Modele odpowiedzi do arkusza Próbnej Matury z OPERONEM
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Listopad 2010
TRANSKRYPCJA NAGRAC

Zadanie 4.
One. Some people are late because they simply don t have enough time to do everything. The only way
to change this is to stop doing so much. Face reality  you cannot get your whole list done. Figure out
what s most important and just get that done. Tell the people who depend on you  like your boss  that
you can only do what you have time for, and things at the bottom of the list will not get done:
a reality check for everyone in your life.
Two. Here s a great thing to say:  Excuse me, I hate to cut you off, but I have an appointment . It is
hard to cut someone off, but they will respect you for sticking to a schedule. The good news is that this
means it s perfectly acceptable in work life to say this short sentence. Get comfortable doing it at work
and then you can do it at home, too.
Three. Assume everything will take a little longer than your first estimate. This will either make you
right on time for everything, or it ll make you a little early. People who do things early are calm, orga-
nized, and always ready. Not a bad place to be.
Four. If you block out time to be somewhere then you won t be doing something else when it s time to
go. I amazed myself when I tried to do this. I discovered I had enough on my schedule to last 48 hours
a day. It would have been impossible for me to be on time for anything.
Five. Why do you let yourself be late? It is disrespectful and makes you look unorganized and out of
control. Why can t you keep control over your time? So much about being on time is actually about self-
-knowledge. Often, we are scared to make the decisions that we must make in order to get control over
our time and become someone who does things on schedule. But there is no other way to run a life.
Adapted from blog.penelopetrunk.com
Zadanie 5.
The Bean Trees, first novel by Barbara Kingsolver is an intriguing story of an exceptional woman.
Marietta Greer lives with her mom in a small, poor village in the hills of Kentucky. Most of the girls
of Marietta s age never finish secondary school. They get pregnant, leave school, and are stuck in the
village forever with a bad husband and a miserable life. But Marietta is different. She thinks and looks
unlike the other girls. She finishes school, gets a job in the lab of the area hospital, and saves her
money as much as she can. Then she buys an old broken down Volkswagen Beetle with no windows
and no back seat, and leaves town forever. She drives as the crow flies, not knowing where she wants
to go. Along the way she decides to change her name to Taylor, after one of the places she passes.
Taylor finally stops for a rest in Oklahoma.
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Unexpectedly, a woman appears, knocking on the windshield of Taylor s car. The woman opens the
car door and puts a baby on the front seat next to Taylor, saying,  Here. Take this baby . Taylor tries
to argue with the woman, but it s impossible. She is so surprised, she doesn t know what to do, so she
tries to find a low-priced place to stay for the night and to think things over.
Of course, once Taylor starts caring for the baby, a girl she names Turtle because the baby grabs on
to her like a turtle, she decides to keep her. The two continue driving west until they reach Tucson,
Arizona. There they meet some interesting and slightly strange people. Mattie, a granny who runs
a used tire shop, is a kind person who takes care of Taylor and Turtle; she gives Taylor a job. But
Taylor notices there s something a little weird about Mattie s house. New people seem to come and go
there all the time. As Taylor slowly discovers, Mattie is helping war refugees from Guatemala escape
torture, prison and the US Immigration authorities. The novel ends with a surprising and tension filled
drive back to ugly Oklahoma. How Taylor solves the problems, and learns to create her own family from
an odd range of people, makes the story amusing, incredible, emotional, and memorable.
Adapted from Bridge 09/2006
Zadanie 6.
Wouldn t you love to get inside a bully s head and see what makes him tick? Where does his anger
come from? If you met Troy today, you might not suspect that he was once a bully, but he ll tell you
here how bullying changed his life.
Interviewer: What kind of kids did you choose to bully?
Troy: I guess I bullied the usual people. I bullied the smelly people, the  weird people, and the people
who were different.
Interviewer: Why these particular people?
Troy: I think I bullied the people who let themselves be bullied. People without self-respect or people
whom I didn t respect for whatever reasons. For this reason (more likely because I was one of
them), I never bullied the  nerds or the  geeks  that is the people who were fond of computers and
science.
Interviewer: Why do you think you were a bully?
Troy: I was a bully because it was the cool thing to do. A good portion of it wasn t physical bullying.
More often than not, I bullied people psychologically and emotionally. When it became more than they
could handle, I ended up being the physical bully as well. I started out as what was probably the class
clown.
Interviewer: Did any of these kids ever stand up to you?
Troy: I had many people stand up to me. Eventually, I ended up beating them down. Then something
changed. When someone stood up as I got older, I respected that. And some of these people became my
closest friends.
Interviewer: What consequences did you suffer from being a bully?
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Troy: This question brings tears to my eyes to this day. I created complexes in people who carry them
around to this day. I once got into a fight with a kid I grew up with. He was the smartest kid in school,
but I beat him to a bloody pulp. He never recovered emotionally and dropped out of school because of the
shame. It s hard to deal with the fact that things you did as a stupid kid will have and have had long lasting
effects on people.
Interviewer: I m sure you re a great guy now!
Troy: I don t know. I never fight now and walk away from fights. I am a scientist working at a biotech-
nology firm, but it seems I have this  look that says,  bring it on! .
Interviewer: What makes you walk away from fights now?
Troy: Fortunately, my mind and my respect for peace have grown as well. I am told more often than not
that I am a great guy, but I always say that it s because there was a time not so long ago that I really,
really wasn t. I could say that my experiences from the past shaped me and my current behaviour.
Interviewer: Anything you would like to add?
Troy: You know what? I realized that people started liking me more and I liked myself more when I use
my mind and not my fists.
Adapted from www.preteenagerstoday.com
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