Was it Kolya who wanted us to be seated? - Valya asked after a few steps.
What was my answer? I realized that I couldn’t answer the truth, and said cowardly:
Why do you think so?
The guys teased us. Well, there are “bride and groom”... I say: “Come to my birthday party.” And he says: “I won’t come.” And he didn’t come to us. And we don’t do homework together anymore. That's it guys! The teasing hurt. He was afraid.
What are you doing! Is Kolya afraid of anyone?
“And then I got scared,” Valya repeated stubbornly.
...She was right. This long-ago incident left such a deep imprint in my memory because for the first time I thought about many important things.
What is courage? What is courage? Mental independence? Directness? Why did all these questions arise in my mind then, on such a trivial matter? Just think, what a disaster: an eleven-year-old boy is embarrassed to sit with a girl! The guys pester you, tease you - you’ll feel shy here!
No, the reason is not trivial. Kolya, who really was not afraid of anything - neither heights, nor darkness, nor pain, nor his father's belt - was afraid of the guys. I was not afraid of beatings, not of pain - I was afraid of the word. And he was also afraid of Vali. He did not dare to admit his fear to her; he preferred that someone else, say, a teacher, take responsibility for his defection. Apostasy? Again a word that does not apply to the point. What kind of apostasy is this? The boy is only eleven years old... If I had been smarter then, if I had known life better, I would have told Kolya something like this:
“Are you giving up your friendship with Valya? Why are you standing then? After all, this is cowardice, betrayal. We will be good if we begin to abandon our friends, just so that we can live more peacefully! No, if you are now in school years“If you don’t learn to value friendship, cherish it and defend it, then it will be difficult to become a faithful, reliable comrade.”
Or maybe there was no need to make long speeches. Perhaps this idea should have been conveyed to the boy’s consciousness in some other way. But it was necessary, absolutely necessary, for him to understand: courage is not only about walking along the ledge of the third floor. And not even just about rushing into a snowstorm to look for a child...
A few years later, when I was already teaching in high school, I was at a Komsomol meeting, which I remembered for a long time.
One young man was accepted into the Komsomol. Eighth-grader Sonya Rubleva stood up and said:
I'm against. He beats the kids and mocks them. I've told him to stop many times, but he doesn't listen. What kind of person is he if he beats the defenseless?
What kind of person are you if you tell lies? - someone shouted.
What started here! The young man who submitted the application was simply forgotten. The flames of argument spread from corner to corner, it raged, engulfing the entire class. Everyone shouted, and I no longer tried to restore order.
Why is she a sneak? Why, I ask you? If she hadn’t said it in front of everyone, then she would have been a sneak!
If you see meanness and remain silent, this is cowardice!
I want to say... In your opinion, Sonya is a sneak. Okay, let's imagine such a case. You're going to be a writer, you have to have imagination. Imagine: you have already graduated from the literary institute and are working in some editorial office. And there they promote to some high position a person whom you know is a careerist, a sycophant. Are you really going to sit and be silent? No, you answer! And if you remain silent, you will be a coward, you know that! And Sonya is a brave person.
There was laughter in the class, and the boy who was defending Sonya apparently immediately understood why everyone was laughing.
Yes, a brave person, and it doesn’t matter that she’s afraid of mice, and I don’t care that she saw the mouse and jumped up on the desk. She's still brave! This is my word, and you will not convince me!
Courage... Courage... What clear, firm, what excellent words! And is it really possible to argue about what they mean?
Apparently it is possible.
I knew a man wonderful writer- her name was Tamara Grigorievna Gabbe. She told me once:
There are many challenges in life. You can't list them. But here are three, they occur often. The first is the test of need. The second is prosperity, glory. And the third test is fear. And not only with the fear that a person recognizes in war, but with the fear that overtakes him in ordinary, peaceful life...
What kind of fear is this that does not threaten either death or injury? Isn't he a fiction? No, it's not fiction. Fear has many faces, and sometimes it affects the fearless.
“It’s an amazing thing,” wrote the Decembrist poet Ryleev, “we are not afraid to die on the battlefields, but we are afraid to say a word in favor of justice.”
More than a hundred years have passed since these words were written. But there are persistent diseases of the soul.
...The man went through the war as a hero. He went on reconnaissance missions, where every step threatened him with death. He fought in the air and under water, he did not run from danger, he fearlessly walked towards it. And now the war is over, the man returned home. To my family, to my peaceful work. He worked as well as he fought: with passion, giving all his strength, not sparing his health. But when, due to the libel of a slanderer, his friend, a man whom he knew as himself, of whose innocence he was convinced as his own, was removed from work, he did not stand up. He, who was not afraid of bullets or tanks, was scared. He was not afraid of death on the battlefield, but he was afraid to say a word in favor of justice.
...The boy broke the glass.
Who did it? - asks the teacher.
The boy is silent. He is not afraid to ski down the most dizzying mountain. He is not afraid to cross an unfamiliar river full of treacherous sinkholes. But he is afraid to say: “I broke the glass.”
What is he afraid of? After all, flying from a mountain, he can break his neck. Swimming across the river, you can drown. The words “I did it” do not threaten him with death. Why is he afraid to say them?
...Among the many letters that arrive daily at the editorial office of a newspaper or magazine, an experienced journalist will immediately notice one or two that are somehow different from all the others. Sometimes such letters are written in block letters. Sometimes - in handwriting that is clearly altered: the letters are crooked and at random, it is clear that the person tried very hard to write differently than usual. These letters are anonymous. Without a signature. The one who writes them does not want to be recognized. Sometimes these letters are slanderous, dirty, there is anger in them, but there is no truth. But sometimes anonymous letters, letters without a signature, cry out for help. They are written by people who are afraid. These people want to restore justice, protect honest man, to punish the scoundrel, but they are afraid to do it out loud, directly, openly. They want to remain not even in the shadows, but in obscurity.
