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Za zdrav način življenja je pomembna raznolika in uravnotežena prehrana.

TEŽAVAKožne nečistoče so značilne za mlado kožo, vendar jih pozna tudi zrela. Za boj proti tej nevšečnosti je treba redno uporabljati funkcionalno kozmetiko.Pomembno je, da izberete nemastno kozmetiko z lahko teksturo, ki se enostavno vpija in deluje pomirjujoče.

PRED, MED MATURO IN PO NJEJKREMNI GEL REUMATONIL®je učinkovit zlasti pri preobremenjenih sklepih in mišicah. Uporablja se po telesnih naporih in športnih aktivnostih, predvsem v predelu rok, nog, hrbtenice in vratu.

HITRO OLAJŠANJE z glukozaminom, hondroitin sulfatom, hudičevim krempljem in čilijem

Kremni gel je s svojo bogato sestavo namenjen za pomoč pri vzpostavljanju normalnega tonusa kože, kar omogoča izvleček hudičevega kremplja in čilija skupaj s sinergičnim učinkom hondroitin sulfata in glukozamina. Gel se zelo hitro vpije. Čili daje koži prijeten občutek gretja, ki se z nežno masažo še poveča.

VITADYN® MEMOokus jagodePrehransko dopolnilo z rastlinskimi ekstrakti in fosfoserinom. Sibirski ginseng in rožni koren sta znana po svojem adaptogenem delovanju. Sibirski ginseng krepi učenje in spomin. Rožni koren pomaga pri utrujenosti in mentalni izčrpanosti. Borovnice so znane po svojem antioksidativnem delovanju.

MULTIVITAMINI IN MINERALI VITADYN®okus pomarančaPrehransko dopolnilo z vitamini in minerali. Vitamini B2, B3, B6 in B12, pantotenska kislina, magnezij in železo omogočajo okrevanje po izčrpanosti in utrujenosti. Še posebej magnezij pomaga pri vzpostavljanju elektrolitskega ravnovesja, pripomore k normalnemu metabolizmu ter pomaga pri normalnem delovanju mišic, skupaj z vitaminom B1 omogoča vzpostavitev normalnega delovanja živcev in psihološkega ravnotežja. Pantotenska kislina pripomore k normalnemu mentalnemu ravnotežju, železo pa pomaga ohranjati normalno delovanje spomina in kognitivnih funkcij ter omogoča normalen prenos kisika po krvi. Vitamina C in E, cink, baker in mangan zaščitijo celice pred oksidativnim stresom in omogočajo normalno delovanje imunskega sistema. Vitamin A skrbi za normalno delovanje vida, vitamin D3 pa pomaga pri optimalni absorpciji kalcija in fosforja.

VITADYN® SOSTEGNOz okusom malineVitadyn Sostegno je prehransko dopolnilo na osnovi rastlinskih ekstraktov, z argininom in minerali (mangan in baker). Grahovec in baker pomagata pri krepitvi imunskega sistema. Šisandra in mangan sta dodana kot antioksidanta. Baker pomaga pri normalnem metabolizmu in pripomore k optimalnemu delovanju živčnega sistema.

HLADILNI IN OSVEŽILNI MENTOL HEADEZENaravno in enostavno do olajšanja bolečin. Nanesite na čelo s priročnim aplikatorjem in si odpočijte od bolečin s hladilnim in osvežilnim delovanjem mentola.

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SKIN-ACT System 3 je plod stalnih raziskav v kozmetiki Naturando.

Linijo sestavljajo trije proizvodi, ki omogočajo intenzivno sinergično delovanje v boju proti nevšečnostim, značilnim za to vrsto kože. Gre za usmerjeno, učinkovito in hkrati občutljivo nego. Zaradi ekskluzivne mešanice aktivnih učinkovin so izdelki Skin Act sposobni uravnotežiti in očistiti nečisto, aknasto kožo in kožo s seborejo.

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Dnevna nega, ki normalizira izločanje sebuma in vlaži.

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enostavna uporaba, ki pospešuje odpravo nepravilnosti.

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po uvodni seriji maturitetnih nalog iz matematike smo tokrat za vas zbrali stare primere maturitetnih nalog iz angleškega jezika. Priloga Razturi na maturi vsebuje naloge iz bralnega razume-vanja in slovnice, katerim smo dodali tudi rešitve. Verjamemo, da vam bo tudi tokratna priloga v veliko po-moč pri pripravi na maturo. Želimo vam veliko uspeha pri snovanju nadaljnje študijske poti.

