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Scarica Soluzioni della seconda prova di inglese - Liceo Linguistico - Maturità 2010 e più Prove svolte di Maturità in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! 1 Trova su Docsity tutte le tracce svolte e le tesine di maturità #SalvaMaturità Soluzione della Seconda Prova di Maturità di Inglese Anno 2009-2010 Liceo Linguistico Questa prova di Maturità è stata risolta dai Tutor di Docsity.com 2 Trova su Docsity tutte le tracce svolte e le tesine di maturità Tema di: INGLESE I Alcune opere narrative sono incentrate su vicende di formazione affettiva ed esistenziale e rappresentano il viaggio interiore in cui il protagonista scopre sé stesso, si trasforma nel corso del tempo, diventa “adulto”.
Facendo riferimento alla produzione letteraria in una delle lingue straniere da te studiate, descrivi una o più opere che si focalizzano su questo aspetto e metti in risalto cosa ti ha affascinato durante la lettura. The self awareness is usually obtained after a long path, many authors describe this kind of journey and its difficulties. In the English literature “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, written by Lewis Carroll in the half 800’, is full of meanings, about life related with scientific and philosophical themes. It is famous for its eccentricity and its Disney cartoon transposition, so the story can be read by adults and kids. The main character is Alice, a young girl, so polite and belonged to the Victorian “middle- class”, who falls down to a rabbit-hole and tries to know where she is and wants to know the new place with a huge curiosity, that it is a kind of pressure to go through that world. This place is something alien and she cannot establish her identity, so she feels lost, everything she thinks known is failing. In this moment the reader can catch the sense of being lost, that is necessary to change and move on. At the beginning, her vision of the world is so innocent, she doesn’t want to see or, maybe, she can’t see corruption or hypocrisy. Alice starts to know how the world operates and all these strange encounters are the occasion to understand it and to prove her point of view is childish and not the only one existing. During the journey, Alice meets many animals and talks with them, without understanding their questions, that, for her, they are nonsense, for example, when she asks to the Cat which way to go and he replies that she should, first, know where she's going. Actually is a good question, because it brings you to reflect about what you are really doing and you want to do, as an adult should know it. At the end, when she comes back to the real world, she has seen many different things, behaviours, emotions and new point of view. She proves herself her power and her courage. She is more adult and difference from the beginning of the path. Another famous novel, that talks about the psychological growth of the character is “David Copperfield”, written by Charles Dickens, like the Carroll’s work, in the Victorian age. The novel is an autobiography of the author and follows the life of David. He has to cope with many life events, such as the death of her mother when he’s so young, and being adopted by his aunt, after many difficulties he can handle his life and succeed to his strengths. The author shows the reader a hard life path, that brings to an inner growth and a self awareness about the 4 Trova su Docsity tutte le tracce svolte e le tesine di maturità III Secondo Jimmy Wales, fondatore di Wikipedia, a differenza della progressiva estinzione delle enciclopedie cartacee “i giornali non scompariranno”, anzi, per la comodità di poter leggere la carta stampata ovunque, continueranno a vivere molto a lungo.
Esprimi le tue opinioni sull’argomento, mettendo in risalto il valore della lettura tradizionale del quotidiano rispetto ad altre fonti di informazione sempre più consultate sul web. The modern society is full of communication, to be informed is a priority and there are many vehicles to know what’s going on around the world. Nowadays internet eases the knowledge of everything, from last news to cultural things, but the risk could be loose the print journals, that according to Jimmy Wales are far from disappearing. Reading the newspapers is a daily gesture and it is part of the routine of many individuals. This is the age of information and newspaper represents the most powerful tool. Its role is to create awareness among the people and to give a portrait of the world events. It helps us to realize how the world is full of differences and how it is dynamic, and it is also a mirror of our economy with the advertisements on it. A newspaper is an essential part of our life because it is like a concrete support on our knowledge that we can read in any moment of the day, during breakfast or with a cup of coffee in a bar in the afternoon. The idea of newspaper is that in its sheets there are news about everything and its informational power persists, because it reports the facts as they really are. In internet we can find every kind of information but the most of the time they are personal opinions or information with personal shades. A newspaper does not express who we are, but it shows the world around us, and help us see how we fit into that picture. Finally, it has the important role of creating new way of thinking, it can help to change generations of people, because we can be or not agree about what is happening and we can decide to participate or not to the process. 5 Trova su Docsity tutte le tracce svolte e le tesine di maturità TESTO LETTERARIO – LINGUA INGLESE “Do kindly tell us who these ladies are,” asked Mrs Moore.