“In our technical school,” one letter said, “you cannot utter a word of truth. Whatever the director says, we must listen obediently and remain silent. The other day Tolya Klimenko, our classmate, told the director that graduate course he should have been released from working on the farm, and the director deprived him of his scholarship for this. Tolin’s father died at the front, his mother died, no one helps him, and without a scholarship he cannot graduate from college. Dear editors, help us."
The correspondent never found out who wrote this letter. He talked with thirty students - Klimenko's classmates. Each of them was vehemently indignant at the director’s action; each of them could have been the author of this letter. But not one of the thirty had the courage to express their opinion to the director.
"Why me?"
“What do I need more than anyone else?” - this is how Kolya’s classmates answered.
Nobody wanted to quarrel with the director. It's troublesome. You will be reprimanded, or you may even lose your scholarship.
It’s somehow scary for one,” said Sergei N.
But there were thirty of them! And, apparently, they wrote this letter all together. And everyone, as one, disagreed with the director. And everyone, as one, remained silent. They are honest guys and good comrades, they sincerely wanted to restore justice. But they wanted someone else to do it for them.
Here's another letter.
“Dear editors!
(1) I knew a wonderful writer. (2) Her name was Tamara Grigorievna Gabbe. (3) She told me once:
– There are many challenges in life. (4) You can’t list them. (5) But here are three, they occur often. (6) The first is the test of need. (7) Second - prosperity, glory. (8) And the third test is fear. (9) And not only with the fear that a person recognizes in war, but with the fear that overtakes him in ordinary, peaceful life.
(10) What kind of fear is this that does not threaten either death or injury? (11) Isn’t he a fiction? (12) No, it’s not fiction. (13) Fear has many faces, sometimes it affects the fearless.
(14) “It’s an amazing thing,” wrote the Decembrist poet Ryleev, “we are not afraid to die on the battlefields, but we are afraid to say a word in favor of justice.”
(15) Many years have passed since these words were written, but there are persistent illnesses of the soul.
(16) The man went through the war as a hero. (17) He went on reconnaissance, where every step threatened him with death. (18) He fought in the air and under water, he did not run from danger, he fearlessly walked towards it. (19) And now the war is over, the man returned home. (20) To my family, to my peaceful work. (21) He worked as well as he fought: with passion, giving all his strength, not sparing his health. (22) But when, due to the libel of a slanderer, his friend, a man whom he knew as himself, of whose innocence he was convinced as his own, was removed from work, he did not stand up. (23) He, who was not afraid of bullets or tanks, was scared. (24) He was not afraid of death on the battlefield, but was afraid to say a word in favor of justice.
(25) The boy broke the glass.
- (26) Who did this? - asks the teacher.
(27) The boy is silent. (28) He is not afraid to ski down the most dizzying mountain. (29) He is not afraid to swim across an unfamiliar river full of treacherous funnels. (30) But he is afraid to say: “I broke the glass.”
(31) What is he afraid of? (32) After all, flying from the mountain, he can break his neck. (33) Swimming across the river, you can drown. (34) The words “I did it” do not threaten him with death. (35) Why is he afraid to say them?
(36) I heard a very brave man who went through the war once say: “It was scary, very scary.”
(37) He spoke the truth: he was scared. (38) But he knew how to overcome his fear and did what his duty told him to do: he fought.
(39) In peaceful life, of course, it can also be scary.
(40) I’ll tell the truth, but I’ll be expelled from school for it... (41) If I tell the truth, I’ll be fired from my job... (42) I’d rather remain silent.
(43) There are many proverbs in the world that justify silence, and perhaps the most expressive: “My hut is on the edge.” (44) But there are no huts that would be on the edge.
(45) We are all responsible for what is happening around us. (46) Responsible for all the bad and all the good. (47) And one should not think that a real test comes to a person only on some special days, fatal moments: in a war, during some kind of disaster. (48) No, not only in exceptional circumstances, not only at the hour mortal danger, human courage is tested under a bullet. (49) It is constantly tested,
in the most ordinary everyday affairs.
(50) There is only one courage. (51) It requires that a person always be able to overcome the monkey within himself: in battle, on the street, at a meeting. (52) After all, the word “courage” has no plural. (53) It is the same in any conditions.
(According to F.A. Vigdorova*)
* Frida Abramovna Vigdorova (1915–1965) – Soviet writer and journalist.
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Fear...Under what circumstances is it important to be able to overcome it? Above this difficult question Frida Abramovna Vigdorova reflects in her text.
Talking about fear, the writer talks about its many faces. She focuses her attention on the fact that even the bravest person who was not afraid to die on the battlefield may be “afraid to say a word in favor of justice.” To further explore the problem, the author gives the example of a boy who broke glass. He was not afraid to put his life in danger by swimming across the river and flying from the mountain, but the boy was afraid to admit what he had done.
Frida Abramovna Vigdorova strives to convey the idea that not only in war and in the hour of mortal danger, but also in peaceful life, a person must overcome fear by showing courage.
I cannot but agree with the opinion of the Soviet writer. Sometimes it takes even more courage to overcome the fear that overtakes a person in everyday affairs than in war.
