{"paper":{"id":"jezyk-angielski-2010-maj-matura-dwujezyczna-2","subject":"jezyk-angielski","category":"matura","year":2010,"month":"maj","level":null,"variant":null,"exam_pdf":"jezyk-angielski-2010-maj-matura-dwujezyczna-2/jezyk-angielski-2010-maj-matura-dwujezyczna-2.pdf","key_pdf":null,"question_count":4,"source_label":"Język angielski · Matura · maj 2010","subject_label":"Język angielski","category_label":"Matura"},"questions":[{"id":"jezyk-angielski-2010-maj-matura-dwujezyczna-2/zad/5","paper_id":"jezyk-angielski-2010-maj-matura-dwujezyczna-2","number":"5","points":13,"ptype":"closed","subject":"jezyk-angielski","category":"matura","year":2010,"month":"maj","level":null,"text":"TASK 5. (13 points)\nRead the article. For questions 5.1.-5.7. match the paragraphs with the headings that\nbest summarise their main idea. Put the appropriate letter (A-H) in each box\n(5.1.-5.7.). Then answer questions 5.8.-5.13. by putting the number of the appropriate\nparagraph (1-7) in the table. For each correct answer you will be given 1 point.\nA.\nA GROWING VENTURE\nB.\nGAPS IN THE BIG PICTURE\nC.\nTHE KNOWLEDGE OF NO RETURN\nD.\nCONTRADICTORY FINDINGS\nE.\nNERVOUS ANTICIPATION\nF.\nEXTENSIVE COUNSELLING\nG.\nTHE SCIENCE OF PROBABILITY\nH.\nDECEPTIVE KNOWLEDGE\nParagraph 1.\n5.1.\nEverything about Genetic Health’s opulent Harley Street clinic says ‘money’. As I sit\nanxiously thumbing through copies of Harrods magazine in a comfortable armchair, smartly\ndressed secretaries in high-heels glide past, over the varnished wood floors. I’m waiting\napprehensively for a consultation with Dr. Paul Jenkins, who will talk me through what the\ncompany calls its ‘Premium Male’ service - an analysis of my genetic makeup. Some weeks\nago I sent them a handful of swabs that, as per the company’s instructions, I had rubbed\naround the inside of my mouth. This inelegant procedure picks up the cells needed for the\nDNA analysis.\nParagraph 2.\n5.2.\nAt a cost of £825, which can already make you nervous, Genetic Health creates a personalised\nread-out of 42 genes which, according to the website, will allow you to take control of your\nlife and your health. This is a long way from a full genome sequence, but the company says it\nlooks for crucial genetic changes that have been linked to disease. “Based on your individual\ngenetic profile,” reads its blurb, “one of our medical experts will guide you on which lifestyle\nchanges to make as well as which supplementation to take to improve the quality of your life,\nextend the active period of your life, and most possibly enable you to live longer.”\nParagraph 3.\n5.3.\nThe genetic testing industry in the UK is still small. Brian Whitley, Genetic Health’s director,\nestimates that between 2,000 and 5,000 people here have used a gene-testing company,\nbut this is set to rise rapidly as the costs come down. 23andme, a US company which is part\nowned by Google, has dropped the price of its services to $399, and held a ‘DNA party’\nduring September’s New York fashion week at which guests including Rupert Murdoch,\nIvanka Trump and Chevy Chase were invited to find out more about their genes.\nCzęść II\n3\nParagraph 4.\n5.4.\nThe pitch from the companies is that knowledge is power. They live off publishing advice.\nSo if you discover that your genes make you more prone to obesity, then you might put more\neffort into eating better and going to the gym. But critics say that regular exercise and a good\ndiet yield important health benefits whatever your genetic makeup, so knowing your DNA\nchanges nothing. Worse, it might offer false reassurance that you will not develop one disease\nwhile worrying you unduly that you are at high risk of another.\nParagraph 5.\n5.5.\nI’m still not sure whether I want to peer at my genetic horoscope. If I decide to sit in front of\nthe TV-set chain-smoking and stuffing my face with cream cakes followed with a packet of\ncrisps, I have no one to blame for the consequences but myself. But my genes are different.\nThere is nothing I can do to re-shuffle my genetic deck and if I don't like Genetic Health’s\nanalysis, I can’t go back and un-know the information.