Test A, sample questions

I. Proszę dokończyć przerwaną pracę tłumacza i przetłumaczyć podkreślone części tekstów z języka polskiego na język angielski. Tłumaczenia należy wpisać nad wykropkowa-niem. Tekst w nawiasie, pisany kursywą, to informacja dotycząca kontekstu lub notatka tłumacza.

(Informacja na słupie ogłoszeniowym)

Spotkanie Anonimowych Alkoholików odbędzie się w mieszkaniu Pauliny Lewińskiej, na 184 Elm St., w poniedziałek 12 stycznia.

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(Public poster)

A meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous ……… … ………, 184 Elm St., on Monday 12 January. (Początek internetowej notki biograficznej)

BRINKLEY, JOHN ROMULUS (1885-1942). John Romulus (zmienione na John

Richard) Brinkley, kontrowersyjny szarlatan medyczny, prezenter radiowy i polityk, jedyny syn Johna i Candice (Burnett) Brinkley, urodził się w pobliżu Beta w hrabstwie Jackson, w stanie Karolina Południowa, dn. 8 lipca 1885.

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(The initial part of Internet biographical information)

BRINKLEY, JOHN ROMULUS (1885-1942). John Romulus (changed to John

Richard) Brinkley, controversial medical charlatan, broadcaster, and ……… ……….. .………... (Tekst zaproszenia)

ZAPROSZENIE

Na co: Urodziny Do kogo: Amy Lindsey

Kiedy: W Sobotę o godz. 18:00 Gdzie: W Mieszkaniu Amy

* * * (Invitation note) INVITATION What: ……… Who: ……… When: ……… Where: ………

(Fragmenty recenzji prasowej samochodu)

Hyundai Elantra zawsze zbierał od nas pozytywne opinie, zwłaszcza po znaczącym liftingu jaki przeszedł w roku 2001, który zwiększył przestrzeń wewnątrz auta i jego wymiary zewnętrzne, a także dodał sporo elementów standardowego wyposażenia, i wszystko to bez znaczącej podwyżki ceny.

(...)

Elantra posiada także wady; ABS jest dostępny tylko w drogich pakietach, a silnik samochodu nie jest tak silny i wyrafinowany jak u liderów tej klasy.

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(Excerpts from a press review of a car)

The Hyundai Elantra has always been a winner in our opinion, especially after it got a substantial overhaul in 2001, adding interior space and exterior size, along with a full load of standard equipment, without a substantial boost in the price.

(…)

The Elantra is not without faults; ABS is available only in expensive packages and ……… is not as powerful and sophisticated as in class leaders.

II. Proszę wybrać i zakreślić kółkiem jedną z dwóch podkreślonych i oddzielonych znakiem “/” części zdania, która lepiej, poprawniej uzupełnia tekst. Opcję odrzuconą należy przekreślić. Tekst w nawiasie, pisany kursywą, to informacja dotycząca kontekstu.

(A part of an Internet website called “Country Profiles”) (Headline): Country profile: France

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A key player on the world stage and a country at the political heart of Europe, France sent shockwaves through European Union capitals when voters re-jected the proposed EU constitution in a referendum in May 2005.

Decades earlier, France had been one of the founding fathers of European integration as the continent sought to rebuild after the devastation of World War II.

France’s colonial past / The colonial past of France is a major contributing factor in the presence of a richly diverse multicultural population. It is home to more than five million people of Arab and African descent.

(…)

(Excerpts from a scholarly article about assassination)

(Article title): Time to kill? State sponsored assassination and international law (…)

First, the use of assassinations as a foreign policy tool seems to conflict with the U.S. logic in enacting Executive Order 12.333. Strategically, hegemonic empires like the ancient Romans had an aversion to assassinations in inter-state relations. The U.S. itself has previously enacted Executive Orders against the use of assassinations with such logic in mind.

(…)

A further issue to emerge since the ancient Romans is that, since 1945, there has been a general ban on the use of force by the U.N. Charter. The international community has also witnessed the rise of human rights law in peacetime and international humanitarian

law during wartime. Notions of proportionality and mitigating civilian casualties now

influence the legality of assassination and create factors that were not questioned by the ancient Romans. Therefore, a new age counter argument to the Roman’s logic in the delegitimisation of international assassinations is that stated by Ann-Marie Slaugh-ter, “Political assassinations may be a more humane approach to resolving conflict than conventional warfare”. An example illustrating this claim is Julius Caesar’s do-mestic assassination / the dodo-mestic assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.

(Conversation)

A: As far as I can remember you bought an old house and a shop two months ago and you intend to rent them?

B: Yeah.

A: So, how are you doing with your rental properties?

B: Oh, pretty good. I’ve got the shop all fixed up now, but several of the house’s win-dows / the winwin-dows of the house still need to be replaced.

(A manual accompanying a build-your-own-dog-house kit): (Headline): Build Your Own Dog House

(Smaller headline): Installing the house’s roof frame / the roof frame of the house 1. File board no. 1

2. Fit board no. 1 into frame no. 1 (…)

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Cognitive student handout English possessives: ‘-s’, ‘of’

1. The range of meanings expressed by English possessives. Examples ……....……… ……… . 2. The -s genitive (possessive):

a)

my friend’s house Claire’s idea the dog’s food Daniel’s brother the dog’s owner the policeman’s uniform

the women’s changing room the Parkers’ car

the family’s money the cat’s name our neighbor’s garden

……… ……… b)

the ship’s funnel

the country’s beauty ^{the sun’s power} Poland’s fields and forests

……….……… ……… 3. The of-genitive:

the side of the house the result of the match the day of the meeting

the bank of the river the surface of the counter

………..……… ……….. 4. Both genitives:

the problems of the nation the smog of Cardiff the atmosphere of the earth the future of the company the intentions of the government

the nation’s problems Cardiff’s smog the earth’s atmosphere the company’s future the government’s intentions

……… ………

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Jakub Bielak is a teaching assistant in the Department of English at Adam Mickiewicz University at Kalisz. His major interest is in Cognitive Linguistics (Cognitive Grammar in particular) and its applications in other areas of lan-guage study such as Critical Discourse Analysis and SLA. He is currently preparing a PhD thesis on the application of Cognitive Grammar in language-and-ideology studies.

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