Filozofická fakulta, ústav Ostravské univerzity v Ostravě (dále jen OU)
Informace o přijímacích zkouškách podle studijních programů
1. Studijní program KKOV N7310 Filologie
a) Studijní obor
Anglický jazyk a literatura (jednooborové)
dvouoborové:
Anglický jazyk a literatura – Český jazyk a literatura
Anglický jazyk a literatura – Německý jazyk a literatura
Anglický jazyk a literatura – Polský jazyk a literatura
Forma přijímací zkoušky: písemná
Test z Anglického jazyka a literatury - varianta A
Úplné zadání Zkušebních otázek či příkladů, které jsou součástí přijímací zkoušky nebo
její části a u otázek s výběrem odpovědí správné řešení.
Part I – Language Competence
1. Read the article and complete the text by inserting the missing parts below:
Lego builds yet another record profit to become world's top toymaker
It is a brand name familiar to children around the world, but a decade ago Lego was in crisis. 1. …
Now, after a series of job cuts and the ending of the family's management of the company, the
plastic brick business has rebuilt itself into the world's most profitable toy maker ahead of Barbie's
Mattel. The company, which has been headquartered in the small Danish town of Billund (population
6,155) since 1932, has reported "another record breaking year" of sales and profits growth – for the
ninth consecutive year. 2 … Annual profits increased by almost 10% to 8.2bn kroner (£900m) – about
the same as the profit Facebook turned in last year. Sales jumped 10% to 25.3bn kroner (£2.8bn).
"That is an incredible quadrupling of our revenues in less than 10 years," Joergen Vig Knudstorp, Lego
chief executive, said. "We think we are changing children's lives forever when they play with Lego.
We think this was another year where we got great affirmation of that." Knudstorp is credited with
driving Lego's resurgence since he took over as CEO from Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, grandson of the
company's carpenter founder, during the 2003-4 crisis. He said Lego's success was due to constant
innovation and the creation of 60-70 new products every year, including Harry Potter, Star Wars and
SpongeBob SquarePants ranges. But he admitted it is still a "major innovation challenge" to "stay on
the top of children's wish lists" against competition from iPads and computer games. 3. …
Jane Westgarth, a toy analyst at market research firm Mintel, said Lego's recovery had been fuelled
by its investment in quality and design. 4. … "If it's good quality, people are prepared to pay that little
bit extra." Westgarth said Lego was also benefiting considerably from parents' nostalgia for their own
childhood – parents including David Beckham, who admitted earlier this month that he builds Lego
with his children to stay calm and had just completed the 4,287-piece Tower Bridge kit. "For a parent
aged 30 there's no doubt about it that they would have Lego in their homes. Parents like to introduce
their children to things that they loved as children."
The company, which sold its Legoland theme parks to Madame Tussauds owner Merlin
Entertainments in 2005, is building on its "red core business" by boosting its digital presence, but
Knudstorp said his customers have done most of the work for him. More than 99% of Lego videos on
Youtube – featuring Lego recreations of everything from the London 2012 Olympics to the New
Testament – are made by users. 5. …
Anglický jazyk a literatura NMgr. 2014
Test A
Lego, which is derived from the Danish "leg godt" meaning "play well", is also benefiting from "a
considerable amount of excitement" prompted by the Lego Movie. The film, which features the
hit Tegan and Sara song Everything is Awesome, is taking £2m a day in UK cinema box offices, and
has topped the US and Canadian charts for three consecutive weekends.
A. "We're not leaving the brick, but we will leverage digital technology to stay relevant
over the next 20 years," he said.
B. "They are doing things that are taking Lego into a slightly different position, from the
boxes of bricks where you had to use your imagination to sets you use in specific
ways with characters you already know," she said.
C. Sales were collapsing at a rate of 26% a year, it lost 1.4bn Danish kroner (£150m) in
2003 and private equity firms were circling the 82-year-old family-owned Danish
company.
D. "We need to constantly become better, or otherwise there will be someone out
there who will catch up to us," he said.
E. Its high profitability comes from its ability to turn each kilogram of raw material
plastic – which costs less than $1 – into sets that sell for more than $75 per kg.
