Тест 17. Чтение. ЕГЭ по английскому языку

1) Установите соответствие между заголовками 1 — 8 и текстами A — G. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.

1. Well-designed collection
2. A virtual paradise
3. Electronic communication
4. Nature under oil
5. High-priced electronics
6. Collections from nature
7. A lost art
8. Paradise lost

A. If you’re a gaming fanatic, you’ll probably need a top-of-the-range unit to play games. The graphics are so detailed and the action so dense that many models of computers - even those just released - can’t play the programs properly. You’ll need a computer with a special graphics card, and that can cost you, but if you love a good exciting game, it’s worth it.

B. An increasingly disturbing problem in some of the world’s oceans is the collection of rubbish that washes up on faraway shores. The shorelines of the islands northwest of Hawaii - the ones hardly anyone ever visits - are littered with discarded plastic items. You’d think these lovely and isolated places had been visited by the most irresponsible travellers ever to walk the face of the Earth.

C. When was the last time you sat down to write a letter to a friend? It’s probably been a long while, and it may even be possible that you’ve never done such a thing, sending just the random, short-and-sweet email now and again. But this is how people used to communicate with one another, and there was a style and skill to it that has been largely forgotten.

D. If you love the outdoors, you might consider taking something home with you to remember it by. It may be a unique stone or a shell from a beach. It’s a lovely idea, and if done responsibly - that is, if you’re not taking huge amounts of things with you - then it can make a lovely souvenir to display alongside items from other places you’ve visited.

E. Although not as popular as it used to be, stamp collecting is a hobby that some people still invest time in. If you’ve ever really studied a stamp, you can see that there’s usually a lovely piece of artwork contained in the tiny square. In fact, artists enter competitions to have their images featured on a stamp. Isn’t that something worth collecting?

F. The Exxon Valdez tragedy that occurred in 1989 caused a great deal of environmental damage in Alaska’s Prince William Sound. The ship, carrying hundreds of thousands of barrels of petroleum, lost its load into the ocean when it ran aground. The thick black liquid covered the top of the ocean and washed up ashore, and even now it can still be found on the beaches in the area.

G. Keeping in touch with people has never been easier than it is today. With the advent of email, texting and social networking, we have hassle-free ways of checking in with loved ones and saying hello. It’s especially useful when friends move away and we don’t get to see them as often. They won’t be lost to us if we can simply send them a message on the internet.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G

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2) Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски A — F частями предложений, обозначенными цифрами 1 — 7. Одна из частей в списке 1—7 лишняя.

The Times Newspapers have been in existence since the first one, the German newspaper Relation, was printed in 1605. Thousands of newspaper companies have sprung up since then, but The Times, a British newspaper, is one of the most famous. Although not the oldest paper, ___ (A).

Founded in 1785, The Times has other interesting distinctions as well. Originally entitled The Daily Universal Register, its name was changed three years later to The Times, ___ (B). Other leading newspapers of the world, such as The New York Times, The Irish Times and The Times of India, all take their names from this publication.

The typeface that many readers are familiar with, Times Roman, was commissioned by The Times. Under pressure to print the news in letters that were easier to read, in 1931 the newspaper asked a consultant, Stanley Morison, and a graphic artist, Victor Lardent, ___ (C).

The Times was also the first newspaper to send journalists to cover armed conflicts, a common practice for any serious publication today. This began when correspondents from the newspaper travelled to Crimea in the 1850s ___ (D).

Today, the content of The Times covers a broad range of topics and includes opinions and comments from editors. Also included in the paper is a supplemental newspaper, times2, ___ (E).

As with all newspapers, sales of The Times have been challenged by the advent of the internet, which often offers the news free of charge. While The Times has a website featuring daily updated news, the site has a pay wall ___ (F). Both the online and paper editions of The Times are still read by hundreds of thousands of readers.

