Стр.44-45 Unit 4 ГДЗ Комарова Ларионова 10 класс

A How do you think these stories of unsuccessful criminals and crimes continue?

1. A young robber with a gun walked into a shop and told the cashier to give him all the money in the register. After the cashier had given it to him, he asked for a bottle of wine. The cashier said she couldn’t give him the wine because she didn’t believe he was 18. So he gave her his ID, which proved he was actually 19.
2. When they were paying for some petrol, two bank robbers accidentally dropped a list of things they.

B You are going to read a story called Burglary in the family. Here are some extracts from the story. What do you think happens?

C Quickly read the story to find out if you were right.

I was usually the first to come home in the afternoon. One day, I came home to find the gate open, but didn’t think much of it. I just thought my father had finished work early. It’s unusual, but it does happen occasionally. But then I pushed the door and it just opened, that’s when I knew that something was wrong, although I still didn’t think we had been burgled. We had been living in the same neighborhood since I was born, and there had been no burglaries anywhere near us in all those years.

My parents were there within a few minutes. My mother ran upstairs to their bedroom to check, while my father stayed with me and waited for the police. Even though the mess was terrible, it didn’t look like anything was missing, which was strange, as some of the things we had in the living room were quite expensive, like the plasma TV set we had just bought the week before. The police asked us a lot of questions, dusted for fingerprints, but couldn’t find any clues to how, when or why the burglars had broken into our house. They asked my father to sign a form and said they would investigate and tell us when (and if) they had arrested anyone!

My younger brother came home shortly after the police had left. Strangely, he didn’t seem at all curious about the obvious mess that the house was in. “What’s up?” he asked, as if everything was normal. It was then that I became suspicious: there had been no burglary, this was all my brother’s doing!

“Do you have any idea where my laptop is?” I asked. I didn’t want to accuse him of anything, but that did the trick. He immediately lost his cool, broke into tears and owned up to what he had done: he had accidentally dropped my laptop before going to school that morning and had broken the screen. Rather than face the consequences, he chose to get rid of the broken laptop, and stage a burglary!

My parents forgave him. As for me, I’m not sure I’ve completely forgiven him yet!

D Now read the story again and choose the best answer.

1. Why did the writer find it difficult to believe there had been a burglary?
   a) Their house had never been broken into before.
   b) There was no sign of a burglary.
   c) It had always been a quiet, safe area.
   d) The last burglary in the neighborhood was before she was born.
2. When she realized there had been a burglary, she
   a) watched a crime series on TV.
   b) made some phone calls.
   c) panicked and stayed where she was.
   d) checked to see if the burglars were still upstairs.
3. The family thought that the burglars
   a) had been looking for something.
   b) were only interested in cash and computers.
   c) were only interested in the writer’s things.
   d) had left fingerprints.
4. The writer first suspected her brother when he
   a) asked about the mess that the living room was in.
   b) came home late from school.
   c) appeared immediately after the police had left.
   d) didn’t ask any questions about the mess.
5. Why did the writer’s brother stage the burglary?
   a) He wanted to steal the writer’s laptop.
   b) He was afraid to admit he had broken the laptop.
   c) He had taken the writer’s laptop to school.
   d) He was jealous because he didn’t have a laptop himself.

Words in context

E Complete each sentence with a word or phrase in bold from the text in the correct form.

1. The police ______ him and ______ him of the crime.
2. Many houses in New York are ______ every week.
3. I thought someone had ______ my wallet, but then I found it!
4. The thief finally ______ what she had done.
5. The police had his ______ on file, so it was easy to identify him.
6. Two detectives have been asked to ______ the robbery.
7. I wasn’t at all ______ of him until he lied to me.