Упр.26 Unit 3 ГДЗ English Михеева 11 класс

Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Михеева, Афанасьева 11 класс, Просвещение: 26. А. Stricken is the past participle of the verb /о 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. 1. 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. 2. He was _ on the thought he might never play again. 3. The _ areas evidently couldn’t do without additional food and water supplies. 4. Whenever he was about to fly in an aeroplane he became__ 5. The suburbs of big cities are sometimes _ and their dwellers live from hand to mouth. 6. Gladys was _ after losing her whole family in a car accident. 7. The town was _ after the newspapers wrote about a maniac haunting the neighbourhood. 8. This area in central Africa is often _, which causes a lot of problems among the population. 9. Every time she thought about the coming exams she was She thought she would never be able to pass them. 10. Isn’t it a shame that in this _ country a small minority of people have money to burn. *Цитирирование части задания со ссылкой на учебник производится исключительно в учебных целях для лучшего понимания разбора решения задания.

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

B.

1. 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.
2. He was grief-stricken on the thought he might never play again.
3. The drought-stricken areas evidently couldn’t do without additional food and water supplies.
4. Whenever he was about to fly in an aeroplane he became panic-stricken.
5. The suburbs of big cities are sometimes poverty-stricken and their dwellers live from hand to mouth.
6. Gladys was grief-stricken after losing her whole family in a car accident.
7. The town was terror-stricken after the newspapers wrote about a maniac haunting the neighbourhood.
8. This area in central Africa is often drought-stricken, which causes a lot of problems among the population.
9. Every time she thought about the coming exams she was panic-stricken. She thought she would never be able to pass them.
10. Isn’t it a shame that in this poverty-stricken country a small minority of people have money to burn.