1. which forces readers to purchase a subscription to read full articles
2. to write reports about the events that were unfolding in the region
3. it holds the record for publishing the most issues, over 70,000
4. to invent a typeface, which then became widely used in global publications
5. and it became the first newspaper to ever use that name
6. it established its reputation by breaking a number of high-profile stories
7. which features various lifestyle columns and a puzzles section

A	B	C	D	E	F

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3) Прочитайте текст и запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

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The journey within I’ve met people who, much to my envy, were not on a mission to find themselves. Whether it’s just their nature, or that they’ve managed to find the answer already, some people seem to know their purpose and have known it for a long time. Perhaps there are some people who just don’t ask.

I am not one of those people, and that is why I have found myself in the desert. My decision to leave my familiar surroundings and venture abroad was a selfish one wrapped in the packaging of helping others, which I’ve accepted now. I may not have freely admitted that fact, or even known it, in the beginning. But I’m primarily an English teacher in Jordan because I was on a mission to help myself. It just looks as though I’m helping others, and that’s the naked truth.

It’s not completely one-sided, as I certainly like my students and I know they appreciate what I do. To be honest, I’d rather have fun with them kicking a ball around a dusty alleyway than teach them grammar. I’m the world’s worst at class management, and I’m surprised I haven’t been fired yet. They just haven’t caught onto me. Hopefully I will have mastered the art before that happens.

I’m not wholly selfish, either. I commit random acts of selflessness quite often. I’ve given an old laptop to a neighbour who could barely afford a desk to put it on. I’ve had newfound friends round to the house for dinner, even though I burnt it and had to get takeaway. And I’m earning very low wages, doing work for which I’d be paid many times more back home. Does that count as selfless?

I’ve come to terms with the fact that finding yourself is an endless mission if you allow it to be. If you never answer the questions ‘Who am I?’ and ‘What is my purpose in life?’, it’s not because there isn’t an answer. It’s because you don’t want to know the answer, because then what you would do after finding it? Or, if you find the answer, it means you have to commit to it. Our generation is not used to commitment. So many of us let opportunities slip through our fingers because we’re too scared to say ‘That’s me. That’s who I am’. Or we say it, then change our minds a month down the road, ending up more lost than before.

The journey has clearly had a profound effect on me. I’ve endured dust storms for days on end to learn what it is that I want from life. I’ve been on bus rides that took an hour to go a couple of kilometres because the streets were jammed with traffic. I can’t complain, because it’s part of what I wanted, and I’m beginning to think it’s the journey itself that I seek, not the destination. Can’t that be something to aspire to be - a seeker of journeys, of questions without answers, of beginnings without ends?

I sense that most of my colleagues have travelled down this road and reached the end of it, but have become cynical in the process. My favourite colleague - the one I envy the most - has never even asked the question. He’s simply a lover of adventure who likes to blow his own trumpet. True, he boasts too much about how great a teacher he is, but his energy and zest for life are refreshing. He definitely falls into the category of ‘doer’ not ‘thinker’. That’s not to say he doesn’t think, of course, but he spends very little time sorting out his thoughts. It doesn’t seem that he needs to.

What does the author think of people who know their purpose in life?
1) Не wishes he were more like them.
2) He thinks they must have been born that way.
3) He thinks they don’t really know their purpose.
4) He believes he is similar to them.

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4) Прочитайте текст и запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

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The journey within I’ve met people who, much to my envy, were not on a mission to find themselves. Whether it’s just their nature, or that they’ve managed to find the answer already, some people seem to know their purpose and have known it for a long time. Perhaps there are some people who just don’t ask.

I am not one of those people, and that is why I have found myself in the desert. My decision to leave my familiar surroundings and venture abroad was a selfish one wrapped in the packaging of helping others, which I’ve accepted now. I may not have freely admitted that fact, or even known it, in the beginning. But I’m primarily an English teacher in Jordan because I was on a mission to help myself. It just looks as though I’m helping others, and that’s the naked truth.

It’s not completely one-sided, as I certainly like my students and I know they appreciate what I do. To be honest, I’d rather have fun with them kicking a ball around a dusty alleyway than teach them grammar. I’m the world’s worst at class management, and I’m surprised I haven’t been fired yet. They just haven’t caught onto me. Hopefully I will have mastered the art before that happens.

