Задание 22 на подготовку к ЕГЭ по английскому. В тексте имеются пропуски слов. Для каждого пропуска даны несколько вариантов. Определите, какой вариант верный.
As a parent, I have a problem I could never have imagined – how to make a space in the week for my children to be properly bored. It sounds rather cruel, this desire to inflict boredom on my own flesh and blood, but in my POINT / VIEW / IDEA / ATTITUDE it is as essential to their development as teaching them to ride a bike or to swim. A bored child is a horrible thing, whether slumped miserably at the kitchen table or moaning around the house. It’s no wonder we like to LET / REMAIN / CONTINUE / KEEP them entertained, and what a wealth of entertainment we now have at our fingertips. Modern children are so thoroughly amused that a generation may be maturing that has never been bored and, AS / WITH / BY / FOR a consequence, has no imagination.
This may seem a strange claim. Surely the Internet JUST / ONLY / QUITE / ALONE is the source of so much inspiration for young minds that our kids must be the most creatively stimulated in history. Don’t recent advances in film special ACTIONS / EVENTS / EFFECTS / SIGHTS mean they can experience the most fantastic scenes, and haven’t museums become serious fun?
DESPITE / ALTHOUGH / HOWEVER / WHEREAS, there is an obvious difference between consuming other people’s imaginative ideas and creating your own. The former is easy, but for the latter you need to develop an active mind, and that means switching off all the stimuli, which in turn means, unfortunately for parents, DEALING / MANAGING / TREATING / HANDLING with boredom. Developing an imagination is like learning the violin: you suffer through it and everyone around you suffers too. An active mind, though, is a marvellous thing.
As a parent, I have a problem I could never have imagined – how to make a space in the week for my children to be properly bored. It sounds rather cruel, this desire to inflict boredom on my own flesh and blood, but in my VIEW it is as essential to their development as teaching them to ride a bike or to swim. A bored child is a horrible thing, whether slumped miserably at the kitchen table or moaning around the house. It’s no wonder we like to KEEP them entertained, and what a wealth of entertainment we now have at our fingertips. Modern children are so thoroughly amused that a generation may be maturing that has never been bored and, AS a consequence, has no imagination.
This may seem a strange claim. Surely the Internet ALONE is the source of so much inspiration for young minds that our kids must be the most creatively stimulated in history. Don’t recent advances in film special EFFECTS mean they can experience the most fantastic scenes, and haven’t museums become serious fun?
HOWEVER, there is an obvious difference between consuming other people’s imaginative ideas and creating your own. The former is easy, but for the latter you need to develop an active mind, and that means switching off all the stimuli, which in turn means, unfortunately for parents, DEALING with boredom. Developing an imagination is like learning the violin: you suffer through it and everyone around you suffers too. An active mind, though, is a marvellous thing.