Delo d.o.o.

Priloga Razturi na maturi, ki je dodana kolportažnim izvodom Nedela in Nedeljskih novic, vsebuje prepis angleških nalog in rešitev iz splošne mature iz preteklih let, ki so javno dostopne na elektronski povezavi http://www.ric.si/splosna_matura/predmeti/anglescina/. Delo d.o.o. ne odgovarja za morebitne tiskarske, slovnične in vsebinske napake oziroma za vsebinsko nepopolne naloge in rešitve.

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Here at the lowest place on earth, in 75 degree sunshine, Olga Alexarkin is sitting on a deckchair in bathing suit and gazing eastwards across the radiantly blue, imponderably deep, Dead Sea towards the Jordanian cliffs 11 miles away.

In a moment she will plunge into the little waves thrown up by the desert breeze, and bob effortlessly on her back supported by the planet’s most buoyant water, so saturated with salt that it will sting scratches she never knew she had. But first, she talks about why she has come here. This is simply, she sighs, “the best place in the world”.

The government of Israel is hoping enough people will agree with Mrs Alexarkin to have voted for the Dead Sea to be one of the “New 7 Wonders of Nature” when the results of an international contest run by a website of the same name are announced this morning. It has spent some £1.5m on a PR campaign; Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, pictured yesterday in the mass circulation daily Yedhiot Ahronot caked in therapeutic Dead Sea mud, has tweeted a last minute appeal for votes. And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said: “A win will transform the Dead Sea as one of the leading tourism sites in the world, contributing not only to us, but to other countries in the region, promoting regional cooperation.” This reflects a rare joint initiative between Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan.

All of which is welcome. But it cannot disguise the fact that the Dead Sea is also on the way to becoming a man-made environmental disaster zone. For decades, water has been pillaged for agriculture and domestic use from its main water provider, the River Jordan; and secondly from the Sea itself, for the hugely lucrative extraction of its vital minerals.

Now the Sea is shrinking with alarming rapidity. Its level is falling at a rate of 1.1 metres a year. Back in 1986, when the local kibbutzniks built this spa, the waters lapped at the building’s edge. 25 years later Mrs Alexarkin and her fellow-guests are transported to the water’s edge on a toytown-like road train. The journey takes five minutes and is 1.5 kilometres long. The lifeguard post is on wheels, to prevent it having to be rebuilt each time the shore moves a metre or two. “We are spending half a million shekels a year just to chase the sea,” explains Nir Wranger, the spa’s deputy manager.

Less than a kilometre away, the eerily cratered remains of the kibbutz’s once highly profitable beachside campsite testifies to the devastation left by the inexorably receding sea. The terrain is now a moonscape of gaping sink holes and yawning fault lines that will turn into more sink holes.

So unstable is the land here that it is fenced off to visitors. The campsite was closed in 1998 when the ground suddenly opened up under a young woman employee and she fell eight metres into the pit, mercifully, sustaining only light injuries.

“It’s like there’s been an earthquake,” says beach manager Simon Shukrun as we gingerly step over the cracks in what’s left of the concrete flooring. Far above what is now the shore, Mr Shukrun points to the rusting steel supports of a pier that were once underwater and now jut out of the dry land.

The level of the Dead Sea has fluctuated dramatically before. Indeed, geologists now think that “slime pits” in the Vale of Siddim, as the Dead Sea Area was called, mentioned in Genesis 14.10, refer to similar sinkholes. But the decline then in levels was created by huge climate changes. By contrast more than 1,000 sinkholes round the Dead Sea now, says Friends of the Earth Middle East’s Gidon Bromberg are “nature’s revenge for a man-made catastrophe. Nature is saying that what you are doing is wrong. I am not going to tolerate it and I am not going to keep quiet about it.”

Between 60 and 70 per cent of the problem, says Mr Bromberg, results from the rape of the once mighty River Jordan. And of this half, he says, was caused by Israel’s pumping, since the 1950s, of 400-450m cubic metres per year of fresh water from the Sea of Galilee, not least for transmission south through the national pipeline to help realise the old Zionist dream of “making the desert bloom”.

Syria comes next, at around 26 per cent, by virtually drying up the Yarmouk, the Jordan’s main tributary, with around 70 dams; and Jordan, third at 23 per cent, thanks to the King Abdullah Canal, its own dams, and huge water subsidies for water which mean that “half the farmers in Jordan flood their fields” because there is no incentive to drip-irrigate.

