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Part 5 You are going to read a review of a recent book. For questions 31-36, choose the answer (A,B, Cor D) which you think fits best according to the text. Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. Joanna Knight reviews Roger Scruton’s book ‘Beauty’ Roger Scruton’ new book ‘Beauty is a hicid and often graceful compendium of his reflections. He discusses beauty in nature and ar and abeve all in buildings. Even in an artistic paradise like the city of Venice, Scruton’ antection moves quickly rom the heroic buildings oa the waterfront tothe modest neighbours that surround them Revishing besutles’ he soy, fare les important inthe aestetics of architecture than those that eeate a soothing Context, 3 continuous narrative as ina steet or a square, where nothing stands out in paticult Beauty may have is roots in sensuous enjoyment, but even at is humblest i appeals to something larger: a tilingnes o Consider compare apd ave ata judgement, The judgement o taste’ ste philosopher Immanuel Kant called spans two worlds: a private world of Individual subjectivity, as idiosyncratic as you please, an public wottd where you defend and develop your tastes through conscientious discussion = where you tr 10 fenson me out of wearng a yellow shit, for instance, and I try to persuade you to get id ofthe Carmen ringtone con your phone. Scruton explores beauty in is various fons, tring with nature. He maintains, for instance, thatthe beauty of UUnspolt wilderness depends on en evident absence of any fxed cent, a lack of prescribed eiges, The beauty of birds, animals and Hower, onthe other hands rooted i thelr exisence as se -lefiningenltes with boundaries iftheir own. And the special beauty ofthe human body belongs not to a mere assemblage of ody pars but to the personality that finds expression in tll his beauty gives you, as Scruton puts, a sense that ‘a world that makes oom fr such things makes room for you! Gardens ae diferent again. They ae places where wild nature hasbeen disciplined, more or less sympathetically, Into arial forms. Their beauty isnot that of infinite landscapes but of bounded spaces that sueround us, rather Tike architectural interiors: and they enable Scruton to Mave smoothy from considering natural beauty t0 the far more contentious terain of high ar-Seruton can be as perceptive abour sculpture, panting and classical musi as about the varieties of natural beauty bu inevitably he's more controversial itis curious to observe how Scruton’ feelings lead him to tansgress his own standard of courtesy and decorum, tnd indeed of accurate and well-tuned prose, And you do not have toe a complete punk o suspect thatthe cause this anguish may ie within him, and particalary in his premise that there san unbroken continuum betwen the benuties of nature and works of ant. Any attempt o Cover the entire spectrum of reasonable pleasure witha single Concept of beauty is hound, afterall be quite a sete. Take the literary ars Serton is conspicuously vague when he invokes the concept of ‘beautiful novels, and he founds stinely uneasy when describing story and lalogue as ‘sensory features’ of fiction, asi they could appeal to the same aesthetic sense as glorious sunsets, Yt, inthe case of literature, beauty i only half the story, and this pple to ather art forms to. In a revealing passage, Scruton confesses to a general dsc fr cinema as an art foam, but he makes one exception: you cOUld take a sil rom any film by Ingmar Bergman, he sa, fame it anc fang ian yout wall, and it would hod ts avn thee ike a picture. Tal may or may not be tre; but single, sien Images, however beaut, are hardly promising bass for understanding cinematic techniques or judging how they may have extended the ancient as of storytelling. Scruton sometimes reminds me of 8 G Collingwood, one ofthe mos git philosophers ofthe 20th century, with 2 manellaus sense of history and, apart. rom weakness or ietable sarcasm a wonderil way with words, Like “Scruton, he worked ut his philosophical ideas in Constant engagement with the as. Unlike hi though, he was ‘are that there fs mace to at than beauty, In is autabiography, he described how he came to realise that works fan however beautiful wil ail hey ae unreal or imperceptive; and that works tht disappoint overs of beauty may sl arcuate ssues about the world fa work does not ackieve beauty it may stil bear witness 0 truth Reading and Use of English x in describing the bulldings of Venice, Setiuton reveals his belle that they are loss beautiful than some architects claim. some of the streets lack anything of aesthetic value. a harmonious whole is crucial in architecture. beauty can be oppressive if it is overdone. What point is being made in the third paragraph? None of us should feel excluded from notions of beauty. Physical beauty