Задание
Прочитай текст и выполни задания 12–18. В каждом задании запиши в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному варианту ответа.
They say that humanity possesses a higher intelligence. The thing that makes man so distinctly human, so much more highly evolved, is his sense of comprehension, rational thought; or at least, that is what's commonly said. The truth, however, lies in the exact opposite. It is one of man's completely irrational abilities that makes him so special; to see beauty anywhere, anytime, in anything.
Consider a cold Massachusetts night. It's one of those nights where you just can't seem to get warm, no matter how many jackets, gloves or scarves you wear. A man, a young man, stands on his back porch, looking out on a dark night in his crowded neighbourhood. Lights shine dimly from scattered windows, trees batter against windows so thin and brittle that they should have shattered years ago. His face is grim as he picks fallen leaves off of an old ripped up couch and sits down, shivering.
Somehow, through some trick of the human mind, he is transported. Transported to neither a time nor place, but to a feeling reflected through both, a feeling thought long gone, forever lost, a feeling that would never return.
He stands outside on a night much like the one he began in. He is in Vermont, though it really doesn't matter. The grimness in his features is gone, replaced by the soft, smooth unweatherdness of childhood, his head tilted up so high that the back of his neck aches from the strain. A hand lies on his shoulder, the hand of some giant masculinity, not frightening masculinity, but rather the comforting warmth that could only come from such an imposing figure. He calls this hand "Dad". Dad's other hand points up, at some distant star shining dimly in the moonlight. "Do you see that one? That's part of Orion's Belt." He doesn't see the star Dad is pointing to; it is lost to him in a sea of shining beauty, thousands of torches shining in the windows of houses so distant that they blur into a murky gray. "I see it," he tells his father. Not a lie, per se, but solidarity, a reciprocation of warmth, love in a shared experience.
He and Dad walk side by side, the cold unable to affect them in their warm little bubble called family. They brush through the foot-thick snow lining the walkway and enter the cabin. The father strips him of his gloves and boots, places the boots on a tray in the front hall and leads him by the hand into the cabin. They place their gloves side by side in front of the fireplace, the father huddling close to his son, sharing in the warmth of the flickering dancing fire before them. They sit down cross-legged in front of the fire and Dad says something. It doesn't matter what he said, just that they shared a laugh that seemed to go on forever.
The man is back on his small back porch in Massachusetts, though it doesn't really matter. He stands up and crosses to the railing, looking back out into the darkness. He can't see the stars tonight, just an inky blackness stretching out from above his house, expanding endlessly into a sea of swirling nothingness. But he recalls that night, long ago. The cold can't touch him; a warm bubble inside in his stomachwon't let it hurt him any longer.
It's all so temporary, he thinks to himself, that temporary feeling. A temporary feeling, a temporary place, even a temporary father. A father he sees so little these days. That night may be gone, the father may be elsewhere, the stars may be invisible, but that feeling remains, just waiting to be conjured up from the hidden, obscured, magical parts of his mind.
12.What, according to the author, makes humans unique?
1) The ability to understand difficult things.
2) The ability to see things as they are.
3) The ability to do illogical things.
4) The ability to comprehend each other.
13.How can the man on his back porch be described?
1) He is annoyed.
2) He is angry.
3) He is happy.
4) He is depressed.
14. How does the man get to Vermont?
1) He uses a teleporter.
2) He is watching the neighbours from Vermont, imagining he is there.
3) He is imagining the future.
4) He has memories of Vermont and he is remembering them.
15.What does the word "it" (paragraph 4) refer to?
1) The sky.
2) The star.
3) Orion's Belt.
4) The father's hand.
16.Which of the following sentences does NOT correspond to the events in the 5th paragraph?
1) The son and the father were cold on the street.
2) The father told his son something funny.
3) The father took his son's gloves off.
4) The son and the father were sitting by the fireplace.
17.Which phrase is closest in meaning to the phrase "a warm bubble inside in his stomach" at the end of the 6th paragraph?
1) Food that he ate before.
2) His loving family.
3) Memories of his father.
4) The love for his wife.
18.According to the author, the man's feelings...
1) are temporary because he forgets everything after some time.
2) are the best thing that a person can have.
3) magically disappear forever after some time.
4) will be with him at every moment of his life.