Упр.1 Unit 1 Reader ГДЗ English Кузовлев 10-11 класс
Weather can affect the people’s lives greatly. The article below describes an extreme natural event.
- Look through the article and answer the questions on page 5. (reading for specific information)
Deep Freeze
The harshest winter weather in a decade lashes Europe, disrupting travel by air, land and sea — and claims the lives of hundreds
BY DAVID GORDON
The new year made a stormy entrance last week, lashing the Continent with the severest cold snap in a decade. Snow, ice and subfreezing temperatures spelled chaos, and sometimes death, from the Mediterranean to the Urals. More than 220 deaths, mostly among the homeless and the elderly, were reported as far south as Valencia, Spain.
Travel became a Homeric task. In the Caucasus, an avalanche sealed 300 people in a mountain tunnel connecting Russia and Georgia for days. Air traffic was disrupted as was train travel. A Paris-bound Eurostar train carrying some 500 passengers got stuck in the Chunnel for more than two hours, its engine stalled by snow. Ice clogged river traffic on the Loire, Elbe, Main and Danube. Even England’s Thames froze in places for the first time since 1963.
The brutal weather put a damper on New Year celebrations. Those who booked holiday trips to resorts on the Adriatic found snow, not sun, on beaches. Parisians ice-skated in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower early in the week, but by New Year’s Day the city was a ghost town as its citizens hid from the chill. In London, the freeze even muzzled the chimes of Big Ben for a few hours on New Year’s Eve.
The cold snap didn’t spoil all the fun. In London, brave bathers still took the annual New Year’s Day dip in Hyde Park’s Serpentine. And in the Netherlands, some 16,000 Dutch donned ice skates Saturday for a 200-kilometer race across the frozen lakes and canals in Friesland. That’s marking the best of a bitter situation.
What is the title of the article?
Where was the article published?
What section was it published in?
What extreme natural event is it about?
What is the main idea of the article?
- The following photos show some of the places and things mentioned in the article. What are they? What happened in these places and with these things during the deep freeze? (reading for detail)
1)
- Title of the article: Deep Freeze.
- Where was it published? In The New York Times.
- What section was it published in? In the World section.
- What extreme natural event is it about? It is about a severe cold snap / extreme winter weather in Europe.
- Main idea of the article: The article describes how the harsh winter weather caused chaos, disrupted transport, and affected people’s lives across Europe.
2)
- Europe — the continent was hit by severe frost, snow and ice.
- A mountain tunnel in the Caucasus — about 300 people were trapped there by an avalanche.
- The Eurostar train / the Chunnel — the train got stuck for more than two hours because of snow.
- The River Thames — it froze in places for the first time since 1963.
- Hyde Park’s Serpentine — brave bathers still took the New Year’s Day dip there.
- Friesland, the Netherlands — 16,000 people put on ice skates for a 200-kilometre race across frozen lakes and canals.
