{"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","text_html":"

TASK 7. (10 points)
Read the text. Complete each gap (7.1.-7.10.) with one word only in order to create
a fully logical and grammatically correct text. For each correct answer you will be given
1 point.
Live within your means; waste not, want not; always put something 7.1
for a rainy day. Everyone of a certain age in America knows the litany of these platitudes
about thrift. Banal though they may be, their banality does not make them any
7.2 true. They are eminently sensible; barring cruel cataclysmic events like
early death or worldwide economic depression, they tend to work. Those of us old
7.3 to have had parents who lived through the Depression had the habits of
thrift imbued in us. We were instructed that life, like Greek plays, features peripeteia,
or reversals of fortune. Prepare for it. Turn off the lights when you leave a room, finish
the food on your plate, thoroughly squeeze 7.4 the toothpaste tube.
Because 7.5 feel wasteful, many are the things those of us who grew up in
the aftermath of the Depression cannot do: buy a hundred-dollar bottle of wine, wear
cashmere socks, fail to ask the price of things.
Under the traditional American program of thrift, 7.6 would earn and save
and, through extended effort, rise in one’s work, building a nest egg through savings
and investments, and 7.7 one’s days in independence and security.
One of the things that has subtly yet substantially changed in American life over the past
quarter century or 7.8 is this traditional game plan. Generations have come
into the world 7.9 even a secondhand memory of the economic depression.
If the old game plan for American ambition entailed the slow but steady accretion of wealth,
the new plan called for getting it now, lots of it, and as soon as possible.
The recent economic meltdown has put paid to financial optimism. But will it restore
the spirit of thrift to Americans? Is it possible to spend and yet not be spendthrift? It once was
and 7.10 better be again.
abridged from ‘When Prudence Was a Virtue’ , Newsweek, January 26, 2009
Część II
7
WRITING

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