2. Complete with words formed from those in brackets:
Governed in Secret
What surprises some 1. .......................... (SEA) observers is the 2. .......................... (SECRET)
with which the “mother of democracy” is governed. There is nothing in Britain to compare
with the American freedom of 3. .......................... (INFORM) act. Mrs Thatcher's press
4. .......................... (SECRET) even went so far as to boast to American newspaper reporters
that "the ordinary British subject not only has no right to know but does not want to know."
Government will go to 5. .......................... (ORDINARY) lengths to preserve itself and avoid
embarrassing
6. .......................... (REVEAL) of the 7. .......................... (COMPETENT) of the ways it runs its
business. The best known example was the way the Thatcher government spent millions
trying to suppress the Spycatcher book, written in Australia by a disgruntled former
intelligence officer. It is to Australia's credit that the heavy-handed attempt at
8. .......................... (CENSOR) failed 9. .......................... (EMBARRASS). Why did the
government use a 10. .......................... (HAMMER) to crack this particular nut? What was it
really trying to protect?
3. Fill in the gaps with suitable expressions, choose one possibility from the options below:
The vacuum cleaner.
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Until about 250 years ago, households did not take dirt as 1. .... as they do now - it was a fact of life,
and that was that. Cleaning often consisted of an annual 2. .... called 'spring cleaning' when the
furniture was moved aside, and all the linen products in the house were cleaned. Carpets and rugs
were taken outside, hung on ropes and had the dust 3. .... out of them - an exhausting and messy
process.
The industrial revolution brought about a major change - as new 4. .... became available to make
homes cleaner, a corresponding interest in '5. .... hygiene' appeared in households. This in turn led to
the 6. .... of further products, one of which was the vacuum cleaner.
7. .... has it that when one of the first vacuum cleaners was demonstrated, a kindly scientist took the
proud inventor 8. .... and offered a bit of advice that was to become 9. .... to the future evolution of
the product - 'make it suck, not blow'.
The first vacuum cleaners appeared in the 1860s in the United States. They were operated by hand
pumps and were almost as 10. .... as spring cleaning. It was only when electric motors had become
sufficiently 11. .... to become portable that vacuum cleaners became common household items.
Most of today's major 12. .... - including Electrolux and Hoover - were born in the 1920s.
The household 13. .... that vacuum cleaners suck up is mostly dead skin cells - humans 14. …. millions
of cells every day. A much smaller proportion comes from dust and soil carried into the house from
15. .... .
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
A importantly
A ritual
A cleaned
A products
A house
A fabrication
A Story
A away
A standard
A laborious
A scientific
A brands
A grit
A lose
A external
B crucially
B result
B taken
B concepts
B domestic
B appearing
B Epic
B aside
B crucial
B hard
B forward
B marks
B rubbish
B outgrow
B outside
C considerately
C resolution
C beaten
C ideals
C homely
C recreation
C Legend
C aback
C regular
C nefarious
C technological
C makes
C refuse
C omit
C beyond
D seriously
D scrub
D sucked
D developments
D internal
D development
D Tale
D along
D esteemed
D straining
D advanced
D trademarks
D dirt
D shed
D indoors
4. For questions 1-5, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the
first one, using the word given. Do not change the word given. Use between three and
six words, including the word given.
1. How can I make him understand that I don't want to see him any more?
How can I ......................................... that I don't want to see him any more?
ACROSS
2. Parents predict chaos in schools unless the strike is called off.
Parents claim it ........................................ the teacher's strike goes ahead.
RESULT
3. Police are warning people to check for forged notes which are currently in circulation.
LOOKOUT
Police are warning people to be ....................................... forged notes which are currently in
circulation.
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4. If you must be noisy could you go outside and play.
If you ........................................ noise could you go outside and play.
INSIST
5. It's possible that they got the wrong idea and thought the party was next week.
REACHED
They might ........................................ conclusion and thought the party was next week.