Mr Bromberg points to the paradox that Jordan and Israel “are promoting the Dead Sea as one of the seven wonders and encouraging their people to vote for it; so why allow for its demise, one resulting directly from their own decisions?” He will be glad if the Dead Sea qualifies, but adds: “The governments must not greenwash what has been happening. We have to be honest about it and this needs to be followed by the reversal of these decisions.”

(Adapted from an article in The Independent, 11 November 2011, by Ein Gedi)

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1. Salt2. ena od: Regional cooperation., Connecting countries., Joint initiative., Tourism3. ena od: On the sea edge., In a kibbutz4. The Moon5. ena od: A fence., The camp is closed., Sinkholes., Unstable ground., Accident with a young woman.6. Rust7. ena od: ( in the book of) Genesis (14.10)., In the Bible8. ena od: To green the desert, (Their) ( old Zionist) dream., Lack of fresh water., Agriculture., Flood their fields9. ena od: Causing the Dead Sea destruction., Allow the Dead Sea demise.

Task 1: Short answers

Answer in note form in the spaces below. Use 1–5 words for each answer.

Example: 0. What is unusual about the geographical location of the Dead Sea?______ The lowest place on earth. ___________________________________________________________________

1. What makes little wounds irritating while swimming in the Dead Sea?

2. What political benefit will the successful outcome of the campaign have

3. Where was the spa building originally located?

4. What does the former campsite remind the author of?

5. What prevents the guests from entering the unstable terrain?

6. What demonstrates that the pier pillars were once below the sea level?

7. Where can the early descriptions of the sea shrinking be found?

8. What motivates the irrational Israeli water consumption?

9. Why are Israeli and Jordanian efforts to win the nomination paradoxical?

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Life in a favela, a term generally used for a shanty town in Brazil, can be short and brutal. But one charity is hoping to change that.

AWhen her son Anderson did not come home one night, Maria feared the worst. Her 16-year-old son already had a police record for stealing a mobile phone when he was 14. She knew he was keeping bad company. In the Rio shanty-town where they lived, drug dealers were all around, riding stolen motorbikes, carrying guns. Most young men did not live long beyond their mid-20s. Maria was afraid that Anderson, who was only six when his father had left them in poverty, after months of beating her up in front of the children, would be tempted into crime.

BLife in a Rio favela is dangerous. That became clear last month when almost 3,000 members of Rio’s police and the Army – assisted by tanks and armoured vehicles – launched a mass raid on a complex of slums known as Alemão. Their targets were the organised drug gangs who were terrorising the population on main roads in the city as a protest against police pacification units, which have been installed in 13 favelas. The police and the army have now occupied Alemão on a permanent basis, which has brought temporary peace although many residents still fear the police, many of whom are frequently accused of being in the pay of the drug barons.

CMany of Rio’s 750 favelas cling to the city’s steep hillsides that rise high above the blocks of middle class apartments. The haphazardly-built brick homes, up steep narrow alleyways, often have spectacular vistas of the stunning Sugarloaf Mountain and Guanabara Bay. But they lack basic services like sewage and rubbish collection. Alemão sits next to the highway that connects most of Rio to the international airport. The authorities want to make the city safe before it hosts the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games two years later. The question, though, is safe for who?

DThree years ago residents of some of the most deprived favelas in the city were caught in the crossfire of similar armed raids in which more than 50 people were killed. Some 12,000 children were affected by school closures after a 14-year-old girl died from a stray bullet. Many more residents could not leave their home or attend work. That all happened the last time Rio hosted a major sporting event, the 2007 Pan American games. Then the authorities conducted arbitrary sweeps of the city to clear and pick up children and adolescents considered “at risk” from the streets that were part of the tourist areas or nearby the sporting circuit creating outcry

from human rights organisations.

EAlmost as soon as Anderson disappeared Maria set off to find him. At the local police station, they said they knew nothing but told her to try a young offenders’ institute. Maria found her way there, but again, nobody knew anything of Anderson. They sent her to another institute. Nothing. For several days Maria sought her son. At last, back at the first institute, they produced him. He was covered in bruises and deaf in one ear. He told her that he had stolen a motorbike with a friend, but the police had caught them almost immediately. They had beaten him and kicked him in the head, leaving him partially deaf. They had deliberately hidden him until the bruises had faded a little.

