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Make practical stylistic tasks. What styles are imitated in these extracts of literary text?






What styles are imitated in these extracts of literary text? What features of certain functional styles are used for imitation?

1.

. " What is it? Can't you trace the fault? "

He looked at me thoughtfully. " There is no fault."

I failed to understand. " You mean it's repaired? "

" No. There never was any fault."

" Well, that's cheering. What went wrong then? "

" That's what bothers me. Nothing went wrong."

" No? In that case, you know how deep this thing is? "

" Yes. It's as deep as the gauge showed, Two miles"

2.

Neither was it inevitable that we should lose the mole. Its electronically fortified metal would withstand a temperature of two thousand degrees; its makers had assumed that it might en­counter veins of volcanic lava. The strength of its shell was enormous; the makers guaranteed that it could stand a pressure of two and a half tons to the square inch. But if it reached the blocks at a depth of two miles, it would be supporting about twice that weight, or very nearly. Besides, its transmitting equipment might not stand the temperature. And then there was always the possibil­ity that it might pass beyond the range of the remote control, or sustain damage to its receiver.

3.

Before I had finished talking to the New York Times man, three more helicopters appeared. More journalists. By four o'clock, Reich had been persuaded to emerge from his tent, and was demonstrating the mechanism of the probe — with a bad grace. By six o'clock, we were both hoarse and weary. We escaped back to the hotel in Kadiri, and managed to eat a quiet supper. The manager had been told to refuse all telephone calls. But at nine o'clock, Fuad got through to us. He was waving a copy of the New York Times. The whole front page was devoted to the story of the " World's Biggest Discovery Ever". I was quoted as endorsing the theory that we had discov­ered the city of a race of giants. 1 was made to hint that these giants had also been magicians who had raised their thousand ton building blocks by some strange art that has now been forgotten. A well known colleague of mine gave his opinion that the pyramids of Egypt 'and ancient Peru could never have been built by any known method of engineering, and that this new discovery would surely prove it beyond all doubt. On the inside page of the newspaper, a popular writer on archaeology contributed an article called " The Giants of Atlantis"

4.

" Our aim today is to warn the people of the earth about a greater menace than they have ever faced. This planet is at present being watched by an enormous number of alien intelligences, whose aim is either to destroy the human race or to en-slave it.

But in recent weeks we have become convinced that we are facing something far more dan­gerous than a curse. It is our conviction that we have disturbed the sleep of forces that once domi­nated the earth, and who are determined to dominate it again. These forces are more dangerous than any yet known to the human race because they are invisible, and are capable of attacking the human mind directly. They are able to destroy the sanity of any individual they attack, and to cause suicide. They are also capable of enslaving certain individuals and of using them for their own purposes.

" At the same time, it is our belief that the human race has no cause for panic. Their numbers are small compared to ours, and we have been forewarned. The struggle may be hard, but I think that there is every chance that we shall win. A.I.U. organized a fast rocket to take us to Base 91, and we were there within an hour. Our arrival was announced on television the same afternoon. The President made a personal appear­ance to explain his reasons for allowing us into Base 91 (which was the United States' maximum security area—-a joke said it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to get into Base 91). He said that our safety was a matter of world importance, and that any attempt by reporters to contact us would be treated as a breach of security regulations, and dealt with as such. This certainly solved one of our major problems; from that time onward, we could move about, without being followed by a dozen helicopters.

 






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