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Statements 11 through 15 refer to Text 3

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Text 3 END OF THE SMALL TOWN? (from Syracuse Herald-Journal)

The American small town may become as extinct as a nickel cup of coffee.

Although planners are urging an exodus to the small towns and rural spaces still available, the small town we knew a few decades back is on the road to extinction, for it harbored a way of life that was changed by the super highway, central school, and TV antenna.

In a small town, children were taught to respect their elders. They were expected to be properly groomed when attending school and church. Fathers were apt to apply the flat of their hand on the seat of the pants, and teachers were apt to lay the side of a ruler on an open hand for disobedience, for lying and cheating.

Today, this way of life is considered “worthless.”

But is it so worthless to believe in cleanliness, proper grooming for school and church, honesty, respect for elders, duty, and conscience?

Our town had a population of 4,500. It depended on mills, a milk plant, lumberyards, and nearby dairy farms for its existence.

A woman could leave a bag of groceries outside a store while she went elsewhere for another purchase, and nothing would be taken. A deliveryman could leave a package on the front steps after dark, and it would be there in the morning. A family could put a holiday decoration in the yard, and no roving gang would destroy it within minutes.

Of course, it wasn’t paradise. Money was scarce, and men worked hard for it. On Saturday nights, more rusty pickup trucks than shiny cars were parked along the curbs. Most men and boys had one suit - their “Sunday suit” complete with vest.

Our town had been there for a long time. It had supplied its youth for Lincoln and Grant in the 1860’s, for San Juan Hill and Manila Bay, for Pershing in 1917, for Eisenhower and MacArthur in the 1940’s, for Korea, and for Vietnam.

We are sorry that its way of life has become a target for the slings and arrows of outrageous liberals. Its values were the strength of America. They should not become extinct.

Task 3: Choose the correct answer (a, b, c or d):

6. The author believes that...

a. the small town is a paradise.

b. people should be dressed better.

c. the only thing people have to care about is the strength of America.

d. moral values couldn’t become extinct.

7. The real reason of the small American town’s extinction is (that)...

a. they’re considered to be worthless.

b. urbanization.

c. they loose their values.

d. they’ve become a target for the slings and arrows of outrageous liberals.

8. According to the text, in a small town it was quite natural for parents to...

a. cast their kids.

b. slap their children with a palm.

c. retract their words.

d. make a mockery of their kids.

9. According to the author, what are the advantages of the small towns?

a. Dairy farms and pickup tracks.

b. Teachers are apt to punish their pupils for talking back.

c. Decency of people.

d. Rural spaces.

10. The planners stand for...

a. the exodus to the cities.

b. the supplying its youth for the army.

c. a situation in which people leave to the rural places.

d. the wiping off the differences between cities and small towns.

ROUND III. Творча письмова робота, 10 клас

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