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The case of the runaway trolley
There was nothing particularly interesting about the story of A _______________________ in York that, driven by high winds, collided with a car. But it was nonetheless reported in detail in che city's Evening Press newspaper. Incredibly, however, this report has led to a record 323 responses on the newspaper's website. The level of debate has been high, with readers attempting to negotiate the moral maze of B _______________________. Was it the supermarket, legal owner of the trolley, or was it Julie Bearing, 46, whose newish Citroen suffered a dented wing? Mrs Bearing told the Press that, C _______________________ she had been wounded by the supermarket's refusal to pay for the damage. Initial responses were of disdain that D _______________________ to such trivia; but it soon became apparent that the reporter, Matthew Woodcock, who had written a story of commendable detail and balance, had also in the process touched on matters E _______________________. "The supermarket has a duty to control those trolleys,' said one respondent, claiming it should make customers pay a deposit of £1 for a trolley, which is refunded when it is returned. Mrs Bearing did not, on the whole, draw a great deal of support, several people telling her to calm down, shut up, and claim on her insurance. Yet many people blamed neither Mrs Bearing nor the supermarket F _______________________ which appear to be ganging up on humanity.
1. the press should descend
2. apportioning blame for the incident
3. that went to the very roots of society
4. an empty supermarket trolley
5. becoming a menace to society
6. although unhurt in the collision
7. but the trolleys themselves
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The voice of Bart Simpson
The woman I've come to meet is sitting atop a large plastic cow in the grounds of her Los Angeles home. Small and blonde, she holds an umbrella aloft and gives a mischievous smile for an American magazine photographer. 'Hi, there!' she says, giving me a warm, almost motherly wave from her unusual vantage point. Her real name is Nancy Cartwright. Her stage name, however, is a little more familiar: Bart Simpson, the obnoxious, skateboard-touting ten-yearold from the cartoon metropolis of Springfield. It's hard to believe, but this forty-six-year-old mother of two, dressed in a sensible green top and blue trousers, is the yellow-hued rascal who instructed the world to eat his shorts. 'I can bring him out at will,' says Cartwright, with a hint of a raised eyebrow, her naturally husky voice always seemingly on the verge of breaking into a Bartism, punctuated by his cruel, gloating laughter. 'Think about it, it's kind of ideal, isn't it? If I go to a party and someone brings a kid up to me I can go, "Hey, man, what's happening?" and watch the kid's face. I love doing that.' My own gawping response is probably similar. The ten-year-old voice coming out of Cartwright is scarily incongruous. It belongs to another world - certainly not here in the lush Californian suburb of Northridge, with its white picket fences, tennis courts, swimming pools and three-car garages. Reckless skateboarding would certainly not be tolerated.
Cartwright, however, has grown tired of deploying Bart's voice as a means to claim traditional celebrity perks, such as a table at the famous Sky Bar. 'I tried it once,' she says. 'It's embarrassing. People are like, "So what?'" She has had similarly disappointing encounters with unamused traffic cops and harried flight attendants. Now Cartwright has learnt to relish her anonymous celebrity status. 'It's probably because I have the choice to be able to do it whereas most celebrities don't,' she concludes. 'They're kind of, you know, at the whim of the public, and that must be unnerving.'
But there is, of course, something profoundly odd about the fact that Nancy Cartwright is at once both an A-list celebrity and a faceless nobody. So odd, in fact, that it has inspired Cartwright to produce a one-woman show based on what she calls 'My life as a ten-year-old boy', which she is bringing to the Edinburgh Festival. The one-woman show takes the audience through Cartwright's real life as a ten-year-old - living in the Midwestern 'nowheresville' of Dayton, Ohio - when she won a school competition with a performance of Rudyard Kipling's 'How the Camel Got His Hump'. After that came other competitions, other trophies, and a gradual realisation that her voice was perfect for cartoons. By her late teens, Cartwright was working for a radio station where she met a Hollywood studio representative who gave her the name and phone number of Daws Butler, the legendary voice of cartoon favourites Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear.
At just 19, and with only that one contact, Cartwright, like so many other wannabe starlets, packed her bags and headed west, transferring her university scholarship from Ohio to the University of California. Cartwright, however, was no ordinary blonde starlet. 'Most people who come to Hollywood are looking to get on camera,' she says. 'My story is quite different. My purpose was to hook up with this pioneer of the voiceover industry, so that's what I did.' He put her in touch with the directors at the Hanna-Barbera studio and helped her get the voice of Gloria in Richie Rich - the adventures of the richest boy in the world. Then came the call from the producers of a 30-second cartoon spot on 'TheTracey Ullman Show'. They wanted her to play the role of Lisa Simpson, a nerdy and morally upstanding know-all with a bratty little brother, Bart. 'I went in, saw Lisa, and didn't really sec anything I could sink my teeth into,' says Cartwright. 'But the audition piece for Bart was right there, and I'm like, "Whoa, ten years old, underachiever and proud of it!", and I'm going, "Yeah, man - that's the one I wanna do!"' She knew the audition was a success when Matt Greening, the creator of The Simpsons, started cracking up and shouting, 'That's it! That's Bart!' It's no surprise to learn that Bart's catchphrase - 'Eat my shorts!' - was originally an ad lib by Cartwright. The Bart voice had long been a part of Cartwright's repertoire, but it didn't come alive until she saw the pictures of him and read the script. The material, meanwhile, which was pretty heady stuff in the late eighties, didn't shock her. 'You know what,' she says, 'I couldn't believe I was actually getting paid for doing things I would get into trouble for doing as a kid.'
