Cumulative level test: Reading the real world and answering it: news, rules, voice, numbers and implication, then summary, correspondence, argument, recommendation and a capstone brief

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Question 1

You are handed two Russian texts about the same fare change. Text A, a news item: «Городская администрация сообщила, что тариф вырастет на пять рублей. По данным департамента транспорта, рост связан с обновлением подвижного состава.» Text B, a notice on a station wall: «Согласно постановлению, проезд подорожает с 1 сентября. Оплата наличными не допускается.» Which text lets you find out who is accountable for the fare change, and which tells you what you must do, and how do the grammatical devices differ?Text A is the accountable one: it names городская администрация as the source of the claim through сообщила and hands the stated cause to a document through по данным, so both can be asked. Text B is the binding one for behaviour: согласно постановлению names a legal act in the dative, and не допускается states a prohibition impersonally, so it tells a traveller what is forbidden without naming anyone who decided it.Both texts are equally accountable, because both name an institution, the administration and the postановление — and an institution is a source in either register.

Question 2

A first-person text ends: «Первый месяц мне казалось, что я не понимаю ничего. Потом я начала читать вслух, и через два месяца оказалось, что понимаю почти всё. Зато говорить я до сих пор боюсь. Честно говоря, я путаю падежи.» Compress this into a 25-word Russian summary that keeps the narrator's own arc, then state in English what your compression had to keep and what it was allowed to drop.A defensible compression: «Она читала вслух два месяца и стала лучше понимать; она всё ещё путает падежи». Kept: the outcome and the remaining weakness. Dropped: the opening frame, which is narrative decoration.A defensible compression: «Сначала ей казалось, что она не понимает ничего; после двух месяцев чтения вслух оказалось, что понимает почти всё, но говорить до сих пор боится». Kept: the initial misapprehension with мне казалось, the revision with оказалось, the concession with зато/но, and the first-person perspective. Dropped: честно говоря and путаю падежи, which are a second concession rather than a step in the arc.

Question 3

A release states: «Доля заявок, обработанных за сутки, выросла с 40 до 52 процентов, рост — 12 процентов. Затраты на внедрение составили около 180 тысяч рублей, что на треть дешевле первоначальной оценки в 240 тысяч.» Recompute both claims, decide which is wrong as written, and say how a careful Russian summary should state each one.The first claim mixes units: 52 minus 40 equals 12 percentage points, while 52 divided by 40 equals 1.3, so the relative increase is 30 percent, not 12 percent. The second claim checks out: 240 minus 180 equals 60, and 60 divided by 240 equals 0.25, so 180 is 25 percent below 240, close to, but not exactly, a third, which is why the phrase 'на треть' should be replaced by a figure or by 'примерно на четверть'.Both claims are correct as written: 12 percentage points is 12 percent, and 180 is a third less than 240 because the difference is 60 and 60 is a substantial part of 240.

Question 4

A rental advertisement reads: «Уютная квартира рядом с метро. Возможна регистрация. Хозяин не против животных. Цена — от 45 000 рублей.» A reader plans to sign and to keep a cat. Which sentences can the reader rely on, which must be converted into questions, and how should the questions be worded in Russian?The reader can rely on all four sentences, because a Russian advertisement is legally binding on the advertiser and возможна means that registration is available on request.Only the price floor is a statement with a determinate reading — от 45 000 рублей fixes a lower bound, not a rent, and everything else is a hedge or a presupposition to be converted into questions: possible registration is not registration, and 'the owner is not against animals' presupposes that the question arises and says nothing about a deposit or a limit. The questions should ask for the act and the document: «Регистрацию оформляете вы или я?», «Разрешение на животное будет в договоре?», «Полная стоимость аренды — сколько в месяц?»

Question 5

You must send a Russian text of 120 words in two versions: a written summary of a report for a director who will not read the original, and a spoken explanation of the same report to a team. Name the four things that must appear in both versions, and the three that must differ. Give one example of a sentence that belongs in the written version and one that belongs in the spoken version.In both: the aim, the figures with their units and bases, the attribution of each claim, and the sentence naming what would change the conclusion. Different: the agency (suppressed in writing, stated in speech), the compression devices (participles and verbal nouns in writing, finite clauses and который-clauses in speech), and the rounding of numbers (exact in writing, honestly rounded with named proportions in speech). Written example: «Среднее время обработки снизилось с 3,2 до 2,1 дня; по данным отдела, доля заявок, закрытых за сутки, выросла с 40 до 52 процентов». Spoken example: «Время обработки упало с трёх дней с небольшим до двух, а больше половины заявок мы теперь закрываем за сутки — раньше это были примерно две из пяти».In both: the aim, the figures and the recommendation. Different: the length and the politeness level, since the director is addressed formally and the team informally, while the grammar stays the same in both versions.

Question 6

You disagree with a colleague's proposal in writing. Which arrangement best satisfies both the argument structure and the politeness register, and why? Option A: state the objection first, concede part of it with отчасти, give one measured reason, reply to the strongest counter-argument, and end with a dated review. Option B: state agreement in the opening line, then list three reasons against the proposal, then close with «с уважением».Option B, because agreement and politeness are the same thing in Russian correspondence, and three reasons always outweigh one.Option A. It puts the negative claim where a reader can see immediately what is being opposed, concedes a real portion of the objection with отчасти so that the reply addresses the strongest version of the other side, gives a measurable reason with its own support, and ends with a review date that makes the disagreement revisable rather than personal.

