22
| 1) | journey | 2) | trip | 3) | travel | 4) | tourist |
A23
| 1) | achieved | 2) | arrived | 3) | entered | 4) | reached |
A24
| 1) | set | 2) | came | 3) | headed | 4) | directed |
A25
| 1) | determined | 2) | resolved | 3) | decided | 4) | assured |
A26