“You’re superior to them, anyway. Don’t forget that. You’re superior to every one in India except one of two of the Ranis, and they’re on an equality.”
Advancing, she shook hands with the group and said a few words of welcome in Urdu. She had learned the lingo, but only to speak to her servants, so she knew none of the politer forms, and of the verbs only the imperative mood. As soon as her speech was over, she inquired of her companions, “Is that what you wanted?” “Please tell these ladies that I wish we could speak their language, but we have only just come to their country.”
“Perhaps we speak yours a little,” one of the ladies said. “Why, fancy, she understands!” said Mrs Turton.
“Eastbourne, Piccadilly, High Park Corner,” said another of the ladies.
“Oh yes, they’re English-speaking.”
“But now we can talk; how delightful” cried Adela, her face lighting up.
“She knows Paris also,” called one of the onlookers.
“They pass Paris on the way, no doubt,” said Mrs Turton, as if she was describing the movements of migratory birds. Her manner had grown more distant since she had discovered that some of the group was westernized, and might apply her own standards to her. “The shorter lady, she is my wife, she is Mrs Bhattacharya,” the onlooker explained. “The taller lady, she is my sister, she is Mrs Das.” The shorter and the taller ladies both adjusted their saris, and smiled. There was a curious uncertainty about their gestures, as if they sought for a new formula which neither East nor West could provide. When Mrs Bhattacharya’s husband spoke, she turned away from him, but she did not mind seeing the other men. Indeed, all the ladies were uncertain, cowering, recovering, giggling, making tiny gestures of atonement or despair at all that was said, and alternately fondling the terrier or shrinking from him. Miss Quested now had her desired opportunity; friendly Indians were before her, and she tried to make them talk, but she failed, she strove in vain against the echoing walls of their civility. Whatever she said produced a murmur of deprecation, varying into a murmur of concern when she dropped her pocket- handkerchief. From A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 6 Trova su Docsity tutte le tracce svolte e le tesine di maturità ANSWER the following questions. 1. Who are the “ladies” Mrs Moore refers to in line 1? The “ladies” Mrs Moore refers to are Indian women.
 2. Who are the participants in the conversation? The participants in the conversation are Mrs Moore, Mrs Turton, Miss Adela Quested, Mr Bhattacharya, Mrs Bhattacharya, Mrs Das. 
 3. How does Mrs Turton consider Indian people? Mrs Turton considers Indian people inferior to them. 4. Does Mrs Turton’s command of the natives’ language allow her to speak with them? How? Justify your answer by referring to the text. 
 Mrs Turton’s command of the natives’ language allows her to speak with them as they are servants: “(she) said a few words of welcome in Urdu. She had learned the lingo, but only to speak to her servants, so she knew none of the politer forms, and of the verbs only the imperative mood”. 5. What are Mrs Moore’s and Adela’s attitudes towards the Indian ladies? Mrs Moore’ and Adela’s attitude towards the Indian ladies are like they were superior and the Indian ladies are not able to understand them. 6. What does Mrs Turton’s comment, “Why, fancy, she understands!” show? Mrs Turton’s comment “Why, fancy, she understands!” shows her surprise about the English- speaking of the Indian ladies.
