Вариант 4 для 5–9 классов

Task 3. READING (10 points: 1 answer = 1 point).

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Put the following paragraphs in the correct order to recreate the text.

Good-bye, Hobby!

By ALAN SMITH

A. In Manhattan, where I live, my friends and I are too busy with worthy urban pursuits. We’re consuming culture and being consumed by work. (And we’re chatting and instagramming on the phone.) It may also be that we lack the nerve for anything as unglamorous as a hobby.

B. Eventually I gave up the game. It wasted time. It wasn’t useful. To be an adult, I thought, was to be urbane, ambitious. The decline of hobbies parallels the decline of leisure: there’s just no time. We don’t bring home model cars; we bring home file folders.

C. But, you may object, I have a hobby: I take a cooking class. I bowl. These are not really hobbies, though. True hobbies need a particular devotion. They provide a strong counterbalance to work. They involve the accumulation of equipment and specific information.

D. There was a time when work was only the first activity among equals. In her essay the playwright Alan Bennett describes how his father, ‘’an amateur violinist,’’ tried to learn the double bass: ‘’He sounds as if he’s sawing (which he also does, actually, as one of his other hobbies).’’

E. I used to have a hobby, but I gave it up. In college and for a few years after, I played Go, the Japanese board game. I read Go books. I had Go friends to whom I never spoke except to say, ‘’Your move.’’ Go is an elegant game, complex and absorbing.

F. Alas, 1947 is not 2015. My friends and I have swapped the hobby shop for the gym, the movies and the Instagram.

G. One of his hobbies. Bennett’s father was a butcher by trade. But like his friends and neighbors, he enjoyed a variety of activities. He had hobbies.

H. This gives the hobbyist a pleasing sense of progress. Here is the main law of hobbies: Absorbing but Not Transforming. They fill the mind without changing it.

I. When I stared at the board, considering my move, I thought of nothing else. When I looked up, an hour had passed. Go is played on a 19-by-19 grid, a geometry that organized my world. I’d walk into a classroom, look at the desks and think, ‘’If that one were placed one row over, its position would be stronger.’’

J. I DON’T have a hobby. No one I know does.

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