Part II – Linguistics
1. Fill in the gaps in these sentences taken from Peter Roach’s textbook English Phonetics
and Phonology (CUP, 1991) with one or more words so that the sentences make sense:
“The words vowel and consonant are very familiar ones, but when we study the sounds of speech
scientifically we find that it is not easy to define exactly what they mean. The most common view is
that vowels are sounds in which there is a) ................................. to the flow of air as it passes from
the larynx to the lips.” (Roach, p.10)
b) ................................. are consonants with the characteristic that when they are produced, air
escapes through a small passage and makes a hissing sound. (Roach, p.47)
“A triphthong is a c) .............................................................................................., all produced rapidly
and without interruption. ” (Roach, p. 23)
2. Transcribe the following words as they are pronounced in BBC Standard pronunciation
using the IPA and marking the word stress in words with more than one syllable:
singer /.........................../ , copy /.........................../, event /.........................../
pour /.........................../, quite /.........................../, reality /.........................../
3. Fill in all possible plural forms of the following nouns:
cactus
genus
hypothesis
goods
4. Give an example of a word exhibiting the following morphological structure:
negative derivational prefix + base morph + derivational suffix
__________________________________
5. Explain the use of the definite articles highlighted (bolded and underlined):
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Test A
In the case of a misdirected payment the recipient is not entitled to keep the money but, in reality,
recovering it can be extremely difficult. Banks do not have to reimburse the money and will almost
certainly not do so if the result would send the recipient overdrawn.
6. Search through the text and find examples of present and past participles, infinitives
and gerunds used as sentence condensers. List all the sentence condensers below the text
and identify their morphological form.
In 2013, male Oxford graduates received more first class degrees in 26 out of the 38 schools
in which both genders were examined. Almost a third of male candidates at the University of
Oxford were awarded firsts in 2013, compared with just a quarter of female candidates,
according to statistics released by the university on 22 January this year. The gender gap in
exam results at the university is something that hascome up repeatedly, causing the
university to announce last year that "steps should be taken" to give all students the degree
they deserve. "There's a certain type of confidence that seems to come from being at a
certain type of all-male, public school. When you come to Oxford and it feels familiar, you
may have a sense of belonging that isn't accessible to everyone,“ says one of the female
students.
sentence condenser
morphological form
7. Sentence pattern: (i) analyze the sentence complex down to the clause level (use slashes
// to separate individual clauses (ii) draw a dependency graph, (iii) state what relation
holds between the clauses/units based on their mutual interdependency, and (iv) state the
type of dependent clauses:
As I paddled around the kitchen (incidentally, does anybody know a decent dishwasher
mechanic in the Leicester area?), as I mopped and squeezed, I wondered what else I’d
imagined.
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8. Define the lexico-semantic or formal relations which characterize the following pairs:
put out/ extinguish
over-researched/ under-researched
bird/ lark
to live/ live
9. Highlight all the passive forms used in the sentences below and characterize the
function(s) or the reasons for the preference of the passive forms here:
Research out this year has shown that once again more male students at Oxford were awarded
firsts than female students.
Hypertext is not, strictly speaking, text at all. It is a medium and a technology which encourages and
affords ease of constructing sequences of textual units that are not uniquely determined by, or even
in many cases anticipated by, the authors or designers of a particular hypertext web (for fuller
discussion see Aarseth 1997, Lemke 2002a).
10. Read the text and answer the questions below:
The study is concerned with the issue of the Agent/Patient relevant markers in selected languages.
The sample of languages under analysis included both analytical and synthetic languages having a
SVO dominant word order (except for German and Hungarian). A cross-language enquiry was
conducted via a questionnaire filled in by 8 bilingual respondents who were asked to indicate the
grounds on which they were able to distinguish the Agent from the Patient in a NP/VP/NP sequence.
The coding Agent/Patient markers included inflectional affixes, word order and prepositions, and
these were contrasted with the implicit markers: so called cognitive feasibility test and context. I
have hypothesised, inter alia, that beyond or above the explicit formal indicators there is a universal
cognitive capacity of language users to admit a particular argument structure as admissible or more
probable, or reject it as odd, even in the absence of the diagnostic coding markers.
Where can this type of text be found?
