Упр.B Юнит 4 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ Rainbow English 11 класс
Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Баранова, Афанасьева, Михеева 11 класс, Дрофа: B. Read the children’s utterances and decide what makes them funny.
The world Seen Through Children’s Eyes
•An optimist is a doctor who treats your eyes.
•A myth is a female moth.
•A monastery is where monsters live.
• The inhabitants of Moscow are called Mosquitos.
• A virgin forest is a forest where the hand of man has never set foot.
• Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics.
• Queen Victoria sat on a thorn for 63 years. She was the longest queen.
• Mushrooms always grow in damp places and that is why they look like umbrellas.
• Electric volts are named after Voltaire who invented electricity.
• Gravity was invented by Isaac Newton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the apples are falling off the trees.
• A triangle which has an angle of 135 degrees is called an obscene triangle.
• H2O is hot water and CO2 is cold water.
• Marie Curie did her research at the Sore Buns Institute in France.
• Most composers do not live until they are dead.
*Цитирирование части задания со ссылкой на учебник производится исключительно в учебных целях для лучшего понимания разбора решения задания.
Ответ
The children make these utterances funny because they misunderstand the meanings of words and expressions, taking them literally or confusing similar-sounding words.
- optimist — they confuse it with optometrist (a doctor for eyes);
- myth — they confuse it with moth;
- monastery — they confuse it with monster;
- Moscow — they confuse it with mosquitoes;
- virgin forest — they understand it literally as a forest untouched by man;
- Ancient Egypt — they mix up hieroglyphics with hydraulics;
- Queen Victoria sat on a thorn for 63 years — they take the phrase reigned for 63 years literally;
- mushrooms look like umbrellas — they explain the shape by the place where they grow;
- electric volts — they confuse volts with Voltaire;
- gravity was invented — they use the wrong verb instead of discovered;
- obscene triangle — they confuse obtuse with obscene;
- H2O and CO2 — they misunderstand the chemical formulas;
- Sore Buns Institute — they confuse Curie with a funny-sounding phrase;
- Most composers do not live until they are dead — they confuse alive and dead.
