Упр.4 Unit 1 Reader ГДЗ English Кузовлев 10-11 класс
What country was Rusty in evacuation in? What was Rusty’s native country? (reading for detail)
“How are you finding England?” Before Rusty could answer, her mother said, “She did live here before, you know.”
“Sure you did, but how does it compare with the good old U.S. of A.?”
Now Rusty was stymied. If she said she preferred America, her mother would get angry. If she said she liked England, Mitch (an American) would get mad.
“Difficult to choose, eh?” said Mitch.
“Uh-huh. There’s good things in both.”
Rusty told her friends a lot about America. What did she tell them about? Why? What didn’t she tell them about? Why not? (reading for detail)
“Tell us about America.” So Rusty told them about blueberry pie, and milk shakes with walnut syrup, and how she had seen a wonderful film called The Wizard of Oz and was in colour. And she told them how they made Valentines and how she went through crazes of collecting things like coins. And she told them how they sometimes had corn muffins for breakfast, and how one afternoon they’d been taken to see a brand-new musical called Oklahoma and there were cowboys dancing and singing. And how they’d make fudge and listen to phonograph records. And she told them they had been spending time at their summer cottage on Lake Champlain. She loved it there, no matter what time of the year it was. Sometimes, even in the winter, she and Skeet would go and stay with them and camp out in the cottage, and they’d go ice-boating and skating on the frozen lake.
Rusty was absolutely the centre of attention. Everyone was listening, wide-eyed, to her. She left out the fact that she had to save up all her money and do odd jobs so that she could go to the cinema and buy milk shakes and roller-skates.
How did Rusty usually spend free time?
Find in the text on page 10 all the sentences with ’d. Give the full forms of the verbs.
In America, there were things that were not common in England in those days. What things did the English people never hear about in those days? What spheres of life were they connected with? Fill in the table. (reading for detail/making notes)
Rusty shivered. She couldn’t understand how her mother and brother could bear not having a coat on. Beth didn’t think it was cold at all, either. “It’s only September,” she had said that morning. “It gets far colder than this. I thought you’d be used to it. Don’t they have snow in Connecticut?”
“Sure they do,” Rusty had replied. “But we have this thing called central heating. Ever heard of it?”
Rusty looked at the writing on the envelope. It was Skeet’s (her American friend). She was about to open it when on second thoughts she put it into her blazer pocket.
“Aren’t you going to open it?” said her grandmother.
“Sure. Later.”
“Unless, of course, you have something to hide.”
“Ever heard of privacy?” thought Rusty.
“Children shouldn’t have secrets from grown-ups.”
“Oh, Mother, I’m almost a teenager.”
“A what?”
“A teenager.”
“What on earth is a teenager?”
“Someone who’s thirteen, or fourteen, or fifteen… Don’t you call them that here?”
“I’ve never heard the expression.”
Was it only a few weeks ago that she was in America, and Janey and her American sister were nuts over Frank Sinatra? She began humming.
“What’s that tune?” said Beth.
“This is A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening. It’s one of the songs Frank Sinatra sings. Don’t you know it?”
“No. I’ve never even heard of him. Is he popular in America?”
“Popular? He’s the tops. Everyone’s crazy about him.”
WORD POWER
How do you understand the highlighted words? Choose the correct meaning from the following.
- to be just ready to do something
- to be interested and eager about somebody or something
- to be very fond of or interested in something or somebody
- a thought that a past opinion may not be right
Rusty returned home just before Christmas. How did she feel about Christmas at home? (reading for the main idea)
The night before Christmas Eve, Rusty’s father allowed her to go with her mother and Charlie to see the Christmas lights. They took a train to London. Rusty was disappointed. Compared with the Christmas lights in America, the English ones were a washout. But Charlie was completely impressed by them. Christmas Day was orderly and quiet. After a polite meal of chicken and vegetables, they all went into the drawing room, where a small Christmas tree stood in the corner. It was so unlike the noisy Vermont Christmases, where the tree was as high as the ceiling, and where endless gifts and candy and popcorn hung from the branches and filled half the floor space.
What contrast words show that Rusty was not impressed by the holiday? Find the missing pair in the text.
was impressed — quiet — small Christmas tree — bright lights
Rusty said, “It’s different back home.” From Rusty’s point of view, how different were the two countries in the 1940s? Complete the chart. (making notes)
Here are some things and people that Rusty told her friends about. What did you learn about them?
Rusty was in evacuation in England. Her native country was America / the U.S.A.
She told them about blueberry pie, milk shakes with walnut syrup, The Wizard of Oz, Valentines, collecting coins, corn muffins, Oklahoma, fudge, phonograph records and their summer cottage on Lake Champlain.
She told them about these things because they were unusual and interesting for her English friends.
She did not tell them that she had to save up money and do odd jobs to go to the cinema, buy milk shakes and roller-skates, because that was less pleasant and she did not want to spoil the picture of America.
When Rusty lived in America, she and her family would spend time at their summer cottage on Lake Champlain, go ice-boating and skating on the frozen lake.
The full forms are:
- they’d = they had
- they’d = they would
- she’d = she had
Things English people had never heard about Sphere of life central heating home / everyday life privacy personal life / family relations teenager age / social life Frank Sinatra music / entertainment The highlighted words mean:
- to be just ready to do something — about to
- to be interested and eager about somebody or something — nuts over
- to be very fond of or interested in something or somebody — crazy about
- a thought that a past opinion may not be right — on second thoughts
Rusty was disappointed with Christmas at home. She thought the English Christmas was quiet, small and dull compared with the noisy, bright Christmases in America.
The missing pair is noisy Christmases.
America England bright Christmas lights quiet Christmas Day noisy Christmases small Christmas tree big tree, lots of gifts and candy polite meal, orderly and quiet summer cottage, ice-boating, skating more reserved and simple life Rusty told her friends about American food, films, holidays, hobbies, music and family life. She learned that America seemed bright, lively and exciting, while England was more quiet, modest and reserved.
