Вариант 3 для 10–11 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.

Being Cute About Gender

By ALAN SMITH 

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A. Like many Irish insults, hoor is sometimes used with affection, even respect. It can also indicate strong or unhealthy fondness (“He’s an awful hoor for the horses”). So you could say I’m an awful hoor for the words, and I would not be offended. I might even find it cute.

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B. Obviously it depends on the context, so let’s take a closer look. Cute comes from acute, which comes from Latin acuere “sharpen”, from acus “needle”.

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C. “The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with” – in other words, too clever for their own good.

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D. As one male student in my speech class said, ‘If I heard a guy say something was “cute”, I’d wonder about him’. That is, his masculinity would be in question.

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E. A RECENT study used a Twitter-based corpus to examine the relationship between language and gender. One of the things it looked at was “gender-skewed words” – words used by one gender more than the other.

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F. Cute has three senses listed in Macmillan Dictionary, two of them having to do with physical attractiveness. The third, described as mainly American, is “clever in a way that shows a lack of respect or honesty”, as in the example supplied: “Don’t you get cute with me, young man!” In The Simple Art of Murder, Raymond Chandler wrote:

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G. In Ireland, things are a little different. Irish English has a version of this lesser sense of cute that is typically heard in the colloquialism “cute hoor”. A cute hoor is someone cunning and devious.

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H. Among the words used predominantly by girls and women were: feel, love, hair, sleep, wait, cute, yummy, totally, aww, ugh, and wanna.

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That men rarely use cute has been reported before. Jane Mills, in Womanwords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Patriarchal Society, quotes Cheris Kramarae writing in the Quarterly Journal of Speech:

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I. Centuries ago, cute and acute were used to describe people – males and females alike – as sharp, that is, clever or quick-witted. Over time, cutecame to be used principally to refer to appearance, while the “sharp” sense receded somewhat and took on negative connotations.

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J. It’s commonly heard in political contexts, and has given rise to the noun phrase “cute hoorism”: This is the kind of political cute hoorism that has the economy where it is today.

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