Matura Test 1
Matura Test 1
Matura Test 1
ROZUMIENIE ZE SŁUCHU
ZADANIE 1
Track 11 Usłyszysz dwukrotnie trzy teksty. Z podanych odpowiedzi wybierz właściwą, zgodną z treścią
nagrania. W zadaniach 1.1.–1.2. zakreśl jedną z liter: A, B albo C. W zadaniach 1.3.–1.6. zakreśl jedną
z liter: A, B, C albo D.
Tekst 1
1.1. What would be the best title for this news extract?
A Plumber helps elderly pay their bills
B Contact Depher – great rates for great service
C No bills necessary for those in need
Tekst 2
1.2. This recording is directed at
A singers who can help on a programme for health sufferers.
B people who wish to learn to sing.
C sufferers of certain health problems.
Tekst 3 (do zadań 1.3.–1.6.)
1.3. Which is TRUE about John’s job?
A He has been working with green spaces for more than a decade.
B He contributes to ideas for planning new parks and gardens.
C He has significant expertise in horticulture and this is often needed.
D He collaborates with others to make sure the parks and gardens are well run.
1.4. According to John, it can be problematic
A controlling the outdoor events that take place in the parks.
B balancing the expenditure on equipment and the plants and grass.
C making areas in parks that appeal to everyone.
D encouraging young people to use the parks.
1.5. John mentions people abusing green spaces
A to illustrate other sources of complaints.
B to show how respectful the majority of users are.
C to support his plans for more park control.
D to exemplify the difficulty of his job.
1.6. Which of the following reflects the speaker’s feelings?
A He is fortunate to live in an area with a lot of green spaces.
B He is proud of the difference his work can make.
C He is relieved that building projects have not encroached on his parks.
D He is envious of the people who have the time to walk through the parks.
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ZADANIE 2
Track 12 Usłyszysz dwukrotnie cztery wypowiedzi na temat internetowych kursów kreatywnego pisania.
Do każdej wypowiedzi (2.1.–2.4.) dopasuj odpowiadające jej zdanie (A–E). Wpisz rozwiązania do tabeli.
Uwaga: jedno zdanie zostało podane dodatkowo i nie pasuje do żadnej wypowiedzi.
This speaker mentions:
A a preference for a course which advises on how to get published.
B the pros and cons of attending an online course.
C changing an opinion regarding what makes a good writer.
D a speculation about the reason for the popularity of online courses.
E receiving praise that may not be deserved.
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ZADANIE 5
Przeczytaj tekst, z którego usunięto pięć zdań. Wpisz w każdą lukę (5.1.–5.5.) literę, którą oznaczono
brakujące zdanie (A–F) tak, aby otrzymać spójny i logiczny tekst. Uwaga: jedno zdanie zostało podane
dodatkowo i nie pasuje do żadnej luki.
Have you heard any good films lately?
It may have passed you by, but the packaging for cornflour is changing – and, in one tiny part of the British film
industry, it has created panic.
Foley artists are responsible for a film’s background noise – to make it sound as “real” as dialogue. 5.1. ___
And, by squeezing paper cornflour packets tightly together, they recreate the sound of somebody walking
on snow. But now they’re starting to pack cornflour in tins. And tins won’t do.
When directors shoot a film, they’re worried about capturing the action and the actor’s voice. Nothing else.
Not the sound of a sword scraping against a tree or a shoe tiptoeing across a marble floor. Well, the sword
is probably made of plastic – and the “marble” floor is probably painted plywood. 5.2. ___ Which is where
the Foley artist comes in – to make the film sound “real”.
The art of sound began in 1927 – when Universal employee Jack Foley helped turn the film studio’s “silent”
Show Boat into a full-on musical extravaganza. 5.3. ___ He projected the film onto a screen and recorded
the footsteps, the movement, the props – all in one track. He walked with a cane to create the footsteps
of three people. He acted out the film, all over again.
Digital advancements have made the business of Foley much easier. In the early days, the “sync” was
fundamental – the sound had to match exactly what was going on. Now, it can be manipulated to fit. 5.4. ___
A Foley artist can be playing a big superhero one minute and a little girl the next. According to one of the
country’s premier Foley supervisors, a footstep is not just a footstep – it can be angry, happy, sad, confused,
clumsy, slick, swaggering, light, heavy, wet, dry, young, old, male, female, sophisticated … the list goes on.
5.5. ___ And that performance could only ever come from the human mind. So, next time you’re watching
a film or TV series, listen carefully to the background noise – and maybe wonder – how did they create that
sound?
A So, when it comes to the edit, things don’t sound like they’re supposed to.
B Because microphones could only pick up on dialogue, Foley had to add in the other sounds later.
C However, he says, the best Foley allows for five days to produce a 20 minute film sequence.