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Characterize the target reader of the text:
Which lexical and grammatical features define the style of the text and helped you answer
the previous questions?
Part III - British and American literature
Unless stated otherwise, for each correct answer you get 1 point. You must always give the
author’s full name.
1.
Who is the author of “To His Coy Mistress?”
2.
Who is the author of The Blood Chamber?
3.
Who is the author of Nostromo?
4.
Who is the author of The Dutchman?
5.
Who is the author of The 42nd Parallel?
6.
In which literary work by an American author can we find the characters Roberta and Clyde?
7.
Who is the literary father/mother of the character called Natty Bumpoo?
8.
In which literary work by a British author do you find the character of Jimmy Porter?
9.
In which literary work by a British author do you find the character of Elizabeth Bennett?
10. Which American author is associated with the Cajun/French Louisiana region?
11. Who is the author of the poem “Chicago” which describes the city as a “hog butcher for the
world”?
12. What inspired Ezra Pound’s poem “In a Station of the Metro”?
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13. Which term is commonly used in Jewish American literature to describe an awkward or
unlucky person whose endeavors usually fail?
14. Which term refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for popular magazines, and
emerged in the United States after 1900?
15. Who was Alfred Stieglitz? (give his profession)
16. Which city is associated with the Atlantic Monthly?
17. Which British poet married Sylvia Plath?
18. Link the following poets with the relevant terms: (3 points)
John Ashberry
Black Mountain School
Anne Sexton
New York Poets
Robert Creeley
Confessional Poets
19. Link the following authors with the correct regions: (3 points)
Cormac McCarthy
Pacific Northwest
Louise Erdrich
American Southwest
Raymond Carver
North Dakota
20. Attribute to the following authors a correct nationality/country of origin: (4 points)
Nadine Gordimer
Great Britain
Margaret Atwood
Japan
Hanif Kureishi
Canada
Kazuo Ishiguro
South Africa
21. Which were the two formalist movements of the early twentieth century? (2 points)
22. What is a campus novel? (2 points)
23. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2013? (2 points)
24. Which British author died on November 17, 2013? (2 points)
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Test A
Kritéria pro vyhodnocení a postup, jakým se stanoví výsledek přijímací zkoušky nebo
její části, včetně postupu vedoucího k sestavení pořadí uchazečů podle výsledků
přijímací zkoušky.
Key:
Part I – Language Competence
1)
(30 points)
1C
2E
3D
4B
5A
(5 points)
2) 1. overseas
2. secrecy/secretiveness
3. information
4. secretary
5. extraordinary
6. revelations
7. incompetence
8. censorship
9. embarrassingly
10. sledgehammer
(5 points)
3) 1. d
2. a
3. c
4. a
5. b
6. d
7. c
8. b
9. b
10. a
11. d
12. a
13. d
14. d
15. b
(15 points)
4) (5 points)
1. get the message across / get the message across to him / get it across / get it across to
him
2. will result in chaos if
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3. on the lookout for
4. insist on making a / insist upon making a
5. have reached the wrong / 've reached the wrong
Part II – Linguistics
(35 points)
1. Fill in the gaps in these sentences taken from Peter Roach’s textbook English Phonetics
and Phonology (CUP, 1991) with one or more words so that the sentences make sense:
(3 points)
a) no obstruction, b) fricatives c) a glide from one vowel to another and then to a third
2. Transcribe the following words as they are pronounced in BBC Standard pronunciation
using the IPA and marking the word stress in words with more than one syllable:
(3 points)
/ˈsɪŋə/ , /ˈkɒpi/, /ɪˈvent/, /pɔː/, /kwaɪt/, /riˈælɪti/
3. Fill in all possible plural forms of the following nouns:
(4 points)
cactus
cactuses/cacti
genus
genera
hypothesis
hypotheses
goods
goods
4. Give an example of a word exhibiting the following morphological structure:
(1 point)
(negative) derivational prefix/base/derivational suffix
e.g. in/consider/ate
5. Explain the use of the definite articles highlighted:
(3 points)
In the case of a misdirected payment the recipient is not entitled to keep the money but, in
reality, recovering it can be extremely difficult. Banks do not have to reimburse the money
and will almost certainly not do so if the result would send the recipient overdrawn.
