Упр.6 Юнит 1 Step 7 ГДЗ Rainbow English 11 класс

Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Баранова, Афанасьева, Михеева 11 класс, Дрофа: 6 A. Read the text and say which of the three things make Frank unhappy: a) the fact that his parents are making him go to university; b) the fact that he is expected to make a standard career; c) the fact that he’ll have to pay his debts.
My Own Way
Part I
School… exams… university… job… pension… Have you ever felt you are on a conveyor belt? Are you fulfilling your parent’s plans or have you got other ideas? Get acquainted with one young man’s story of how he decided to follow his own dream.
“I sometimes feel I’m a product that is continually being processed in a factory. In our society you’re born, you go to nursery school, and then on to primary school. You study for five years for your GCSEs in a secondary school. Then, if you get the right GCSE grades, you can go on to college to study for your A levels. The right grades will allow you to go to university to study for a degree. Before you go to university, you might go on a gap year to get a little life experience but you don’t take more than a year. This is not allowed.
So you finish your university course owing lots of money to banks for various debts you’ve built up during your time at university. You’re already on the conveyor belt and it is very hard to get yourself off. You find a job, a girlfriend, whom you may eventually marry; you buy a house together and start paying off your mortgage.
You decide to have children and put them on the same conveyor belt. You earn more money and retire, grow old, die. Well done. You did it. You did exactly what this society asked of you. To be honest such a prospect doesn’t attract me. ”
B. Read the text “My Own Way” again and answer the questions.
1) What does Frank mean when he says that he feels he is on a conveyor belt?
2) What are the usual stages that a lot of British people go through, as Frank sees it?
3) What is a gap year? Why do young people take it?
4) What kind of debts can a university graduate have?
5) Why do you think Frank mentions mortgage as an important debt to the bank?
6) Are you fulfilling your parents’ plans or have you got different ideas for your future?
*Цитирирование части задания со ссылкой на учебник производится исключительно в учебных целях для лучшего понимания разбора решения задания.

Ответ

1. He means that his life is being planned and controlled by society, and he has little freedom to choose his own path.
2. As Frank sees it, the usual stages are: being born, going to nursery school, primary school, secondary school, college, university, getting a job, getting married, buying a house, having children, working, retiring, growing old and dying.
3. A gap year is a year off before university. Young people take it to get some life experience.
4. A university graduate can have debts to banks, for example money borrowed for living expenses, study costs, or other expenses during university.
5. He mentions a mortgage because it is a long-term debt that keeps people tied to the “conveyor belt” of life and makes it hard to be free.
6. I am fulfilling my parents’ plans, but I also have my own ideas for my future.