There are many examples in Russian literature confirming
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This note is another “format” essay, written according to the text below as preparation for the Unified State Exam. However, despite the standards, I saw in the text a problem that was really close to me, and I tried to convey this in my work.
First the text. After that, my essay (it passed the test, and the teacher said that even though she had read it several times, she still couldn’t find anything to complain about. And that’s good). Readers of the fox's notes will probably see familiar notes... And that will be good too.
Text by Frida Abramovna Vigdorova:
I knew a wonderful writer. Her name was Tamara Grigorievna Gabbe. She told me once:
– There are many challenges in life. You can't list them. But here are three, they occur often. The first is the test of need. The second is prosperity, glory. And the third test is fear. And not only with the fear that a person learns in war, but with the fear that overtakes him in ordinary, peaceful life.
What kind of fear is this that does not threaten either death or injury?
Isn't he a fiction? No, it's not fiction. Fear has many faces, and sometimes it affects the fearless.
“It’s an amazing thing,” wrote the Decembrist poet Ryleev, “we are not afraid to die on the battlefields, but we are afraid to say a word in favor of justice.”
Many years have passed since these words were written, but there are persistent illnesses of the soul.
The man went through the war as a hero. He went on reconnaissance missions, where every step threatened him with death. He fought in the air and under water, he did not run from danger, he fearlessly walked towards it. And now the war is over, the man returned home. To my family, to my peaceful work. He worked as well as he fought: with passion, giving all his strength, not sparing his health. But when, due to the libel of a slanderer, his friend, a man whom he knew as himself, of whose innocence he was convinced as his own, was removed from work, he did not stand up. He, who was not afraid of bullets or tanks, was scared. He was not afraid of death on the battlefield, but he was afraid to say a word in favor of justice.
The boy broke the glass.
- Who did it? - asks the teacher.
The boy is silent. He is not afraid to ski down the most dizzying mountain. He is not afraid to cross an unfamiliar river full of treacherous sinkholes. But he is afraid to say: “I broke the glass.”
What is he afraid of? Flying down the mountain, he can break his neck.
Swimming across the river, you can drown. The words “I did it” do not threaten him with death. Why is he afraid to say them?
I heard a very brave man who went through the war once say: “It was scary, very scary.”
He was telling the truth: he was scared. But he knew how to overcome his fear and did what his duty told him to do: he fought.
In peaceful life, of course, it can also be scary.
I’ll tell the truth, and I’ll be expelled from school for it... If I tell the truth, I’ll be fired from my job... It’s better if I don’t say anything.
There are many proverbs in the world that justify silence, and perhaps the most expressive is: “My hut is on the edge.” But there are no huts on the edge. We are all responsible for what is happening around us. Responsible for all the bad and all the good. And one should not think that a real test comes to a person only in some special, fatal moments: in war, during some kind of catastrophe. No, not only in exceptional circumstances, not only in the hour of mortal danger, human courage is tested under a bullet. It is tested constantly, in the most ordinary everyday affairs.
There is only one courage. It requires that a person be able to
always overcome the monkey within you: in battle, on the street, at a meeting. After all, the word “courage” does not have a plural form. It is the same in any conditions.
(According to F.A. Vigdorova*)
* Frida Abramovna Vigdorova (1915–1965) – Soviet writer,
journalist.
The problem of the ambiguity of human nature
(according to the text by F. Vigdorova)
There are many trials in life. The test of need, success, fear... But why are these tests so difficult to pass in Everyday life? Why is human courage so often lost “in the most ordinary everyday affairs”? This question is asked by the Soviet writer Frida Abramovna Vigdorovna.
I believe that the “test of everyday life” is one of the most important, most difficult tests of a person. It is easy to be strong and courageous in the face of mortal danger. It is easy to want to die for the sake of justice, it is more difficult to live every day for it. In everyday worries, when there is nothing to “fight” with, you somehow forget that you always need to be a real person. Acting according to your conscience every minute is real courage.
Thus, Andrei Bolkonsky faces the “test of everyday life” in L. N. Tolstoy’s work “War and Peace.” Prince Andrei takes part in social evenings with contempt on his face; he is tired of peace, of loving wife, from a peaceful life. The life around him seems petty to Bolkonsky, so he himself does not see the point in expending any moral strength to be better, not to hurt loved ones. He escapes from everyday life to the war, and there he finally begins to live. Courage is not only about running against the enemy with a banner. This is to stand up for Captain Timokhin at the military council, this is the desire to act according to conscience not only during battle, but every day.
An example of everyday courage is given to us by Atticus Finch in Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird. He goes against the fear that F. Vigdorova talks about: the fear of public opinion, misunderstanding, he does what is in judicial practice didn’t do it before - because he thinks it’s right. He tries to be wise and fair not only in court, but every day when he gives his children invaluable life lessons.
Thus, I believe that the most terrible test is the test of everyday life. And real courage lies not only in not being afraid of dangers, but also in being human every day.
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Indicate the numbers of sentences in which the MAIN information contained in the text. Write down the numbers of these sentences.
1) The names of almost all professions in the language were and remain masculine: worker, engineer, scientist, poet, writer, composer, artist...
2) Due to the fact that in the past men provided the daily bread for the family, the vast majority of professions were male.
3) There are no equivalents in the language for the names of many male professions for women, because historically these professions were exclusively male.
4) Ancient customs did not allow women to engage in men's affairs.
5) For professions that have historically been exclusively male, there are no equivalent names in the language for such professions for women.
Answer:
Which of the following words (combinations of words) should be in the blank in third proposal?
