Упр.26 Unit 3 ГДЗ English Михеева 11 класс

Задача

A. Stricken is the past participle of the verb to strike, its old form. You can still find it in some compounds. Think and say how you can explain the meanings of these words:

grief-stricken
panic-stricken
poverty-stricken
terror-stricken
drought-stricken

B. Complete these sentences using the compounds from part A.

At that moment it occurred to me that I was just wasting my time. The girl was _____. She was trembling all over and couldn’t concentrate on what I was telling her.
He was _ on the thought he might never play again.
The _ areas evidently couldn’t do without additional food and water supplies.
Whenever he was about to fly in an aeroplane he became__.
The suburbs of big cities are sometimes _ and their dwellers live from hand to mouth.
Gladys was _ after losing her whole family in a car accident.
The town was _ after the newspapers wrote about a maniac haunting the neighbourhood.
This area in central Africa is often _, which causes a lot of problems among the population.
Every time she thought about the coming exams she was _____. She thought she would never be able to pass them.
Isn’t it a shame that in this _ country a small minority of people have money to burn.

Подробный ответ

A. These compounds mean:

grief-stricken — full of grief, very sad
panic-stricken — full of panic, very frightened
poverty-stricken — very poor, suffering from poverty
terror-stricken — full of terror, extremely afraid
drought-stricken — suffering from drought, with very little or no rain

At that moment it occurred to me that I was just wasting my time. The girl was panic-stricken. She was trembling all over and couldn’t concentrate on what I was telling her.
He was grief-stricken on the thought he might never play again.
The drought-stricken areas evidently couldn’t do without additional food and water supplies.
Whenever he was about to fly in an aeroplane he became panic-stricken.
The suburbs of big cities are sometimes poverty-stricken and their dwellers live from hand to mouth.
Gladys was grief-stricken after losing her whole family in a car accident.
The town was terror-stricken after the newspapers wrote about a maniac haunting the neighbourhood.
This area in central Africa is often drought-stricken, which causes a lot of problems among the population.
Every time she thought about the coming exams she was panic-stricken. She thought she would never be able to pass them.
Isn’t it a shame that in this poverty-stricken country a small minority of people have money to burn.