\nParagraph 6.\n5.6.\nGenetic science provides us with the answers to many important questions. We already know\nthat a small number of rare mutations cause serious conditions such as Huntington’s disease\nand cystic fibrosis. Other genes, such as BRCA1 and BRCA2, lead to an increased chance of\nbreast cancer in women. However, geneticists are now realizing that they need to further\ninvestigate DNA changes that confer a more subtle threat. The science is in its infancy and\nthe results may be difficult to interpret because the effect of any one gene is typically\ninsignificant and depends on other genes as well as your lifestyle.\nParagraph 7.\n5.7.\n“The state of the scientific art is still a long way short of where we want it to be in terms of\npredictions,” says Professor Mark McCarthy from Oxford University. One way to think about\ngenetic science is to imagine your genome as a poker hand. Predicting whether you will\ndevelop high blood pressure by testing a handful of genetic variants is like trying to guess\nwhether you will win the hand by looking at just one card. A hand with an ace of hearts is\nstatistically more likely to win than a hand with a five of diamonds, but it depends on your\nother cards. And of course your genome is much more complicated. There are around 25,000\ngenes that interact in complex ways.\nadapted from The Guardian, 9 December 2008\nWhich paragraph\nParagraph\nnumber (1-7)\n5.8.\nuses a gambling metaphor to illustrate the issue?\n5.9.\nraises the problem of the expense of the analysis?\n5.10.\ndescribes a typical publicity stunt?\n5.11.\nshows instances of where genetics can be trusted?\n5.12.\npresents the method of taking samples for the test?\n5.13.\nwarns against a potentially detrimental effect of genetic testing?\nTRANSFER YOUR ANSWERS TO THE ANSWER SHEET!\nCzęść II\n4","answer":null,"answer_text":null,"solution":null,"image":"img/jezyk-angielski-2010-maj-matura-dwujezyczna-2/zad-5.webp","solution_image":null,"topics":null,"page_from":2,"source":"ocr","answer_source":null,"answer_text_source":null,"solution_source":null,"text_source":"ocr","source_label":"Język angielski · Matura · maj 2010","subject_label":"Język angielski","category_label":"Matura"},{"id":"jezyk-angielski-2010-maj-matura-dwujezyczna-2/zad/6","paper_id":"jezyk-angielski-2010-maj-matura-dwujezyczna-2","number":"6","points":7,"ptype":"closed","subject":"jezyk-angielski","category":"matura","year":2010,"month":"maj","level":null,"text":"TASK 6. (7 points)\nRead the text. For questions 6.1.-6.7., choose the answer that best matches the text by\ncircling the appropriate letter A, B, C or D. For each correct answer you will be given\n1 point.\nI discovered that George was an old friend of Larry’s who had come to Corfu to write\na novel. There was nothing very unusual about this, for all my brother’s acquaintances in\nthose days were either authors, poets or painters. It was George, moreover, who was really\nresponsible for our presence in Corfu, for he had written such eulogistic letters about the place\nthat Larry had become convinced we could live nowhere else. Now George was to pay\nthe penalty for his rashness. He came over to the villa to discuss my education with Mother,\nand we were introduced. We regarded each other with suspicion. George was a very tall and\nextremely thin man who moved with the odd disjointed grace of a puppet. His lean, skull-like\nface was partially concealed by a finely pointed brown beard and a pair of large tortoise-shell\nspectacles. He had a deep, melancholy voice and a dry and sarcastic sense of humour.\nGravely George set about the task of teaching me. He was undeterred by the fact that\nthere were no school-books available on the island; he ransacked his own library\nand appeared on the appointed day armed with a most unorthodox selection of tomes.