Контрольная работа № 2. Перепишите и переведите письменно при помощи словаря текст

Задание №1.

Перепишите и переведите письменно при помощи словаря текст:

Literature.

When a novel or play is adapted for the screen it reaches a huge new audience. Surely the main point of story – telling is communication, so if more people can enjoy a story by seeing it in a visual form, what’s wrong with that?

A successful screen adaptation helps to promote (содействовать распространению) the original book and increase its sales. Often, in fact, recently filmed or televised books (even nineteenth – century classics) can become bestsellers all over again.

Pictures make stories more vivid and lifelike – every five – year – old child that. So, why should adult literature be any different? The simple fact is that screen adaptation give books a whole new realistic dimension (объём, измерение). They also make stories where the language is complex and old – fashioned much easier for modern readers to understand.

Quite frankly, without screen adaptations, the publishing industry would be far less healthy than it is. After all, we live in a visual culture where few people actually buy books. To put it bluntly, literature needs TV and films far more than TV and films need literature.

People lead busy lives these days. They don’t want to spend a week reading a novel when they can watch the film version in two hours. It’s a question of convenience (удобство).

Some screen adaptation are good, others are bad, but the main point about them is that they increase choice. You can read the book first and then see the film … see the film, then read the book … just read the book … just see the film. What’s wrong with choice?

Reading a book and watching a screen are two completely different experiences. Reading is active: your mind has to work and create images. Watching is passive: you just sit there and all the work is done for you. It’s less satisfying.

When you’re reading a book you’re able to stop and start whenever you like. The book can become a part of your life for a week – two weeks – however long it takes to read. With a film or TV series, though, the pace (noun, speed) is dictated … you don’t have the freedom to stop and think for five minutes before you carry on.

Screen adaptations are never as subtle (утончённый, искусный) and complex as the books or plays they’re based on. Characters are cut out, scenes removed … that’s because time is always a key issue, especially for film – makers. Producers, directors and screen – writes constantly have to ask themselves, ‘How can tell we fit the story into two hours?’

Books can tell you what characters are thinking. Films and TV serials can’t. They have to use dialogue instead.

Adaptation suits books with a very dynamic plot and a strong visual element – The Jurassic Park, for example – but it doesn’t suit more complex literary fiction a novel and a scrip.

Adaptations have an unfair (несправедливый) influence on the book industry. OK, they turn a certain number of novels into bestsellers, but what about the hundreds of other books, excellent books, which are ignored simply because they haven’t been filmed?

Задание 2.

Ответьте письменно на следующие вопросы:

1.What is the main point of a story?

2.What increase sales of the books?

3.Do you prefer to read a book or to watch a sceen version?

4.Is reading active?

5.Do you agree that adaptations have an unfair influence on the book industry? Why?

Задание 3.

Раскройте скобки, употребив глаголы в нужном времени:

BARBARA CARTLAND.

Barbara Cartland is a famous love-story writer.According to the Guinness Book of Records she (be) _ the best-selling author in the world.

Barbara Cartland (be born) _____at the beginnig of the century.She (write) _____ her first book when she (be)____ twenty-one and it sold out as soon it (reach) _____ the shops.

Since then she (write)____ over 450 books, and all of them (be) about

love.

Задание 4.

Из четырех вариантов (А),(В),(С),(D) выберите единственно правильный:

1.Mount Everest is ________ mountain in the world.

(A) high

(B) higest

(D) the highest

2.What is the first word children learn to ____?

(A)talk

(B)tell

(C)say