| Przedmiot | Język angielski – transkrypcja |  |
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| Data | Styczeń 2009 | |
| Stopień trudności | Poziom rozszerzony II | |
| Czas pracy | 0 minut | |
| Sygnatura | Matura próbna | |
| Zrodlo | Centralna Komisja Egzaminacyjna | |
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| 1. Host: Today we are talking about the endings to books. A survey published to mark WorldBook Day suggests that books with happy endings are more popular than those which endsadly. Do you agree with the survey’s findings? What is your favourite conclusion to a book?Let’s listen to some of your views:Speaker 1Perhaps the sad ending is more powerful while the happy ending is more rewarding, whichpoints to what you intend to get from a book. So I believe the ending should depend on thestory, which if done right will not give a surprise sad ending, but simply capitalise on themomentum or message of the story.Speaker 2There are times of course when I want a happy ending, but I really dislike an artificial one.Pride and Prejudice of course ends happily and I love the book – however it has a fair amountof unhappy endings too, for example Lydia and Charlotte. It’s really important for me to seesome common sense in the plot and a down-to-earth ending instead of a fairy tale.Speaker 3Working in an environment where I’m in daily contact with death, degradation, crime,violence and drugs the last thing I need in a book is gritty realism. Nor do I need poor Englishor shallow characterisation. A happy ending is not essential but does help you forget about thereal world around you and lets you get away from your daily routine.Speaker 4In life there are happy endings and sad endings and kids shouldnt be shielded from pain, lossor sorrow. Experiencing sadness shows children how to deal with the reality of tragedy. Thismakes readers understand and comprehend that in life sometimes you gain and sometimes youlose.Speaker 5There is so much negative thinking in this world on a daily basis that most people walkaround as if someone had died. We need happy endings. We need uplifting stories that give ushope. We need stories that show things can and do change for the better. A good story with ahappy ending is like a good friend, always there when you need him. 2. I have here a letter from one of our listeners who writes: “Its a nightmare to get eitherof my teenage children out of bed in the mornings. But for all the sleep they get, theyre not atall bright or sparky in the mornings. In fact my son looks worse after a long lie in. Canstaying in bed too long make you ill?”Actually, science can help here! An extra half hour or even hour at the weekend wontdo any harm. But many teenagers dont emerge from their rooms until late after midday whichmeans they stay asleep for several hours past their normal wake-up time.The quality of sleep as you snooze on long past breakfast time tends to be lesssatisfactory and dreams during this time are often disturbing and chaotic. They disturb youeven more if you don’t wake up early enough. Although you are unaware of what ishappening and won’t remember the unpleasant episodes, its quite common to wake up feelingvery un-refreshed, and certainly not like youve had an extra rest.This may be because the body usually runs to a very predictable internal clock. While you tryto fool this clock by sleeping on, other body rhythms all work against you and dont match upwith the brains sleeping phase.Lying in also interferes with the principles of good sleep hygiene. Sleep hygienemeans keeping regular habits and hours in order to maximise good quality sleep. Our bodiesare creatures of habit and work best on a regular schedule.So, for ideal sleep we should aim for a similar bedtime every day, and a similar rising time,avoiding naps earlier in the day.Poor sleep hygiene can cause problems with sleep itself, such as insomnia, and alsoother physical problems such as migraines. Shift workers are familiar with these problems,because they frequently have to adapt their body to a new time frame. Your children are likeshift workers each weekend, struggling to adapt for a couple of days as they party late and riselate each weekend, and then readjusting to the old time frame.But in the end, do you know any self-respecting teenager who doesnt get up late whenthey can just in order to annoy their parents? 3. Interviewer: …and today our guest is NASA’s ‘educator astronaut’ who is due to fly intospace soon. Barbara, when did space exploration become important to you?Barbara: I remember in second grade reading about how NASA had started sendingchimpanzees into space, and I was excited about that and followed the media coverage fromthat point on. My parents knew that space exploration was something I was interested in, soI was given a small telescope on my birthday. I also remember my girl scout campexpeditions, looking up at the stars and asking lots of questions. Although Ive been interestedin space exploration, I never considered it as a career and Im glad I chose to be an astronomyteacher.Interviewer: Knowing what happened to Challenger in 1986 and to Columbia in 2003,are you in any way apprehensive about your upcoming space flight?Barbara: I am not nervous or apprehensive about it. I will be alert on the launch pad.We train for problems the best we can; we try to minimise risk the best we can. Beforethe Challenger accident it was all about the curiosity about ourselves as human beings and ourplace on our planet and in the universe. 4. 5. |
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