I’m not wholly selfish, either. I commit random acts of selflessness quite often. I’ve given an old laptop to a neighbour who could barely afford a desk to put it on. I’ve had newfound friends round to the house for dinner, even though I burnt it and had to get takeaway. And I’m earning very low wages, doing work for which I’d be paid many times more back home. Does that count as selfless?

I’ve come to terms with the fact that finding yourself is an endless mission if you allow it to be. If you never answer the questions ‘Who am I?’ and ‘What is my purpose in life?’, it’s not because there isn’t an answer. It’s because you don’t want to know the answer, because then what you would do after finding it? Or, if you find the answer, it means you have to commit to it. Our generation is not used to commitment. So many of us let opportunities slip through our fingers because we’re too scared to say ‘That’s me. That’s who I am’. Or we say it, then change our minds a month down the road, ending up more lost than before.

The journey has clearly had a profound effect on me. I’ve endured dust storms for days on end to learn what it is that I want from life. I’ve been on bus rides that took an hour to go a couple of kilometres because the streets were jammed with traffic. I can’t complain, because it’s part of what I wanted, and I’m beginning to think it’s the journey itself that I seek, not the destination. Can’t that be something to aspire to be - a seeker of journeys, of questions without answers, of beginnings without ends?

I sense that most of my colleagues have travelled down this road and reached the end of it, but have become cynical in the process. My favourite colleague - the one I envy the most - has never even asked the question. He’s simply a lover of adventure who likes to blow his own trumpet. True, he boasts too much about how great a teacher he is, but his energy and zest for life are refreshing. He definitely falls into the category of ‘doer’ not ‘thinker’. That’s not to say he doesn’t think, of course, but he spends very little time sorting out his thoughts. It doesn’t seem that he needs to.

The author believes he became a teacher because he...
1) cares only for other people.
2) is particularly good at it.
3) wanted to learn something himself.
4) thought it would be a good way to see the world.

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5) Прочитайте текст и запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

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The journey within I’ve met people who, much to my envy, were not on a mission to find themselves. Whether it’s just their nature, or that they’ve managed to find the answer already, some people seem to know their purpose and have known it for a long time. Perhaps there are some people who just don’t ask.

I am not one of those people, and that is why I have found myself in the desert. My decision to leave my familiar surroundings and venture abroad was a selfish one wrapped in the packaging of helping others, which I’ve accepted now. I may not have freely admitted that fact, or even known it, in the beginning. But I’m primarily an English teacher in Jordan because I was on a mission to help myself. It just looks as though I’m helping others, and that’s the naked truth.

It’s not completely one-sided, as I certainly like my students and I know they appreciate what I do. To be honest, I’d rather have fun with them kicking a ball around a dusty alleyway than teach them grammar. I’m the world’s worst at class management, and I’m surprised I haven’t been fired yet. They just haven’t caught onto me. Hopefully I will have mastered the art before that happens.

I’m not wholly selfish, either. I commit random acts of selflessness quite often. I’ve given an old laptop to a neighbour who could barely afford a desk to put it on. I’ve had newfound friends round to the house for dinner, even though I burnt it and had to get takeaway. And I’m earning very low wages, doing work for which I’d be paid many times more back home. Does that count as selfless?

I’ve come to terms with the fact that finding yourself is an endless mission if you allow it to be. If you never answer the questions ‘Who am I?’ and ‘What is my purpose in life?’, it’s not because there isn’t an answer. It’s because you don’t want to know the answer, because then what you would do after finding it? Or, if you find the answer, it means you have to commit to it. Our generation is not used to commitment. So many of us let opportunities slip through our fingers because we’re too scared to say ‘That’s me. That’s who I am’. Or we say it, then change our minds a month down the road, ending up more lost than before.

The journey has clearly had a profound effect on me. I’ve endured dust storms for days on end to learn what it is that I want from life. I’ve been on bus rides that took an hour to go a couple of kilometres because the streets were jammed with traffic. I can’t complain, because it’s part of what I wanted, and I’m beginning to think it’s the journey itself that I seek, not the destination. Can’t that be something to aspire to be - a seeker of journeys, of questions without answers, of beginnings without ends?

