Упр.5 Юнит 3 Step 1 ГДЗ Rainbow English 11 класс

Read the text and complete it with the phrases that follow (a—h). There is one phrase you don’t have to use.

How It Began

This text comes from the book “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson, an author of a number of bestselling books. “A Short History” presents scientific information in a popular form and makes the study of science appear very friendly.

My own starting point was a school science book that I had when I was in the fourth or fifth grade. The book was a standard 1950s schoolbook — old, unloved — (1) ______, but on the front cover it had an illustration that just captivated me: a cutaway diagram showed the Earth’s interior as it would look if someone cut into the planet with a large knife and carefully took out a wedge. (2) ______ I realized that the Earth consisted of a number of layers, ending in the centre with a sphere of iron and nickel, (3) ______, and I remember thinking with real wonder: “How do they know that?” I couldn’t for the life of me understand how any human mind could work out what spaces thousands of miles below us that no eye had ever seen could look like and be made of. To me that was just a miracle. That has been my position with science ever since.

Excited, I took the book home that night and opened it before dinner — an action that made my mother feel my forehead (4) ______ — and, starting with the first page, I read.

And here’s the thing. It wasn’t exciting at all. It wasn’t actually altogether comprehensible. Above all, it didn’t answer any of the questions that the illustrations stirred up in my mind: how did we end up with the Sun in the middle of our planet (5) ______? And if it is burning away down there, why isn’t the ground under our feet hot to the touch? And why isn’t the rest of the interior melting? And when the core at last burns itself out, will some of the Earth fall down (6) ______? And how do you know this? HOW DID YOU FIGURE IT OUT?

But the author was strangely silent on such details. It was as if he wanted to keep the good stuff, the stuff really worth knowing, secret. (7) ______, I began to suspect that this was a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors.

• a) and ask if I was all right
• b) leaving a giant hole on the surface
• c) everything became clear
• d) but on the front cover it had an illustration
• e) as the years passed
• f) and how do they know how hot it is
• g) looking at it
• h) which was as hot as the surface of the Sun