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Eugene Kohn’s conducting on the openingnight was mostly fluent and, althoughloudness was often substituted for intensity, theKennedy Center Opera House Orchestra playedwith sensitivity. The casting was generally solid,Cosaro’s blocking was clear and sensible, lettingour attention settle on the opera itself.Perhaps for a few hours it stalled theaudience’s anticipation for next season.Pierre Ruhe, Financial Times, March 15, 2000Which opera is it?It is not being performed by the WashingtonOpera this season: 0. A (przykład)Placido Domingo has performed in them before:1. ,2.They were conducted by artists who startedtheir careers in another field: 3. ,4.During the first performance, the leading singer’sabilities weren’t fully demonstrated:5.Not all the supporting singers were equallyprofessional: 6.It was staged in a more conventional way thanoriginally planned: 7.It was staged one hundred years after its premiere:8.The singer performing the main part failed tostir emotions in the audience: 9.Zadanie II B – 11 punktówZponiższegotekstuusuniętopoczątkiposzczególnychakapitów, oznaczono je literami (A–G) ipodanopod tekstem. Dobierz je tak, by otrzymaćspójny i logiczny tekst. W każde miejsce 1-5 wpiszliterę, którą oznaczony został odpowiedni fragment.Jeden fragment nie pasuje do tekstu. Następnieuzupełnij zdania 6–11, zakreślając najwłaściwsząz czterech podanych możliwości a, b, c lub d.Knowing you all too well0. D. (przyk³ad) Ostensibly alone in his squalidLondon flat, Winston Smith turns his backtothe telescreen trained on him, though ’as hewell knew, even a back can be revealing.’ Hewants only to begin writing a diary – an act,however, punishable by death. He hesitatesover his pen. ’There was of course no way ofknowing whether you were being watched atany given moment,’ Smith realizes. It was Orwell’sbleakvision of the future.1. The Web has evolved into a marketplace,and in the process transformed privacy froma right to a commodity. Highspeed networkingand powerful database technologies have madeit possible for businesses to amass, quickly andat low cost, a wealth of personal information onnearly 200 million Americans, especially the 40or so million who cruise the Web.2. Myprospects.com will charge you as little as16 cents a name, no questions asked. You wantto know if a potential business partner hasa history of bad credit or fraud? Hundreds ofinvestigative sites will oblige. You want to buythe executive travel records of your competitor,so that you can figure out not only where theyare going but also whom they are meetingwith? Companies that do ’competitive intelligence’can mine any database.3. In August 1997, the giant credit bureauExperian began offering online delivery of creditreports, but shut down the service two dayslater, after learning that due to a sequencingproblem in the software, seven out of 106first-day applicants received someone else’s report.Experian today does not offer reportsonline, but many other companies do.4. Someone acquires basic personal informationabout you, perhaps from an online datawarehouse. Then he takes advantage of themedium’s impersonality to impersonate you. InFebruary, for example, the Federal Trade Commissioncharged eight California businesseswith billing consumers for unordered and fictitiousInternet services, using their credit-cardaccount number. It’s a growing problem. Earlierthis month, the Computer Security Institutereleased a study showing that losses due toInternet security breaches, including identitytheft and theft of proprietary information, exceeded$ 100 million in 1998.5. A survey published by the Federal TradeCommission last year found that 85 per cent ofWeb sites collect some personal informationfrom visitors, but only 14 per cent had postedprivacy policies. The Commission has warnedmarketers that failure to adopt meaningful pledgesby this summer will lead to federal regulation.Newsweek, March 29, 199982