Question 7

A written report contains: «По результатам анализа, проведённого отделом в марте, доля отказов, зафиксированных по техническим причинам, снизилась с 12 до 9 процентов, что объясняется заменой оборудования.» Rewrite the same content as a spoken explanation for a team meeting, and state which grammatical items changed and what information you added or dropped in doing so.Spoken version: «В марте мы провели анализ. Отказы по техническим причинам снизились с двенадцати процентов до девяти — это минус три процентных пункта. Мы думаем, что причина в замене оборудования». Changed: the participial phrase проведённого отделом became a finite clause with мы; the nominalised доля отказов, зафиксированных по техническим причинам became a clause with a finite verb; the passive explanation что объясняется became an active claim of belief (мы думаем), which is more honest than the written version because the written form presented a hypothesis as an explanation.Spoken version: «Доля отказов снизилась на три процента, что объясняется заменой оборудования». Changed: nothing except the omission of the date, because speech is written language pronounced aloud.

Question 8

A rule sheet says: «Сотрудникам необходимо сдавать пропуска при выходе. Не надо оставлять личные вещи в переговорных. Посетители без пропуска не допускаются.» You must explain these rules to a new colleague in speech. Which of the three sentences needs repair in your explanation, and what is the risk of each reading?The first sentence needs repair, because необходимо with a dative is a weaker obligation than должен and can be ignored; the other two are clear.The second sentence needs repair: не надо is ambiguous between 'must not' and 'need not', with the usual reading being prohibition, so an explanation should state the intended rule explicitly rather than repeat it — «Личные вещи в переговорных не оставляйте», or if the rule is optional, «Вещи можно не оставлять». The other two are unambiguous: сдавать must be read as an impersonal necessity with a dative doer (сотрудникам), and не допускаются as an impersonal prohibition on visitors.

Question 9

Compare what lessons 90 and 100 ask of you: a sustained conversation about work, study and plans, and a written brief plus a spoken presentation. Name two skills the presentation demands that the conversation did not, and two that the conversation demanded and the presentation does not.Presentation-only: re-deriving the same content in two registers, and carrying units and bases unchanged from a written table into speech under questioning. Conversation-only: managing turn-taking and repair in real time, and negotiating meaning with an interlocutor who interrupts and disagrees unpredictably.Presentation-only: politeness formulas and formal address. Conversation-only: the past tense and everyday vocabulary.

Question 10

A Russian article says: «По словам представителя компании, выручка выросла примерно вдвое; в отчёте указано, что рост составил 96 процентов, а число заказов почти не изменилось.» A reader concludes that the company's revenue doubled because more orders were placed. Where has the reader misread the language, and what would a correct reading say?The reader has misread only the arithmetic: 96 percent and двое are not the same thing, so the figure must be wrong rather than the interpretation.The reader has misread three items at once: 'по словам представителя' is attributed speech rather than an assertion of the article's author, 'примерно вдвое' is a rough spoken-style approximation for a figure the report states precisely as 96 percent, and 'число заказов почти не изменилось' rules out the explanation the reader supplied, since revenue can rise without more orders if the average order value or the price changed.

Question 11

A regulation contains: «Осуществление контроля за соблюдением сроков передачи документов возлагается на руководителя подразделения.» Identify the actor, the action and the object, state what the sentence does not tell you, and say why the register is built this way.Actor: руководитель подразделения, named in the accusative after возлагается на. Action: осуществление контроля, a verbal noun meaning 'the carrying out of control'. Object: the deadlines for transferring documents, inside the phrase за соблюдением сроков передачи документов. The sentence does not say what counts as a breach, who else may check, or what happens if the deadlines are missed, and the register suppresses the individual by making the action a noun and the obligation a property of the office rather than of a person.Actor: не specified, because the sentence has no nominative subject and therefore no responsible person; the regulation is a statement of policy rather than an assignment of duty.

Question 12

You must write a 60-word Russian abstract of a report whose findings are: an attributed and hedged result (по данным отдела, среднее время обработки снизилось примерно на треть), a rate comparison (доля заявок, закрытых за сутки, выросла с 40 до 52 процентов), and a stated limitation (данные охватывают только один регион). Write the abstract, then list the four checks a reader of your abstract should be able to perform on it.Model abstract: «Время обработки снизилось на 33 процента, доля заявок за сутки выросла на 12 процентов, что доказывает эффективность пилота.» The checks are the same four, and this version passes them because the figures are computed rather than hedged.Model abstract: «Пилот проводился в одном регионе. По данным отдела, среднее время обработки заявки снизилось примерно на треть. Доля заявок, закрытых за сутки, выросла с 40 до 52 процентов, то есть на 12 процентных пунктов. Данные охватывают только один регион, поэтому выводы предварительны.» The four checks: (1) is each claim attributed to its source; (2) does each figure carry its unit and base, with the rate difference stated in percentage points; (3) has the hedge approximately на треть survived as a hedge rather than become a precise figure; (4) has the limitation been kept in the text rather than moved to a footnote.

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