Стр.18-19 Unit 2 ГДЗ Комарова Ларионова 10 класс

A How much do you know about travel? Do the quiz and find out!

1. What was the first form of transport to reach a speed of 200 kilometers per hour?
   1. a train
   2. a motor car
   3. an airplane
2. Where was the world’s first underground railway built?
   1. in Paris
   2. in Moscow
   3. in London
3. How much does it cost to spend a night in the world’s most expensive hotel suite?
   1. $$6,500
   2. $$26,500
   3. $65,000
4. Which two cities does the world’s longest railway connect?
   1. Beijing–Guangzhou
   2. Moscow–Vladivostok
   3. Toronto–Vancouver
5. Which country is visited by the most tourists?
   1. China
   2. France
   3. the USA
6. American Dennis Tito was the first…
   1. space tourist
   2. US astronaut
   3. man on the Moon
7. Which land mass was named after one of the first Europeans to travel there?
   1. America
   2. Asia
   3. Australia
8. How does a train from London to Paris cross the sea between the UK and France?
   1. by bridge
   2. by ship
   3. by tunnel

Have you ever been on holiday to places like the ones in the pictures? Where would you like to go on your next holiday? Why?

Reading

B Read the first paragraph of an article about a teenager who travels a lot.

1. How often do you think he travels? Why?
2. Where do you think he goes?

C Quickly read the article and check your answers to the questions in exercise B.

D Six sentence parts have been removed from the text. Choose from the list (1–7) the part which fits each gap (A–F). There is one extra sentence part which you do not need to use.

1. who never spend holidays together
2. but I soon got used to it
3. when my dad called me
4. who prefers what she calls a ‘cultural holiday’
5. but I didn’t think it was enough
6. which makes sure
7. when I was six

Words in context

E Find underlined words in the text that mean the following:

1. alone, without their parents
2. a place where you go to relax on holiday
3. outside your own country
4. very unusual or different
5. the people who work in an airplane

Give a 2-minute talk on holidays. Remember to say:

• why people go on holiday
• what people usually do on holiday
• what different kinds of holiday people go on
• what kind of holiday you enjoy and why