I sense that most of my colleagues have travelled down this road and reached the end of it, but have become cynical in the process. My favourite colleague - the one I envy the most - has never even asked the question. He’s simply a lover of adventure who likes to blow his own trumpet. True, he boasts too much about how great a teacher he is, but his energy and zest for life are refreshing. He definitely falls into the category of ‘doer’ not ‘thinker’. That’s not to say he doesn’t think, of course, but he spends very little time sorting out his thoughts. It doesn’t seem that he needs to.

‘They’ in ‘They just haven’t caught onto me’ in the third paragraph refers to...
1) students.
2) fellow teachers.
3) school administrators.
4) the locals.

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6) Прочитайте текст и запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

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The journey within I’ve met people who, much to my envy, were not on a mission to find themselves. Whether it’s just their nature, or that they’ve managed to find the answer already, some people seem to know their purpose and have known it for a long time. Perhaps there are some people who just don’t ask.

I am not one of those people, and that is why I have found myself in the desert. My decision to leave my familiar surroundings and venture abroad was a selfish one wrapped in the packaging of helping others, which I’ve accepted now. I may not have freely admitted that fact, or even known it, in the beginning. But I’m primarily an English teacher in Jordan because I was on a mission to help myself. It just looks as though I’m helping others, and that’s the naked truth.

It’s not completely one-sided, as I certainly like my students and I know they appreciate what I do. To be honest, I’d rather have fun with them kicking a ball around a dusty alleyway than teach them grammar. I’m the world’s worst at class management, and I’m surprised I haven’t been fired yet. They just haven’t caught onto me. Hopefully I will have mastered the art before that happens.

I’m not wholly selfish, either. I commit random acts of selflessness quite often. I’ve given an old laptop to a neighbour who could barely afford a desk to put it on. I’ve had newfound friends round to the house for dinner, even though I burnt it and had to get takeaway. And I’m earning very low wages, doing work for which I’d be paid many times more back home. Does that count as selfless?

I’ve come to terms with the fact that finding yourself is an endless mission if you allow it to be. If you never answer the questions ‘Who am I?’ and ‘What is my purpose in life?’, it’s not because there isn’t an answer. It’s because you don’t want to know the answer, because then what you would do after finding it? Or, if you find the answer, it means you have to commit to it. Our generation is not used to commitment. So many of us let opportunities slip through our fingers because we’re too scared to say ‘That’s me. That’s who I am’. Or we say it, then change our minds a month down the road, ending up more lost than before.

The journey has clearly had a profound effect on me. I’ve endured dust storms for days on end to learn what it is that I want from life. I’ve been on bus rides that took an hour to go a couple of kilometres because the streets were jammed with traffic. I can’t complain, because it’s part of what I wanted, and I’m beginning to think it’s the journey itself that I seek, not the destination. Can’t that be something to aspire to be - a seeker of journeys, of questions without answers, of beginnings without ends?

I sense that most of my colleagues have travelled down this road and reached the end of it, but have become cynical in the process. My favourite colleague - the one I envy the most - has never even asked the question. He’s simply a lover of adventure who likes to blow his own trumpet. True, he boasts too much about how great a teacher he is, but his energy and zest for life are refreshing. He definitely falls into the category of ‘doer’ not ‘thinker’. That’s not to say he doesn’t think, of course, but he spends very little time sorting out his thoughts. It doesn’t seem that he needs to.

Regarding selfless acts, the author is certain that...
1) the low wages he makes is one of them.
2) he should have given his neighbour a desk.
3) his friends do them more often than he does.
4) even trying but failing at them counts.

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7) Прочитайте текст и запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

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The journey within I’ve met people who, much to my envy, were not on a mission to find themselves. Whether it’s just their nature, or that they’ve managed to find the answer already, some people seem to know their purpose and have known it for a long time. Perhaps there are some people who just don’t ask.

I am not one of those people, and that is why I have found myself in the desert. My decision to leave my familiar surroundings and venture abroad was a selfish one wrapped in the packaging of helping others, which I’ve accepted now. I may not have freely admitted that fact, or even known it, in the beginning. But I’m primarily an English teacher in Jordan because I was on a mission to help myself. It just looks as though I’m helping others, and that’s the naked truth.