 9 Trova su Docsity tutte le tracce svolte e le tesine di maturità hard to make sense of it. Its remarkable skill at pattern detection will take the extraordinary richness of a note on a piano or flute – which is crammed with harmonics – and magically collapsed it in our heads, so that we perceive it as a single note rather than a forest of overtones. “We are pattern seekers,” explains Ball, “and music helps us to find patterns in sound. We come equipped with all sorts of rules of thumb to make sense of what we hear, and those are the brain mechanisms that we use to organise sound and make sense of music.” Medical scanners have shown that this process is not limited to one part of the brain. Different aspects of music activate different areas: we use our temporal lobe to process melody and pitch, our hippocampus to recover musical memories and our “rhythm-processing circuits” to fire up motor functions (which might explain why it is hard to sit still when listening to Lady Gaga, or tunes with similarly propulsive beats). Interestingly, the brain gives out the same signal of confusion when it encounters examples sentences of that sense make don’t, like this one, as music whose “syntax” seems wrong, as when the chords don’t seem to fit. And if you study how we react to patterns of notes, you find there is something special about a pitch that is double the frequency of another – the interval better known as an octave. The biggest question, however, is whether this kind of mental circuitry is designed specifically to handle music, or if songs and tunes are just “auditory cheesecake”, as Harvard University’s Steven Pinker puts it – sounds which accidentally generate pleasure, via neural systems that evolved to respond to other kinds of stimuli? The disappointing truth, says Ball, is that we just don’t know. But we do know that the way we learn to appreciate music is profoundly affected by how we were raised. A few years ago, Ball wrote in New Scientist about how music seems to have a national character, probably as a result of the rhythms and cadences of each different language. The English tend to vary the pitch of their speech, and the length of their vowels, more than the French, and their composers follow suit in the rhythms and intervals they use. On the latter measure, Elgar was found to be the most “English” composer – which perhaps helps explain why his Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 is at the heart of the Last Night of the Proms. Similarly, concepts of what is harmonious boil down to a matter of convention, not acoustics. Many old fogeys struggle with modern music and complain that it is dissonant. “Actually, dissonance – horrible clashing notes – has always been in music,” says Ball. “Listen to Beethoven and Chopin, which are full of it. It is a matter of convention: what we regard as consonant now was thought dissonant in the Middle Ages.” For Ball, the definition of the “music instinct” is that we are predisposed to make the world a 10 Trova su Docsity tutte le tracce svolte e le tesine di maturità musical place. Apart from the tiny proportion of the population who really are tone-deaf, it is impossible to say: “I am not musical.” Even if it may seem that way whenever you get dragged along to the karaoke. Adapted from The Daily Telegraph, 23 February 2010 ANSWER the following questions. 1. What is music? 
 Music is the combination of sound waves. 2. According to Philip Ball, what is the moving effect of music related with? According to Philip Ball, the moving effect of music is related with the brain, that makes sense of the music. 3. How do we perceive the richness of a note? Why? 
 We perceive the richness of a note through the brain skill, that can reveal a note on a piano or flute – which is crammed with harmonics – and magically collapses it in our heads, so that we perceive it as a single note rather than a forest of overtones. This is because we are pattern seekers and music helps us to find patterns in sound. 4. How do we make sense of music? We make sense of music come through brain mechanisms that organise sound and make sense of music. 5. Which areas of the brain are activated by music? The areas of brain activated by music are the temporal lobe to process melody and pitch, the hippocampus to recover musical memories and the “rhythm-processing circuits” to fire up motor functions. 6. When does the brain give signals of confusion? The brain gives signals of confusion when it encounters examples sentences of that sense 11 Trova su Docsity tutte le tracce svolte e le tesine di maturità make don’t, like this one, as music whose “syntax” seems wrong, as when the chords don’t seem to fit.
 7. Is our brain designed to handle music? We don’t know if our brain is designed to handle music. 
 8. What affects the way we learn to appreciate music? 
 The way we learn to appreciate music is affected by how we were raised. 9. Is there any truth in saying that modern music is dissonant? Why? 
 Saying modern music is dissonant can be truth, because the concepts of what is harmonious boil down to a matter of convention, not acoustics, so “what we regard as consonant now was thought dissonant in the Middle Ages.” 10. According to Ball, what is music instinct? According to Ball, the music instinct is the predisposition to make the world a musical place. 
 SUMMARIZE the content of the passage. The text talks about the brain skill to make sense listening to the music. Music is a combination of sound effects and there are many brain areas that activate the process to understand it, such as the temporal lobe to process melody and pitch, the hippocampus to recover musical memories and the “rhythm-processing circuits” to fire up motor functions, so we can dance. The brain can recognize the dissonance and the can make a division on the sounds to receive the harmony. According to Ball, an author who studied the way we approach to the music, every human being is a music seeker, we are predisposed to reach the music, that has also conventional and cultures meanings and influences. COMPOSITION: According to Tolstoy, music is “the shorthand of emotion”. Think of yourself: how does music affect you? Write a 300-word essay on the topic. Music is powerful, it is an instrument to show your emotions, not so directly as you do with simple words or with a specifically behaviours, and it can be understood by everyone who is listening to it. Music is also a universal language so you can represent part of your verbal