ФЕДЕРАЛЬНОЕ АГЕНТСТВО ПО ОБРАЗОВАНИЮ
ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЕ
УЧРЕЖДЕНИЕ
ВЫСШЕГО ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ
«ВОРОНЕЖСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ
УНИВЕРСИТЕТ»
УЧЕБНО-МЕТОДИЧЕСКОЕ ПОСОБИЕ
ПО АНАЛИТИЧЕСКОМУ ЧТЕНИЮ
Часть 2
Учебное пособие для вузов
Издательско-полиграфический центр
Воронежского государственного университета
2009
Утверждено научно-методическим советом факультета РГФ 16 июня 2009 г.,
протокол № 6
Составители: О. <...> There are ways to met deadlines
by Lynda Whitney
Love them or hate them, the chances are your job
involves deadlines. <...> Chartered occupational psychologist and performance coach Carol Rothwell
says: “People tend to be either early-starters or pressure-prompted.”
Knowing which type you are can help you get your work done on time. <...> If
you relish the boost of energy and sharpness that deadlines give you, you are
pressure-prompted. <...> If you find it hard to think straight under stress and worry about missing the
deadline, you are an early-starter.”
“Within each category there are also structured thinkers, who like to plan
every step of the way, and the spontaneous, who like to sort things out as they
go along,” says Ms Rothwell. <...> Early-starters who are structured thinkers line up all the tasks and pace
themselves to meet the deadline, while spontaneous early-starters can miss
things out, which results in panic later. <...> Pressure-prompted structured thinkers organize what they need to get down
well despite their tight time constraints. <...> The spontaneous pressure-prompted are the most terrifying to work with, but
are used to crisis management and can often pull things off at the last minute. <...> Ms Rothwell advises managers to give early-starters long deadlines and the
pressure-prompted shorter deadlines, reminding then regularly that the deadline
is serious and thereby activating their adrenaline.
“Try to work with people who have a different approach to you and respect
that difference, so you bring out the best in them and they help you work best,
too” she adds. <...> John Caunt, author of Organise Yourself, which covers dealing with
deadlines, says: “Given a deadline, be clear what is involved, break <...>
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ФЕДЕРАЛЬНОЕ АГЕНТСТВО ПО ОБРАЗОВАНИЮ
ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЕ
УЧРЕЖДЕНИЕ
ВЫСШЕГО ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ
«ВОРОНЕЖСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ
УНИВЕРСИТЕТ»
УЧЕБНО-МЕТОДИЧЕСКОЕ ПОСОБИЕ
ПО АНАЛИТИЧЕСКОМУ ЧТЕНИЮ
Часть 2
Учебное пособие для вузов
Издательско-полиграфический центр
Воронежского государственного университета
2009
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CONTENTS
ARTICLES FOR ANALYSIS
1. Don’t panic! There are ways to met deadlines................................................ 4
2. On-the-spot drinks test to combat drug rape................................................... 7
3. Battle of the bottle ........................................................................................... 9
4. A nice little job for a woman at home............................................................. 13
5. Weight loss: it’s all in the mind ...................................................................... 17
6. Jailed for sex with a schoolboy ....................................................................... 20
7. My year since 7/7 ............................................................................................ 28
8. W.S. Maugham “The Painted Veil”................................................................ 33
9. W.S. Maugham “Theatre”............................................................................... 36
10. G. Edwards “The Santarem Five and Illegal Logging” ................................ 39
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Exercise 2. Complete the expressions from the texts with the appropriate
prepositions from the box and explain their meanings.
down (3) off (1) out (3) up (3)
1) sort things ____
2) line ___ all the tasks
3) miss things _______
4) get ______ well
5) pull things ___ at the last minute
6) bring ___ the best of them
7) break the goal ____ into smaller tasks
8) get bogged _____
9) eat ____ valuable time
10) turn ___ on time to interviews
Exercise 3. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate phrasal verbs from Ex. 2.
1) He is totally dedicated and _______ the best in his pupils.
2) The talks with the staff _____________ on the question of working hours.
3) He finished polishing the cocktail glasses and ______them ____ behind the
bar.
4) These rules tell us how a sentence is ____________ into phrases.
5) India and Nepal have ____________ their trade and security dispute.
6) There should be an apostrophe here, and look, you’ve ____ the word
altogether!
7) Richard had ____________ on Christmas Eve with Tony.
8) The trick looked impossible, but she ________ it _____ .
9) Health insurance costs are______________ his income.
10) We’re really going to __________ on Saturday night.
III. Focus on style and tone
1. Which of the 3 opinions of the article do you agree with?
A. Nothing new. Boring in terms of information and a school-like manner of
presentation. Not in the least creative.
