Love tenderness teffi. The disappearance of tenderness in the modern world

Describing everyday situations from life, the writer tries to draw the reader's attention to the lack of tenderness in modern people. Touching stories help to see the significance of the little things in relationships that make up our whole life.

The talented Russian writer Teffi N.A. wrote a collection of stories about a quivering feeling - tenderness. Each situation described is supported by an emotional coloring that emphasizes the importance of what is happening.

Thanks to laid-back humor and lyrical phrases, the mood and character of the characters are very accurately conveyed in her stories. Using the example of the relationship between a woman and a man, between children and adults, between people and animals, the author shows how just a few gentle words or gestures can make each of us absolutely happy. Touching and touching statements make a strong impression and make you reconsider your attitude towards others.

Love and tenderness: the disappearance of tenderness in the modern world

In many episodes, Teffi contrasts the childish sense of reality with the adult world. Immersed in a whirlpool of endless problems, adults forget about humanity, showing dryness and cruelty. While children perceive the world around them through warmth and heartfelt experiences. Tenderness for the child is manifested primarily through tactile contact.

For harmonious development, each baby needs to feel parental hugs. Moreover, the number of hugs per day affects the child in different ways, once is not enough. Scientists have conducted many experiments proving that hugging a sick baby, we help him recover sooner.

  • In stories “Our way of life”, “We are evil”, “Easter child” the author shows how mundane events ground a person. And only immersion in the world of fantasies, pink dreams and transcendental desires, filled with love and tenderness, helps us become happier.
  • The inspired statement of the writer fully reflects her feminine position: “Tenderness is the most meek, timid, divine face of love. This is the feeling that comes from above and takes care of his beloved, guards him.
  • Teffi says that this quivering experience is a continuation of love, its important component. The manifestation of warmth and gentleness to another person, a sincere gratuitous desire to help and protect - all this is a manifestation of tenderness.
  • In her reasoning, the writer compares combination of love with passion and love with tenderness preferring the second option. On the example of real stories, shows a number of advantages of showing tenderness over other feelings. Love combined with tenderness is disinterested and merciful.


  • In a fit of tenderness, people strive give your warmth, attention, care. Love combined with passion is more selfish. Passionate person strives for his own saturation, satisfaction and well-being. But in true love you need to give yourself to another person.

Tenderness is the most meek, timid, divine face of love Teffi

In one of the stories, Teffi shares his impressions of his observations of an elderly couple. The wife takes care of her sick husband and tries in every possible way to brighten up his difficult situation.

  • Creating the image of a woman, the author emphasizes her "anxiously happy eyes". Dislike for a man, reinforces him with an untidy gloomy look. In exchange for a reverent and caring attitude, a woman listens to her husband's rude statements and tolerates a boorish attitude.
  • The feeling of all-forgiving love and tenderness towards her husband helps her to resist his ignorance. It is safe to say that the heroine has inner strength. Not everyone is ready to open their heart and soul to another person.
  • Your pity for the heroine, Taffy shows the example of a crying little boy who witnessed the unfair treatment of a man towards a woman. Using this situation as an example, the author shows the power of tenderness that elevates a person.


  • This feeling causes a desire to take care of their loved ones, to protect them from adversity. Weak and sick people are in dire need of tenderness, it helps them become stronger and overcome their illness: “But only a defenseless creature in need of guardianship can be patronized and protected, therefore, words of tenderness are diminutive words, going from strong to weak.”
  • Feeling support from the outside, people have hope and faith in a brighter future.
  • Taffy's statement: "The sister of tenderness is pity and they always go together" shared by Archbishop John Shakhovskoy. In his poem, he writes that tenderness and pity are not separated, and come to each person as a whole: “... Pity and tenderness, tenderness and pity always go together…».

In the manifestation of your feelings, it is important not to overdo it. An excessive display of tenderness is devalued in the eyes of a partner. He stops appreciating your actions. Obsessive concern can cause irritation. The person will start avoiding you. Expressing your feelings, you need to analyze the reaction of the opposite sex. We observe an overabundance of attention in Teffi's story.

Instead of gratitude, the woman aroused anger and irritation in her husband. A prime example would be children or animals. Every baby needs tenderness. But when he is constantly squeezed, he ceases to experience satisfaction from this process. Animals also gladly perceive human love and affection. But when they are not let out of their hands and their freedom of action is limited, this causes fear in them.

The manifestation of tenderness comes much less often from men than from women. Men strive for a strong image. They try to avoid experiences that make them vulnerable. Often this behavior is due to imitation of his father. Since childhood, we see tenderness primarily from the mother and, only in rare cases, it comes from the father.

Wanting to raise a real man in their son, many parents consider the manifestation of tenderness inappropriate. But a person who has not experienced tenderness in childhood is unlikely to be able to make another person happy. Nobody taught him this. Of course, each person is individual and such experience can be acquired in your adult life.

There is a category of men who compare tenderness with affection. There is a fear of losing your inner freedom. Instead of tenderness, the male sex prefers sexual contact. However, these are radically different concepts. The manifestation of tenderness is aimed at caring for another person, and in a fit of passion, a man first of all takes care of satisfying his own desires.

Everyone wants to be loved, to feel a reverent attitude towards themselves. At the same time, we need people to whom we can give our care and tenderness. Seeing gratitude in the eyes of a person, feeling your importance - all this gives a special pleasure.



Every woman needs spontaneous, unpredictable displays of love. It is important for her to receive signs of attention, to hear kind words, to feel support. When a woman is treated not as a partner, assistant, housewife, but as a close relative, she begins to feel more confident. And it doesn't say at all about female inferiority or initially low self-esteem:“But one should not think that a feeling of tenderness degrades a person. Vice versa. Tenderness comes from above, she takes care of her beloved, protects, takes care of him.

You can show your tenderness in different ways. Gentle words, gentle touches, a kind look and smile, bodily contact - all this is a form of expressing your feelings. It is this kind of tenderness that is a real manifestation of the heart, and not of physiological needs. With the help of such manifestations, the union of partners is fixed at the energy level.

We are increasingly faced with indifference, cold looks, unemotional statements. People who are dissatisfied with themselves and surrounding events, immersed in their problems, do not notice the disappearance of tenderness in the modern world. There is no room for her. Many even hate this feeling, because they are embarrassed to open their soul or simply do not know how to express their feelings. It's hard to say what makes them happy.

Tenderness comes only from strong people who were not afraid to expose their soul and heart. This feeling can change a person, giving them a new taste of life. By sharing our inner experiences with loved ones, we make them happier.

What is tenderness through the eyes of different people?

  • Tenderness is manifested in excitement and embarrassment when meeting with a loved one.
  • When you look at a photo of a loved one, your heart stops from a surge of tenderness.
  • Tenderness is an embarrassed smile on your face, filled with the light of your soul.