FAs a minor, Anderson could not be charged, but he was detained in a youth offenders institute. A few weeks later when Maria saw him again he looked awful. He told her that the police had tortured him to make him confess to murdering a policeman. He said he had been tortured to make him confess to a crime he had not committed. Fearful for her son’s life, Maria began to look for help. She eventually found her way to the offices of ProjetoLegal, in the centre of Rio. After listening to her story, they took up Anderson’s case. As a result of their intervention, the boy is being monitored and is having treatment for his deafness. He has begun to have lessons to catch up with all the schooling he has missed. He is doing technical courses, like ceramics and electricity. When he is released, he hopes to get a job.

GA British agency called ChildHope is working with ProjetoLegal to ensure that the real victims of such crackdowns are not mothers like Maria or her teenage son Anderson. With global attention now focusing on Rio de Janeiro as host for the 2014 World Cup, ProjetoLegal are organising a campaign against government attempts to round up children from the streets in what is widely seen as social cleansing. ProjetoLegal are also challenging what they see as the repressive and short-term focus of mega-operations like the raid on Alemão which it fears puts at risk the safety and well-being of the broader community.

(Adapted from an article in The Independent, 13 December 2010, by Ali Rocha)

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Harnessing hope for the families who live in fear

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Rešitve.

2. 1.G, 2.C, 3.C, 4.D, 5.F, 6.A, 7.G, 8.B, 9.E, 10.D, 11.F

Task 2: MatchingMatch statements 1–11 with paragraphs from A–G.MORE THAN ONE STATEMENT may refer to THE SAME PARAGRAPH.Write your answers in the spaces on the right.

Example: 0. What is unusual about the geographical location of the Dead Sea?

Answer:

0. Anderson was institutionalized. F

1. A project is launched to stop the Government activities in favelas.

2. Alemão occupies a strategic position in the Rio area.

3. Favelas offer fascinating views of the Rio area.

4. Innocent people were often victims of police operations.

5. Maria was aided by a local organisation.

6. The average life expectancy for young males in favelas is low.

7. People from favelas are helped by foreign organisations.

8. Some members of the police are on gangs' pay lists.

9. The police wanted to cover up their violent actions.

10. There were special control measures during an international sports event.

11. Anderson's prospects are encouraging.

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1Viktor and Liesel Landauer left the city immediately after the wedding and drove to Vienna, to the Sacher Hotel, where the manager met them on the steps. Hotel servants scurried round to the back of their car for suitcases. There was much bowing and scraping, much dispensing of compliments. They were to make themselves completely at home. It was the first time that Liesel had heard herself addressed as Mrs Viktor Landauer. It suddenly dawned on her that she would be tied for life in one way or another to this man at her side, who seemed, for that moment when he was accepting the welcome, no longer her beloved Viktor but a stranger, someone she had encountered only a short while before and now saw as calm, detached and somehow admirable.

2The suite they were shown to was elaborate and ornate, the walls covered with silk and the gold plaster mouldings, the sort of thing Viktor loathed. ‘It is exactly the kind of nonsense that we need to throw off, all this romanticism, all this clinging to the past. This is everything our new house will not be!’ Liesel laughed at him. When he got onto the subject of the new house, he spoke with exclamation marks – that was how she put it to herself. Often talked about, this new house did not yet have shape or form. It merely existed as an abstract, written with capitals and punctuated by exclamation marks: The New House! Liesel’s parents had given them a plot of land on which to build, and that was to be their wedding present. ‘Something good and solid,’ Liesel’s father had suggested. ‘Good, yes, but not solid,’ said Viktor. ‘We don’t want a house that looks like a fortress, all turrets and towers and Gothic windows. Good God, we’re living in the twentieth century, not the fourteenth. The world is moving on.’

3And once the porters and the maid had left them alone in their suite, the world certainly did move on, as Viktor went up to Liesel and carefully removed her spectacles, and then the silk jacket she was wearing, and then the dress she had on under that. ‘What are you doing, Viktor?’ she asked, rather nervously. Standing there in her underwear, she felt defenceless. So it was that, rather to her surprise – she had expected to wait until evening – they made love for the first time at four o’clock in the afternoon, on a heavy Biedermeier bed, with the light flooding in through the tall windows and their clothes strewn on the carpet. The experience was curiously dispiriting but it was, she supposed, rather a modern thing to do.