Ve všech případech je určitý člen dán determinací předchozím kontextem, kataforická
reference a asociativní reference – chápání „recipient, money, result“ je podmíněno
zkušeností s danou situací.
6. Search through the text and find examples of present and past participles, infinitives ad
gerunds used as sentence condensers. List all the sentence condensers below the text and
identify their morphological form .
(3.5 points)
In 2013, male Oxford graduates received more first class degrees in 26 out of the 38 schools
in which both genders were examined. Almost a third of male candidates at the University of
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Test A
Oxford were awarded firsts in 2013, compared with just a quarter of female candidates,
according to statistics released by the university on 22 January this year. The gender gap in
exam results at the university is something that has come up repeatedly, causing the
university to announce last year that "steps should be taken" to give all students the degree
they deserve. "There's a certain type of confidence that seems to come from being at a
certain type of all-male, public school. When you come to Oxford and it feels familiar, you
may have a sense of belonging that isn't accessible to everyone,“ says one of the female
students.
sentence condensers
morphological form
compared
past participle
released
past participle
causing
present participle
to announce
infinitive
to give
infinitive (of purpose)
being
gerund
belonging
gerund
7. Sentence pattern: (i) analyze the sentence complex down to the clause level (use slashes
// to separate individual clauses (ii) draw a dependency graph, (iii) state what relation
holds between the clauses/units based on their mutual interdependency, and (iv) state the
type of dependent clauses:
(5 points)
As I paddled around the kitchen [DC1] // (incidentally, does anybody know a decent
dishwasher mechanic in the Leicester area?) [parenthesis], // as I moped [DC2] and //
squeezed [DC3], // I wondered [MC4] // what else I’d imagined [DC5].
DC1 enhanced (adv.) + (parenthesis) + DC2 enhanced (adv.) + DC3 enhanced (adv.) + MainC4
+ DC5 embedded (object/content/noun)
MC4
DC1 (parenthesis) , DC2 and DC3
DC5
8. Define the lexico-semantic or formal relations which characterise the following pairs:
(4 points)
put out/ extinguish
synonymy
over-researched/ under-researched
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bird/ lark
hyponymy
to live/ live
homography
9. Highlight all the passive forms used in the sentences below and characterize the
function(s) or the reasons for the preference of the passive forms here:
Research out this year has shown that once again more male students at Oxford were
awarded firsts than female students.
Konatel děje je zřejmý z kontextu, tj. učitelé/examinátoři Oxfordské university, jednalo by
se o nespecifikovaný, obecný podmět „teachers“, kterému je vhodné se ve zpravodajských
(a odborných) textech vyhnout.
(2 points)
Hypertext is not, strictly speaking, text at all. It is a medium and a technology which
encourages and affords ease of constructing sequences of textual units that are not uniquely
determined by, or even in many cases anticipated by, the authors or designers of a
particular hypertext web (for fuller discussion see Aarseth 1997, Lemke 2002a).
Druhá věta volí podmět udržující konstantní téma – it=hypertext, a přidává nové réma –
konatelé děje, tj. authors/designers jsou součástí rématu, nové informace ve větě, proto je
vhodné je pomocí pasíva přesunout slovosledně ke konci věty.
(2 points)
10. Read the text and answer the questions below:
The study is concerned with the issue of the Agent/Patient relevant markers in selected
languages. The sample of languages under analysis included both analytical and synthetic
languages having a SVO dominant word order (except for German and Hungarian). A crosslanguage enquiry was conducted via a questionnaire filled in by 8 bilingual respondents who
were asked to indicate the grounds on which they were able to distinguish the Agent from
the Patient in a NP/VP/NP sequence. The coding Agent/Patient markers included inflectional
affixes, word order and prepositions, and these were contrasted with the implicit markers:
so called cognitive feasibility test and context. I have hypothesised, inter alia, that beyond or
above the explicit formal indicators there is a universal cognitive capacity of language users
to admit a particular argument structure as admissible or more probable, or reject it as odd,
even in the absence of the diagnostic coding markers.