\nHe taught me the rudiments of geography from the maps in the back of an ancient copy of\nPears Cyclopaedia, French from a fat dictionary called Le Petit Larousse and mathematics\nfrom memory. From my point of view, however, the most important thing was that\nwe devoted some of our time to natural history and George meticulously and carefully taught\nme how to observe and how to note down observations in a diary. At once my enthusiastic but\nhaphazard interest in nature became focused. The only mornings that I was truly interested in\nmy lessons were those given up to natural history.\nEvery morning I would watch George stalking through the olive-trees.\n“Good morning. The disciple awaits the master agog with anticipation, I trust. If I remember\nrightly, we were involved in the Herculean task of discovering how long it would take six\nmen to build a wall if three of them took a week. I seem to recall that we spent almost as\nmuch time on this problem as the men spent on the wall. Ah well, let us gird our loins and do\nbattle once again. Perhaps it’s the shape of the problem that worries you, eh? Let us see if we\ncan make it more exciting. If it took two caterpillars a week to eat eight leaves, how long\nwould four caterpillars take to eat the same number? Now, apply yourself to that.”\nWhile I struggled with the apparently insoluble problem of the caterpillars’ appetite,\nGeorge would be otherwise occupied. He was an expert fencer, and was at that time engaged\nin learning some of the local peasant dances, for which he had a passion. So, while waiting for\nme to finish the sum, he would drift about in the gloom of the room, practising fencing\nstances or complicated dancing-steps, a habit that I found disconcerting, to say the least, and\nto which I shall always attribute my inability to do mathematics. Place any simple sum before\nme, even now, and it immediately conjures up a vision of George’s lanky body swaying and\njerking round the dimly lit dining-room. I would be watching him, fascinated, the exercise-\nbook lying forgotten in front of me. Mathematics was not one of our more successful subjects.\nabridged from My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell\nCzęść II\n5\n6.1. What do we learn about George in the 1st paragraph?\nA. He had encouraged the narrator’s family to move to Corfu.\nB.\nHe and the narrator took to each other immediately.\nC. He became a novelist following Larry’s advice.\nD. The narrator had met him before coming to Corfu.\n6.2. What was true about George?\nA. His eyesight was imperfect.\nB.\nHe was clean-shaven.\nC. He had a round chubby face.\nD. He moved gracefully.\n6.3. George\nA. was upset by the lack of teaching aids he could use.\nB.\ndecided to use available teaching materials.\nC. had plenty of school-books in his own library.\nD. searched the island for books to teach from.\n6.4. By ‘a most unorthodox selection of tomes’ in paragraph 2 the narrator refers to\nA. a variety of books on natural history.\nB.\nan unusual choice of books.\nC. texts with controversial views.\nD. books written by well-known authors.\n6.5. When the lessons started, the narrator\nA. was frequently late for his lessons.\nB.\nbecame a keen and enthusiastic student.\nC. got equally interested in all his subjects.\nD. usually appeared in class earlier than George.\n6.6. What is implied about George as a teacher in paragraph 3?\nA. He considered mathematics easier than biology.\nB.\nHe considered his pupil exceptionally gifted.\nC. He could adjust his teaching to the pupil’s interests.\nD. He couldn’t focus attention on one problem.\n6.7. The narrator did not make much progress in mathematics because\nA. each lesson he was given a new problem to solve.\nB.\nwhat was going on around him captured his attention.\nC. the tasks George set him were impossible to solve.\nD. the time devoted to mathematics was insufficient.\nTRANSFER YOUR ANSWERS TO THE ANSWER SHEET!\nCzęść II\n6","answer":null,"answer_text":null,"solution":null,"image":"img/jezyk-angielski-2010-maj-matura-dwujezyczna-2/zad-6.webp","solution_image":null,"topics":null,"page_from":4,"source":"ocr","answer_source":null,"answer_text_source":null,"solution_source":null,"text_source":"ocr","source_label":"Język angielski · Matura · maj 2010","subject_label":"Język angielski","category_label":"Matura"},{"id":"jezyk-angielski-2010-maj-matura-dwujezyczna-2/zad/7","paper_id":"jezyk-angielski-2010-maj-matura-dwujezyczna-2","number":"7","points":10,"ptype":"open","subject":"jezyk-angielski","category":"matura","year":2010,"month":"maj","level":null,"text":"TASK 7. (10 points)\nRead the text. Complete each gap (7.1.