Tenderness is an embarrassed smile
  • - these are quivering touches, gentle kisses, stroking every mole and wrinkles on the body.
  • Tenderness- this is when you can't get enough of the voice of a loved one, when you whisper about love with your eyes.
  • Tenderness is stroking the hair, inhaling the aroma of the body, beating the heart of a loved one.
  • Tenderness- these are memories of the touch of a loved one on your lips, eyes, hands.
  • Tenderness manifested in caution, trust, tact, care. There is no wild passion here.
  • Tenderness- this is a state of open, sincere, bright, full of care and inner fullness of a person.

Video: Manifestation of love and tenderness

(1) Tenderness is the most meek, timid, divine face of love. (2) Love-passion - always with an eye on yourself. (3) She wants to conquer, seduce, she wants to please, she preens, akimbo, measures, all the time she is afraid to miss the lost. (4) Love-tenderness gives everything, and there is no limit to it. (5) And she will never look back at herself, because "she does not look for her own." (6) Only she is alone and does not look for. (7) But one should not think that a feeling of tenderness degrades a person. (8) On the contrary. (9) Tenderness comes from above, she takes care of her beloved, protects, takes care of him. (10) But only a defenseless creature in need of guardianship can be patronized and protected, therefore words of tenderness are diminutive words, going from strong to weak.

(11) Tenderness is rare and less and less common. (12) Modern life is difficult and complex. (13) A modern person, even in love, seeks first of all to affirm his personality. (14) Love is a martial art.

- (15) Aha! (16) Love? (17) Well, okay. (18) They rolled up their sleeves, straightened their shoulders - well, who wins?

(19) Is it tenderness here? (20) And whom to protect, whom to pity - all the good fellows and heroes. (21) Whoever knows tenderness is marked.

(22) In the minds of many, tenderness is certainly drawn in the form of a meek woman leaning over the headboard. (23) No, tenderness is not to be found there. (24) I saw her differently: in forms that were not at all poetic, in simple, even funny ones.

(25) We lived in a sanatorium near Paris. (26) Walked, ate, listened to the radio, played bridge, gossiped. (27) There was only one real patient - a feisty old man recovering from typhus.

(28) The old man often sat on the terrace in a deck chair, lined with pillows, wrapped in blankets, pale, bearded, always silent and, if anyone passed by, turned away and closed his eyes. (29) Around the old man, like a trembling bird, his wife curled. (30) The woman is middle-aged, dry, light, with a withered face and anxiously happy eyes. (31) And she never sat still. (32) I corrected everything around my patient. (33) Then she turned over the newspaper, then she fluffed up the pillow, then she tucked the blanket, then she ran to warm the milk, then she dripped the medicine. (34) The old man accepted all these services with obvious disgust. (35) Every morning, with a newspaper in her hands, she rushed from table to table, amiably talked with everyone and asked:

Here, maybe you can help me? (36) Here is a crossword puzzle: “What happens in a residential building?”. (37) Four letters. (38) I write down on a piece of paper to help Sergey Sergeevich. (39) He always solves crossword puzzles, and if he finds it difficult, I come to his aid. (40) After all, this is his only entertainment. (41) Patients are like children. (42) I'm so glad that at least it amuses him.

(43) She was pitied and treated with great sympathy.

(44) And somehow he crawled out onto the terrace earlier than usual. (45) She sat him down for a long time, covered him with blankets, put pillows on. (46) He frowned and angrily pushed her hand away if she did not immediately guess his desires.

(47) She, shivering happily, grabbed the newspaper.

- (48) Here, Seryozhenka, today it seems to be a very interesting crossword puzzle.

(49) He suddenly raised his head, rolled out his evil yellow eyes and shook all over.

- (50) Get the hell out of here with your idiotic crossword puzzles! he hissed furiously.

(51) She turned pale and somehow sank all over.

- (52) But you are ... - she babbled in confusion. - (53) After all, you were always interested in ...

- (54) I've never been interested! he kept shaking and hissing, looking at her pale, desperate face with bestial pleasure. - (55) Never! (56) It was you who climbed with the stubbornness of a degenerate, which you are!

(57) She did not answer. (58) She only swallowed air with difficulty, pressed her hands tightly to her chest and looked around with such pain and with such despair, as if she were looking for help. (59) But who can take such a ridiculous and stupid grief seriously? (60) Only a little boy, who was sitting at the next table and seeing this scene, suddenly closed his eyes and wept bitterly.

(according to N. A. Teffi*)

* Nadezhda Alexandrovna Teffi (1872-1952) - Russian writer, poetess, memoirist and translator.

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1. The problem of understanding love and tenderness (What is tenderness?) Tenderness is one of the manifestations of the face of love. But this is the most meek and timid face, while love is more like a single combat.
2. The problem of attitude towards a loving person (How can one person relate to another person who loves him?) Sometimes a person's attitude towards the one who loves him can be expressed in selfish, rude and even consumer use.
3. The problem of distinguishing between love-passion and love-tenderness (What is the difference between love-tenderness and love-passion?) Unlike love-passion, which is always looking at itself, love-tenderness does not seek its own, gives everything and there is no limit to it; she comes from above, takes care of her beloved, guards, takes care of him.
4. The problem of the disappearance of such a thing as tenderness (Why is tenderness less and less common in the modern world?) Modern man strives to assert himself as a person in everything. Tenderness is considered a sign of weakness.

According to the text of N. Teffi "Tenderness is the most meek, timid, divine face of love ..." Problem: What role does tenderness play in human relationships?

What role does tenderness play in human relationships? It is this question that the Russian writer N. A. Teffi raises in her text.

The author invites the reader to reflect on the essence of tenderness by telling a story from his life. The narrator describes a rude old man who was disgusted with the only woman who cared for him: “She corrected everything around her patient. It was his wife, trying with all her might to please him, so that he would feel good and need nothing. However, the old man scolds her, oblivious to all that she has done for him. The woman's face immediately changes, and the author draws the reader's attention to this everyday incident: "But who can take such a ridiculous and stupid grief seriously?" The author evokes in the reader a sense of injustice and resentment, shows the terrible side of the old man's act.

Confirmation of the above can be found in the pages of fiction. So, in the work of A. I. Kuprin “Garnet Bracelet”, tenderness appears to the reader in an unusual light. Zheltkov loves Vera without memory, but realizing that his love is unrequited, Zheltkov still seeks to please his beloved. He gives her gifts, sends her countless compliments in letters, talks about his stupid exploits that he performs for her. This sweet obsession is a manifestation of those strong feelings that Zheltkov has for Vera. Kuprin presents this absurd concern to the reader as a tenderness that prompts Zheltkov to court Vera. Thus, Zheltkov's tenderness towards Vera made her think about her life, helped her feel loved.

In the work of N. V. Gogol "Old World Landowners" tenderness is given a special role. Afanasy Ivanovich and Pulcheria Ivanovna are elderly spouses who, even in old age, continue to love each other. They do not quarrel, they do housework together, while away their days. In a word, their love is manifested in the pure tenderness that they give each other every day. This mutual concern for each other has turned them into a single whole, the parts of which cannot live separately. That is why, as soon as Pulcheria Ivanovna dies, Afanasy Ivanovich loses his taste for life and soon also departs for another world. It was tenderness that until the end of their lives united these people, prompting them to give each other joy and happiness.