Where can this type of text be found?
journals, monographs
Characterise the target reader of the text: specialists, students
(1 point)
(0.5 point)
Which lexical and grammatical features define the style of the text and helped you answer
the previous questions?
(3 points)
the use of terminology, avoidance of vague and expressive vocabulary, impersonal
sentence structure, frequent passive voice structures
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Part III – British and American Literature (35 points)
Unless stated otherwise, for each correct answer you get 1 point. You must always give the
author’s full name.
1.
Andrew Marvell
2.
Angela Carter
3.
Joseph Conrad
4.
Amiri Baraka
5.
John Dos Passos
6.
An American Tragedy
7.
James Fenimore Cooper
8.
Look Back in Anger
9.
Pride and Prejudice
10.
Kate Chopin
11.
Carl Sandburg
12.
Japanese haiku
13.
the schlemiel
14.
the muckrakers
15.
a photographer
16.
Boston
17.
Ted Hughes
18.
Ashberry-New York, Sexton-confessional, Creeley-Black Mountain
(3 points)
19.
McCarthy-AS, Erdrich-ND, Carver-PN
(3 points)
20.
Gordimer-SA, Atwood – Canada, Kureishi – Great Britain, Ishiguro – Japan (4 points)
21.
Russian formalism and American New Criticism
(2 points)
22.
a novel whose main action is set in and around the campus of a university (2 points)
23.
Alice Munro
(2 points)
24.
Doris Lessing
(2 points)
Anglický jazyk a literatura (jednooborové)
Základní statistické charakteristiky písemné přijímací zkoušky nebo její části:
Počet uchazečů, kteří se zúčastnili písemné přijímací zkoušky: 34
Nejlepší možný výsledek písemné přijímací zkoušky: 100
Nejlepší skutečně dosažený výsledek písemné přijímací zkoušky: 63
Průměrný výsledek písemné přijímací zkoušky: 45,85
Směrodatná odchylka výsledků písemné přijímací zkoušky: 8,71
Decilové hranice výsledku zkoušky: dvouoborové:
Anglický jazyk a literatura – Český jazyk a literatura
Základní statistické charakteristiky písemné přijímací zkoušky nebo její části:
Počet uchazečů, kteří se zúčastnili písemné přijímací zkoušky: 1
Nejlepší možný výsledek písemné přijímací zkoušky: 100
Nejlepší skutečně dosažený výsledek písemné přijímací zkoušky: 52
Průměrný výsledek písemné přijímací zkoušky: -
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Směrodatná odchylka výsledků písemné přijímací zkoušky: 0,0
Decilové hranice výsledku zkoušky: Anglický jazyk a literatura – Německý jazyk a literatura
Základní statistické charakteristiky písemné přijímací zkoušky nebo její části:
Počet uchazečů, kteří se zúčastnili písemné přijímací zkoušky: 1
Nejlepší možný výsledek písemné přijímací zkoušky: 100
Nejlepší skutečně dosažený výsledek písemné přijímací zkoušky: 43
Průměrný výsledek písemné přijímací zkoušky: Směrodatná odchylka výsledků písemné přijímací zkoušky: 0,0
Decilové hranice výsledku zkoušky: Anglický jazyk a literatura – Polský jazyk a literatura
Základní statistické charakteristiky písemné přijímací zkoušky nebo její části:
Počet uchazečů, kteří se zúčastnili písemné přijímací zkoušky: 1
Nejlepší možný výsledek písemné přijímací zkoušky: 100
Nejlepší skutečně dosažený výsledek písemné přijímací zkoušky: 46
Průměrný výsledek písemné přijímací zkoušky: Směrodatná odchylka výsledků písemné přijímací zkoušky: 0,0
Decilové hranice výsledku zkoušky: Ostrava 20. června 2014
Zpracovali: Mgr. Andrea Holešová, Ph.D., Bc. Petra Valošková
Za správnost odpovídá: Mgr. Andrea Holešová, Ph.D.
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