Упр.4a Уроки 5-6 Юнит 4 New Millennium English 11 класс

Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Казырбаева, Дворецкая 11 класс, Титул: 4 A. Read the text and answer the questions alongside it. SCEPTICAL MAGICIAN Dr Robin West is a leading British parapsychologist who has spent much of his career investigating the paranormal. Here, he recounts his experience of a seance in London. I started out as a professional magician. In a job like that, you soon — develop interest in the supernatural and unexplained phenomena. However, I had never really believed in stories about contacting the spirits of the dead and had remained sceptical about seances. But I’ve always been driven by curiosity and I decided to set up an experiment. I gathered a group of acquaintances together in London, and we decided to try to contact the spirit of a famous music-hall singer who was murdered around 1990. We sat in a circle round a table in a darkened room and held hands. It was vital that we did not break the circle. It was a tense half hour. Luminous objects moved around the room and messages really arrived from the spirit world. For us all it was both terrifying and puzzling. We didn’t have any idea what caused the objects to move. If I hadn’t experienced it all first-hand, I’m not sure whether I would have believed it. Now I’m planning to investigate these mysteries more thoroughly. Experiments in Edinburgh have shown that human beings can communicate without using any of their five senses, so I’m keen to do some research into telepathy. *Цитирирование части задания со ссылкой на учебник производится исключительно в учебных целях для лучшего понимания разбора решения задания.

Ответ

1. Dr Robin West is a leading British parapsychologist.
2. He started out as a professional magician.
3. He had never really believed in stories about contacting the spirits of the dead and had remained sceptical about seances.
4. He decided to set up an experiment because he was driven by curiosity.
5. He gathered a group of acquaintances together in London.
6. They tried to contact the spirit of a famous music-hall singer who was murdered around 1990.
7. They sat in a circle round a table in a darkened room and held hands.
8. It was vital that they did not break the circle.
9. Luminous objects moved around the room and messages arrived from the spirit world.
10. He is planning to investigate these mysteries more thoroughly and do some research into telepathy.