“(1) Tenderness is the most meek, timid, divine face of love. (2) Love-passion - always with an eye on yourself. (3) She wants to conquer, seduce, she wants ... "

(1) Tenderness is the most meek, timid, divine face of love. (2) Love-passion - always with an eye on yourself.

(3) She wants to conquer, seduce, she wants to please, she preens, akimbo, measures, she is afraid all the time

miss the lost. (4) Love-tenderness gives everything, and there is no limit to it. (5) And she will never look back at herself, because

"does not seek his own." (6) Only she is alone and does not look for. (7) But one should not think that a feeling of tenderness degrades a person.

(8) On the contrary. (9) Tenderness comes from above, she takes care of her beloved, protects, takes care of him. (10) But only a defenseless creature in need of guardianship can be patronized and protected, therefore words of tenderness are diminutive words, going from strong to weak.

(11) Tenderness is rare and less and less common. (12) Modern life is difficult and complex. (13) A modern person, even in love, seeks first of all to affirm his personality. (14) Love is a martial art.

- (15) Aha! (16) Love? (17) Well, okay. (18) They rolled up their sleeves, straightened their shoulders - well, who wins?

(19) Is it tenderness here? (20) And whom to protect, whom to pity - all the good fellows and heroes. (21) Whoever knows tenderness is marked.

(22) In the minds of many, tenderness is certainly drawn in the form of a meek woman leaning over the headboard.

(23) No, tenderness is not to be found there. (24) I saw her differently: in forms that were not at all poetic, in simple, even funny ones.

(25) We lived in a sanatorium near Paris. (26) Walked, ate, listened to the radio, played bridge, gossiped.



(27) There was only one real patient - a feisty old man recovering from typhus.

(28) The old man often sat on the terrace in a deck chair, lined with pillows, wrapped in blankets, pale, bearded, always silent and, if anyone passed by, turned away and closed his eyes. (29) Around the old man, like a trembling bird, his wife curled. (30) The woman is middle-aged, dry, light, with a withered face and anxiously happy eyes (31) And she never sat still. (32) I corrected everything around my patient. (33) Then she turned over the newspaper, then she fluffed up the pillow, then she tucked the blanket, then she ran to warm the milk, then she dripped the medicine. (34) The old man accepted all these services with obvious disgust. (35) Every morning, with a newspaper in her hands, she rushed from table to table, amiably talked with everyone and asked:

“Here, maybe you can help me?” (36) Here is a crossword puzzle: “What happens in a residential building?”. (37) Four letters. (38) I write down on a piece of paper to help Sergey Sergeevich. (39) He always solves crossword puzzles, and if he finds it difficult, I come to his aid. (40) After all, this is his only entertainment. (41) Patients are like children. (42) I'm so glad that at least it amuses him.

(43) She was pitied and treated with great sympathy.

(44) And somehow he crawled out onto the terrace earlier than usual. (45) She sat him down for a long time, covered him with blankets, put pillows on. (46) He frowned and angrily pushed her hand away if she did not immediately guess his desires. (47) She, shivering happily, grabbed the newspaper.

- (48) Here, Seryozhenka, today it seems to be a very interesting crossword puzzle.

(49) He suddenly raised his head, rolled out his evil yellow eyes and shook all over.

- (50) Get the hell out of here with your idiotic crossword puzzles! he hissed furiously.

(51) She turned pale and somehow sank all over.

- (52) But you are ... - she babbled in confusion. - (53) After all, you were always interested in ...

- (54) I have never been interested! he kept shaking and hissing, looking at her pale, desperate face with bestial pleasure. - (55) Never! (56) It was you who climbed with the stubbornness of a degenerate, which you are!

(57) She did not answer. (58) She only swallowed air with difficulty, pressed her hands tightly to her chest and looked around with such pain and with such despair, as if she were looking for help. (59) But who can take such a ridiculous and stupid grief seriously? (60) Only a little boy, who was sitting at the next table and seeing this scene, suddenly closed his eyes and wept bitterly.

(According to N.A. Teffi *) * Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Teffi (1872–1952) - Russian writer, poetess, memoirist and translator.

Read a fragment of a review based on the text that you analyzed in tasks 20–23. This fragment examines the language features of the text. Some terms used in the review are missing. Fill in the gaps (A, B, C, D) with the numbers corresponding to the numbers of the terms from the list. Write in the table under each letter the corresponding number.

“The text analyzes a problem that has troubled people for centuries. To express his understanding of love and tenderness, the author uses the technique - (A) _________ (sentences 2, 3 - 4, 5) and the syntactic means - (B) _________ (in sentences 1, 9). To create the image of a tender wife, the writer is helped by the trope - (B) _________ (“anxiously happy eyes” in sentence 30) and the syntactic means - (D) _________ (“like a quivering bird” in sentence 29).

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The village of Vereino stands on a mountain. There are two lakes under the mountain, and on their banks, an echo of a large village, huddles a small village with three houses - Zuyaty.

Between Zuyatami and Vereino there is a huge steep slope, visible for many tens of miles as a dark humpbacked island. This whole hillside is so overgrown with dense forest that people almost never go there. Yes, and how do you get on?

It is worth moving a few steps away from the clover field, which is on the mountain, - and you will immediately roll head over heels down, you will fall into the deadwood lying crosswise, covered with moss, elderberry and raspberry.

Deaf on the slope, damp and twilight. Spruce and fir lining reliably buries its inhabitants - birds, badgers, squirrels, ermines - from the thin eye and raking hands. The hazel grouse and capercaillie, very cunning and cautious, keep here.

And once settled in the thicket of the slope, perhaps one of the most secretive animals - the white-breasted marten. For two or three summers she lived alone, occasionally appearing at the edge of the forest. The white-breasted twitched with sensitive nostrils, caught the nasty smells of the village, and if a person approached, it pierced like a bullet into the wilderness of the forest.

On the third or fourth summer Belogrudka gave birth to kittens, small as bean pods. The mother warmed them with her body, licked each to a shine, and when the kittens grew up a little, she began to get food for them. She knew this slope very well. In addition, she was a diligent mother and provided plenty of food for kittens.

V. Astafiev, Belogrudka But somehow the Verinsky boys tracked down Belogrudka, followed her down the slope, hid.

The white-breasted duck meandered through the forest for a long time, waving from tree to tree, then decided that people had already left - after all, they often pass by the slope, and returned to the nest.

Several human eyes followed her. White-breasted did not feel them, because she trembled all over, clinging to the kittens, and could not pay attention to anything.

White-breasted licked each of the cubs in the muzzle:

say, I am now, instantly, - and swung out of the nest.

Finding food was getting harder and harder day by day. He was no longer near the nest, and the marten went from tree to tree, from fir to fir, to the lakes, then to the swamp, to the large swamp beyond the lake. There she attacked a simple jay and, joyful, rushed to her nest, carrying in her teeth a red bird with a loose blue wing.

The nest was empty. The white-breasted bird dropped its prey from its teeth, rushed up the spruce, then down, then up again, to the nest cunningly hidden in the dense spruce branches.