D For instance, they recreate the sound of a bird flapping its wings by blowing up a pair of kitchen gloves
and then slapping them together in time with the action on screen.
E He insists that this is what gets across the meaning to the viewers.
F Technology has moved on, but Foley is still all about the “performance”.
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Tekst 2
Eccentric detectives
Having been an avid reader of detective fiction for as far back as I can remember, it is excellent to see so many
of those detectives being brought alive in a whole range of streamed series. My first choice of ‘eccentric
detective’ comes from an exceptional series I stumbled across quite recently called ‘Bordertown’. It is set
in Finland, so I was making do with subtitles. I was very impressed by the detective – beautifully eccentric, as
so many of the best detectives are. He’s called Kari and is played convincingly by an acclaimed actor – Ville
Virtanen. His methods are certainly not conventional and involve him using his prodigious memory to recall
and interpret various moments or details that his brain has subconsciously recorded. Flashbacks reveal that as
a child he was hypersensitive and found relationships extremely difficult, but this hypersensitivity now enables
him to solve crimes that would otherwise go undetected. An excellent series.
My next choice is someone I am sure you will have heard of. I had read my way through every single Agatha
Christie book by my mid-twenties and was mesmerised by the charming and quirky personality of perhaps her
most endearing detective, Hercule Poirot. The image that I had created in my mind of this little Belgian man
with a moustache proved to be uncannily similar to the ways successive actors have portrayed him on screen –
my favourite being David Suchet. This goes to show that Christie’s written descriptions of him must have been
very well thought-through. Poirot’s slight snobbery, self-importance and his need for perfection could irritate,
but for some reason the reader or viewer accepts this in him. After all – he does have magnificent ‘little grey
cells’ that solve everything that baffles the police.
Few female detectives make it into bestsellers or TV series, but one has definitely broken the mould, and her
reign started relatively recently. ‘Vera’ (played brilliantly by Brenda Blethyn) is not even in her prime – she’s
ageing, probably approaching retirement, and her accoutrements include an old rain hat, raincoat and a rusting
jeep which is littered with old crisp packets and other rubbish. To her sidekick, Joe, she is a motherly figure –
again, not often seen in a fictional detective – but her apparently kind and understanding approach to any
suspects that appear on her radar mask a fearsome intelligence and an inexorable persistence in rooting out
the truth. I admire her feistiness, her constant dishevelled look, and the way she knocks all our preconceptions
about detectives sideways.
ZADANIE 8
Przeczytaj tekst. Uzupełnij każdą lukę (8.1.–8.4.), przekształcając wyrazy z ramki w taki sposób,
aby powstał spójny i logiczny tekst. Wymagana jest pełna poprawność gramatyczna i ortograficzna
wpisywanych wyrazów. Uwaga: dwa wyrazy zostały podane dodatkowo i nie pasują do żadnej luki.
access expect long material prosper substance
Deadly Green
When we think of the nineteenth century in the UK, many of us assume that under Queen Victoria’s rule,
bold and bright colours were not fashionable. The truth is quite different. Whereas Victoria herself favoured
dull colours after the death of her husband, others were benefitting from their increased
8.1. _______________ and wanted expensive furnishings with bold and vibrant colours in their lives. Indeed,
some were going to extraordinary 8.2. _______________ to do this, even endangering their health. Recent
research has shown that one of the most sought after colours of the time was also 8.3. _______________
dangerous due to the side effects the dye used to create a particular colour could have on people. I am
talking about the colour green, which at that time was extremely difficult to obtain, and people would pay
8.4. _______________ sums of money to have wallpaper, wear clothes, or even own books with vivid covers
dyed in this colour. The reason green was dangerous? The dye contained a combination of chemicals, one
of which was arsenic, a potentially deadly poison.
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ZADANIE 9
W zadaniach 9.1.–9.4. wpisz obok numeru zadania wyraz, który poprawnie uzupełnia wszystkie trzy
zdania. Wymagana jest pełna poprawność ortograficzna wpisywanych wyrazów.
9.1. __________
This is an important line of enquiry for the police to __________.
Turn left and then __________ the traffic until you cross the bridge.
We have the funding and now we need to __________ through and hire more employees.
9.2. __________
I’m afraid I’m in the __________ about this as much as you are.
Some children are afraid of the __________, but they grow out of the fear.
In winter, I both leave home and return in the __________, which is depressing.
9.3. __________
The suspect’s __________ of what happened was very different to his brother’s.
There’s not much in my __________ at the moment, but I shall be paid soon.
The manager is unsure who to hold to __________ for the discrepancies in the report.
9.4. __________
Queen Victoria __________ as Queen of England for sixty-three years.
I __________ out options A and B in the multiple-choice question, which left C as correct.
The court __________ that the killer should spend the rest of his life in prison.
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