Firstly
Because
Maybe
And above all
Answer:
Read a fragment of a dictionary entry that gives the meaning of the word ECONOMY. Determine the meaning in which this word is used in the first (1) sentence of the text. Write down the number corresponding to this value in the given fragment of the dictionary entry.
FARMING, -a, cf.
1. Same as economics (1 value). Natural, feudal x. Market x.
2. Production, economics (2 digits). People's x. countries. World x. Rural x.
3. Equipment of some kind. production. Factory x.
4. A set of objects, everything that is necessary in everyday life. Get a household.
5. Production unit, advantage agricultural Peasant x. Farmer's x. Large x. Educational x. agricultural technical school.
6. Housework, household work, home life families. News x. Homemade x. Busy around the house.
Answer:
In one of the words below, an error was made in the placement of stress: the letter denoting the stressed vowel sound was highlighted incorrectly. Write this word down.
spoiled
Let's call
will look back
Answer:
One of the sentences below uses the highlighted word incorrectly. Correct the lexical error by choosing a paronym for the highlighted word. Write down the chosen word.
This indoor plant differs in EFFECTIVE coloring of leaves.
PRODUCTION premises comply with lighting standards.
The purchasing power of the population depends on many factors.
Politicians from friendly countries have been invited to a DIPLOMATIC meeting.
The origins of modern HUMANISM go back to the Renaissance.
Answer:
In one of the words highlighted below, an error was made in the formation of the word form. Correct the mistake and write the word correctly.
with THREE HUNDRED recruits
fried grouse
pair of JEANS
LIE ON THE COUCH
without shoulder straps
14.05. task changed
Answer:
Establish a correspondence between the sentences and the grammatical errors made in them: for each position in the first column, select the corresponding position from the second column.
| A) While developing willpower, I was influenced by various circumstances. | 1) error in the use of the participial phrase |
| B) Garibaldi stood at the head of the people fighting for the independence of Italy. | 2) an error in the use of participial phrases |
| C) Scientists compare and observe the lives of animals. | 3) disruption of the connection between subject and predicate |
| D) Everyone who attended the performance was completely delighted with the actors’ performance. | 4) incorrect use of the case form of a noun with a preposition |
| D) Anton was one of those people, without realizing it, who always cry. | 5) error in constructing a sentence with homogeneous members |
| 6) violation in the construction of a sentence with an inconsistent application | |
| 7) incorrect construction complex sentence, complicated by the participial phrase |
| A | B | IN | G | D |
Answer:
Identify the word in which the unstressed alternating vowel of the root is missing. Write out this word by inserting the missing letter.
k..varny
you'll go overboard
traced
rotation
Answer:
Identify the row in which the same letter is missing in both words. Write out these words by inserting the missing letter.
be..extreme, nor..overthrow;
pr..overcome, pr..date;
about..skate, inter..institutional;
climb..climb, pr..swing;
in..young, in..tidy.
Answer:
Write down the word in which the letter E is written in the blank.
straw..nka
underline
diligent
merciful
outshine
Answer:
Write down the word in which the letter Y is written in place of the gap.
shaving (they)
under construction
check..t
foaming
Answer:
Determine the sentence in which NOT is spelled together with the word. Open the brackets and write down this word.
He was worried about a long (not) healing wound.
He is obviously not at all (not) lazy.
He jumped (not) high, but low.
A (not) tall officer with a broad oriental face entered the barracks.
The film tells the story of the fate of a provincial, (un)known musician.
Answer:
Determine the sentence in which both highlighted words are written CONTINUOUSLY. Open the brackets and write down these two words.
TO light a fire, fuel was required, but both around us and in the distance there was only bare steppe.
On Friday we processed (B) TWO more applications than usual, but we still had to take some of the work (TO) HOME.
(During the day the storm did not subside, (THEREFORE) the boats were forbidden to leave the bay.
Keep in mind that your prank is unlikely to easily get away with you.
(SINCE) the morning was warm, we decided to walk along the embankment the SAME as yesterday.
Answer:
Indicate all the numbers in whose place NN is written.
At the pier, stretching with countless (1) berths, laden (2) ships stood, as if gaining strength: they were preparing to sail to Sweden and Germany, and the breeze lazily rinsed the gray, deliberately (3) sails .
Answer:
Place punctuation marks. Indicate the numbers of sentences in which you need to put ONE comma.
1) Vladimir Mayakovsky remains in people’s memory not only as outstanding poet of his time but also as the creator of original poetic verse.
2) The moon rose and illuminated the road, field and houses of the sleeping village.
3) There are many gas and electric stoves and ovens on display at the exhibition.
4) Egorushka had never seen steamboats, locomotives, or wide rivers before.
5) In this forest on the pine trees you may notice a squirrel or woodpecker.
Answer:
A typical monument of Yaroslavl architecture - the Church of Elijah the Prophet - is (1) well lit (2) from the inside (3) temple (4) surrounded by covered galleries.
Answer:
Add all missing punctuation marks: indicate the number(s) in whose place(s) there should be a comma(s) in the sentence.
“A sound is one thing, but a letter is another” - this (1) seems (2) a harmless linguistic law causes people a lot of grief. We can firmly say that “writing by ear” and not according to spelling rules (3) of course (4) would not make the writer’s work easier.
Answer:
Place all punctuation marks: indicate the number(s) in whose place(s) there should be a comma(s) in the sentence.
Behind the ravine (1) in the depths (2) of which (3) the water was rustling (4) there was a forest apiary.
Answer:
Place all punctuation marks: indicate the number(s) in whose place(s) there should be a comma(s) in the sentence.
