Egzamin Angielski

EGZAMIN RESORTOWY Z JĘZYKA ANGIELSKIEGO
I Translate the following sentences into English.
1) O premierze tego kraju mówi się, że nie poprze żadnych zmian w ustawie o ulgach
podatkowych dla dużych rodzin, jeżeli partie koalicyjne nie zgodzą się w zamian na
korzystne przetasowanie gabinetu.
2) Długi spór prawny między obiema firmami został ostatecznie rozwiązany za pomocą
ugody, którą jednomyślnie przegłosowali członkowie zarządu obu stron.
3) Szkoda, że nie wywarłam lepszego wrażenia na pracodawcach, ale ja naprawdę
uważam, że powinni byli lepiej zarządzać pracownikami niższego szczebla.
4) Nigdy wcześniej tak niewielu ludzi nie miało w posiadaniu tak wielu aktywów i tak
wiele gotówki, podczas gdy ogromna większość obywateli nie może związać końca z
końcem.
5) Na pewno nie masz racji, a nawet gdybyś dzisiaj ją miał, nie zdołalibyśmy
zrekompensować nieodwracalnych szkód, jakie wyrządziliśmy podczas przewrotu.
6) Minister gospodarki ogłosił wczoraj, że wyjeżdża za granicę, żeby objąć stanowisko w
ONZ i przyznał, że od dawna nie miał satysfakcji z pracy.
7) Wysoko ceniony, nagrodzony Noblem naukowiec rumuński, który niedawno
przeszedł na emeryturę, przeprowadził badania nad ludzką zdolnością uczenia się
języków, które zmieniły nasze rozumienie tego zagadnienia.
8) Piszę, żeby złożyć skargę na zdecydowanie niegrzeczny sposób, w jaki potraktowały
mnie osoby nadzorujące głosowanie w lokalu wyborczym.
9) Kiedy wreszcie dotarliśmy na wyprzedaż w centrum handlowym, wszystkie bardziej
atrakcyjne modele zostały już sprzedane.
10) Gdyby nie bardzo kosztowny rozwód, Mark wciąż byłby dziś zamożnym
człowiekiem.
II Choose one of the following topics and write an essay of one standard page.
1) What are the consequences of leaving the European Union? Analyse the current
position of the United Kingdom with regard to its European and global affairs after
Brexit. Take into consideration some diplomatic, economic, military and social issues
of your choice.
2) Is the Polish educational system effective in responding to the changing needs of

young people? What changes to the system would you suggest with a view to the
Covid and post-Covid issues, social media and open access to information online?
3) Is there a place in the job market for the computer-illiterate or simply computer-
weary? What are the interesting options for those university graduates who do not
wish to spend their working lives in front of the screen?
III To complete the numbered gaps choose one answer from A to D each time. Please
write the answers on the answer-sheet.
Passport to the Universe
Back in January 2000, the newly rebuilt Hayden Planetarium in New York City featured a
space show titled Passport to the Universe, which took visitors on a virtual zoom from the
planetarium out to the edge of the cosmos. En route, the audience viewed Earth, then the solar
system, then watched the hundred billion stars of the Milky Way galaxy shrink, (1)______, to
barely visible dots on the planetarium’s dome.
(2)______ a month of opening day, I received a letter from an Ivy League professor of
psychology (3)______ expertise was in things that make people feel insignificant. I never
knew one could specialize (4)______ such a field. He wanted to (5)______ a before-and-after
questionnaire to visitors, assessing the depth of their depression after viewing the show.
Passport to the Universe, he wrote, elicited the most dramatic feelings of smallness and
insignificance he (6)______ ever experienced.
How could that be? (7)______ time I see the space show (and others we’ve produced), I feel
alive and spirited and connected. I also feel large, knowing that the goings-on in the three-
pound human brain are (8)______ enabled us to figure out our place in the universe.
(9)______ me to suggest that it’s the professor, not I, who has misread nature.
His ego was unjustifiably big to begin with, inflated by delusions of significance and fed by
cultural assumptions that human (10)______ are more important than everything else in the
universe.
In all fairness to the fellow, powerful forces in society leave (11)______ of us susceptible.
(12)______ was I, until the day I learned in biology class that more bacteria live and work in
one centimetre of my colon (13)______ the number of people who have ever existed in the
world. That kind of information (14)______ you think twice about who—or what—is actually
(15)______. From that day on, I began to think of people not as the masters of space and time
but as participants in a great cosmic chain of being, with a direct genetic link across species
(16)______ living and extinct, extending back nearly four billion years to the earliest single-
celled organisms on Earth.
No doubt we’re smarter than every (17)______ living creature that ever ran, crawled, or
slithered on Earth. But (18)______ smart is that? Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to
ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements would
be trivial. Their toddlers, (19)______ of learning their ABCs on Sesame Street, would learn
multivariable calculus on Boolean Boulevard. Our most complex theorems, our deepest
philosophies, the cherished (20)______ of our most creative artists, would be projects their
schoolkids bring home for Mom and Dad to display on the refrigerator door with a magnet.
1) A by turn B in turn C for turn D to turn
2) A With B By C Within D Into
3) A whose B who’s C who D whom
4) A at B for C on D in
5) A make B administer C conduct D perform
6) A has B had C have D was
7) A All B At C Every D Some
8) A that B what C which D this
9) A Allow B Accept C Let D Hear
10) A kind B people C beings D individuals
11) A most B little C majority D much
12) A Which B What C As D Such
13) A that B then C whole D than
14) A makes B lets C make D let
15) A in charge B charged C of charge D charged in
16) A as B both C also D alike
17) A another B others C other D the other
18) A why B what C very D how
19) A instead B rather C indeed D despite
20) A jobs B deeds C works D artefacts

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EGZAMIN RESORTOWY Z JĘZYKA ANGIELSKIEGO

I Translate the following sentences into English.

2) Is the Polish educational system effective in responding to the changing needs of

Passport to the Universe

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