The Signs of the Time

The «myths of everyday life» which surface in consumer culture, in the mass media and in the euphoria surrounding technology are ambivalent: they express the general syndrome of decay; a belief in progress, but also a fear of disaster - they stand for both dreams and traumas, luxury and powerty. Civilizaton has come to feel the nightmare of its own destruction. The total availability of consumer goods has turned into the waste-disposal problem of a throw-away society in which the desires and fates of individuals disappear in the mass. The New Wave, the idealism of the Kennedy era, had stood for a belief in the future which now had to be measured against hard facts. Reality had come unexpectedly, and in a form which was not easily digested: the assassination of John F.

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Завідувач кафедри _____ проф. К.Л. Сізова

КОМПЛЕКСНА КОНТРОЛЬНА РОБОТА З ДИСЦИПЛІНИ

З ДИСЦИПЛІНИ «Іноземна мова (англійська)»

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ВАРІАНТ 14

I. Вставте «ever», «since», «never», «for».

1. He has worked there...... many years,...... 1975, I believe.

2. They have lived abroad... 1998.

3. We have known Mike..... two years. Have you..... met him?

4. He has been a designer...... five years.

5. My friend has..... been to France.

6. We haven’t heard from her...... the party.

7. I have...... loved anyone as much as I love you.

8. Have you..... visited New Zealand?

9. I have known him....... we went to school together, but I’ve.... met his parents.

10. They haven’t seen him...... ages.

II. Відкрийте дужки і вставте потрібну часову форму (Present Simple або Present Continuous):

1. His father..... (teaches; is teaching) Chemistry at the Institute.

2. Look at these children! They..... (skate; are skating) very well.

3. We..... (have; are having) a party next Sunday. Would you like to come?

4. They..... (leave; are leaving) for Moscow tonight.

5. I.... (listen; am listening) to the radio every morning.

6. He is sorry; he.... (doesn’t speak; isn’t speaking) German.

7. It often..... (rains; is raining) in October.

8. We... (do; are doing) a lot of exercises at home.

9. She... (works; is working) as a secretary at our office.

10. Kate always... (plays; is playing) tennis on Sunday.

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Kennedy in 1963, the outbreak of the Vietnam War in 1964 and the race riots in the USA revealed the vulnerability of what had purported to be the perfectly calculated affluent future. The star cult of the era was also a sign of its sufferings; made-up faces, adapted to their functions as the icons of the sixties, were a source of compensation for the feelings of frustration and impotence of consumers suffocating in their anonymity. The image projected by these stars, the personal element feigned in their facial expressions, hid their real fragility and vulnerability to the hard realities of everyday life. Liz Taylor’s depressions, Marilyn Monroe’s suicide in 1962 and the loneliness of Elvis Presley are features in the true face of an era permanently running up against the boundaries of its supposed «boundless possibilities».

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Протокол № від 2016 р.

Завідувач кафедри _____ проф. К.Л. Сізова

КОМПЛЕКСНА КОНТРОЛЬНА РОБОТА З ДИСЦИПЛІНИ

З ДИСЦИПЛІНИ «Іноземна мова (англійська)»

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ВАРІАНТ 15

I. Поставте дієслово to be у відповідній формі теперішнього часу:

1. My mother (be) a teacher.

2. Jane and Alice (be) friends.

3. The trees (be) yellow and red in autumn.

4. This book (be) very interesting.

5. You (be) wrong, and he (be) write.

6. This film (be) really boring.

7. These young men (be) football players.

8. Our town (be) not very big at all.

9. It (be) my room.

10. It (be) frosty in winter.

II. Відкрийте дужки і вставте потрібну часову форму (Past Simple або Present

Perfect):

1. How many foreign countries..... you.... (to visit)?

2. They..... (to live) in London for five years and in 1990 they.... (to move) to Leeds.

3. He.... never..... (to be) to Russia.

4. She....... (to write) her first book 10 years ago.

5. Where...... you..... (to spend) your summer holidays?

6. They...... (to be) abroad five years ago.

7. Please, give me a pencil. I.... (to lose) mine.

8. At last I... (to translate) this article; and now I shall have a little rest.

9. Barbara Lively..... (to write) a lot books.

10..... you ever.... (to try) Indian food?

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