It’s never boring in the forest (1) and (2) if you get sad (3) take a closer look at the most ordinary birch tree (4) that you meet on your way.
Answer:
Which of the statements correspond to the content of the text? Please provide answer numbers.
1) According to Ryleev’s observations, people who have proven themselves on the battlefield as fearless warriors may be afraid to speak out in defense of justice.
2) The boy, fearlessly skiing down the mountains and swimming across unfamiliar rivers, could not admit that he had broken the glass.
3) A person who went through a war as a hero will always stand up for his friend who has been slandered, since he is not afraid of anything.
4) Fear has many faces, but it is only truly scary in war; in peaceful life there is nothing to be afraid of.
5) There are many trials in life, and the manifestation of courage is expressed in the ability to “overcome the monkey within oneself” not only in war, but also in peacetime.
(25) The boy broke the glass.
(According to F.A. Vigdorova) *
Answer:
Which of the following statements are true? Please provide answer numbers.
1) Sentences 3–9 present a narrative.
2) Sentences 12–13 contain answers to the questions posed in sentences 10–11.
3) Sentences 31–35 contain reasoning.
4) Sentences 40–42 present reasoning.
5) Sentences 50–53 provide a description.
In response, write down the numbers in ascending order.
(1) I knew a wonderful writer. (2) Her name was Tamara Grigorievna Gabbe. (3) She told me once:
– There are many challenges in life. (4) You can’t list them. (5) But here are three, they occur often. (6) The first is the test of need. (7) Second - prosperity, glory. (8) And the third test is fear. (9) And not only with the fear that a person recognizes in war, but with the fear that overtakes him in ordinary, peaceful life.
(10) What kind of fear is this that does not threaten either death or injury? (11) Isn’t he a fiction? (12) No, it’s not fiction. (13) Fear has many faces, sometimes it affects the fearless.
(14) “It’s an amazing thing,” wrote the Decembrist poet Ryleev, “we are not afraid to die on the battlefields, but we are afraid to say a word in favor of justice.”
(15) Many years have passed since these words were written, but there are persistent illnesses of the soul.
(16) The man went through the war as a hero. (17) He went on reconnaissance, where every step threatened him with death. (18) He fought in the air and under water, he did not run from danger, he fearlessly walked towards it. (19) And now the war is over, the man returned home. (20) To my family, to my peaceful work. (21) He worked as well as he fought: with passion, giving all his strength, not sparing his health. (22) But when, due to the libel of a slanderer, his friend, a man whom he knew as himself, of whose innocence he was convinced as his own, was removed from work, he did not stand up. (23) He, who was not afraid of bullets or tanks, was scared. (24) He was not afraid of death on the battlefield, but was afraid to say a word in favor of justice.
(25) The boy broke the glass.
- (26) Who did this? - asks the teacher.
(27) The boy is silent. (28) He is not afraid to ski down the most dizzying mountain. (29) He is not afraid to swim across an unfamiliar river full of treacherous funnels. (30) But he is afraid to say: “I broke the glass.”
(31) What is he afraid of? (32) Flying down the mountain, he can break his neck. (33) Swimming across the river, you can drown. (34) The words “I did it” do not threaten him with death. (35) Why is he afraid to say them?
(36) I heard a very brave man who went through the war once say: “It was scary, very scary.”
(37) He spoke the truth: he was scared. (38) But he knew how to overcome his fear and did what his duty told him to do: he fought.
(39) In peaceful life, of course, it can also be scary.
(40) I’ll tell the truth, but I’ll be expelled from school for it... (41) If I tell the truth, I’ll be fired from my job... (42) I’d rather remain silent.
(43) There are many proverbs in the world that justify silence, and perhaps the most expressive: “My hut is on the edge.” (44) But there are no huts that would be on the edge.
(45) We are all responsible for what is happening around us. (46) Responsible for all the bad and all the good. (47) And one should not think that a real test comes to a person only in some special, fatal moments: in war, during some kind of disaster. (48) No, not only in exceptional circumstances, not only in the hour of mortal danger, human courage is tested under a bullet. (49) It is tested constantly, in the most ordinary everyday affairs.
(50) There is only one courage. (51) It requires that a person always be able to overcome the monkey within himself: in battle, on the street, at a meeting. (52) After all, the word “courage” does not have a plural form. (53) It is the same in any conditions.
(According to F.A. Vigdorova) *
* Frida Abramovna Vigdorova (1915–1965) – Soviet writer and journalist.
(12) No, it’s not fiction. (13) Fear has many faces, sometimes it affects the fearless.
Answer:
From sentences 44–47, write down antonyms (antonymic pair).
(1) I knew a wonderful writer. (2) Her name was Tamara Grigorievna Gabbe. (3) She told me once:
– There are many challenges in life. (4) You can’t list them. (5) But here are three, they occur often. (6) The first is the test of need. (7) Second - prosperity, glory. (8) And the third test is fear. (9) And not only with the fear that a person recognizes in war, but with the fear that overtakes him in ordinary, peaceful life.
(10) What kind of fear is this that does not threaten either death or injury? (11) Isn’t he a fiction? (12) No, it’s not fiction. (13) Fear has many faces, sometimes it affects the fearless.
(14) “It’s an amazing thing,” wrote the Decembrist poet Ryleev, “we are not afraid to die on the battlefields, but we are afraid to say a word in favor of justice.”
(15) Many years have passed since these words were written, but there are persistent illnesses of the soul.