4The plan was to spend two days in Vienna, before setting off south. They were to motor through Austria to northern Italy. Viktor had resisted all pleas that they should take a driver, or send a maid or a valet ahead on the train. So they drove alone, in a Landauer 80 cabriolet, the very latest in the range of cars produced by Landauer Autofabrik, a car that was advertised as the Vehicles of Princes despite the fact that princes and Kaisers had been cast aside with the ending of the Great War. They drove through Carinthia and crossed the mountains into Italy near Villach, where he had been stationed during the war. There was much waiting around at the Customs while Viktor argued over whether he should pay an import duty on the car. And then they were out of the Teutonic world and into the Latin, and the sun was brighter and the breeze softer and there was a quality to the light that Liesel had never seen before.

5The only small thing that disturbed their happiness during this journey was a self-imposed one: after Udine they made a short detour to the war cemetery on the Tagliamento river, and after searching among the graves found a gravestone with Benno’s name on it. His body was not there of course, but muddled up with his comrades in the ossuary nearby. Thinking of her own happiness, a happiness that Benno had not lived to witness, Liesel wept. Viktor, who had been the last person from home to see her brother alive, put his arm round her shoulder and hugged her. ‘He is surely with you in spirit,’ he said, which she knew to be a great concession to sentiment on his part, because he believed in nothing like the spirit and certainly not the continuation of the spirit after death. Then he kissed her on the cheek and told her she was the most wonderful woman in the world and she laughed and said, no she wasn’t. But still the thought pleased her that he might at least consider that possibility.

6In Venice they stayed at the hotel Royal Danieli. On the third evening they were invited to a party in an ancient palazzo on the Canal Grande. Beneath faded frescoes, ancient Venetian nobility mixed uneasily with young men and women of dangerous good looks. One of these creatures trapped Liesel in a window seat and, in English as broken as her own, praised the virtues of Fascism and the merits of modernity. ‘One day all this will be swept away,’ he said. ‘Out with the old, in with the new!’ After some time, Liesel realised that this Italian was in fact referring to the whole country, this treasure house of art and history. Anything that wasn’t a product of the twentieth century, in fact.

(Adapted from the novel The Glass Room by Simon Mawer)

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The Glass Room

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Rešitve.

3. 1.A, 2.D, 3.B, 4.C,5.B, 6.A, 7.C, 8.B, 9.A

Task 3: Multiple choice For items 1–9, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits according to the text. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Example: 0. In Vienna, Viktor and Liesel A had to service their car. B lost some of their suitcases. C asked the hotel manager to meet them. D received full attention from the hotel staff.

1. When Liesel heard her new name called, sheA realised she would always be connected to Viktor. B felt as if she were no longer Liesel but a stranger. C mistakenly thought they were addressing Viktor. D now knew she had become a different person. 2. The hotel suite A was well above Viktor’s expectations. B looked very modern and comfortable. C made Liesel and Viktor feel romantic. D was too decorated for Viktor’s taste.

3. The plans for Liesel and Viktor’s new house A were given to them as a wedding present. B existed only as a concept. C were drawn by The New House! company. D included fourteenth century turrets and towers. 4. Liesel wanted their first love-making to be A on a heavy Biedermeier bed. B over with before evening. C a bit more conservative. D passionate and quick.

5. When leaving Vienna, A they ordered a maid and a valet to go ahead on the train. B Viktor found hiring a driver completely unacceptable. C Viktor wanted to drive the same car as the Kaiser. D they learnt that the Great War had just ended.

6. Liesel and Viktor stopped near Villach, because A they had to cross the border. B their heavy-duty car broke down. C they wanted to enjoy the bright sun. D Viktor had been stationed there during the war.

7. Liesel and Viktor’s journey would have been perfect if they A hadn’t made a short detour before reaching Udine. B could have forgotten what happened in Vienna. C hadn’t visited the grave of Liesel’s brother. D had found Benno’s gravestone. 8. In Paragraph 5, Viktor is shown as A confused and sympathetic. B rational and comforting. C cold and unsentimental. D spiritual and attentive.

9. The Italian guest and Liesel shared A approximately the same knowledge of English. B the hatred towards ancient Venetian nobility. C the admiration of the virtues of the Fascism. D a keen interest in art, history and modernity.

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The United Welsh Housing Association is running a competition __0__ find people to live in and assess two homes built on the site of a former steel works at Ebbw Vale in south Wales. The homes __1__ built to showcase the “Passivhaus” concept in 2010. Two families will get the opportunity to live rent free in one of two new eco homes in return for evaluating __2__ well the properties function. The average rent __3__ a similar sized UWHA property is £74.03 a week. The occupants of __4__ of the two houses, the three-bed Larch House, will also avoid energy bills. The design and insulation of a so-called Passivhaus, or “passive house”, means they need very __5__ heating. Instead, body heat and heat from electrical appliances __6__ as fridges and computers is enough to ward off the worst winter chills. The house also has a mechanical heat recovery and ventilation system __7__ extracts warmth from outgoing air and mixes it with incoming fresh air.

