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Содержание Listen to the first part of the recording. Answer the questions. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. Choose TWO letters A-E Academic vocabulary in use 3. Read the following text and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. The death of languages

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LISTENING

Listen to the first part of the recording. Answer the questions. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

1. Where was Solomon Asch born? ____________________________________________________
   
2. Which area of interest made Asch take up psychology? _________________________________
   
3. What was the name of Asch's famous experiment? ____________________________________
   
4. Who were the majority of participants in each experiment? ___________________________
   

Listen to the recording and answer Questions 5 to 8

Questions 5 and 6

Choose TWO letters A-E.

Which two features changed the results of the experiment?

A a bigger group

В the number of lines

С more time

D gender

E privacy


Questions 7 and 8

Choose TWO letters A-E.

Subjects explained their conformity as a desire to

A keep the experimenter happy.

В give a good impression.

С leave early.

D please the other participants.

E appear clever

ACADEMIC VOCABULARY IN USE

1. Circle the two suitable words in italics which best complete each sentence correctly.
   

1. When she saw the spider, she let out a piercing scream / yelp / shout / shriek.
   
2. When reading, you have more time to appreciate the shadows / subtleties / nuances / tones of meaning than when you’re listening.
   
3. It is sometimes difficult to absorb / interest / capture / comprehend all the necessary information if someone is talking too fast.
   
4. Some people like the straightforward / shortcut / modest / minimalist style of Internet conversations.
   
5. I like her novel, although her verbose / long-winded /elongated / stretched-out style bored me at times.
   
6. She mumbled / muttered / stuttered /spluttered something under her breath about being bored and walked out of the lecture hall.
   
7. His tendency / pitch / expression / tone was sarcastic; he obviously thought very little of his colleagues.
   
8. I have read through his work and I haven’t found any clear / clean / hard / striking examples of a text which is hard to understand.
   

2. Fill in each gap with one suitable word.

Communication Throughout our lives, right from the moment when as infants we cry to express hunger, we are engaging in social interaction of one form or …(1)… . Each and …(2)… time we encounter fellow human beings, some kind of social interaction will take place, …(3)… it’s getting on a bus and paying the fare for the journey, or socializing with friends. It goes without …(4)… , therefore, that we need the ability to communicate. Without some method of transmitting intentions, we would be …(5)… a complete loss when it …(6)… to interacting socially. Communication involves the exchange of information, which can be …(7)… from a gesture to a friend signaling boredom to the presentation of a university thesis which may …(8)… ever be read by a handful of others, or it could be something in …(9)… the two. Our highly developed languages set us …(10)… from animals. …(11)… for these languages, we could not communicate sophisticated or abstract ideas. …(12)… could we talk or write about people or objects …(13)… immediately present. …(14)… we restricted to discussing objects already present, we would be …(15)… to make abstract generalization about the world.

3. Read the following text and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.

The death of languages The death of languages has been repeated many times in history. Localised disasters such as great floods of warfare have …(1)… a part, but in the modern era the increased international movement of people has greatly …(2)… the destruction. Local languages may be overpowered by a metropolitan language, thus increasing the pressure to neglect ancestral tongues in …(3)… of the new one, which is seen as the key to prospering in the …(4)… culture. Children may be forbidden to use their mother tongue in the classroom, as has occurred to many groups, including the Welsh and Aboriginal Australians. The death of a language is not only a tragedy for those directly affected, but also an …(5)… cultural loss for the world. Through language, each culture expresses a unique worldview. Thus, any effort to …(6)… linguistic variety implies a deep respect for the positive values of other cultures.
1	A done	B made	C adopted	D played
2	A speeded	B accelerated	C urged	D hurried
3	A favour	B preference	C support	D choice
4	A foremost	B major	C leading	D dominant
5	A invaluable	B irretrievable	C inimitable	D irrepressible
6	A champion	B hold	C preserve	D collaborate