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Прочитайте отрывок из лекции известного дирижёра Бенджамина Зандера. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений 2 – 9 соответствуют содержанию текста (1 – True), какие не соответствуют (2 – False) и о чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (3 – Not stated). В поле ответа запишите одну цифру, которая соответствует номеру правильного ответа.
Many people know the story about two salesmen who went down to Africa in the 1900s. They were sent down to find if there was any opportunity for selling shoes. They wrote telegrams back to Manchester. One of them wrote: "Situation hopeless. Stop. They don’t wear shoes." And the other one wrote: "Glorious opportunity. They don’t have any shoes yet."
Now, there's a similar situation in the classical music world, because there are some people who think that classical music is dying. And there are some who don’t know anything about it.
There are people who think they are absolutely mad about classical music. They adore classical music. They listen to symphonies in the car. And their children are playing musical instruments. They can't imagine their life without classical music. That's the first group; it's quite a small group. Then there's another group, a bigger group. These are the people who don’t mind classical music. At home a little Vivaldi in the background doesn’t do any harm. That’s the second group. Now comes the third group. These are the people who never listen to classical music. It's just simply not part of their life. That’s probably the largest group of all.
And then there's a very small group. These are people who think they're tone deaf (or unable to tell the difference between different musical notes). An amazing number of people think they're tone deaf. Actually, they cannot be tone deaf. Nobody is tone deaf. If they were tone deaf, they couldn’t tell the difference between somebody from Texas and somebody from Rome. And the telephone. If your mother calls on the telephone and says "Hello", you not only know who it is, you know what mood she's in. You have a fantastic ear. Everybody has a fantastic ear. So nobody is tone deaf.
But I tell you what happened to me. I was in Ireland during the Troubles 10 years ago, and I was working with some Catholic and Protestant kids. And one of them came to me the next morning and he said, "You know, I've never listened to classical music in my life, but when you played that music …" He said, "My brother was killed last year and I didn’t cry for him. But last night when you played that piece, I was thinking only about him and I was crying." So I understood that classical music is for everybody.
They say 3 percent of the population likes classical music. I say, "Everybody loves classical music – they just don’t know about it yet."
I had an amazing experience. In the year of 1984 when I was 45 years old and I'd been conducting for 20 years, I suddenly understood one thing. The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. My picture appears on the front of the CD – but I don’t make a sound. For his power a conductor depends on his ability to make other people powerful. And that changed everything for me. I understood my job was to make people happy. And do you know how you understand if people are happy or not? I look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, I know I did it.
I have a definition of success. For me it's very simple. It's not about having much money and being famous or powerful. It's about how many happy shining eyes I have around me.
Thank you. Shining eyes, shining eyes. Thank you.
2 Benjamin Zander began his lecture describing how two salesmen visited Africa.
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3 Most people don’t know anything about classical music.
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4 The group of people who don’t mind classical music is bigger than the group of people who can't live without classical music.
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5 There are people who think they are tone deaf but in fact they are not.
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6 A boy from Ireland started to listen to classical music after his brother's death.
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7 Benjamin Zander has been a conductor for 20 years.
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8 Benjamin Zander is a famous American conductor.
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9 Being famous or rich is not important for Benjamin Zander.
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