It’s not completely one-sided, as I certainly like my students and I know they appreciate what I do. To be honest, I’d rather have fun with them kicking a ball around a dusty alleyway than teach them grammar. I’m the world’s worst at class management, and I’m surprised I haven’t been fired yet. They just haven’t caught onto me. Hopefully I will have mastered the art before that happens.

I’m not wholly selfish, either. I commit random acts of selflessness quite often. I’ve given an old laptop to a neighbour who could barely afford a desk to put it on. I’ve had newfound friends round to the house for dinner, even though I burnt it and had to get takeaway. And I’m earning very low wages, doing work for which I’d be paid many times more back home. Does that count as selfless?

I’ve come to terms with the fact that finding yourself is an endless mission if you allow it to be. If you never answer the questions ‘Who am I?’ and ‘What is my purpose in life?’, it’s not because there isn’t an answer. It’s because you don’t want to know the answer, because then what you would do after finding it? Or, if you find the answer, it means you have to commit to it. Our generation is not used to commitment. So many of us let opportunities slip through our fingers because we’re too scared to say ‘That’s me. That’s who I am’. Or we say it, then change our minds a month down the road, ending up more lost than before.

The journey has clearly had a profound effect on me. I’ve endured dust storms for days on end to learn what it is that I want from life. I’ve been on bus rides that took an hour to go a couple of kilometres because the streets were jammed with traffic. I can’t complain, because it’s part of what I wanted, and I’m beginning to think it’s the journey itself that I seek, not the destination. Can’t that be something to aspire to be - a seeker of journeys, of questions without answers, of beginnings without ends?

I sense that most of my colleagues have travelled down this road and reached the end of it, but have become cynical in the process. My favourite colleague - the one I envy the most - has never even asked the question. He’s simply a lover of adventure who likes to blow his own trumpet. True, he boasts too much about how great a teacher he is, but his energy and zest for life are refreshing. He definitely falls into the category of ‘doer’ not ‘thinker’. That’s not to say he doesn’t think, of course, but he spends very little time sorting out his thoughts. It doesn’t seem that he needs to.

The author feels that commitment is...
1) a pointless concept.
2) difficult to maintain.
3) always permanent.
4) easy for young people.

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8) Прочитайте текст и запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

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The journey within I’ve met people who, much to my envy, were not on a mission to find themselves. Whether it’s just their nature, or that they’ve managed to find the answer already, some people seem to know their purpose and have known it for a long time. Perhaps there are some people who just don’t ask.

I am not one of those people, and that is why I have found myself in the desert. My decision to leave my familiar surroundings and venture abroad was a selfish one wrapped in the packaging of helping others, which I’ve accepted now. I may not have freely admitted that fact, or even known it, in the beginning. But I’m primarily an English teacher in Jordan because I was on a mission to help myself. It just looks as though I’m helping others, and that’s the naked truth.

It’s not completely one-sided, as I certainly like my students and I know they appreciate what I do. To be honest, I’d rather have fun with them kicking a ball around a dusty alleyway than teach them grammar. I’m the world’s worst at class management, and I’m surprised I haven’t been fired yet. They just haven’t caught onto me. Hopefully I will have mastered the art before that happens.

I’m not wholly selfish, either. I commit random acts of selflessness quite often. I’ve given an old laptop to a neighbour who could barely afford a desk to put it on. I’ve had newfound friends round to the house for dinner, even though I burnt it and had to get takeaway. And I’m earning very low wages, doing work for which I’d be paid many times more back home. Does that count as selfless?

I’ve come to terms with the fact that finding yourself is an endless mission if you allow it to be. If you never answer the questions ‘Who am I?’ and ‘What is my purpose in life?’, it’s not because there isn’t an answer. It’s because you don’t want to know the answer, because then what you would do after finding it? Or, if you find the answer, it means you have to commit to it. Our generation is not used to commitment. So many of us let opportunities slip through our fingers because we’re too scared to say ‘That’s me. That’s who I am’. Or we say it, then change our minds a month down the road, ending up more lost than before.

