Упр.9 Юнит 3 Урок 1415 ГДЗ Happy English Кауфман 11 класс

Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Кауфман 11 класс, Титул: 9 Read the cases and say: 1. What businesses were sued? 2. What were they accused of? 3. What happened in each of the stories as a result of the business’s «mistake»? A woman from Israel sued 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 and caught a cold. She had to miss four days of work and spend $38 on medication. 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. 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. Amber Carson from Pennsylvania sued a Philadelphia restaurant after she slipped on a spilled drink and broke a bone. In its defence the restaurant manager pointed out that the reason, the soft drink was on the floor, was that Ms Carson herself had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. 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 complained that after he drank that beer, no beautiful women turned up. In fact, having drunk the beer, he had even less success with women. A lot of American cars have a cruise control. This is a system that automatically controls the speed of a car, so if you have a long way to go, you don’t need to push the accelerator all the time. You can just set the cruise control. Mrs Grazinski from Oklahoma City bought herself a new camper van. On her way home she set the cruise control at 70 m.p.h., quietly left the driver’s seat and went to the back of her camper van to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the camper van crashed and overturned. The woman sued the manufacturer for not explaining in the owner’s manual that the cruise control couldn’t actually drive instead of her. *Цитирирование части задания со ссылкой на учебник производится исключительно в учебных целях для лучшего понимания разбора решения задания.

Ответ

1. The TV station, the Coca-Cola Company and the university, a Philadelphia restaurant, Anheuser-Busch, and the manufacturer of the camper van.
2. They were accused of a wrong weather forecast, not securing the vending machine and not warning students, serving a drink that caused a fall, false and misleading advertising, and not explaining that cruise control could not drive the van by itself.
3. As a result, the woman got wet and caught a cold; Kevin Mackle was killed; Amber Carson broke a bone; Richard Overton had no success with women; Mrs Grazinski’s camper van crashed and overturned.