Упр.5 Юнит 3 Урок 1415 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ Happy English Кауфман 11 класс

Задача

Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Кауфман 11 класс, Титул: 5 Fill in the gaps with the right words. 1. A woman from Israel (1) a TV station for a mistake in their weather forecast. After they predicted a sunny day she left her home lightly dressed. It rained, she got wet through, caught a cold and caught flu. She had to miss four days of work and spend $38 on medication. The (2) didn’t find any evidence against the TV station. 1 a) sued b) accused c) court 2 a) judge b) court c) law
2. After a night drinking beer to celebrate the end of exams, 19-year-old Kevin Mackle went to get a can of Cola from a vending machine. There were no (3), but the young man seems to have tried to get the Cola without paying. He was pushing and rocking the machine and in the end it overbalanced and fell on him. The young man died. His relatives sued the Coca-Cola Company and the university where the machine had been placed for about $660,000. They said that the machine was not secured and there were no warning signs instructing students not to rock it. Coca-Cola had to put warning labels on many of the machines. They said «Don’t try to rock the machine. It can fall over and cause serious (4)… or death.» 3 a) guilty b) witness c) jury 4 a) injuries b) incident c) lawsuit
3. In 1991 Anheuser-Busch, a famous beer-making company, was sued for false and misleading advertising. In their commercials beautiful women came to life for two men driving a truck full of Bud Light beer. A beer lover named Richard Overton (5) that after he drank that beer no beautiful women turned up. In fact, having drunk the beer, he had even less success with women. The court threw out the lawsuit. 5 a) sued b) accused c) complained
4. It happened in 1992 when 79-year-old Stella Liebeck (6) a cup of coffee from the drive-through window of a local McDonald’s restaurant. She then placed the coffee cup between her knees and pulled open the plastic lid. Although the car was stationery, the cup (7) and spilled its contents all over Stella’s lap. McDonald’s coffee is served at a temperature of between 82 and 88 °C, so the old lady got severely burnt. She had to spend a week in hospital, which was followed by two years of treatment. Mrs Liebeck asked McDonald’s to (8) her for her medical costs of $11,000, but the company offered only $800. Then the old lady went to (9). A twelve-person jury found that McDonald’s was 80% responsible for the (10). They (11) her $640,000. This lawsuit soon became a common joke between lawyers. 6 a) claimed b) ordered c) booked 7 a) turned over b) went away c) dropped 8 a) cost b) compensate c) spend 9 a) law b) judge c) court 10 a) trouble b) accident c) crime 11 a) paid b) awarded c) claimed
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