There were no kittens. If Belogrudka knew how to scream, she would scream.

The kittens are gone.

The white-breasted woman examined everything in order and found that people were trampling around the spruce and a man was awkwardly climbing the tree, peeling off the bark, breaking off the knots, leaving a pungent smell of sweat and dirt in the folds of the bark.

By evening, Belogrudka accurately tracked down that her cubs had been taken to the village. At night, she also found the house to which they had been taken.

V. Astafiev, Belogrudka Until dawn, she rushed about near the house: from the roof to the fence, from the fence to the roof. For hours she sat on the bird cherry tree, under the window, listening to see if the kittens would squeak.

But in the yard a chain rattled and a dog barked hoarsely. The owner went out of the house several times, angrily shouting at her. The white-breasted clump clung to the bird cherry.

Now every night she sneaked up to the house, watched, watched, and the dog rattled and raged in the yard.

Somehow Belogrudka crept into the hayloft and stayed there until light, and in the afternoon did not dare to go into the forest. In the afternoon, she saw her kittens. The boy carried them out on the porch in an old hat and began to play with them, turning them upside down with their bellies, flicking them on the nose. More boys came and began to feed the kittens with raw meat.

Then the owner appeared and, pointing to the kunyats, said:

Why are you torturing animals? Take it to the nest. Will be lost.

Then there was that terrible day when Belogrudka again hid in the shed and again waited for the boys. They appeared on the porch and argued about something.

One of them took out an old hat, looked into it:

Eh, one of you...

The boy took the kitten by the paw and threw it to the dog. The fold-eared yard dog, who had spent his whole life on a chain and got used to eating what they give, sniffed the kitten, turned it over with his paw and began to slowly devour it from the head.

On the same night, many chickens and hens were strangled in the village, and an old dog who had eaten a kitten was crushed on a high raft. White-breasted ran along the fence and teased the stupid mongrel so much that he rushed after her, jumped over the fence, fell off and hung.

V. Astafiev, Belogrudka Ducklings, goslings were found crushed in gardens and on the street. In the outermost houses, which are closer to the forest, the bird has completely hatched.

And for a long time people could not find out who was robbing the village at night. But Belogrudka became completely furious and began to appear at houses even during the day and crack down on everything that was within her power.

The women gasped, the old women crossed themselves, the men cursed:

It's Satan! Called to attack!

Belogrudka was guarded, knocked down with shot from a poplar near the old church. But Belogrudka did not die. Only two pellets got under her skin, and she hid in the nest for several days, licking her wounds.

When she cured herself, she again came to the house where she seemed to be dragged on a leash.

White-breasted did not yet know that the boy who took the kunyat was flogged with a belt and ordered to take them back to the nest. But the carefree boy was too lazy to climb into the forest support, left the kunyat in a ravine near the forest and left.

Here they were found and killed by a fox.

White-breasted was orphaned. She began to recklessly crush pigeons, ducklings, not only on the mountain, in Vereino, but also in Zuyat.

She got in the cellar. Having opened the trap of the cellar, the hostess of the last hut in Zuyaty saw Belogrudka.

So there you are, Satan! she threw up her hands and rushed to catch the marten.

All jars, pots, cups were overturned and beaten before the woman grabbed the marten.

White-breasted was imprisoned in a box. She gnawed ferociously at the boards, crumbled wood chips.

V. Astafiev, Belogrudka

The owner came, he was a hunter, and when his wife said that she had caught a marten, he said:

Well, in vain. She is not guilty. She was offended, orphaned, - and released the marten into the wild, thinking that she would not appear in Zuyaty again.

But Belogrudka began to rob more than ever. The hunter had to kill the marten long before the season.

In the garden near the greenhouse, he saw her one day, drove her into a lonely bush and shot. The marten fell into the nettles and saw a dog running towards her with a wet barking mouth. The white-breasted snake snaked out of the nettle, grabbed the dog's throat and died.

The dog rolled on the nettles, howling wildly. The hunter unclenched Belogrudka's teeth with a knife and broke two piercingly sharp fangs.

They still remember Belogrudka in Vereino and Zuyaty. Until now, children are strictly punished here so that they do not dare to touch the cubs of animals and birds.

Squirrels, foxes, various birds and animals now live and breed quietly between two villages, close to habitation, on a steep wooded slope.

And when I visit this village and hear the thick-voiced morning hubbub of birds, I think the same thing:

“Now, if there were more such slopes near our villages and cities!”

Victor Astafiev Why did I kill the corncrake?

That was a long time ago, maybe forty years ago. In early autumn, I was returning from fishing along a mowed meadow and near a small bog that had dried up over the summer, overgrown with willow, I saw a bird.

She heard me, sat down in the sloping bristles of the sedge, hid, but my eye felt, she was frightened of him, and suddenly rushed to run, clumsily toppling to one side.

You don’t have to run away from the boy, like from a hound dog - he will certainly rush in pursuit, wild excitement will kindle in him. Beware then living soul!

I caught up with the bird in the furrow and, blind from the chase, the passion of hunting, swept it with a damp rod.

I took in my hand a bird with a wilted, seemingly boneless body. Her eyes were pinched by dead, colorless eyelids, her neck, like a frost-bitten leaf, dangled. The feather on the bird was yellowish, with rust on the sides, and the back seemed to be strewn with darkish rot.

I recognized the bird - it was a corncrake. Dergach in our opinion. All his dergachi friends left our places, went to warmer climes to spend the winter. This one couldn't leave. He did not have one paw - in the hayfield he fell under the Lithuanian. That's why he ran so clumsily from me, that's why I caught up with him.

And the thin, almost weightless body of a bird, whether it was a simple color, or maybe the fact that she was without a leg, but before that I felt sorry for her that I began to dig a hole in the furrow with my hands and bury the animals so simply, foolishly ruined.

Viktor Astafiev, Why did I kill the corncrake?

I grew up in a family of a hunter and later became a hunter myself, but I never shot unnecessarily. With impatience and guilt, already inveterate, every summer I wait for corostels home, in Russian lands.

Already the bird cherry has faded, the kupava has crumbled, the hellebore has let up the fourth leaf, the grass has moved into the stem, the daisies have poured over the eels and the nightingales sing their songs on their last breath.

But something is still missing from the early summer, something is missing from it, something has not yet taken shape, or something.

And then one day, on a dewy morning, across the river, in the meadows covered with still young grass, the creak of a corncrake was heard. Appeared, tramp! Got it! Pulls-creaks! This means that the full summer has begun, which means that haymaking is soon, which means that everything is in order.

And every year like this. I'm languishing and waiting for the corncrake, suggesting to myself that it was that long-time dergach who somehow miraculously survived and gives me a voice, forgiving that unintelligent, gambling boy.

Now I know how difficult the life of a corncrake is, how far it has to get to us in order to notify Russia of the beginning of summer.

The corncrake winters in Africa and leaves it already in April, rushing there, “... where poppy dawns wither like the heat of a forgotten fire, where green-haired forests drown in the blue dawn, where the meadow has not yet been touched by a slanting one, where cornflower blue eyes ... ". He goes to build a nest and breed offspring, feed him and quickly get away from the disastrous winter.