Passive houses are designed to be carbon neutral over the course of their lifetime, __8__ the origin of materials is an important part of the equation. Larch House is built from local timber, and all the other components are sourced as locally as possible. Large, south-facing windows, closed-panel timber framing to minimise draught, high insulation, all add __9__ the zero-carbon footprint of the property.

The UWHA says that the monitoring of the houses, most of which will be done remotely, will enable the innovative techniques used in building these homes to be shared and used in the future.

The Green House competition is open to anyone who either lives in Blaenau Gwent __10__ has a connection to the area, and can include students as well as families. Applicants will be asked to write about themselves and their interest in environmental matters, as they must be prepared to adopt a green lifestyle. Research __11__ shown that eco features alone will not reduce energy bills.

Richard Mann, head of development for the UWHA, says: “People have to change the way they use their home. Basic things like not opening windows when the heating is on make __12__ the difference. In fact, it can end up costing more to run __13__ you don’t use an eco house properly.”

__14__, the housing association advises that the winners may need access to a car. Although the properties are minutes from the hospital, and the Ebbw Vale Parkway railway station is __15__ than a mile from the site, the nearest school and supermarket are about 1.5 miles away. Finalists will have been selected for interview by mid-February.

Once the Green House competition has come to an end, an affordable social rent for the Blanau Gwent area will be set on both properties.

(Adapted from an article in The Guardian, 18 January 2012, by Jenny McBain)

Rešitve.

1. ena od: are, were2. how3. ena od: for, in, of, on, with4. ena od: each, either, one5. ena od: little, special6. ena od: know, such7. ena od: and, that, which8. ena od: meaning, so

9. to10. or11. has12. ena od: all, quite, up13. ena od: if, when14. ena od: Actually, Additionally, Also, Anyhow, Anyway, Besides, Finally, Howeever, Intrestingly, Lastly,

Nevertheless, Nonetheless, Now, Plus, Somehow, Still, Surprisingly, Unfortunately15. ena od: closer, less, nearer

How green is their valley? Ebbw Vale residents asked to test eco homes

Task 1: Gap fillWrite one missing word in the spaces on the right.There is ONE word missing in each gap.There is an example at the beginning: Gap 0.

POZNAVANJE IN RABA JEZIKA

Example: 0. to

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A “lost” first novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, the __0__ of Sherlock Holmes, is to be published tomorrow for the first time, 128 years after it was written. The Narrative of John Smith provides a fascinating glimpse into the young __1__ mind.

Many years after writing The Narrative, Conan Doyle said that he would be horrified if the book ever __2__ in print. But academics have defended the publication because of its contribution to understanding his __3__ work. Conan Doyle was living and working as a doctor in Portsmouth when he embarked __4__ the novel in 1883. His father had been taken __5__ due to alcoholism, and the 23-year-old had to support his mother and __6__ the education of his 10-year-old brother. He had started writing short stories and submitting them to magazines to supplement his __7__. But he was frustrated by the Victorian practice of omitting the author’s name, especially when one of his works in The Cornhill Magazine was hailed as being by Robert Louis Stevenson. For that reason, he

attempted a novel, which __8__ his name on the cover. He then suffered a major blow when the manuscript of The Narrative got lost in the post, __9__ to be found again. So he rewrote it from memory, the result of __10__ is thought to be the British Library’s manuscript. Although the novel suffers __11__ a lack of plot, it does picture a world of boarding houses and pipesmoking, which fans of Sherlock Holmes will recognise.

The book also hints at themes that would appear in the Holmes books, __12__ an interest in logical reasoning. An introduction to the new edition says: “The Narrative is not successful fiction, but offers remarkable insight into the thinking and views of a raw young writer who would shortly create one of literature’s most famous and durable characters, Sherlock Holmes.”

(Adapted from an article in The Independent, 25 September 2011, by Matthew Bell)

0. A maker B narrator C creator D producer

1. A writer B writers C writer’s D writers’ 2. A appears B appeared C will appear D would appear 3. A late B lately C latter D later 4. A to B on C in D at 5. A sick B invalid C unwell D ill 6. A found B fund C founded D funds 7. A income B money C payment D interest 8. A had to have B would have C will have D can have 9. A only B once C just D never 10. A what B that C which D those 11. A by B from C for D of 12. A as B it is C such as D such

Rešitve.