-7.10.) with one word only in order to create\na fully logical and grammatically correct text. For each correct answer you will be given\n1 point.\nLive within your means; waste not, want not; always put something 7.1\nfor a rainy day. Everyone of a certain age in America knows the litany of these platitudes\nabout thrift. Banal though they may be, their banality does not make them any\n7.2 true. They are eminently sensible; barring cruel cataclysmic events like\nearly death or worldwide economic depression, they tend to work. Those of us old\n7.3 to have had parents who lived through the Depression had the habits of\nthrift imbued in us. We were instructed that life, like Greek plays, features peripeteia,\nor reversals of fortune. Prepare for it. Turn off the lights when you leave a room, finish\nthe food on your plate, thoroughly squeeze 7.4 the toothpaste tube.\nBecause 7.5 feel wasteful, many are the things those of us who grew up in\nthe aftermath of the Depression cannot do: buy a hundred-dollar bottle of wine, wear\ncashmere socks, fail to ask the price of things.\nUnder the traditional American program of thrift, 7.6 would earn and save\nand, through extended effort, rise in one’s work, building a nest egg through savings\nand investments, and 7.7 one’s days in independence and security.\nOne of the things that has subtly yet substantially changed in American life over the past\nquarter century or 7.8 is this traditional game plan. Generations have come\ninto the world 7.9 even a secondhand memory of the economic depression.\nIf the old game plan for American ambition entailed the slow but steady accretion of wealth,\nthe new plan called for getting it now, lots of it, and as soon as possible.\nThe recent economic meltdown has put paid to financial optimism. But will it restore\nthe spirit of thrift to Americans? Is it possible to spend and yet not be spendthrift? It once was\nand 7.10 better be again.\nabridged from ‘When Prudence Was a Virtue’ , Newsweek, January 26, 2009\nCzęść II\n7\nWRITING","answer":null,"answer_text":null,"solution":null,"image":"img/jezyk-angielski-2010-maj-matura-dwujezyczna-2/zad-7.webp","solution_image":null,"topics":null,"page_from":6,"source":"ocr","answer_source":null,"answer_text_source":null,"solution_source":null,"text_source":"ocr","source_label":"Język angielski · Matura · maj 2010","subject_label":"Język angielski","category_label":"Matura"},{"id":"jezyk-angielski-2010-maj-matura-dwujezyczna-2/zad/8","paper_id":"jezyk-angielski-2010-maj-matura-dwujezyczna-2","number":"8","points":30,"ptype":"open","subject":"jezyk-angielski","category":"matura","year":2010,"month":"maj","level":null,"text":"TASK 8. (30 points)\nChoose one of the topics below and write a composition of 300-350 words.\n8.1. Write a review of a book or a documentary about a scientific discovery that has\ninfluenced the world in which we live.\n8.2. Can money ensure a respectable position in society? Write an essay presenting your\nopinion.\nPlease note: if you use more than 420 words, you will get 0 points for the structure of your\ncomposition.\nFINAL COPY\nCzęść II\n8\nCzęść II\n9\nCzęść II\n10\nTREŚĆ\nKOMPOZYCJA\nBOGACTWO\nJĘZYKOWE\nPOPRAWNOŚĆ\nJĘZYKOWA\nRAZEM\nPoziom\nA\nB\nC\nA\nB\nC\nA\nB\nC\nA\nB\nC\nLiczba\npunktów\n7-6\n5-4-3 2-1-0\n7-6\n5-4-3 2-1-0 8-7-6\n5-4-3\n2-1-0\n8-7-6\n5-4-3 2-1-0\nROUGH DRAFT","answer":null,"answer_text":null,"solution":null,"image":"img/jezyk-angielski-2010-maj-matura-dwujezyczna-2/zad-8.webp","solution_image":null,"topics":null,"page_from":7,"source":"ocr","answer_source":null,"answer_text_source":null,"solution_source":null,"text_source":"ocr","source_label":"Język angielski · Matura · maj 2010","subject_label":"Język angielski","category_label":"Matura"}]}