(16) The man went through the war as a hero. (17) He went on reconnaissance, where every step threatened him with death. (18) He fought in the air and under water, he did not run from danger, he fearlessly walked towards it. (19) And now the war is over, the man returned home. (20) To my family, to my peaceful work. (21) He worked as well as he fought: with passion, giving all his strength, not sparing his health. (22) But when, due to the libel of a slanderer, his friend, a man whom he knew as himself, of whose innocence he was convinced as his own, was removed from work, he did not stand up. (23) He, who was not afraid of bullets or tanks, was scared. (24) He was not afraid of death on the battlefield, but was afraid to say a word in favor of justice.
(25) The boy broke the glass.
- (26) Who did this? - asks the teacher.
(27) The boy is silent. (28) He is not afraid to ski down the most dizzying mountain. (29) He is not afraid to swim across an unfamiliar river full of treacherous funnels. (30) But he is afraid to say: “I broke the glass.”
(31) What is he afraid of? (32) Flying down the mountain, he can break his neck. (33) Swimming across the river, you can drown. (34) The words “I did it” do not threaten him with death. (35) Why is he afraid to say them?
(36) I heard a very brave man who went through the war once say: “It was scary, very scary.”
(37) He spoke the truth: he was scared. (38) But he knew how to overcome his fear and did what his duty told him to do: he fought.
(39) In peaceful life, of course, it can also be scary.
(40) I’ll tell the truth, but I’ll be expelled from school for it... (41) If I tell the truth, I’ll be fired from my job... (42) I’d rather remain silent.
(43) There are many proverbs in the world that justify silence, and perhaps the most expressive: “My hut is on the edge.” (44) But there are no huts that would be on the edge.
(45) We are all responsible for what is happening around us. (46) Responsible for all the bad and all the good. (47) And one should not think that a real test comes to a person only in some special, fatal moments: in war, during some kind of disaster. (48) No, not only in exceptional circumstances, not only in the hour of mortal danger, human courage is tested under a bullet. (49) It is tested constantly, in the most ordinary everyday affairs.
(50) There is only one courage. (51) It requires that a person always be able to overcome the monkey within himself: in battle, on the street, at a meeting. (52) After all, the word “courage” does not have a plural form. (53) It is the same in any conditions.
(According to F.A. Vigdorova) *
* Frida Abramovna Vigdorova (1915–1965) – Soviet writer and journalist.
(44) But there are no huts that would be on the edge.
(45) We are all responsible for what is happening around us. (46) Responsible for all the bad and all the good. (47) And one should not think that a real test comes to a person only in some special, fatal moments: in war, during some kind of disaster.
Answer:
Among sentences 34–42, find one(s) that is related to the previous one using a personal pronoun and lexical repetition. Write the number(s) of this sentence(s).
(1) I knew a wonderful writer. (2) Her name was Tamara Grigorievna Gabbe. (3) She told me once:
– There are many challenges in life. (4) You can’t list them. (5) But here are three, they occur often. (6) The first is the test of need. (7) Second - prosperity, glory. (8) And the third test is fear. (9) And not only with the fear that a person recognizes in war, but with the fear that overtakes him in ordinary, peaceful life.
(10) What kind of fear is this that does not threaten either death or injury? (11) Isn’t he a fiction? (12) No, it’s not fiction. (13) Fear has many faces, sometimes it affects the fearless.
(14) “It’s an amazing thing,” wrote the Decembrist poet Ryleev, “we are not afraid to die on the battlefields, but we are afraid to say a word in favor of justice.”
(15) Many years have passed since these words were written, but there are persistent illnesses of the soul.
(16) The man went through the war as a hero. (17) He went on reconnaissance, where every step threatened him with death. (18) He fought in the air and under water, he did not run from danger, he fearlessly walked towards it. (19) And now the war is over, the man returned home. (20) To my family, to my peaceful work. (21) He worked as well as he fought: with passion, giving all his strength, not sparing his health. (22) But when, due to the libel of a slanderer, his friend, a man whom he knew as himself, of whose innocence he was convinced as his own, was removed from work, he did not stand up. (23) He, who was not afraid of bullets or tanks, was scared. (24) He was not afraid of death on the battlefield, but was afraid to say a word in favor of justice.
(25) The boy broke the glass.
- (26) Who did this? - asks the teacher.
(27) The boy is silent. (28) He is not afraid to ski down the most dizzying mountain. (29) He is not afraid to swim across an unfamiliar river full of treacherous funnels. (30) But he is afraid to say: “I broke the glass.”
(31) What is he afraid of? (32) Flying down the mountain, he can break his neck. (33) Swimming across the river, you can drown. (34) The words “I did it” do not threaten him with death. (35) Why is he afraid to say them?
(36) I heard a very brave man who went through the war once say: “It was scary, very scary.”
(37) He spoke the truth: he was scared. (38) But he knew how to overcome his fear and did what his duty told him to do: he fought.
(39) In peaceful life, of course, it can also be scary.
(40) I’ll tell the truth, but I’ll be expelled from school for it... (41) If I tell the truth, I’ll be fired from my job... (42) I’d rather remain silent.
(43) There are many proverbs in the world that justify silence, and perhaps the most expressive: “My hut is on the edge.” (44) But there are no huts that would be on the edge.
(45) We are all responsible for what is happening around us. (46) Responsible for all the bad and all the good. (47) And one should not think that a real test comes to a person only in some special, fatal moments: in war, during some kind of disaster. (48) No, not only in exceptional circumstances, not only in the hour of mortal danger, human courage is tested under a bullet. (49) It is tested constantly, in the most ordinary everyday affairs.