The journey has clearly had a profound effect on me. I’ve endured dust storms for days on end to learn what it is that I want from life. I’ve been on bus rides that took an hour to go a couple of kilometres because the streets were jammed with traffic. I can’t complain, because it’s part of what I wanted, and I’m beginning to think it’s the journey itself that I seek, not the destination. Can’t that be something to aspire to be - a seeker of journeys, of questions without answers, of beginnings without ends?

I sense that most of my colleagues have travelled down this road and reached the end of it, but have become cynical in the process. My favourite colleague - the one I envy the most - has never even asked the question. He’s simply a lover of adventure who likes to blow his own trumpet. True, he boasts too much about how great a teacher he is, but his energy and zest for life are refreshing. He definitely falls into the category of ‘doer’ not ‘thinker’. That’s not to say he doesn’t think, of course, but he spends very little time sorting out his thoughts. It doesn’t seem that he needs to.

What does the author think of his location?
1) It displeases him greatly.
2) It is a place he wants to settle down in.
3) It is an important part of his mission in life.
4) It sometimes reminds him of home.

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9) Прочитайте текст и запишите в поле ответа цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

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The journey within I’ve met people who, much to my envy, were not on a mission to find themselves. Whether it’s just their nature, or that they’ve managed to find the answer already, some people seem to know their purpose and have known it for a long time. Perhaps there are some people who just don’t ask.

I am not one of those people, and that is why I have found myself in the desert. My decision to leave my familiar surroundings and venture abroad was a selfish one wrapped in the packaging of helping others, which I’ve accepted now. I may not have freely admitted that fact, or even known it, in the beginning. But I’m primarily an English teacher in Jordan because I was on a mission to help myself. It just looks as though I’m helping others, and that’s the naked truth.

It’s not completely one-sided, as I certainly like my students and I know they appreciate what I do. To be honest, I’d rather have fun with them kicking a ball around a dusty alleyway than teach them grammar. I’m the world’s worst at class management, and I’m surprised I haven’t been fired yet. They just haven’t caught onto me. Hopefully I will have mastered the art before that happens.

I’m not wholly selfish, either. I commit random acts of selflessness quite often. I’ve given an old laptop to a neighbour who could barely afford a desk to put it on. I’ve had newfound friends round to the house for dinner, even though I burnt it and had to get takeaway. And I’m earning very low wages, doing work for which I’d be paid many times more back home. Does that count as selfless?

I’ve come to terms with the fact that finding yourself is an endless mission if you allow it to be. If you never answer the questions ‘Who am I?’ and ‘What is my purpose in life?’, it’s not because there isn’t an answer. It’s because you don’t want to know the answer, because then what you would do after finding it? Or, if you find the answer, it means you have to commit to it. Our generation is not used to commitment. So many of us let opportunities slip through our fingers because we’re too scared to say ‘That’s me. That’s who I am’. Or we say it, then change our minds a month down the road, ending up more lost than before.

The journey has clearly had a profound effect on me. I’ve endured dust storms for days on end to learn what it is that I want from life. I’ve been on bus rides that took an hour to go a couple of kilometres because the streets were jammed with traffic. I can’t complain, because it’s part of what I wanted, and I’m beginning to think it’s the journey itself that I seek, not the destination. Can’t that be something to aspire to be - a seeker of journeys, of questions without answers, of beginnings without ends?

I sense that most of my colleagues have travelled down this road and reached the end of it, but have become cynical in the process. My favourite colleague - the one I envy the most - has never even asked the question. He’s simply a lover of adventure who likes to blow his own trumpet. True, he boasts too much about how great a teacher he is, but his energy and zest for life are refreshing. He definitely falls into the category of ‘doer’ not ‘thinker’. That’s not to say he doesn’t think, of course, but he spends very little time sorting out his thoughts. It doesn’t seem that he needs to.

What does the phrase ‘blow his own trumpet’ in the last paragraph mean?
1) be energetic
2) be adventurous
3) be overly proud of yourself
4) be knowing of all the answers

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