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EGZAMIN MATURALNY

Z JĘZYKA ANGIELSKIEGO

DLA ABSOLWENTÓW KLAS DWUJĘZYCZNYCH

CZĘŚĆ II

Czas pracy 150 minut

CZĘŚĆ II

MAJ

ROK 2007

Instrukcja dla zdającego

1. Sprawdź, czy arkusz egzaminacyjny zawiera 11 stron (zadania

5–8). Ewentualny brak zgłoś przewodniczącemu zespołu

nadzorującego egzamin.

2. Pisz czytelnie. Używaj długopisu/pióra tylko z czarnym

tuszem/atramentem.

3. Nie używaj korektora, a błędne zapisy wyraźnie przekreśl.

4. Pamiętaj, że zapisy w brudnopisie nie podlegają ocenie.

5. Wypełnij tę część karty odpowiedzi, którą koduje zdający.

Nie wpisuj żadnych znaków w części przeznaczonej

dla egzaminatora.

6. Na karcie odpowiedzi wpisz swoją datę urodzenia i PESEL.

Zamaluj pola odpowiadające cyfrom numeru PESEL. Błędne

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READING COMPREHENSION

TASK 5. (14 points)

Read paragraphs 1-8 of the article and match them with the headings (A - J) by putting

the right letter in the boxes 5.1. – 5.8. There are two extra headings.

Then, answer questions 5.9 – 5.14. by putting the number of the paragraph (1-8) in the

appropriate box. For each correct answer you will be given 1 point.

SMOOTH ROAD TO ADDICTION

CUSTOMIZED KILLING MACHINES

PUBLIC PRESSURE TO PUT ON THE BRAKES

DEPRIVED OF PROPERTY

UNCONVENTIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT

A FAST-MOVING EPIDEMIC

CALIFORNIA TO BE BLAMED MOST

TOUGH COURTS

FATAL GRADUATION

A LESS DANGEROUS OPTION

Paragraph 1. 5.1.

The crash that ended Alvarez’s life and ruined Bradley’s future occurred just three

weeks before the end of their final school year in California’s Valley View High School.

It took place on a warm May day on an uncrowded street in front of an elementary school.

It occurred when Alvarez crossed a double yellow line, drove his car into oncoming traffic,

and smashed head-on. At the time of the crash, Alvarez was travelling in excess of 128km/h.

He suffered a broken neck and head trauma; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The reason

for this reckless driving behaviour and his friend’s subsequent arrest? Alvarez and Bradley

were street racing.

Paragraph 2. 5.2.

Although tragic, Alvarez’s death is not unusual. The last few years have seen a steady

increase in illegal street racing in the United States. By the end of 20 th century state troopers

in Massachusetts issued 190 citations for illegal drag racing on state highways. By 2001, 365

citations were given. By 2002, the number of citations topped 500. The same year, on the

other side of the country, a single California county experienced 16 fatalities and 31 serious

injuries as a direct result of illegal street racing.

Paragraph 3. 5.3.

Regulars on the street-racing circuit improve their chances of winning fans and races

by modifying their vehicles. Once a speciality niche, car modification is now a multi-million

dollar industry. Some changes are designed to improve speed making them deadly dangerous.

Other changes are strictly cosmetic. Making all of these changes can be expensive and

addictive. The results are incredible – cars that have been modified can go up to 228 km/h.

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Paragraph 4. 5.4.

Given the devastation that street racing can cause, authorities in cities throughout

the USA, are eager to put a stop to the practice. In 2001, the city of San Diego was perhaps

the hottest place in the country for street racing. Underground racing websites featured

detailed maps of race sites in San Diego’s neighbourhoods and local news shows regularly

featured race-related accidents. Flowers placed along many roadsides honoured street-racing

casualties and politicians ran for office vowing to end the street racing epidemic.

Initially, these vows appeared to be empty campaign rhetoric. Street racing seemed

uncontrollable. However, progress toward ending the epidemic is slowly being made.

Paragraph 5. 5.5.

Simply showing up at potential racing locations to write tickets doesn’t work as a law

enforcement policy. Racers keep potential sites quiet as long as possible and scatter when

the police show up. Yes, the police may catch a few of the participants, but most are able

to get away. San Diego’s police have found it much more effective to use undercover officers

to surreptitiously film the racers at illegal street events. They capture the racers’ faces and

license plates on film and then put together arrest warrants. The following day, teams of

officers show up at the homes and work sites of racers, arresting them in front of families and

co-workers, often with the media in tow.

Paragraph 6. 5.6.

Perhaps the most potential is in a brand-new statue that would cause repeat street

racing offenders to lose their cars. Although many have had their vehicles impounded for

a time after being caught racing, none yet has had their car taken away for good. Given

the amount of money and time that many street racers have invested in their wheels,

the effects of this law could be devastating to the racing community.

Paragraph 7. 5.7.

For those who are caught racing or who are involved in an accident, the next stop after

being arrested by the police is the courtroom. It is here that the punishments for their offences

will be decided. One 22-year-old who was “just watching” street racing events was recently

sentenced to 18 months of probation, 10 days of high-way clean-up service, fined $300, and

ordered to stay away from street racing venues; and that was for the first offence. Two other

men were put on a trial for second degree murder after their street race led to the deaths of

a San Diego couple just walking in the street. This charge carries a possible lifelong prison

sentence. Although the jury decided to convict them of the lesser charges of vehicular

manslaughter with gross negligence, both men still face lengthy prison sentences.

