Государственный экзамен по первому иностранному языку (2010 г.)

ПРИЛОЖЕНИЕ К ЭКЗАМЕНАЦИОННОМУ БИЛЕТУ № 19

1. Stylistic syntax.

Practical assignment. Identify syntactical stylistic devices used in the examples below:

1. “How do you feel? “ Nick asked.

“Swell. I’ve just got good edge on.” Bill was buttoning up his sweater. (E. Hemingway)

2. ‘twas Nelly brought ‘em into the house. (T. Capote)

3. “Well, keep it for me – will you? I’ll …”

But the shopman had already bowed as though keeping it for her was all any human being could ask. He would be willing, of course, to keep it for her for ever. (K. Mansfield)

4. Matchbooks. Coaster trays. Hotel towels and washcloths. He was sending her the samples of whatever he was selling at the time. (Erdrich)

5. They were poor in space, poor in light, poor in quiet, poor in repose, poor in the atmosphere of privacy – poor in everything that makes a man’s home his castle. (J. Cheever)

6. My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as bad as the way Gwendolen flirts with you. (O. Wilde)

7. They painted their lips and their nails, they darkened their lashes and lightened their hair, and scent seemed to shimmer from them. They wore thin, bright dresses, and tilted slippers, fancifully strapped. They looked conspicuous and cheap and charming. (D. Parker)

8. Bang went Philbrick’s revolver. Off trotted the boys on another race. (E. Waugh)

9. All summer you could hear him. In the yard. In the garden. In the woods. (T. Capote).

10. We’re nice people and there isn’t going to be room for nice people any more. It’s ended, it’s all over, it’s dead. (J. Cheever)

11. But even the band seemed to know what she was feeling and played more softly, played tenderly over and over. What would she do? What was going to happen now? (K. Mansfield)

12. - I wish I could go back to school all over again.

- Don’t we all, he said. (B. Shaw)

2. Extract from the novel “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” by T. Capote.

3. Render the article “Доног глубокой заморозки” and speak on the topic “New trends in medicine: ways to increase longevity”.

Заведующий кафедрой ____________________________ Власян Г. Р.

Министерство образования и науки РФ

ГОУВПО «Челябинский государственный университет»

Факультет лингвистики и перевода

Кафедра теории и практики английского языка

Государственный экзамен по первому иностранному языку (2010 г.)

ПРИЛОЖЕНИЕ К ЭКЗАМЕНАЦИОННОМУ БИЛЕТУ № 20

1. Stylistic morphology.

Practical assignment. Consider the following sentences and comment on the function of morphological grammatical categories and parts of speech that create stylistic function:

1. I walked past Mrs. Shumway, who jerked her head around in a startled woodpeckerish way…(Erdrich)

2. …and the bandsmen sitting in the green rotunda blew out their cheeks and glared at the music. Now there came a little “flutey” bit – very pretty! – a little chain of bright drops. (K. Mansfield)

3. Night`s candles are burnt out (W. Shakespeare)

4. Poor thin little thing just drugging herself with that sack of paper. (T. Capote)

5. That`s not the Mr. Littejohn I used to know. (E. Waugh)

6. He was a horse owned by a Mr. Mathers down at Marietta, Ohio.(Sh. Anderson)

7. Now, are we getting better today?

8. Well, you tell that Herman of yours to mind his own business.(London)

9. One night I am standing in front of Mindy’s restaurant on Broadway, thinking of practically nothing whatever, when all of a sudden I feel a very terrible pain in my left foot. (Runyon)

10. They are all being so formal. Let’s play a game to break the ice. (Bell)

11. Mrs. Thompson, Old Man Fellow’s housekeeper had found him deader than a doornail…(Mangum)

12. All Europe was in arms, and England would join. The impossible had happened. (K. Aldington)

2. Extract from the novel “A Portrait of an artist as a Young man” by J. Joyce.

3. Реферирование статьи “Наркомания в современном обществе” and speak on various ways of conducting drug policy in different countries.

Заведующий кафедрой ____________________________ Власян Г. Р.