Preservation Hall, in New Orleans, is an old building that can hold only 125 people. But tourists, many of them serious music lovers, go there from all over the world and pay one dollar to sit on plain wooden chairs or benches or on the floor, crowded together.
At the front of the hall is a group of four, five or six musicians in their sixties, seventies, and even eighties, with their instruments. They play for more than four hours each night. Their music is a kind now rarely heard anywhere else—until recently the style had been all but forgotten and so'had the musicians. Almost all of them had given up their music and 'were working at various different kinds of work or just wandering around with little purpose. Jazz music had gone on from New Orleans to spread around the world, but the early jazz style was no longer popular and had been forgotten.
One person who remembered and loved old New Orleans jazz was music historian William Russel. He found the legendary trumpet player working in a rice field, old and sick. It was Bunk Johnson. Though Johnson never got back his greatness, he awoke a new interest in his kind of music. Later, more of the old musicians were found, old groups were put together again, and with the opening of Preservation Hall, the real old jazz music and those who loved it began to go back to New Orleans.
The musicians seem to play as well as they ever did. They play the songs they want to play. Some of the groups even travel around the country, taking their music to the people.
Those people who hear this jazz know that Americans have been given a last chance to hear music that soon will never be heard again, played by those who created it-who themselves will soon be gone.
(From "Encounters". A Basic Reader)
I. Ответьте на вопросы:
I. How old are the musicians? 2. Where was Bunk Johnson found? 3. How many hours do they play? 4. Is that music popular? 5. What do the musicians play? 6. Why does the author say that Americans have been given a last chance to hear music that soon will be never heard again?
II. Выпишите из текста интернациональные слова.
III. Определите по суффиксу часть речи:
empty, bravery, beauty, burn, dial, brainless, notable, vibrate
IV. Выпишите из текста и переведите предложения: а) с модальным глаголом сап, 6) с глаголом в прошедшем неопределенном времени в страдательном залоге.
V. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на выделенные слова:
Game
a) The Olympic Games are held every four years in a different country, b) Do you play games?
Chance
b) He has no chance to win the game with his little brother. She stands a good chance of becoming a good actress. He chanced to be there at that time.
VI. Закончите предложения:
a) Are you going...? b) I haven't.... c) They have been.... d) They aren't asked.... e) Do they study...?
Вариант 5.
Задание 1. Прочтите и письменно переведите текст.
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS
By R. Kipling (An Extract)
...So the son, Harvey Cheyne, was wonderfully returned to his parents.
After strong emotion most people and all boys want to eat Harvey ate drank and told his parents about his adventures, and when he had a free hand' his mother was holding it. His voice was deep as a result of life in the open' salt air. His hands were rough and hard, and the smell of cod-fish hung round his rubber boots and blue jersey.
His father looked at him keenly. He was thinking that he now knew little about his son. But he remembered very well the spoilt youth who called his father "old man" and made his mother cry. This was a different boy, who looked at him with steady, clear eyes, and spoke in a tone of respect. There was something in his voice, too, which seemed to say that it was a new Harvey.
...Mr Cheyne knew that a man like Disco would not take money, and he 26
also knew that no money could pay for what Disco had done. 1 So he offered to take Dan on one of the ships that
he owned and to make him a mate. Dan was so happy that he could not express his joy in words.
Then they went to Dan's house to speak with his mother. She was a tall silent woman with the dim eyes of those
who look long to sea for the return of their beloved. "I hate the sea," she said, "It took my father, my eldest
brother, two nephews and my sister's husband. Could you love anything that took so much from you?"
She gave consent wearily.
Mrs Cheyne spoke to Manuel. He didn't want any money. When Mrs Cheyne insisted, he said he would take five dollars because he wanted to buy something for a girl, and the rest of the money he asked her to give to the widows whose husbands had been lost at sea.2
Mrs Cheyne did so, and Manuel, quite satisfied, went out to buy a handkerchief for one girl and to break the hearts of all the other girls.
II. Ответьте на вопросы:
1. Who was wonderfully returned to his family? 2. What did Harvey tell his parents about? 3. How was he changed? 4. What was his father thinking about? 5. What did Manuel go to buy?
III. Укажите (буквой) предложение с причастием I и переведите его на русский язык:
а) Не did not want to sing any more: he was very tired, b) They returned very late; the children were sleeping and the light was out. c) She takes part at our conference each year: her reports are always fresh and interesting. d) Tell her to come at six and give her that book.
IV. Выпишите из текста 2 предложения с модальным глаголом could и переведите их на русский язык.
V. Выпишите из текста 4 предложения, содержащие предлоги of, at, in, to, и переведите их на русский язык.
VI. Подчеркните в словах префикс, суффикс:
selection, unknown, grudgingly, unknown, homeless, graduator, overwinter, seller, unwrap, mis-shapen
VII. Укажите (буквой) предложение, которое соответствует истине в данном тексте:
a) Harvey was not returned to his parents, b) Harvey was wonderfully returned to his parents, c) Harvey left his parents and went to another town, d) Harvey was going to work in England.
КОНРОЛЬНАЯ РАБОТА 2.
ВАРИАНТ 1.