по первому иностранному языку (2010 г.)

 

ПРИЛОЖЕНИЕ К ЭКЗАМЕНАЦИОННОМУ БИЛЕТУ № 17

1. Phonetic expressivity and graphical means in stylistics.

Practical assignment. Define phonetic and graphical stylistic devices and comment upon their functions.

1. The growing British Empire – some called it Brutish Empire – had suffered two major setbacks in recent decades.

2. Baa-baa, black sheep. Have you any wool?

3. Who’s that dear, dim, drunk little man? (E. Waugh)

4. Nor soul helps flesh now more than flesh helps soul? (R. Browning)

5. I hear Lionel’s supposeta be runnin’ away. (Salinger)

6. “Appeeee Noooooyeeeeerr”

7. I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone – a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer… (Salinger)

8. There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that they must accept you. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. (G. Baldwin)

9. He was rather too indulgent in humoring her caprices: not from affection, but from pride. (E. Bronte)

10. Old England = Golden Land

11. Niagara, O roar again!

12. Mr. Alcock, the butler, replied loftily: “Mr. Gowan is h’out… Mr. Gowan took the h’eight forty-five train from Dumfries…”

The inspector opened his notebook.

“Your name is Halcock, is it not?” he began.

The butler corrected him.

“H’alcock”, he said, reprovingly.

“H, a, double-l?” suggested the inspector.

“There is no h’aitch in the name, young man. H’ay is the first letter, and there is h’only one h’ell.” (D. Sayers)

 

2. Extract from he novel “1984” by G. Orwell.

3. Render the article “Бес денег” and speak on how our attitude to money reflects our identity.

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 № 18

 

 

1. Tropes and figures of speech.

 

Practical assignment. Identify lexical stylistic devices used in the following sentences:

1. It was so incredible that I could have burst into tears or roared with laughter. (C. Wilson)

2. There were pretty little pictures on the wall, photogravure reproductions from Greuze, and Reynold’s “Age of Innocence”, giving an air of intimacy. (D.H. Lawrence)

3. I love plants. I don’t like cut flowers. Only the ones that grow in the ground. And these water lilies… Each white petal is a great tear of milk. Each slender stalk is a green life rope. (Erdrich)

4. Isolde the Slender had suitors in plenty to do her slightest hest… For Isolde’s sake Otto the Otter had cast himself into the sea. Conrad the Cocoanut had hurled himself from the highest battlement of the castle head first into the mud…(St. Leacock)

5. A fine friend you are!

6. Harris sobbed like a little child, and the dog howled till I thought his heart or his jaw must surely break. (J.K. Jerome)

7. … the landlord had just come in rubbing his hands hard together… I at once went to rehearse the nice-room-this gambit, the it-must-be-a-tie-running-a-pub gambit, the but-I-suppose-it’s-an-interesting-job gambit, and finally, silence. (K. Amis)

8. (After a heavy rainstorm):

- Got slightly wet?

- Wet? I’m drowned!

9. His honour rooted in dishonour stood, and faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. (A. Tennyson)

10. His voice was utterly and drearily expressionless. (J. London)

11. A wolf in sheik’s clothing. (title of the magazine article)

12. He wasn’t without an eye for a picture and an ear for music; he had an acquaintance with some of the famous old stuff in both these arts. (J.B. Priestly)

 

2. Extract from the novel “Slaughterhouse Five” by K. Vonnegut.

3. Render the article “Полигоны против огня” and speak on recycling as part of a nation’s environmental policy.

 

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 № 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.