Viktor Astafiev, Why did I kill the corncrake?

Not adapted to flight, but fast on the run, this bird is forced to fly over the Mediterranean Sea twice a year. Many thousands of corncrakes die on the way, and especially when flying over the sea.

How the corncrake goes, where, in what ways - few people know. Only one city gets in the way of these birds - a small ancient city in the south of France. The coat of arms of the city depicts a corncrake. On those days when corostels go around the city, no one works here. All people celebrate the holiday and bake figurines of this bird from the dough, as we, in Russia, bake larks for their arrival.

The corncrake bird is considered sacred in the French old town, and if I had lived there in the old days, I would have been sentenced to death.

But I live far from France. I have been living for many years and have seen all sorts of things. I was at war, I shot at people, and they shot at me.

But why, why, as soon as I hear the creak of a corncrake across the river, my heart trembles and again one old torment falls on me: why did I kill the corncrake? What for?

S. Dovlatov Letter from there S. Dovlatov, Letter from there (1) This letter came by a miracle. (2) One heroic Frenchwoman took him out of the Union ... (3) Here is the letter.

(4) I'm missing a few personal paragraphs. (5) And then:

“(6) Your emigration is not a private matter. (7) Otherwise, you are not a writer, but a tenant. (8) You broke free to talk about us and your past. (9) Everything else is petty. (10) Everything else degrades the dignity of the writer.

(11) You were not driving for jeans and not for a used car. (12) You were driving - to tell. (13) So remember us ...

(14) They say you have become Americans, free, relaxed, dynamic. (15) Almost as fast as your cars. (16) Almost as meaningful as your refrigerators ... (17) We laugh at these conversations. (18) We laugh and do not believe. (19) What kind of Americans are you?! (20) Don't be an American. (21) And don't get away from your past. (22) It seems that you are surrounded by skyscrapers.

(23) You are surrounded by the past. (24) That is, we. (25) I say it again - remember us ... "

(26) I thought a lot about this letter.

(27) There is a property by which one can once and for all distinguish a noble person. (28) A noble person perceives any misfortune as retribution for his own sins. (29) He blames only himself, no matter what grief befalls him.

(30) If a loved one cheated, a noble person says: “I was inattentive and rude. (31) I suppressed her individuality. (32) I did not notice her problems. (33) Insulted her feelings. (34) I myself pushed her to this step.

S. Dovlatov, Letter from there (35) If a friend turned out to be a traitor, a noble person says: “I annoyed him with my imaginary superiority. (36) I ridiculed his shortcomings. (37) I hurt his ambitions. (38) I myself forced him to betray. .."

(39) And what if something wildest and most ridiculous happened? (40) If the motherland rejected our love? (41) Humiliated and tortured us? (42) Betrayed our interests?

(43) Then a noble person says: “Mothers are not chosen. (44) This is my only homeland. (45) I love America, I admire America, I am grateful to America, but my homeland is far away. (46) Having lost, ruined and rejected the best sons! (47) Where can she be kind, cheerful and affectionate ?!

(48) Birches, it turns out, grow everywhere. (49) But does it make it easier? (50) The homeland is ourselves. (51) Our first toys. (52) altered jackets of older brothers. (53) Sandwiches wrapped in newspaper. (54) girls in strict brown skirts. (55) Exams, cheat sheets ... (56) Ridiculous, terrible poems ... (57) Army shag ... (58) Obliquely crossed lines ... (59) Manuscripts, police ...

(60) Everything that happened to us is the homeland! And all that was - remains forever ...

Text by V.Konetsky Text by V.Konetsky (1) One day, starlings flew to me on my watch, October, autumn, rainy. (2) We raced through the night from the coast of Iceland to Norway. (3) On a ship illuminated by powerful lights. (4) And in this foggy world, tired constellations arose ...

(5) I left the cabin on the wing of the bridge. (6) The wind, rain and night immediately became loud. (7) I raised the binoculars to my eyes. (8) The white superstructures of the ship, rescue whaleboats, covers dark from the rain and birds fluttered in the windows - wet lumps fluffy by the wind. (9) They rushed between the antennas and tried to hide from the wind behind the pipe.

(10) The deck of our ship was chosen by these small fearless birds as a temporary shelter on their long journey to the south. (11) Of course, Savrasov remembered: rooks, spring, there is still snow, and the trees woke up. (12) And everything in general was remembered what happens around us and what happens inside our souls when the Russian spring comes and rooks and starlings arrive. (13) You can't describe it.

(14) It brings back to childhood. (15) And this is connected not only with the joy of the awakening of nature, but also with a deep sense of the homeland, Russia.

(16) And let them scold our Russian artists for the old-fashioned and literary plots. (17) The names of Savrasov, Levitan, Serov, Korovin, Kustodiev hide not only the eternal joy of life in art. (18) It is Russian joy that is hidden, with all its tenderness, modesty and depth. (19) And how simple a Russian song is, so simple is painting.

(20) And in our complex age, when the art of the world painfully searches for general truths, when the intricacies of life necessitate the most complex analysis of the psyche of an individual and the most complex analysis of the life of society - in our age, artists should all the more not forget about one simple function of art - to wake up and to illuminate the feeling of homeland in a fellow tribesman.

(21) Let our landscape painters not know abroad. (22) In order not to pass by Serov, one must be Russian. (23) Art is then art when it evokes in a person a feeling of happiness, albeit fleeting. (24) And we are arranged in such a way that the most piercing happiness arises in us when we feel love for Russia. (25) I don't know if other nations have such an inextricable link between the aesthetic sense and the sense of the homeland?

(According to V. Konetsky) Text by V. Konetsky

Main problems:

1. the problem of the purpose of art (what work can be considered a work of art?);

2. the problem of the feeling of the homeland (what is the feeling of the homeland for a Russian person connected with?).

1. A real work of art "awakens and illuminates the feeling of homeland in a fellow tribesman."

2. The feeling of the homeland in a Russian person is a feeling of happiness.

Text by V. Konetsky (1) Now, wherever I live, I don't even have a trace of that hot joyful craving for the city that I had in my youth. (2) On the contrary, more and more often I feel that I miss my grandfather's house.

(3) Maybe because the grandfather's house no longer exists - the old ones died, and the young ones moved to the city or closer to it. (4) And when he was, there was still not enough time to go there more often, I kept him in reserve. (5) And now there is no one there, and it seems to me that I have been robbed, that some of my main roots have been chopped off.

(6) Even if I was rarely there, with my very life, with my hearth smoke, with the good shade of my trees, he helped me from afar, made me bolder and more self-confident. (7) I was almost invulnerable, because part of my life, my beginning was noisy and lived in the mountains. (8) When a person feels his beginning and his continuation, he more generously and more correctly disposes of his life and it is more difficult to rob him, because he does not keep all his wealth with him.

(9) I miss my grandfather's house with its large green yard, with an old apple tree (hugging its trunk, a mighty vine climbed to the top), with a green walnut tent.

