Cumulative level test: Reading real prose and holding your ground: register, compression, and sustained conversation

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Question 1

A report opens with В связи с увеличением числа заказов было принято решение о проверке оборудования. Which decomposition of this sentence is defensible from its grammar alone?It reports a decision as an event with no agent named, through one verbal noun and one short passive participle, while the increase is stated as a fact inside a prepositional phrase.Its subject is увеличение, which performed the decision, and проверка is the object the increase acted upon.

Question 2

Which spoken-register sentence is the correct expansion of После проверки документов мы подписали договор?После того как документы проверены, мы подписали договор - keep the short participle so the check stays impersonal.Когда мы проверили документы, мы подписали договор - the verbal noun becomes a finite perfective verb in a time clause.

Question 3

A procedure reads Не открывайте крышку and, three steps later, Откройте крышку через пять минут. Why do the two imperatives differ in aspect?The prohibition is a standing ban and takes the imperfective, while the later step is one bounded completion and takes the perfective.The prohibition is polite and the later step is a strict order, and aspect carries the politeness.

Question 4

An analysis piece states Маловероятно, что проект завершат в этом году. What is the writer committed to?An assertion that the project will not be completed this year, with the third-plural form naming the responsible party.A judgement that completion within the year is unlikely, with the possibility left open and the completion assigned to unnamed people.

Question 5

You have to disagree with a director in a written report and you want the objection to survive scrutiny. Which combination is best?Keep the evidence attribution and soften only your own stance: По данным отчёта, этот вывод кажется преждевременным.State the objection impersonally and without attribution so that it reads as an objective finding: Этот вывод преждевременен.

Question 6

You record a four-sentence oral summary and find that most of its phrases also occur in the source. What is the diagnosis and the remedy?You have compressed too aggressively; the remedy is to add more of the source's detail back in.You have recited rather than paraphrased; the remedy is to re-lexicalise the claim, the support and the conclusion in your own words, keeping the attributions.

Question 7

Halfway through a conversation that began with вы, the other speaker starts using ты and your first name. What is the appropriate response?Follow their lead and shift to ты, because the invitation is theirs to give and you are responding to it.Apologise for having used вы and restart the conversation in the informal register to correct the mistake.

Question 8

Read two sentences together: Говорят, что завод закрывают. Вряд ли это правда. What does the second sentence do?It denies the implication of human agency that the third-plural form carried in the first sentence.It adds the speaker's own low-confidence judgement of the reported claim, without denying that the report exists or that people said it.

Question 9

Compare a news item that says точную стоимость работ не сообщили with a report that says точная стоимость работ не сообщена. What is the essential difference?The third-plural form implies unnamed people who failed to report the figure, while the short participle states the condition of the information and names nobody.The short participle is weaker because participles can only describe states, so it cannot refer to a failure at all.

Question 10

You must summarise a written recipe aloud to a friend who is cooking now. What must change, and what must not?The aspect pattern must be inverted, because speech prefers the perfective where writing prefers the imperfective.The impersonal and -ся frames become addressed imperatives, while the aspect pattern of each step is preserved.

Question 11

While summarising a written report aloud you find it convenient to keep the report's verbal nouns and participles because they are shorter. What is the cost?You lose the report's attributions and hedges if you drop them, and you keep a written register in speech; the compressed forms are not themselves the content.No cost: deverbal nouns and participles preserve the report's exact meaning, so keeping them is the most accurate way to summarise.

Question 12

A long article asserts a claim that its own cited authors hold; you disagree with it and want to say so in a conversation. Which sequence is best?State your verdict first so the listener knows where you stand, then explain what the article said.Report the claim with its attribution, state your own view with an opinion frame, concede the part you accept, and only then hedge the objection.

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