(50) There is only one courage. (51) It requires that a person always be able to overcome the monkey within himself: in battle, on the street, at a meeting. (52) After all, the word “courage” does not have a plural form. (53) It is the same in any conditions.
(According to F.A. Vigdorova) *
* Frida Abramovna Vigdorova (1915–1965) – Soviet writer and journalist.
(34) The words “I did it” do not threaten him with death. (35) Why is he afraid to say them?
(36) I heard a very brave man who went through the war once say: “It was scary, very scary.”
(37) He spoke the truth: he was scared. (38) But he knew how to overcome his fear and did what his duty told him to do: he fought.
(39) In peaceful life, of course, it can also be scary.
(40) I’ll tell the truth, but I’ll be expelled from school for it... (41) If I tell the truth, I’ll be fired from my job... (42) I’d rather remain silent.
Answer:
Read an excerpt from the review. It discusses language features text. Some terms used in the review are missing. Fill in the blanks with numbers corresponding to the number of the term from the list.
"F. A. Vigdorova talks about complex phenomena in our everyday life; it is no coincidence that the leading technique in the text becomes (A)_________ (sentences 24, 29–30). Another technique helps the author to focus readers’ attention on important thoughts - (B)_________ (sentences 17–18, 28–29). The author’s sincere excitement and caring attitude towards the problem posed in the text are conveyed by the syntactic means - (B)_________ (“as yourself”, “as in your own” in sentence 22) and the trope – (D)_________ (“dizzy mountain” in sentence 28, “treacherous funnels” in sentence 29).”
List of terms:
1) book vocabulary
3) opposition
4) colloquial vocabulary
5) anaphora
6) personification
7) introductory word
8) synonyms
9) comparative turnover
Write down the numbers in your answer, arranging them in the order corresponding to the letters:
| A | B | IN | G |
(1) I knew a wonderful writer. (2) Her name was Tamara Grigorievna Gabbe. (3) She told me once:
– There are many challenges in life. (4) You can’t list them. (5) But here are three, they occur often. (6) The first is the test of need. (7) Second - prosperity, glory. (8) And the third test is fear. (9) And not only with the fear that a person recognizes in war, but with the fear that overtakes him in ordinary, peaceful life.
(10) What kind of fear is this that does not threaten either death or injury? (11) Isn’t he a fiction? (12) No, it’s not fiction. (13) Fear has many faces, sometimes it affects the fearless.
(14) “It’s an amazing thing,” wrote the Decembrist poet Ryleev, “we are not afraid to die on the battlefields, but we are afraid to say a word in favor of justice.”
(15) Many years have passed since these words were written, but there are persistent illnesses of the soul.
(16) The man went through the war as a hero. (17) He went on reconnaissance, where every step threatened him with death. (18) He fought in the air and under water, he did not run from danger, he fearlessly walked towards it. (19) And now the war is over, the man returned home. (20) To my family, to my peaceful work. (21) He worked as well as he fought: with passion, giving all his strength, not sparing his health. (22) But when, due to the libel of a slanderer, his friend, a man whom he knew as himself, of whose innocence he was convinced as his own, was removed from work, he did not stand up. (23) He, who was not afraid of bullets or tanks, was scared. (24) He was not afraid of death on the battlefield, but was afraid to say a word in favor of justice.
(25) The boy broke the glass.
- (26) Who did this? - asks the teacher.
(27) The boy is silent. (28) He is not afraid to ski down the most dizzying mountain. (29) He is not afraid to swim across an unfamiliar river full of treacherous funnels. (30) But he is afraid to say: “I broke the glass.”
(31) What is he afraid of? (32) Flying down the mountain, he can break his neck. (33) Swimming across the river, you can drown. (34) The words “I did it” do not threaten him with death. (35) Why is he afraid to say them?
(36) I heard a very brave man who went through the war once say: “It was scary, very scary.”
(37) He spoke the truth: he was scared. (38) But he knew how to overcome his fear and did what his duty told him to do: he fought.
(39) In peaceful life, of course, it can also be scary.
(40) I’ll tell the truth, but I’ll be expelled from school for it... (41) If I tell the truth, I’ll be fired from my job... (42) I’d rather remain silent.
(43) There are many proverbs in the world that justify silence, and perhaps the most expressive: “My hut is on the edge.” (44) But there are no huts that would be on the edge.
(45) We are all responsible for what is happening around us. (46) Responsible for all the bad and all the good. (47) And one should not think that a real test comes to a person only in some special, fatal moments: in war, during some kind of disaster. (48) No, not only in exceptional circumstances, not only in the hour of mortal danger, human courage is tested under a bullet. (49) It is tested constantly, in the most ordinary everyday affairs.
(50) There is only one courage. (51) It requires that a person always be able to overcome the monkey within himself: in battle, on the street, at a meeting. (52) After all, the word “courage” does not have a plural form. (53) It is the same in any conditions.
(According to F.A. Vigdorova) *
* Frida Abramovna Vigdorova (1915–1965) – Soviet writer and journalist.
(17) He went on reconnaissance, where every step threatened him with death. (18) He fought in the air and under water, he did not run from danger, he fearlessly walked towards it.
Answer:
Write an essay based on the text you read.
Formulate one of the problems posed by the author of the text.
Comment on the formulated problem. Include in your comment two illustrative examples from the text you read that you think are important for understanding the problem in the source text (avoid excessive quoting). Explain the meaning of each example and indicate the semantic connection between them.
The volume of the essay is at least 150 words.