(10) How many unripe apples we knocked down from our old apple tree, how many unripe nuts covered with a thick green peel with a still delicate shell, with a nucleolus that has not yet thickened inside!

(11) I miss the spacious kitchen in my grandfather's house with an earthen floor, with a large hot hearth, with a long heavy bench standing by the hearth. (12) We sat on it in the evenings and listened to endless hunting stories or stories about dug up treasures in old fortresses.

(13) I miss the evening roll call of women from hill to hill, or from a basin to a mountain, or from a mountain to a hollow.

(15) More and more often I feel like I miss my grandfather's house.

(According to F. Iskander) Text by V. Konetsky

Main problems:

1. the problem of memory about the motherland, about the native home (does a person need to remember the places where he was born and raised? Why? How does this feeling change over the years?);

2. the problem of childhood memory (what gives a person the memory of childhood?).

1. When a person remembers the places where his life began, he lives more correctly and feels less vulnerable, as if the house itself helps a person; the feeling of homesickness becomes stronger over the years; native home as the main root that nourishes a person all his life.

2. Childhood impressions, the memory of those people who were next to you in childhood, make a person more confident, help him save his soul.

Text by V. Kostomarov Text by V. Kostomarov (1) (1) Everyone knows that the hour hand on the dial moves, but you cannot see how it moves. (2) The same happens with language. (3) He changes. (4) But we do not feel how this happens.

(5) Now in our history a moment has come when we see how the Russian language is changing. (6) And this cannot but frighten. (7) We want so much to move away from the previous era of our life, to build new social relations, a new economy, that we would even like to have a new language. (8) Once they said “dissociate themselves”, now they say “distance”, we are tired of the expression “go crazy” - we say “the roof has gone”. (9) Or they didn’t like the word “meeting”, they began to say “party”.

(10) Russian language, according to A.S. Pushkin, "receptive and sociable", he easily accepts foreign words if they are needed. (11) And there is nothing terrible in this when everything is done in moderation. (12) And the measure is lost. (13) In our speech, “sandwiches”, “lunches”, “displays” appear. (14) Usually 20-30 words change a year, but now we have maybe 20 words a week.

(15) In addition, it is important from what sources new words of the language appear. (16) Now, for example, there is a stream of words from rather dubious sources, in particular criminal jargon: “disassembly”, “freebie”. (17) Many press organs use "unprintable" words, which, by the way, are called that because they do not need to be printed.

Text by V. Kostomarov (1) (18) The “Law on the Russian Language” was discussed in the Duma for several years. (19) The law is, of course, needed. (20) But if we talk seriously about the law, then there must be a mechanism for punishing its violation. (21) However, the proposal to create a philological militia, to establish fines for mistakes in the Russian language, seems frivolous. (22) Say what you like, the language makes the people, and it is difficult to force them to obey the administrative norms regarding the language. (23) There have already been such futile attempts.

(24) At one time, in the 19th, and even in the 20th century, fiction provided an exemplary language. (25) If a person did not know how to speak correctly, then he opened Turgenev and found the answer there. (26) Now, of course, it is not fiction that shapes our linguistic taste. (27) The tone is now set primarily by television and radio. (28) This also applies to the pronunciation of sounds, and stress, and intonation. (29) And modern announcers like American intonation. (30) And the youth begins to imitate them. (31) It happens that the leading god knows what and how he says, but people like it.

(32) This certainly does not apply to all programs, channels, announcers, but many of them are subject to fashion.

(33) We are now dissatisfied with the language, but it is very important to understand here whether the language is to blame or something else. (34) After all, the language is subject to the people who use it. (35) He adapts to the needs of society. (36) If in our society today there is a need to think about the future, about a strong family, about the happiness of children, then the language will go in this direction, will give us the means for this. (37) If the main thing for us is how to earn a million without working, sex, violence, drugs, then the language will turn here. (38) 3but why revile him? (39) It reflects the state of society. (40) So it is not the language that needs to be corrected now.

(According to V. Kostomarov) M.A. Krongauz - linguist, professor, doctor of philological sciences, director of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian State Humanitarian University, author of monographs and textbooks. (From the book “The Russian language on the verge of a nervous breakdown”) M.A. Krongauz (1) I just can’t understand why this book is given to me with such difficulty. (2) It seemed that for more than ten years I have been writing regularly about the state of the modern Russian language, speaking, to put it mildly, from the position of an enlightened linguist. (3) This position is that the Russian language is not afraid of either the flow of borrowings and jargon, or in general those large and, most importantly, rapid changes that are taking place in it. (4) The Russian language will “digest” all this, preserving something, discarding something, and finally develop new norms, and stability will come in place of chaos. (5) In addition, even in chaos one can find positive aspects, since it vividly realizes the creative possibilities of the language, not restrained by strict norms.

(6) This time, frankly, nothing worked out, until I realized that I simply didn’t want to write, because I didn’t want to again stand in the pose of an enlightened linguist and explain why the Russian language was not threatened with special troubles. (7) Not because this position is wrong. (8) It is correct, but it does not take into account me as a specific person for whom Russian is a native language. (9) And this particular person has his own tastes and preferences, as well as, of course, his own pain points. (10) Attitude towards the native language cannot be only professional, because the language is a part of us all, and what happens in it and with it touches us personally, at least me. (11) More precisely, he said this

Nikolai Glazkov:

I look at the world from under the table:

The twentieth century, an extraordinary century.

The more interesting it is for the historian, the sadder it is for the contemporary.

M.A. Krongauz (12) To clearly explain the difference between the positions of a linguist and an ordinary native speaker, it is enough to give one small example. (13) As a linguist, I am very interested in Russian swearing, I consider it an interesting cultural phenomenon that needs to be studied and described. (14) In addition, I am sure that it is impossible to eradicate Russian swearing either by soft educational measures (that is, by introducing culture to the masses) or by tough legislative ones. (15) But as a person, for some reason, I really don’t like it when they swear nearby.

(16) Thus, as an enlightened linguist, I treat him with interest, albeit research, and with a certain respect as a bright linguistic and cultural phenomenon, but as a layman, I don’t like swearing and, roughly speaking, I don’t respect it. (17) This is how the dialectic turns out.

(18) In general, like any layman, I value calmness and constancy most of all. (19) But on the contrary, I’m afraid and don’t like sudden and quick changes. (20) But it just so happened to me - to live in an era of great change. (21) First of all, of course, the world around us is changing, but it’s somehow indecent to grumble about this, especially since there are also pleasant changes. (22) Can a language remain unchanged when everything changes around: society, psychology,

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Option number 5.

Part 1

The answers to tasks 1-24 are a number (number) or a word (several words), a sequence of numbers (numbers). Write down the answer in the answer field in the text of the work, and then transfer it to the ANSWER FORM No. 1 to the right of the task number, starting from the first cell, without spaces, commas and other additional characters. Write each letter or number in a separate box in accordance with the samples given in the form.

Read the text and complete tasks 1-3.

