{"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","text_html":"

TASK 6. (7 points)
Read the text. For questions 6.1.-6.7., choose the answer that best matches the text by
circling the appropriate letter A, B, C or D. For each correct answer you will be given
1 point.
I discovered that George was an old friend of Larry’s who had come to Corfu to write
a novel. There was nothing very unusual about this, for all my brother’s acquaintances in
those days were either authors, poets or painters. It was George, moreover, who was really
responsible for our presence in Corfu, for he had written such eulogistic letters about the place
that Larry had become convinced we could live nowhere else. Now George was to pay
the penalty for his rashness. He came over to the villa to discuss my education with Mother,
and we were introduced. We regarded each other with suspicion. George was a very tall and
extremely thin man who moved with the odd disjointed grace of a puppet. His lean, skull-like
face was partially concealed by a finely pointed brown beard and a pair of large tortoise-shell
spectacles. He had a deep, melancholy voice and a dry and sarcastic sense of humour.
Gravely George set about the task of teaching me. He was undeterred by the fact that
there were no school-books available on the island; he ransacked his own library
and appeared on the appointed day armed with a most unorthodox selection of tomes.
He taught me the rudiments of geography from the maps in the back of an ancient copy of
Pears Cyclopaedia, French from a fat dictionary called Le Petit Larousse and mathematics
from memory. From my point of view, however, the most important thing was that
we devoted some of our time to natural history and George meticulously and carefully taught
me how to observe and how to note down observations in a diary. At once my enthusiastic but
haphazard interest in nature became focused. The only mornings that I was truly interested in
my lessons were those given up to natural history.
Every morning I would watch George stalking through the olive-trees.
“Good morning. The disciple awaits the master agog with anticipation, I trust. If I remember
rightly, we were involved in the Herculean task of discovering how long it would take six
men to build a wall if three of them took a week. I seem to recall that we spent almost as
much time on this problem as the men spent on the wall. Ah well, let us gird our loins and do
battle once again. Perhaps it’s the shape of the problem that worries you, eh? Let us see if we
can make it more exciting. If it took two caterpillars a week to eat eight leaves, how long
would four caterpillars take to eat the same number? Now, apply yourself to that.”
While I struggled with the apparently insoluble problem of the caterpillars’ appetite,
George would be otherwise occupied. He was an expert fencer, and was at that time engaged
in learning some of the local peasant dances, for which he had a passion. So, while waiting for
me to finish the sum, he would drift about in the gloom of the room, practising fencing
stances or complicated dancing-steps, a habit that I found disconcerting, to say the least, and
to which I shall always attribute my inability to do mathematics. Place any simple sum before
me, even now, and it immediately conjures up a vision of George’s lanky body swaying and
jerking round the dimly lit dining-room. I would be watching him, fascinated, the exercise-
book lying forgotten in front of me. Mathematics was not one of our more successful subjects.
abridged from My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Część II
5
6.1. What do we learn about George in the 1st paragraph?
A. He had encouraged the narrator’s family to move to Corfu.
B.
He and the narrator took to each other immediately.
C. He became a novelist following Larry’s advice.
D. The narrator had met him before coming to Corfu.
6.2. What was true about George?
A. His eyesight was imperfect.
B.
He was clean-shaven.
C. He had a round chubby face.
D. He moved gracefully.
6.3. George
A. was upset by the lack of teaching aids he could use.
B.
decided to use available teaching materials.
C. had plenty of school-books in his own library.
D. searched the island for books to teach from.
6.4. By ‘a most unorthodox selection of tomes’ in paragraph 2 the narrator refers to
A. a variety of books on natural history.
B.
an unusual choice of books.
C. texts with controversial views.
D. books written by well-known authors.
6.5. When the lessons started, the narrator
A. was frequently late for his lessons.
B.
became a keen and enthusiastic student.
C. got equally interested in all his subjects.
D. usually appeared in class earlier than George.
6.6. What is implied about George as a teacher in paragraph 3?
A. He considered mathematics easier than biology.
B.
He considered his pupil exceptionally gifted.
C. He could adjust his teaching to the pupil’s interests.
D. He couldn’t focus attention on one problem.
6.7. The narrator did not make much progress in mathematics because
A. each lesson he was given a new problem to solve.
B.
what was going on around him captured his attention.
C. the tasks George set him were impossible to solve.
D. the time devoted to mathematics was insufficient.
TRANSFER YOUR ANSWERS TO THE ANSWER SHEET!
Część II
6

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