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EGZAMIN NA POZIOMIE B2 - JĘZYK ANGIELSKI

2011

Wersja B

Please mark your answers ONLY on the ANSWER SHEET

1. LISTENING

You are going to hear five short recordings. The recordings will be played twice.

Listen and decide if the sentences are true (T) or false (F).

1 The speaker thinks it is best to be a teenager.                                                           

2 The woman can’t leave her job.                                                                                

3 The traffic in the centre of London was stopped because of the Prime Minister.     

4 Adam is unlucky because he won’t get paid until Friday.                                        

5 The woman’s husband complains because she buys unnecessary things.                       

2. LANGUAGE IN USE

A. Fill in the gaps in the text with a suitable word from the list below. Use each word only once.

Are you hooked?

No one likes to (6)_______ they’re an addict. They are sad creatures ruled by deadly substances such as tobacco, alcohol or drugs. But the annoying thing is that there are other things less damaging to the (7) _______ but still highly (8) _______. Like it or not, large numbers of us are addicts. Addictions can be chemical (caffeine, drugs), emotional (shopping,), physical (exercise) or downright strange – such as picking your pimples. What do you do when you feel under pressure, (9) _______ or depressed? Get lost in the world on internet or TV? Go shopping? Eat one (10) _______ of chocolate after another?

Anne shopped for thirteen hours a day without leaving her living room – she was (11) _______ to TV shopping. When she got home from her job as a nightcare worker at 8.30 a.m., Anne would at once tune into a satellite TV shopping (12) _______ and buy everything in sight. Her home was soon an Alladin’s cave of  (13) _______ goods and trendy clothes she didn’t need. When her cash ran out, she stole money from the elderly patients in her care and was arrested (14) _______. ‘It seemed so easy,’ she says. ‘I didn’t realise I’d become so hooked’. Ann’s family have now removed her satellite dish and now she’s seeing a counsellor and (15) _______ reducing the willingness to buy things.

B. Choose  one correct answer to fill in the gaps in the following text:

Girl Saves Father with Biscuit and Cuddles

A five-year-old girl (16) _______  to save her father’s life after he lapsed into a diabetic coma while (17) ______  a bath. Charlotte Carter found her father John unconscious with his head under water. She realized that if he stayed under the  water he (18) _______ drown, and tried to lift his head up. When that failed, she (19) ______the presence of mind to pull out the bath plug to let out the water. She then ran to the kitchen and found a chocolate biscuit, (20) ________ she pushed between his teeth and into his mouth. She then noticed that he (21) _______ blue with cold, and tried to climb up the side of the bath to close the window.  But she (22) _______ reach it, so she covered him with a towel, wrapped herself in another, got into the bath and hugged and cuddled her father for 90 minutes to keep him warm until help (23) _______ . Mr Carter, a supermarket worker, had been looking after Charlotte and her four-year-old sister while his wife (24) _______ a friend. Charlotte’s help ended (25) _______ her older sister came home, and went to fetch their mother.

(16)                       a) has helped                            b) helped                            c) helping

(17)                       a) having                            b) had                                          c) has

(18)                       a) would                            b) will                                          c) would have

(19)                       a) were having                            b) had                                          c) will have

(20)                       a) when                            b) who                                          c) which

(21)                       a) was turning                            b) were turning                            c) had been turning

(22)                       a) can’t                                          b) won’t be able              c) couldn’t

(23)                       a) had arrived                            b) were arrived                            c) arrived

(24)                       a) had been visiting              b) was visiting                            c) was visited

(25)                       a) when                            b) where                            c) until

3. READING

Read the text and decide if the sentences are true or false:

The fourth of nine children of immigrant parents from Naples, Al Capone was born in 1899 in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. He attended school through the sixth grade when he proceeded to beat up his teacher, was in turn beaten by the principal and then quit school for good. After that, he learned "street smarts," especially through a tough team of teenagers called the James Street Gang. Among his closest friends, in school and in the gang, was a kid who was to become a major crime figure, Lucky Luciano, and the two would remain dear friends for the rest of their lives.

By instinct Capone was a heartless murderer. The gun, young Capone believed, solved all. Yet by the time he was 26 Capone was transformed from a mindless killer into a cunning criminal executive. He had become the most powerful crime boss of the time and he "owned" Chicago. He suddenly had to become a major business executive, employing over 1,000 people whom he paid over $300,000 a week. And he had to demonstrate that he could work with other ethnics, including Jews, Irish, Poles and blacks. He never discriminated against any of them because of their religion, race or national origin.

At the zenith of its power the Capone organization numbered over 1,000 members, most of them experienced gunmen. Yet this represented only a portion of Capone's strength. Only a naive observer of the Chicago scene would have concluded that anywhere less than half of the city's police was on the Capone payroll. The payoff proportion for politicians was undoubtedly higher since their value to the mob was greater. Capone had "in his pocket" aldermen, state's attorneys, mayors, legislators, governors and even congressmen.

Although he was a murderer and continued to order wholesale butchery as head of the gang, Capone changed in public image, mixing well with political, business and even social figures. He took on the character of a "public utility" by limiting his mob's activities mainly to actions that enjoyed strong public support, such as alcohol, gambling and prostitution. If you give people what they want, inevitably you gain a certain respectability and popularity..

Capone surrounded himself with gangsters he could trust, and this trust was, in turn, returned to him by his men. As long as a gangster was loyal to him, Capone backed him to the limit. Capone was smart enough even to hire the bandit who had scarred him (Later Capone would tell acquaintances and reporters that he got the wound serving in the "Lost Battalion" in France in the Great War, but he was never even in the service) as a bodyguard. It also caused some rival gangs to hook up with Capone, now believing his promises that they would prosper under his protection. Not that Capone could ever relax, as he was constantly under threat of assassination. He was shot at numerous times and once almost had his soup poisoned.

1929 was a fatal year for Capone. The public attitude started to change about the brutal wars. Washington would apply strong pressure to shut Capone down. While Capone could not be convicted of murder, he was eventually arrested for income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years at the federal prison in Atlanta.

In 1934 he was transferred to Alcatraz and within a few years his health started to get worse. Released in 1939, he was partially paralyzed, a condition brought on by untreated syphilis contracted when he was young.

Capone's family took him to Florida where he was to live out the next eight years, of self-consciousness and psychosis.. He died on January 25, 1947.