Прочитайте приведенный ниже текст о деньгах и счастье, а для вопросов 1-5 выберите ответы A, b или C. На каждый вопрос есть только один правильный ответ
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Tasks for the Summative Assessment for the unit “Different ways of living” Grade: 10 Task 1. Read the text below about money and happiness and for questions, 1-5 choose answers A, B or C. There is only one correct answer for each question. Прочитайте приведенный ниже текст о деньгах и счастье, а для вопросов 1-5 выберите ответы A, B или C. На каждый вопрос есть только один правильный ответ. All in all, it was probably a mistake to look for the answer to the eternal question- “Does money buy happiness” – from people who practice what’s called the dismal science. For when economists tackled the question, they started from the observation that when people put something up for sale they try to get as much for it as they can get, and when people buy something they try to pay as little for it as they can. Both sides in the transaction, the economists noticed, are therefore behaving as if they would be happier, they wound up receiving more money or holding on to more money. Hence, more money must be better than less of it is if it brings your greater contentment. The economists’ conclusion: the more money you have, the happier you must be. “Psychologists have spent decades studying the relation between wealth and happiness”, writes Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert in his best-selling “Stumbling on Happiness”, and they have generally concluded that wealth increases human happiness when it lifts people out of abject poverty and into the middle class, but that it does little to increase happiness thereafter. In a typical survey people are asked to rank their sense of well-being or happiness on a scale from 1 to 7, where 1 means “not at all satisfied with my life” and 7 means “completely satisfied”. Of the American multimillionaires who responded, the average happiness score was 5.8. Homeless people in Calcutta came in at 2.9. But before you assume that money does buy happiness after all, consider who else rated themselves around 5.8: the Inuit of northern Greenland, who do not exactly lead a life of luxury, and the cattle-herding Masai of Kenya, whose dung huts have no electricity or running water. And proving Gilbert’s point about money buying happiness only when it lifts you out of abject poverty, slum dwellers in Calcutta – one economic rung above the homeless – rate themselves at 4.6. 1. How did economists examine the relation of money to happiness? A. They interviewed people in the streets on their attitude towards money and happiness B. They observed that when people sell something, they try to gain more money and when buying, people try to spend less money C. They examined how people manage their money (savings and spending) 2. More money must be better because: A. It enables people buying whatever they want B. It makes travelling affordable C. It brings more happiness and satisfaction 3. According to Daniel Gilbert, how does money make people happier? A. People do not live in poor conditions B. People can buy different things C. People receive high salaries 4. According to the survey, who rated themselves as being happy? A. Inuit of Northern Greenland B. American multimillionaires C. Homeless people in Calcutta 5. What does a house of Masai of Kenya lack? A. Heating B. Hot water C. Electricity Task 2. Answer the following questions. 6. What is the main idea of the text? 7. Why having more money is better according to economists’ conclusions? 8. What is the work of Daniel Gilbert? 9. What kind of people participated in the survey? 10. According to the text, what are the living conditions of Masai of Kenya? Task 3. Imagine you are making an experiment of living without money for a month. Describe your experience using a variety of quantifiers (several, plenty, a large/small number/amount, a great deal of, none), determiners (definite/indefinite articles, pronouns, quantifiers) and pre-determiner structures (such, what, rather, quite). Write 100-120 words. Представьте, что вы проводите эксперимент по проживанию без денег в течение месяца. Опишите свой опыт, используя различные кванторы (several, plenty, a large/small number/amount, a great deal of, none), определители (definite/indefinite articles, pronouns, quantifiers) и предопределяющие структуры (such, what, rather, quite). Напишите 100-120 слов. Describe: Where you are living How you earn for life How do you feel living without money жүктеу/скачать 17.59 Kb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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