12 In the first paragraph, the writer reveals that on meeting Nancy, he was
1) unprepared for her age.
2) struck by her ordinariness.
3) reassured by her appearance.
4) embarrassed by her behaviour.
13 The word 'gawping' in line 11 describes
1) a typical reply.
2) a sort of laugh.
3) a facial expression.
4) an involuntary movement.
14 How do adults tend to react when Nancy uses Bart's voice in public?
1) They are confused by it.
2) They are unimpressed by it.
3) They give her special treatment
4) They accept that she is a celebrity
15 How does Nancy feel about keeping a relatively low profile?
1) nervous about the effects on her future career
2) unsure that it was a good choice to make
3) relieved not to be more in the public eye
4) sorry not to be recognised more often
16 What do we learn about Nancy's one-woman show?
1) It features the wide range of voices she can produce.
2) It explores the strangeness of voiceover work.
3) It celebrates other famous cartoon characters
4) It traces the development of her early career.
17 Why did Nancy originally decide to go to Hollywood?
1) She had got a place on a course there.
2) She already had the offer of a job there.
3) Her ambition was to become a film star there.
4) There was somebody who could help her there.
18 Nancy got the part of Bart Simpson as a result of
1) volunteering to do an audition for it.
2) being rejected for the part of his sister.
3) contributing to part of the script of the show.
4) successfully playing a male character in another show.
Грамматика и лексика
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BULGARIA
19 Bulgaria__________________ famous for its roses, and produces about 85 percent of all the rose oil in the world. BE
20 Rose oil __________________ ‘liquid gold’ because of its great value, and is used in making perfumes, soaps, cosmetics, chocolates, and even some kinds of jam and liqueur. CALL
21 In Bulgaria, we produce rose oil, rose water, rose concentrate and other products. Rose oil has an exquisite aroma, and __________________in high-quality perfumes produced in many countries. USE
VICENZA
22 It was during the Renaissance and the subsequent four hundred years in which Vicenza was under the protection of the Republic of Venice that the great buildings were constructed, making Vicenza famous throughout Europe and giving it the remarkable appearance which it __________________ today. RETAIN
23 Apart from its historical district, Vicenza __________________ by beautiful hills and countryside where you can spend time walking, sightseeing, and having delicious meals in the numerous restaurants. SURROUND
24 Moreover, in Vicenza's countryside there are magnificent villas which are worth __________________ VISIT
25 Vicenza is particularly attractive to people__________________ in art and historical masterpieces. INTEREST
BOOK REVIEW
26 Fiction struggles to compete with the glamour and grungy excess of rock music. It may surpass it in its__________________ to probe and provoke, but a novel tends not to be as immediately alluring as an album, and a live reading rarely sets the pulse racing the way a high-octane gig will. CAPABLE
27 Novels about bands and about the music business have __________________ proved successful. RARE
28 Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude (2003) demonstrated his flair for writing about music and popular culture. Now, after the complex sprawl of that fine novel, You "Don't Love Me Yet" looks at a __________________ narrow stretch of the music business, zeroing in on an indie band from Los Angeles. COMPARATIVE
29 The band doesn't have a name, which in hip LA makes it seem cool and edgy, though it might reasonably be taken as a sign of limited__________________; IMAGINE
30 its__________________ arc still at the stage where they juggle day jobs and the trials of their unstarry personal lives with the demands of crafting and performing songs. MEMBER
31 The territory defined here is unambiguously hip, and there is a great deal that seems contrived - some of it winsome, some of it__________________. IRRITATE
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Amazon
The Amazon is the world's largest tropical rainforest. It (32)________ an area of nearly 2.8 million square miles, which is nearly the size of the continent of Australia. The Amazon Rainforest gets its life from the majestic Amazon River, the world's second largest river, which runs directly through the heart of the region. The rainforest itself is simply the drainage basin for the river and its many tributaries. The vast forest itself (33) ________ of four layers, each featuring its own ecosystems and specially adapted plants and animals. The forest floor is the lowest region. Since only two percent of the sunlight filters through the top layers to the understory, very few plants grow here. The forest floor, (34) ________, is rich with rotting vegetation and the bodies of dead organisms, which are quickly (35) ________ into nutrients integrated into the soil. Tree roots stay close to these available nutrients and decomposers such as millipedes and earthworms use these nutrients for food. The understory is the layer above the forest floor. Much like the forest floor, only about 2—5 percent of the sunlight reaches this shadowy realm. Many of the plants in the understory have large, broad leaves to collect as
(36) ________ sunlight as possible. The understory is so thick that there is very little air movement. (37) ________, plants rely (38) ________ insects and animals to pollinate their flowers.
32 1) locates 2) takes 3) holds 4) covers
33 1) makes 2) consists 3) contains 4) includes
34 1) however 2) in addition 3) hence 4) therefore
35 1) taken back 2) given out 3) broken down 4) set apart
36 1) few 2) a few 3) much 4) many
37 1) At the end 2) As a result 3) Finally 4) Still
38 1) up 2) down 3) for 4) on