2. 1.C, 2.B, 3.D, 4.B, 5.D, 6.B, 7.A, 8.B, 9.D, 10.C, 11.B, 12.C

Sherlock Holmes’s origins revealed

Task 2: Multiple choiceFor gaps 1–12, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits according to the text.There is an example at the beginning: Gap 0.

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Hula hooping first rose __0__ prominence in the Fifties as a cheap and faddy phenomenon that somehow took hold of an entire planet’s imagination. From housewives in their kitchens to kids on the beach, even geishas in their kimonos, the hula hoop __1__ proved its universality and its timelessness. Like the bicycle and the slanket, it feels like one of those inventions that has just always been around. Except it isn’t anymore. Those Fifties housewives had the right idea: there’s nothing __2__ developing your core strength (that is, your abs and stomach muscles) for keeping you trim. And there’s __3__ better way to give them a rigorous going over than to stand and loop the loop with a hoop for half an hour. “The reason it’s such a good tool for exercise is that core strength is key to your whole body,” says Marawa Wamp, a circus-trained hooper __4__ classes I have attended. She has performed across the globe with companies such as Le Clique and now runs classes geared specifically towards teaching hula as a means of fitness. She also has an app that will teach you how to __5__ started, as well as a few simple exercises.

Wamp has been hooping for 10 years and has the fluid-but-strong posture of __6__ ballet dancer. Her shoulders are straight, she stands tall and she exudes sinuous strength. I want to be like her, I decide. My __7__ move is to google for tips, of course, and in doing so I discover a whole hooping community, not to mention oodles of testimonials from women who claim it has changed their lives. People hoop at home or in the park, some dressed as fairies or simply in their pyjamas.

Hoopnotica is one of many companies that have sprung up to teach the ways of hula to those looking to make their fitness regime slightly more fun. With its instructional workout DVD comes an adult-sized hoop __8__ breaks apart and reassembles for ease of storage. It is much bigger than I remember; I feel like a dwarfed Saturn standing in the centre of it. “Most people I talk to about hula hoops say ‘Oh, I __9__ to be able to do it when I was a kid, but not any more’,” Wamp says.

Before I meet with Wamp, I have a go with my hoop at home in front of the the Hoopnotica DVD, which is presented __10__ several gazelle-like winding creatures who promise that hooping will not __11__ give me great abs but will also boost my confidence and feelings of positivity. After a __12__ false starts, I manage to keep the hoop up for more than three spins. Then six, then 12, then suddenly it just keeps going. I try hooping to the left and to the right; the DVD teaches me how to turn round in the hoop and to keep it spinning. I am not very good at the last one, but __13__ is time.

Hula hooping takes practice and patience, but __14__ you’ve mastered it, it’s a bit like riding a bike. It works best when you simply don’t think about it at all, but just __15__ your body get into a rhythm and rely on it to remember when to flick.

Rešitve.

1. has2. like3. no4. ena od: whose, teaching,running, leading, condusting5. get6. ena od: a, the, any

7. ena od: first, logical, strategic, starting, initial, next8. ena od: that, which9. used10. ena od: by, through11. ena od: just, only12. ena od: few, hundred, dozen, couple13. there

14. ena od: after, once, when, if15. ena od: let, make, feel

The power of spin: Hula hoop your way to happiness

Task 3: Gap fillThere is ONE word missing in each gap. Write the missing words in the spaces on the right. Bear in mind that all contracted forms with the exception of can’t count as two words. There is an example at the beginning: Gap 0.

