| Przedmiot | Język angielski – transkrypcja dla klas dwujęzycznych |  |
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| Data | Styczeń 2009 | |
| Stopień trudności | Poziom rozszerzony I | |
| Czas pracy | 0 minut | |
| Sygnatura | Matura próbna | |
| Zrodlo | Centralna Komisja Egzaminacyjna | |
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| 1. It was one of those mornings when the early mist hung in wet sheets across the valleyunder a band of bright blue sky and, by the time we came home from walking, the dogs weresleek with damp, whiskers glittering in the sun. They saw the stranger first, and prancedaround him pretending to be fierce.He stood by the swimming pool, fending off their attentions with a handbagof masculine design and backing ever closer to the deep end. He seemed relieved to see us.“Dogs all right, are they? Not rabid or anything?” The voice was recognized as that of ourtelephone caller, Tony from London, and he and his handbag joined us for breakfast. He waslarge and prosperously padded around the waistline, with tinted glasses, carefully tousled hairand the pale-coloured clothes that English visitors wear in Provence regardless of the weather.He sat down and produced from his bag a bulging Filofax, a gold pen, a packet of duty-freeCarter cigarettes, and a gold lighter. His watch was also gold. I was sure that gold medallionsnestled in his chest hair. He told us he was in advertising.He gave us a brief but extremely complimentary account of his business history. Hehad started his own advertising agency, built it up, and had just sold a controlling interest forwhat he described as heavy money and a five-year contract. Now, he said, he was ableto relax, although one would never have guessed from his behaviour that he was a man whohad left the cares of the office behind. He was in a constant fidget, looking at his watch,arranging and rearranging his trinkets on the table in front of him, adjusting glassesand smoking in deep, distracted drags. Suddenly, he stood up.“Mind if I make a quick call? What’s the code for London?” 2. Five years ago broadcaster Sheena McDonald suffered massive head injuries. After a longpainful journey to rebuild her shattered life and personality, she asks herself if she can everbe the same person she used to be.Sheena McDonald:I am not a neuro-scientist but you could say I have coal-face expertise, because I ama survivor of head-injury. I suffered such a severe head-injury that the medical professionthought that surviving at all was as much as could be expected. Just over a year afterthe injury, a doctor described me as „a walking miracle” – and I was still in primary recovery.Five years on, Im very much better. And given that the professionals are surprised –to the best of my knowledge, „miracle” is not a clinical term – I now have a laymansobsession to understand as much as I can about how the brain works – and how mine defiedconvention.Of course, given the nature of my condition, my claimed expertise and authority is temperedby the practical reality of being traumatised. In other words, I remember nothing about whathappened to me. So I rely on others memories and experience. I have been a journalist formore than 20 years. This is a classic journalistic exercise: to hunt for the truth after the event.This is why documentary-maker Roger Grafton persuaded BBC Four and BBC Scotland tocommission a documentary about what happened to me. The documentary is called Who AmI Now? – and, neurologically, that question makes perfect sense, as I discovered in the makingof the programme.I was hit by a police van while I was crossing the road. It was late at night and raining.The van was travelling on the wrong side of the road. I was taken by ambulance to the nearesthospitals Accident and Emergency Unit. Intubation was carried out to allow assistedventilation because I couldnt breathe for myself. My brother came to see me the next day,so I asked him what he saw. Id never wanted to go back to these lost days and weeks before,but now I was interested. He said I was in a coma and he was worried that I would never bemyself again. And for a long time I wasnt. I suffered five or six weeks from whats calledpost-traumatic amnesia 3. A new survey has shown that listening to certain pieces of music while driving may be moredangerous than listening to others. The most dangerous five, apparently, are Wagners Ride ofthe Valkyries, Firestarter by the Prodigy, Red Alert by Basement Jaxx, Insomnia by Faithlessand Verdis Requiem. The safest tunes, meanwhile, are Gary Juless Mad World, LemarsAnother Day, Sugababes Too Lost in You, Blues Breathe Easy and Norah Joness ComeAway With Me. We’ve asked DJs from five different radio stations what they make of that.SPEAKER ATheres no doubt that music can affect peoples lives. But its not up to me to make peopledrive sensibly – hopefully theyve got enough brain power to drive safely on their own. Ivejust looked at the list of good tunes, and Im pleased to say that theyre all our station’s bighits. Luckily, I dont think we play any of those five on the bad list.SPEAKER BI think it makes perfect sense. I remember reading a story a while ago that when McDonaldswant people to eat quickly they play them very pumping music, so it seems reasonablethat it would have a similar effect on you in the car and the way that you drive. I wasnt reallysurprised when I read the article. To my knowledge weve never been responsible forany accidents. I think if the music youre listening to can put you in a good mood then youregoing to be a nicer driver. And I think there are other stations that need to be more worriedabout this than we do.SPEAKER CI was surprised by some of the songs that were on there. I mean Basement Jaxxs Red Alertwas one of the songs it says that you cant play, and I think its a great drive-home tune.I think that if youve had a tough day at work then an upbeat song is great because it cheersyou up. I would have thought that songs that are slower, if youre not mixing them withanything upbeat, would be a bit depressing.SPEAKER DWhen we were first trying to work out what we should be doing with the drivetime slot,and how much people wanted to be stimulated, then the overwhelming response was thatpeople wanted relaxing stuff that would de-stress them while they were driving. I rememberthat Classic commissioned a survey to find out how people responded to more vibrantclassical music, stuff thats louder or more rhythmic. The responses came back that no matterhow loud a piece of classical music was, it didnt produce a similar reaction to, say, a pieceof rock or dance. Its because its not amplified and it doesnt have the same beat behind it.SPEAKER EWe play quite a lot of dance music, like Basement Jaxxs Red Alert, which is definitely oneof those ones where youre driving along in the car, tapping along to the steering wheel, andyou find yourself singing along to it. I can well believe that the attention span does lapse,slightly, but its never crossed my mind to moderate what I play. Drivers are a major partof our stations listeners. Ive never noticed any correlation between my playing loud, bangingmusic and people calling in with accident reports, but now its something Ill watch out for. 4. 5. |
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