Paragraph 8. 5.8.

Police tactics, new laws, and tough courts have worked together to make the streets

much less hospitable for illegal street racers, but the “need for speed” persists, so San Diego’s

task force decided to work with community organisations to offer a safe alternative.

RaceLeg.com operates a drag strip race course in the parking lot of the local football stadium

every Friday and Saturday night. Barriers are provided to keep the crowd safe. Admission

fees are charged, but a state grant allows the cost to be kept low - $15 each race and $5 to

watch. At first, only a dozen people or so showed up to race, but by summer 2003, 300 people

showed up to race and another 2,600 showed up to watch. It is not as much fun as the street,

but some racers admit with a shy smile that their moms like it better now.

Abridged from Current, 2004

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Część II

Which paragraph

Number

of paragraph

(1-8)

5.9.

mentions the ways of tuning a car?

5.10.

presents an acceptable compromise?

5.11.

mentions the accident which ruined a possible university career?

5.12.

states that reckless behaviour may affect innocent people?

5.13.

describes how those who died in races are remembered?

5.14.

shows that not only racers but also spectators run the risk of being

prosecuted?

TRANSFER YOUR ANSWERS TO YOUR ANSWER SHEET!

Task 6. (9 points)

Read the text below. For questions 6.1. – 6.9. choose the answer that best matches the text

by circling the appropriate letter (A, B, C or D). For each correct answer you will be given

1 point.

When the porter’s wife, who used to answer the house-bell, announced ‘A gentleman

and a lady, sir,’ I had, as I often had in those days - the wish being father to the thought –

an immediate vision of sitters. Sitters my visitors in this case proved to be; but not in

the sense I should have preferred. There was nothing at first however to indicate that they

mightn’t have come for a portrait. The gentleman, a man of fifty, very high and very straight,

with a moustache slightly grizzled and a dark grey walking-coat admirably fitted, both of which

I noted professionally - I don’t mean as a barber or yet as a tailor - would have struck me as

a celebrity if celebrities often were striking. It was a truth of which I had for some time been

conscious that a figure with a good deal of frontage was, as one might say, almost never

a public institution. A glance at the lady helped to remind me of this paradoxical law: she also

looked too distinguished to be a ‘personality’. Moreover one would scarcely come across two

variations together.

Neither of the pair immediately spoke – they only prolonged the preliminary gaze

suggesting that each wished to give the other a chance. They were visibly shy; they stood there

letting me take them in - which, as I afterwards perceived, was the most practical thing they

could have done. In this way their embarrassment served their cause. I had seen people painfully

reluctant to mention that they desired anything so gross as to be represented on canvas; but the

scruples of my new friends appeared almost insurmountable . Yet the gentleman might have said

‘I should like a portrait of my wife,’ and the lady might have said ‘I should like a portrait of my

husband.’ Perhaps they weren’t husband and wife - this naturally would make the matter more

delicate. Perhaps they wished to be done together — in which case they ought to have brought

a third person to break the news.

‘We come from Mr Rivet,’ the lady finally said with a dim smile that had the effect of

a moist sponge passed over a ‘sunk’ piece of painting, as well as of a vague allusion

to vanished beauty. She was as tall and straight, in her degree, as her companion, and with ten

years less to carry. She looked as sad as a woman could look whose face was not charged with

expression; that is her tinted oval mask showed waste as an exposed surface shows friction.

The hand of time had played over her freely, but to an effect of elimination. She was slim and

stiff, and so well-dressed, in dark blue cloth, with lappets and pockets and buttons, that it was

clear she employed the same tailor as her husband. The couple had an indefinable air of

prosperous thrift - they evidently got a good deal of luxury for their money. If I was to be one

of their luxuries it would be necessary for me to consider my terms.

Adapted from The Real Thing by Henry James

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6.1. At the very beginning the narrator thinks that the visitors

A. are probably going to be his customers.

B. are well-known personalities.

C. have come for unknown reason.

D. are the people he doesn’t want to see.

6.2. In the context of the text, ‘a sitter’ means

A. a companion.

B. a chaperone.

C. a child-minder.

D. a model.

6.3. The narrator is most probably

A. a tailor.

B. a painter.

C. a barber.

D. a sculptor.

6.4. According to the narrator, celebrities

A. are often striking in appearance.

B. are often public institution.

C. don’t often look glamorous.

D. look exactly like the couple.

6.5. The couple behave as if they were

A. too shy to look at each other.

B. very eager to state their business.

C. business-oriented.

D. unwilling to say what they want.

6.6. To say that someone’s scruples are insurmountable means that they

A. are not very strong.

B. did not appear suddenly.

C. cannot be easily overcome.

D. appeared instinctively.

6.7. The woman’s appearance indicates that she

A. used to be attractive.

B. used to play a lot.

C. is about the man’s age.

D. is older than her companion.

6.8. Looking at the woman’s face the narrator thinks that it

A. is devoid of wrinkles.

B. shows little emotion.

C. shows too much colour.

D. is out of shape.

6.9. The last paragraph shows that the narrator’s attitude towards the couple is

A. sympathetic.

B. respectful.

C. money-oriented.

D. hostile.

TRANSFER YOUR ANSWERS TO THE ANSWER SHEET!

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