Упр.1 Юнит 5.12 ГДЗ Starlight Баранова 11 класс

Look at the picture. Where and when do you think the scene is set? Who might the men be? Read the biography to find out.

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) was born in Russia and was both an author and a scientist. He wrote science fiction and popular fiction novels, as well as short stories and essays. Like many of Asimov’s books, The Caves of Steel (1954) is set in the future and features robots. It is partly science fiction and partly a crime story. Elijah Baley is a human detective from New York City, where the people live inside enormous buildings—the “caves of steel” in the book’s title—completely cut off from the world outside. Baley is going to meet his new partner, a “Spacer” robot called R. Daneel Olivaw. Spacers are advanced people from faraway worlds, and they live in Spacetown, a separate city near New York. Earth men dislike Spacers, and they also hate the clumsy robots which have become a necessary part of the human world, so Baley is very uncomfortable about his new assignment.