Упр.7 Unit 7 Чтение ГДЗ English Кузовлев 10-11 класс

Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Кузовлев 10-11 класс, Просвещение: 7. Ernestine’s mother, after her husband’s death took over his business. Her idea was to apply time-saving methods to the kitchen. So she planned, on paper, ‘an efficiency-type kitchen’. Read about the kitchen the family used and say why it was called (a model of inefficiency’. Deduce the meaning of the highlighted words, (guessing words by context/using a dictionary) Our kitchen, the one Tom used, was a model of inefficiency. Not that there was a hand pump over the sink or a spit to roast fowls on, but it was almost that bad. Our house had been built when the stress was on spaciousness, and the original owner had planned the kitchen to accommodate three or four servants. When Tom baked a cake, or baked what he said was a cake, he had to walk about half a mile. The distance from the sink, which was at back-breaking level, to the old-fashioned gas stove was a good twenty feet. The food was kept in a pantry twenty feet from the stove and forty from the sink. And the dishes were in another pantry, about the same distance away but in the opposite direction. The refrigerator was in an alcove by itself. To get to it, you had to walk around a stand holding the bird’s cage; around a table holding Tom’s tools, western story magazines, and back copies of The Newark Star-Eagle. pump n 1) a light soft shoe worn for dancing, sport, etc. 2) (esp. in compounds) a machine for forcing liquid, gas or air into, out of or through smth spit n 1) along thin metal rod pushed through meat, etc. to hold and turn it while it is cooked over a fire 2) a small narrow point of land that extends into the sea or lake pantry n 1) a small room close to a kitchen for keeping food, etc. in 2) a room in a big house where glasses, dishes, etc. are kept alcove n 1) partially enclosed space in a room often occupied by a bed or by seats 2) similar space within a garden enclosure (беседка) *Цитирирование части задания со ссылкой на учебник производится исключительно в учебных целях для лучшего понимания разбора решения задания.

It was called a model of inefficiency because everything in the kitchen was arranged very inconveniently. The sink, stove, pantry, dishes and refrigerator were all far apart, so Tom had to walk a lot while cooking. The kitchen was clearly not time-saving at all.

The highlighted words mean:

• pump — a machine for forcing liquid, gas or air into, out of or through something;
• spit — a thin metal rod used for roasting meat over a fire;
• pantry — a small room close to a kitchen for keeping food;
• alcove — a partially enclosed space in a room.