Work written without reference to the text read (not based on this text) is not graded. If the essay is a retelling or a complete rewrite of the original text without any comments, then such work is graded 0 points.
Write an essay carefully, legible handwriting.
(1) I knew a wonderful writer. (2) Her name was Tamara Grigorievna Gabbe. (3) She told me once:
– There are many challenges in life. (4) You can’t list them. (5) But here are three, they occur often. (6) The first is the test of need. (7) Second - prosperity, glory. (8) And the third test is fear. (9) And not only with the fear that a person recognizes in war, but with the fear that overtakes him in ordinary, peaceful life.
(10) What kind of fear is this that does not threaten either death or injury? (11) Isn’t he a fiction? (12) No, it’s not fiction. (13) Fear has many faces, sometimes it affects the fearless.
(14) “It’s an amazing thing,” wrote the Decembrist poet Ryleev, “we are not afraid to die on the battlefields, but we are afraid to say a word in favor of justice.”
(15) Many years have passed since these words were written, but there are persistent illnesses of the soul.
(16) The man went through the war as a hero. (17) He went on reconnaissance, where every step threatened him with death. (18) He fought in the air and under water, he did not run from danger, he fearlessly walked towards it. (19) And now the war is over, the man returned home. (20) To my family, to my peaceful work. (21) He worked as well as he fought: with passion, giving all his strength, not sparing his health. (22) But when, due to the libel of a slanderer, his friend, a man whom he knew as himself, of whose innocence he was convinced as his own, was removed from work, he did not stand up. (23) He, who was not afraid of bullets or tanks, was scared. (24) He was not afraid of death on the battlefield, but was afraid to say a word in favor of justice.
(25) The boy broke the glass.
- (26) Who did this? - asks the teacher.
(27) The boy is silent. (28) He is not afraid to ski down the most dizzying mountain. (29) He is not afraid to swim across an unfamiliar river full of treacherous funnels. (30) But he is afraid to say: “I broke the glass.”
(31) What is he afraid of? (32) Flying down the mountain, he can break his neck. (33) Swimming across the river, you can drown. (34) The words “I did it” do not threaten him with death. (35) Why is he afraid to say them?
(36) I heard a very brave man who went through the war once say: “It was scary, very scary.”
(37) He spoke the truth: he was scared. (38) But he knew how to overcome his fear and did what his duty told him to do: he fought.
(39) In peaceful life, of course, it can also be scary.
(40) I’ll tell the truth, but I’ll be expelled from school for it... (41) If I tell the truth, I’ll be fired from my job... (42) I’d rather remain silent.
(43) There are many proverbs in the world that justify silence, and perhaps the most expressive: “My hut is on the edge.” (44) But there are no huts that would be on the edge.
(45) We are all responsible for what is happening around us. (46) Responsible for all the bad and all the good. (47) And one should not think that a real test comes to a person only in some special, fatal moments: in war, during some kind of disaster. (48) No, not only in exceptional circumstances, not only in the hour of mortal danger, human courage is tested under a bullet. (49) It is tested constantly, in the most ordinary everyday affairs.
Is it really true that one of the most difficult tests in a person’s life is the test of fear? In the text proposed for analysis, the author raises the problem of overcoming fear in ordinary, peaceful life. This problem belongs to the category of eternal moral problems.
Discussing what fear is, Vigdorova emphasizes that “fear has many faces, sometimes it affects the fearless.” The writer classifies it as one of the “tenacious diseases of the soul” and, confirming her thought, quotes the words of the Decembrist Ryleev: “We are not afraid to die on the battlefields, but we are afraid to say a word in favor of justice.”
As an illustration, Vigdorova refers to a case from real life. A man who went through the war as a hero, in his new peaceful life, did not stand up for his comrade, of whose innocence he was convinced. I was afraid to say a word in favor of justice.
The author’s position is clear: courage is “tested constantly, in the most ordinary everyday affairs.” A person should not live by the principle “my house is on the edge”; he should not silently pass by injustice. He must “be able to overcome the monkey in himself at all times: in battle, on the street, at a meeting.”
It is impossible not to agree with F. Vigdorova’s point of view. Indeed, in order to stand up for the truth, to resist the so-called public opinion To protect the weak, you must have courage.
Cowardice can lead to irreversible consequences. The heroes of V. Zheleznikov’s story “Scarecrow” are tested by fear: Lenka Bessoltseva and Dimka Somov. The sixth-graders deliberately disrupted the lesson, for which they were punished: the entire class was deprived of a trip to Moscow, for which the children had been preparing for a long time. Led by the generally recognized class leader Iron Button, the guys decide to punish the one who told to the class teacher about deliberately disrupting the lesson. Lenka, who knew that Somov did this, waits for Dimka to confess, but seeing that he seemed to “turn over” from fear, she takes the blame upon herself. The guys declare a brutal boycott on Lenka. They drive her around the city, humiliate her, and burn an effigy of Bessoltseva before her eyes. But the worst thing for the girl is disappointment in Dimka, whom she considered her friend. He turned out to be not only a coward, but also a traitor: he became a participant in cruel persecution. Despite the humiliating persecution, Lenka never exposes Dimka; the guys learn the truth from another person. The heroine passed the test of fear with honor, but Dimka broke down, bent under the pressure of circumstances, losing his individuality.
W. Churchill owns the following words: “Courage is not in vain considered the highest virtue - after all, in courage the guarantee of others positive qualities" Overcoming fear, defeating the coward in oneself means remaining faithful to the moral imperative.
Updated: 2017-12-09
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