1. «Литература страны изучаемого языка и проблемы перевода»

2. Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

3. Choose any two of the four passages and for each passage, write a single paragraph answer of approximately 100 words in which you do two or more of the following: TASK 1 1. explain why the passage is important to the plot of the play; 2. explain how the passage reveals the personality of the speaker(s); 3. explain how the passage relates to the themes of the play.

4. Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) Cecily: …But I am your cousin Cecily. You, I see from your card, are Uncle Jack’s brother, my cousin Ernest, my wicked cousin Ernest. Algernon: Oh! I am not really wicked at all, Cousin Cecily. You mustn’t think that I am wicked. Cecily: If you are not, then you have certainly been deceiving us all in a very inexcusable manner. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. (Act II)

5. Bernard Shaw Major Barbara (1905) Lomax: Well; but it stands to reason, dont it? The cannon business may be necessary and all that: we cant get on without cannons; but it isnt right, you know. On the other hand, there may be a certain amount of tosh about the Salvation Army—I belong to the Established Church myself—but you cant deny that it’s religion; and you cant go against religion, can you? At least unless youre downright immoral, dont you know? (Act I)

6. Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer (1773) Marlow: The assiduities of these good people tease me beyond bearing. My host seems to think it ill manners to leave me alone, and so he claps not only himself, but his old-fashioned wife on my back. They talk of coming to sup with us, too; and then, I suppose, we are to run the gauntlet through all the rest of the family. —What have we got here?— Hastings: My dear Charles! Let me congratulate you! — The most fortunate accident! —Who do you think is just alighted? (Act II)

7. Bernard Shaw 11. Major Barbara (1905) Barbara: Yes; but I wish we could do without it. I am getting at last to think more of the collection than of people’s souls. And what are those hatfuls of pence and halfpence? We want thousands! tens of thousands! hundreds of thousands! I want to convert people, not to be always begging for the Army in a way I’d die sooner than beg for myself. (Act II)

8. Choose a character from a novel or play of recognized literary merit and write an essay in which you (a) briefly describe the standards of the fictional society in which the character exists and (b) show how the character is affected by and responds to those standards. In your essay do not merely summarize the plot. TASK 2

9. PROBLEM QUESTIONS 1. “Nothing else so truly reflects the age and redeem it.” How far is it a just remark about T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land”?

10. 2. Lawrence very closely describes the working life of the labourers. What particular techniques does he employ in “Sons in Lovers”?