is no indication of character. Observing wild creatures gives us a true sense of what beauty is Landscape is only beauiful if nothing man-made is visible. “The reviewer thinks Scruton’ discussion of gardens ‘A. provides an opportunity for him to condemn artificiality B allows him to emphasise the importance of discipline. © acts asa link between two different aspects of the broader topic D__ balances the previous section on wild nature. How can the reviewers argument in the sixth paragraph best be summarised? Including a section on works of art was 2 mistake. ‘The assumption about beauty undertying the book is flawed: seruton had difcultyfiting al his conflicting ideas on beauty into the book. Seruton's normal writing style is inappropriate for @ book of this type. What isthe reviewer's opinion of Scruton's section on the cinema? ‘A. Tho idea of displaying a stil from a film is imagin B_ His coverage of film as an art form is inadequate. © He is right to concentrate on the beauty of Bergman's fins D_ Describing fim as an extension of ston-teing is exaggerated in the final paragraph, why does the reviewer refer to RG Collingwood? ‘A. to suggest that Scruton was net sufficiently involved in the arts Bo point out the Importance of taking history into account ©. toindicate how Scruton should have widened his view of at D_ to compare the two writers’ fondness for sarcasm Part6 You are going to read a magazine article about techno-solutions to global warming. Seven paragraphs have been removed from the extract. Choose from the paragraphs A-H the one which fits each gap (37-43). There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use. Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet, Cooling the Earth Asa last resort to combat glohal warming, researchers are investigating vo possible ways of applying ‘sunscreen’ to the planet. Evenwithe bos n the wr reducing cucrbon trons era ung pte gba wang has bose donate we eke hee! ra mosses oc emissions, te arcraio ot Cimale mod leave ponte potty oeivere Seng ar aes insu tl A he famo te, tei by govormens an pai rot ep males 8 to posse tet to solos adored by ima sects mi tl bo npomered soon chou he gene wp ntacase? a = Cute econ ging rarberoesoarcorohave besntalinga fesioasagescat yoourgheate projets tat nahh bo wed osreb warming. Basal the tba tops suacea © theunel pane ts contoversal ou ocet sues Sugest hore ae ways to dct eneuh of he Sunigt raaning he Eafe sro to counrec lta warming. Chalo models show that bsang fet 1 por cont of te inden cnorgy the sus Tay no camel out ne weming ees poses By coubing ot carton dong tae gases n th mosphere could be cued, becese even the mostetngetemesone-cortl eases bleg Suggeates wt leave otha colin of carbon Sos byte end of i any. and ta woud for at loast a century more, 38 There are two distinct proposals: reflecting away sunlight within the Earth's atmosphere, or blocking it im outer space. Each approach has its supporters and etraciors. While tinkering with the atmosphere is likely to be much cheaper and simpler, space-based approaches may be longer-lasting and less likely to cause unwanted side effects ~ though they are much more technically challenging. 16 eS Ee see In eddtion, since itis naturally present at great heights ‘above the earth, some researchers think an increase might not present as many unforeseen risks as some other suggested remedies for global warming, such as seeding the ocean with ron flings or other nutrients to encourage the growth of carbor-consuming organisms, [40 ‘These drawbacks have driven others to look seriously at larger-scale, more expensive alternatives that ‘might carry fewer risks. One that might do the teok is € space-based sunshade system. It may sound wildly lmplausible but some scientists are convinced that it Is feasible. These simple devices would be packed into metal containers in stacks of a milion and propelled into space using electromagnetic rail guns — a method that has bean tested in labs but never actually used. ‘The acceleration is far too rapid for people or delicate ‘equipment, but the method has long been proposed for shooting bulk material into space, such as water, rocket fuel or building material. It could be cheaper {and more reliable than traditional rockets, a nee | Independent computer simulations show that the space sunshade could almost cancel out the temperature changes expected from global warming, except for 2 small area around each pole, That's because wile greenhouse warming is uniform, the poles receive lass ‘sunlight than the tropics, so the effect of changes in ‘sunlghtis weakest at the poles. This regional diference =“ | cooling might cause unpredictable changes in ‘weather pattems, And since the poles would see less of ‘=n effec rom the cimming, they might stl experience a

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