((1) Genetic engineering is a direction of modern science, which is based on the transfer of the necessary genes from living organisms of the same species
into organisms of another species, often very distant in origin. (2) Yes,<…>succeeded in inserting genes encoding such an important protein as interferon into the genotype of a bacterial cell. (3) Interferon is formed in human blood leukocytes in response to a viral infection and provides protection to the human body from viruses.

With the help of genetic engineering, based on the transfer of the necessary genes from one type of living organism to another, scientists have managed to insert into the genotype of a bacterial cell genes encoding interferon, which protects the human body from viruses.

Geneticists managed to exclude interferon from the cell genotype, thereby ensuring human protection from colds.

The genes that encode interferon, an important protein that protects the human body from viruses, have been integrated into the genotype of a bacterial cell by genetic scientists, which has become possible thanks to modern advances in genetic engineering.

With the help of genetic engineering, which is based on cell selection, scientists have managed to obtain such an important protein as interferon, which reduces the number of leukocytes in the blood.

Genetic engineering is a branch of modern science based on the artificial breeding of genes.

Which of the following words (combinations of words) should be in place of the gap in the second (2) sentence of the text? Write down this word (combination of words).

Despite this,

For example,

Secondly,

Read the fragment of the dictionary entry, which gives the meaning of the word PROVIDE. Determine the meaning in which this word is used in the third (3) sentence of the text. Write down the number corresponding to this value in the given fragment of the dictionary entry.

PROVIDE, -chu, -chish; -chenny; owls.

Answer: ___________________________.

4. One of the following words has an accent error: WRONG the letter denoting the stressed vowel is highlighted. Write out this word.

drenched

get through

amassed

Answer: ___________________________.

5. One of the suggestions below WRONG highlighted word is used. Correct the lexical error by choosing a paronym for the highlighted word. Write down the chosen word.

A timid smile flickered through the STONE expression of his face for a second, and Yevgeny Ivanovich looked inquiringly at Mashenka.

AWARENESS of the deputy in the issues of agriculture helped to solve many problems rather quickly and skillfully.

RAIN drops glistened on the dark foliage.

ETERNAL dust covered all the furniture, and the room made a depressing impression on us.

He became the INITIATOR of a new animation genre.

Answer: ___________________________.

6. In one of the words highlighted below, a mistake was made in the formation of the word form. Correct the mistake spell the word correctly.

rose more HIGHER

RIDE FORWARD

FOUR sledges

LET'S TRY TO SOLVE

no time

Answer: ___________________________.

7. Match the grammatical errors and

sentences in which they are allowed: to each position of the first

column, select the appropriate position from the second column.

GRAMMAR

A) violation in construction

sentences with participial

turnover

B) build error

complex sentence

C) violation in construction

proposals with uncoordinated

application

D) disruption of communication between

subject and predicate

E) an error in constructing a sentence with homogeneous members

SUGGESTIONS

I wanted to learn how to breed primroses and care for them.

Each programmer is assigned to a specific computer that monitors its state.

According to the plan, as a final work, we wrote a review of a recently read book.

The encyclopedia "Lives of Remarkable People" contains many interesting biographies.

In March, those who reached the age of 18 participated in the elections of the President of the Russian Federation.

I like the room because it is bright, large, clean.

I was assigned the lead role in the school play Don Quixote.

Mom always scolds me for throwing my things around.

Studying folklore, the composer created wonderful lyrical works.

Write in the table the selected numbers under the corresponding letters.

8. Determine the word in which the unstressed checked vowel of the root is missing. Write out this word by inserting the missing letter.

conscious..vat

unfold

men..gement

vyst..pouring

op..rai

Answer: ___________________________.

9 . Find a row in which the same letter is missing in both words. Write these words out with the missing letter.

in..splash, ra..move

pr..crowded, pr..comb

from .. bent, pos .. covered

with..grl, disinfection..infection

pre..said, o..gave

Answer: ___________________________.

10. Write down the word in which the letter E is written in place of the gap.

Lukov ... tsa

Get upset ... get upset

Bell ... to

Answer: ___________________________.

11. Write down the word in which the letter is written in the place of the gap E

wrestling..shishing

hear.. my

meaning..my

Answer: ___________________________.

12 . Identify the sentence in which NOT is written with the word ONE.

Open the brackets and write out this word.

We remained in (NOT) CONFUSION when the strange guest suddenly left.

It is impossible to master higher mathematics, (NOT) KNOWING elementary mathematical concepts.

It is impossible to allow anything (UN) JUSTIFIED denial of the new in science.

The heroine was (NOT) FATED to connect her life with the life of a loved one.

When Arthur got to the opposite bank, he found himself at a sheep pen (NOT) he had previously (NOT) NOTICED.

Answer: ___________________________.

13. Determine the sentence in which both underlined words are written

ONE. Open the brackets and write out these two words.

In response to strong arguments, the doctor agreed to be my second; I gave him SO (SAME) a ​​few instructions (ON) ACCOUNT of the conditions of the duel.

(C) DURING THE DAY M.V. Lomonosov observed the transit of Venus across the solar disk and (IN) CONSEQUENCE published his findings in a special paper.

(B) A CONSEQUENCE of the fact that the work of electric potential forces does not depend on the shape of the path of a unit charge, on each of the parallel-connected conductors, one and THEN (SAME) voltage appears.

There is no way to see the figure of the prodigal son in the picture, his face is almost invisible, but (B) FOLLOWING him we mentally fall to our knees and ALSO (SAME) experience the meeting with the father, like the returned son.

(B) DURING the whole of June strawberries are harvested, and (ON) LATER, in July, raspberries.

Answer: ___________________________.

14. spelled N.

On the writing(1) table-manuscript of the story "The Old Woman", leather (2) folder for papers, silver (3) pad with the monogram "I.B.", heavyglass(4)th inkwell with copper cap.

Answer: ___________________________.

15. Set up punctuation marks. Indicate two sentences in which you want to put ONE comma. Write down the numbers of these sentences.

1) In 1856, in the German city of Karlsruhe, the first edition of the poem "Demon" by the former lieutenant of the Tenginsky regiment M.Yu. Lermontov and in the same year in Omsk in the family of the staff captain of the same Tenginsky infantry regiment A.M. Vrubel's son was born - the future artist Mikhail Vrubel.

2) Many canvases by I.K. Aivazovsky are perceived as musical or poetic improvisations.

3) The story of E.I. Zamyatina "In the middle of nowhere" is full of love and compassion for compatriots and protests against social conditions.

4) With the Decembrist poets of the composer A.A. Alyabyev was bound by both general views and many circumstances of life and a difficult personal fate.

5) Here, the sources of rivers and springs and groves and oak forests have become reserved.

16 . Place punctuation marks: indicate all the numbers in place of which

A young falcon (1) unexpectedly high (2) taking off above the plain (3) disappeared from the summer sky (4) outlining the space above the horizon.

Answer: ___________________________.

17. Put punctuation marks: indicate all the numbers in place of which

The sentence must contain commas.