POZNAVANJE IN RABA JEZIKA

Example: 0. to

Example: 0. to

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I opened David Nicholls’ new novel with a sense of __0__ (EXCITE) and trepidation. Over the course of 180 brief chapters, Douglas, the protagonist, alternates between the tale of a ghastly journey from London to Barcelona by way of Paris, Amsterdam, Venice and Madrid and an account of his marriage. It’s in the latter narrative that the real heart of the book resides. Husband and wife originally met at a supper party given by his __1__ (BOSS) sister Karen, where in one of Nicholls’ wonderful trademark comic set pieces our socially inept academic rescues free-spirited Connie from the attentions of a trapeze artist. They’re chalk and cheese, but Douglas adores her and the psychological fit is easy to see. He brings __2__ (STABLE) and common sense; Connie, a failed painter, opens Douglas’s mind to more artistic, emotional and impulsive sides of life. This is Douglas’s account, of course, so it’s unsurprising that one’s __3__ (SYMPATHISE) rest with him at this point. Connie seems rather flaky, a view underlined when she confesses to an affair with a colleague early in the marriage. They are reconciled, and their relationship and affection both __4__ (DEEP). Connie becomes pregnant, but baby Jane is born early and dies within hours. The photos and memories of Jane form an everlasting bond and Nicholls evokes most movingly the couple’s sense of __5__ (LOSE) and isolation. His rendition of the marriage comes across as something almost tangible, muscular and accommodating. It’s a powerful interpretation and rings true. As it turns out, it isn’t long before little Albert is pushing his way into the world, and their sorrow recedes. The Grand Tour, meanwhile, is gruesome. Armed with schedules

and pre-booked tickets, Douglas marshals his wife and son around the museums of Paris, Albie __6__ (MOOD) and recalcitrant and Connie failing to keep the peace. Albie goes off-piste and hooks up with Kat, a rambunctious Antipodean busker. When the Petersens move on to Amsterdam, she follows. There, disaster ensues. Douglas’s public __7__ (HUMILIATE) of Albie in a hotel restaurant propels the boy to leave in high dudgeon on an alternative trip across Europe. Connie returns to Berkshire, but Douglas sets off in pursuit of Albie, __8__ (DESPAIR) to reunite his divided family. It’s at this point that the moral compass starts to swing from Douglas towards Connie and Albie. We learn how Douglas’s rigid upbringing informed his approach to child-rearing. Whilst Albie grew up close to his mother, Douglas made his son feel nervy and inadequate. A change of career to the private sector enabled him to provide better for Connie and Albie __9__ (FINANCE), but it meant he had neither time nor energy for their home life. As he scours Italy and Spain for his son, Douglas must finally learn to __10__ (LOOSE) up. Unfortunately, this is perhaps the weakest aspect of the book. There is not __11__ (SUFFICE) cohesion between the two narratives: too much travelogue and art criticism, not enough transformative revelation. Still, the eventual meeting between father and son is dealt with adroitly and, as ever, Nicholls deals in emotional articulacy without sentimentality. Us won’t perhaps appeal to such a wide age group as One Day, but it imparts much truth and __12__ (WISE) about marriage and fatherhood and as such it more than satisfies.

(Adapted from an article in The Independent, 28 September 2014, Rachel Hore)

Us by David Nicholls – book review: Author imparts much truth and wisdom about marriage and fatherhood

Task 4: Gap fill (word formation)For gaps 1–12, write the correct form of the word in brackets in the spaces on the right. There is an example at the beginning: Gap 0.

Rešitve.

1. ena od: bossy, boss-like2. stability3. sympathies4. deepen

5. ena od: loss, losing6. moody7. humiliation8. desperate

9. financially10. loosen11. sufficient12. wisdow

Example: 0. excitement

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Task 1: PISNI SESTAVEK (V ENI OD STALNIH SPOROČANJSKIH OBLIK)E-mail

As an exchange student you are staying in a rented flat. You recently held a party to celebrate your birthday. Several neighbours complained to your landlord about the damage your guests did in the communal areas of the building.

Write an e-mail of 120–150 words to your landlord in which you:• apologise to the landlord,• describe the situation from your point of view,• say how you will solve the problem.

Your name is Dominik(a) Novak.

TO: [email protected]:SUBJECT: Birthday party

Dear Mr Blacksmith,

Task 2: DALJŠI PISNI SESTAVEK Choose ONE essay title.

1. Testing on animals is essential for progress in medicine.2. Being an individual is more important than being popular.

Underline the essay title you have chosen. How far do you agree or disagree with the statement?Support your opinion in 220–250 words.

Task 3: VODENI SPIS (100–120 besed) You were travelling with your classmates in Britain. Arriving in Windsor you discovered that the rooms you had booked were not available.

Returning back home, write a letter of 100–120 words to the hostel manager in which you:

• explain what happened and how you solved your problemand• suggest a suitable compensation.

PISNO SPOROČANJE

Send your letter to: Windsor Youth HostelWelders LaneWindsor HP9 2SNGreat Britain

Your address is: Prešernova 51530 Srednja vasSlovenija

Your name is: Dominik/a Novak

Remember the layout is a letter.

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