B. Reminds of an instruction manual for employers to control motley
employees.
C. Dryly scientific in manner but with a very clear and comprehensible helpful
recommendations.
2. If you agree with any of the above opinions, do you think it is possible to
make the text more appealing to the general reader? Who is the target reader?
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IV. Discuss the following:
The Russians are proverbially very slow when harnessing horses but they do
ride fast. Does this mean that we are a nation of procrastinators?
I. Before you read
Discuss the following problems:
1. Drugs and alcohol abuse as the main social scourge of today.
2. What is drug rape?
3. Drugs and alcohol as a means of making money out of people.
On-the-spot drinks test to combat drug rape (1)
by Rosie Cowan and Matthew Taylor
Maker says DIY kit will act as deterrent but police stress
it detects only a small proportion of substances.
A chemical defence against drug rape was launched yesterday with the
introduction of a pocket-sizes DIY testing kit which can show whether a drink
has been spiked. The Drink Detective allows those who suspect their drinks may
have been tampered with to do a 30-second on-the-spot check by dropping drink
samples on to reactive paper. The £3.95 sachets, developed by Bloomsbury
Innovations, reveal traces of benzodiazepines, GHB and ketamine, three drugs
commonly associated with the spiking of alcoholic drinks. They went on sale
on-line yesterday and will soon be available in shops and in vending machines
in pubs, clubs and other venues.
Yesterday, the Guardian found several skeptics who questioned whether pubgoers
would bother to carry out a chemistry experiment with a teat pipette,
perhaps, on a first date and after a few drinks. But Jim Campbell, a former
Home Office forensic scientist who helped to develop the kits, insisted that the
devices could provide crucial evidence against attackers and that their easy
availability would be a deterrent. “It won’t stop drug rape but it will increase
awareness and the chances of someone being caught red-handed.” Mr Campbell
said many drugs passed through the body within hours, and problems in
catching offenders were compounded by delays in going to the police and by
police failure to take or analyse urine samples early. Sometimes the drugs
prescribed for post-traumatic stress after an attack were the same drugs used in
the rape.
Some of the profits from Drink Detective will go to the Roofie Foundation, a
voluntary helping for drug rape victims. The organization, names after the street
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term for Rohypnol, a benzodiazepine, has received 6,650 calls since it was set
up in 1997. In 2003 there were 998 calls from people claiming they had been
raped or sexually abused after having their drinks spiked. About 15 % of the
alleged victims were men.
Graham Rhodes, Roofie’s chief executive, said it was impossible to estimate
the extent of the problem because so many people did not report it to police and
might not even recall an assault because of the effect of the drug.
Metropolitan police figures show a steady increase in drug-related rape
allegations in the past three years. In 2001, in London, drug use was alleged in
164 of the 6,957 rape claims. In 2002 the figures were 195 out of a total of 7,
293, and last year, 242 out of 6,809.
Mr Rhodes said the complication that some alleged victims might have been
raped or had sex when intoxicated rather than drugged should not detract from
trauma: victims were often tormented by flashbacks, and fear of not being
believed added to the distress. Only a handful of convictions have been secured,
the first in Belfast in October 2000, when a man was jailed for eight years.
Police welcomed the kit but stressed that it only detected a small proportion of
the types of drugs used to spike drinks.
John Yates, of the Association of Chief Police Officers, said: “This particular
DIY test kit apparently only tests for three out of what we currently know to be
around 67 separate substances that can assist rapists. There is no guarantee this
test will identify the presence of all such drugs.”
In the pubs and bars of central London yesterday, the Drink Detective did not
win a universal welcome. Office workers escaping for a lunchtime drink were
first bemused by the matchbox-size gadget, and then skeptical that it could
prevent sex attacks.
Charlie Cassell, a 21-year-old shop worker, was with her friend Casie Swash.
“Where are you supposed to use it?” said Charlie. “It’s not something you can
really get out in front of someone who’s just bought you a drink, is it? I would
have thought if you are that unsure, you shouldn’t be with them – or certainly
not be taking a drink from them. You could wait until they go to the toilet, but it
looks so fiddly that it would probably take a while. And what happens if the test
comes back positive? You still don’t know for sure who’s done it, or that the test
has worked.”
Casie, a 20-year-old student, agreed that the kit was not perfect but said it
could be useful. “I heard about a bar recently where two girls were drugged and
attacked – so it is something I’ve thought about, although I’m always out with
my friends, and keep an eye out for each other. In theory this will give people
the chance to check if they are worried about a drink. But in reality, when
people have had a few, are they going to go and buy one of these things for £4,
and come back and do this test? Surely it would be cheaper and easier to just
buy another drink if you’re not sure about the one you’ve got – you could get
two for the price of this.”
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