In nature (1) undeniably (2) there is nothing more musical than the coming early morning. More people sleep in stone houses, and the forest (3) opposite (4) is full of life: birds begin to sing joyfully, leaves rustle, butterflies flutter.

Answer: ___________________________.

18. Put punctuation marks: indicate all the numbers in place of which

The sentence must contain commas.

Thunder struck (1) peals (2) which reminded me (3) of the sound of a terrible earthquake.

Answer: ___________________________.

19. Put punctuation marks: indicate all the numbers in place of which

The sentence must contain commas.

Hadji Murad was sitting side by side in the room (1) and (2) although he did not understand the conversation (3)felt (4) that they were arguing about him.

Answer: ___________________________.

Read the text and complete tasks 20-25.

(1) Tenderness is the most meek, timid, divine face of love. (2) Love-passion - always with an eye on yourself. (3) She wants to conquer, seduce, she wants to please, she preens, akimbo, measures, all the time she is afraid to miss the lost. (4) Love-tenderness gives everything, and there is no limit to it. (5) And she will never look back at herself, because "she does not look for her own." (6) Only she is alone and does not look for. (7) But one should not think that a feeling of tenderness degrades a person. (8) On the contrary. (9) Tenderness comes from above, she takes care of her beloved, protects, takes care of him. (10) But you can only patronize and protect a defenseless creature in need of guardianship, therefore words of tenderness are diminutive words coming from a strong
to the weak.

(11) Tenderness is rare and less and less common. (12) Modern life is difficult and complex. (13) A modern person, even in love, seeks first of all to affirm his personality. (14) Love is a martial art.

- (15) Aha! (16) Love? (17) Well, okay. (18) They rolled up their sleeves, straightened their shoulders - well, who wins?

(19) Is it tenderness here? (20) And whom to protect, whom to pity - all the good fellows and heroes. (21) Whoever knows tenderness is marked.

(22) In the minds of many, tenderness is certainly drawn in the form of a meek woman leaning over the headboard. (23) No, tenderness is not to be found there. (24) I saw her differently: in forms that were not at all poetic, in simple, even funny ones.

(25) We lived in a sanatorium near Paris. (26) Walked, ate, listened to the radio, played bridge, gossiped. (27) There was only one real patient - a feisty old man recovering from typhus.

(28) The old man often sat on the terrace in a deck chair, lined with pillows, wrapped in blankets, pale, bearded, always silent and, if anyone passed by, turned away and closed his eyes. (29) Around the old man, like a trembling bird, his wife curled. (30) The woman is middle-aged, dry, light, with a withered face and anxiously happy eyes. (31) And she never sat still. (32) I corrected everything around my patient. (33) Then she turned over the newspaper, then she fluffed up the pillow, then she tucked the blanket, then she ran to warm the milk, then she dripped the medicine. (34) The old man accepted all these services with obvious disgust. (35) Every morning, with a newspaper in her hands, she rushed from table to table, amiably talked with everyone and asked:

Here, maybe you can help me? (36) Here is a crossword puzzle: “What happens in a residential building?”. (37) Four letters. (38) I write down on a piece of paper to help Sergey Sergeevich. (39) He always solves crossword puzzles, and if he finds it difficult, I come to his aid. (40) After all, this is his only entertainment. (41) Patients are like children. (42) I'm so glad that at least it amuses him.

(43) She was pitied and treated with great sympathy.

(44) And somehow he crawled out onto the terrace earlier than usual. (45) She sat him down for a long time, covered him with blankets, put pillows on. (46) He frowned and angrily pushed her hand away if she did not immediately guess his desires. (47) She, shivering happily, grabbed the newspaper.

- (48) Here, Seryozhenka, today it seems to be a very interesting crossword puzzle.

(49) He suddenly raised his head, rolled out his evil yellow eyes and shook all over.

- (50) Get the hell out of here with your idiotic crossword puzzles! he hissed furiously.

(51) She turned pale and somehow sank all over.

- (52) But you are ... - she babbled in confusion. - (53) After all, you were always interested in ...

- (54) I've never been interested! he kept shaking and hissing, looking at her pale, desperate face with bestial pleasure. - (55) Never! (56) It was you who climbed with the stubbornness of a degenerate, which you are!

(57) She did not answer. (58) She only swallowed air with difficulty, pressed her hands tightly to her chest and looked around with such pain and with such despair, as if she were looking for help. (59) But who can take such a ridiculous and stupid grief seriously? (60) Only a little boy, who was sitting at the next table and seeing this scene, suddenly closed his eyes and wept bitterly.

(According to N.A. Teffi*)

* Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Teffi(1872-1952) - Russian writer, poetess, memoirist and translator.

20 . Which of the statements correspond to the content of the text? Specify the answer numbers.

Answer: ___________________________.

Form start

End of form

Form start

End of form

Form start

End of form

Form start

End of form

Form start

21. Which of the following statements are true? Specify the answer numbers.

Answer: ___________________________.

22. From sentences 5-10 write out antonyms (antonymic pair).

Answer: ___________________________.

23. Among sentences 28-34, find one that is related to the previous one.
with conjunction and personal pronoun. Write the number of this offer.

Answer: ___________________________.

Read a fragment of a review based on the text that you analyzed while doing tasks 20-23.

This fragment examines the language features of the text.

Some terms used in the review are missing. Fill in the gaps (A, B, C, D) with the numbers corresponding to the numbers of the terms from the list. Write in the table under each letter the corresponding number.

Write the sequence of numbers in the ANSWER FORM No. 1 to the right of the task number 24, starting from the first cell, without spaces, commas and other additional characters. Write each number in accordance with the samples given in the form.

24. “The text analyzes a problem that has troubled people for centuries. To express his understanding of love and tenderness, the author uses the technique - (A)__________ (sentences 2, 3-4, 5) and syntactic means-(B) __________ (in sentences 1, 9). Trope helps the writer to create the image of a tender wife-(AT)__________("anxious happyeyes" in sentence 30) and a syntactic means-(D) __________ (“like a quivering bird” in sentence 29)”.

List of terms:

comparative turnover

colloquial words

rows of homogeneous sentence members

opposition

phraseological units

parceling

rhetorical questions

Do not forget to transfer all answers to the answer sheet No. 1 in accordance with the instructions for doing the work. End of form

Part 2

Use the ANSWER FORM #2 to answer this question.

25. Write an essay based on the text you read.

State one of the problems delivered the author of the text.

Comment on the formulated problem. Include in the comment two illustration examples from the read text that you think are important for understanding the problem in the source text (avoid over-quoting).

Formulate the position of the author (narrator). Write whether you agree or disagree with the point of view of the author of the read text. Explain why. Argue your opinion, relying primarily on the reader's experience, as well as on knowledge and life observations (the first two arguments are taken into account).

The volume of the essay is at least 150 words.

A work written without relying on the text read (not on this text) is not evaluated. If the essay is a paraphrase or a complete rewrite of the source text without any comments, then such work is evaluated by zero points.

Write an essay carefully, legible handwriting.

For example

amassed

taller or higher

be conscious

publichairstyle

bell

fighting

bewilderment

also about

strong weak