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- It is recommended to spend not more than 15 minutes on this task.
- In that task knowing of the following aspects of the language is checked:
- phrasal verbs (to put up, to come across, to cut down with, etc.);
- difference in using of words similar in meaning and synonyms (to look, to watch, to glance, to see; a trip, travel, a voyage, a journey, etc.);
- difference in using of words very close in sounding and spelling but different in meaning (again/against, effect/affect, beside/besides, etc.);
- dependent prepositions and word patterns (to rely on smb, to fall in love with smb, to throw in/at, to take care of, etc.).
The Canterbury Tales
Most Middle English texts were created by authors whose names remained unknown. Yet, by the end of the Middle English period there appeared a \({\boxed{32} \underline{ }}\) of prominent authors, and a body of English literature in the modern sense of the word emerged. It became a transitional \({\boxed{33} \underline{ }}\) between Middle and Early Modern English. One of the outstanding writers who worked in that period was Geoffrey Chaucer.
Geoffrey Chaucer is considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and is widely known as the father of English poetry. He, \({\boxed{34} \underline{ }}\) with other pioneers, made a huge contribution to the formation of the English literary language. Chaucer was a prolific author who left the legacy of 43,000 lines of poetry and two major prose works, not to mention some minor works. \({\boxed{35} \underline{ }}\) , his most important contribution was not due to a matter of quantity, but the variety of language in his works, from high-flown style to colloquial speech. His works are a real encyclopedia of the range of language styles of that period.
The Canterbury Tales is Chaucer's best known and most acclaimed work written over a period of more than a decade but left unfinished. It is a collection of 22 poetic and two prose novels. They are the stories told by pilgrims travelling from London to Canterbury. There are no original manuscripts left, but a significant number of copies of this work. Therefore, the stories have been a continuing source of debate over their order and dating. The pilgrims \({\boxed{36} \underline{ }}\) to all strata of medieval English society: there is a knight, a monk, a priest, a doctor, a sailor, a merchant, a wealthy weaver, a cook, a yeoman, etc. Chaucer managed to create vivid and colourful images, subtly noticing the peculiarities of \({\boxed{37} \underline{ }}\) of the pilgrims. He gave much attention to the peculiar features of his characters' speech and carefully selected linguistic means to give a precise idea of their personalities. In modern literature, this literary device is used \({\boxed{38} \underline{ }}\) a matter of course, but it was a striking innovation in Chaucer's time.
\(\boxed{32}\) 1) deal, 2) amount, 3) degree, 4) number.
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\(\boxed{33}\) 1) scene, 2) stage, 3) step, 4) level.
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\(\boxed{34}\) 1) along, 2) among, 3) between, 4) besides.
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\(\boxed{35}\) 1) Despite, 2) However, 3) Although, 4) Therefore.
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\(\boxed{36}\) 1) coincide, 2) consist, 3) include, 4) belong.
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\(\boxed{37}\) 1) each, 2) every, 3) single, 4) whole.
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\(\boxed{38}\) 1) how, 2) like, 3) as, 4) by.
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