Раздел 3. Задание по созданию письменного текста

Writing

Writing develops according to needs. A hunter-gatherer group will find it__________________ to have a few common signs-rather like the chalk marks that English tramps once used on gateposts to show whether the householders were kindly or not-but more complex societies need records.

 

USE

 

 

 

 

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Traders have to record deliveries, keep accounts, send out bill; tax gatherers must calculate __________________ and all in form which will be intelligible to others.

 

ASSESS

 

 

 

 

55

 

Priests and magnates want to issue laws, encourage __________________ and proclaim their own power.

 

OBEY

 

 

 

 

56

 

Once a written language is understood, others take it for __________________, for pleasure or are driven by cultural pressure, and literature begins.

 

SECURE

 

 

 

 

57

 

In all probability, writing began __________________ in various parts of the world-China, Egypt and the Americas but the Sumerians have left the most prolific records, beginning in the late 3000s BC and continuing for three millennia.

DEPENDENT

 

 

 

 

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The art of writing and __________________had to be taught, and therefore many of the earliest texts are dictionaries and word lists.

NOTE

 

 

 

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In the desert

The desert was dark pink, the sky was baby blue; the whole thing looked good enough to eat. 59______, it was a very nice place to visit. The road from Santa Fe made its way like a black snake through the red and pink landscape. Through the hot air the tall man standing at the side of the road could see the sharp mountain peaks of the Rockies in the distance. He 60______ how long it would take him to get home.

At last a truck came. The first thing he heard was the distant sound of an engine. Sweetest sound in the whole world when you've been 61______ in the desert sun for two hours and you're beginning to think you might die there. He ran up through the bushes and stood right there staring into the distance, so that he could see the truck as soon it came into 62______ . Then he saw it, a bright piece of silver, with sunlight bouncing off it in all directions.

As the truck got nearer he tried to 63______ out the driver. Looked like a woman. Well, that was that, he thought. No way was a woman alone going to stop for a guy hitchhiking in the middle of nowhere. He 64______ away.

But then he heard the sound of brakes as the truck came to a stop about two hundred meters further on. He looked at the clouds of dust the truck had thrown up. After a minute or so the dust 65______, the door of the driver's cab opened and a pair of blue jeans came down from the cab.

 

59

 

 

 

 

1)

 

Actually

 

 

2)

 

Factually

 

 

3)

 

Practically

 

 

4)

 

Completely

 

 

Ответ:

 

 

 

60

 

 

 

1)

 

asked

 

 

2)

 

questioned

 

 

3)

 

wondered

 

 

4)

 

puzzled

 

 

Ответ:

 

 

 

61

 

 

 

 

1)

 

out

 

 

2)

 

around

 

 

3)

 

across

 

 

4)

 

off

 

 

Ответ:

 

 

 

62

 

 

 

1)

 

gaze

 

 

2)

 

vision

 

 

3)

 

look

 

 

4)

 

view

 

 

Ответ:

 

 

63

 

 

 

 

1)

 

get

 

 

2)

 

do

 

 

3)

 

make

 

 

4)

 

put

 

 

Ответ:

 

 

64

 

 

 

1)

 

took

 

 

2)

 

turned

 

 

3)

 

came

 

 

4)

 

seemed

 

 

Ответ:

 

 

65

 

 

 

1)

 

stayed

 

 

2)

 

settled

 

 

3)

 

stopped

 

 

4)

 

dropped

 

 

Ответ:

 

 

 

 

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