Стр.94-95 Unit 9 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 11 класс

Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Вербицкая, Камине Д.Карр, Парсонс 11 класс, Просвещение: READING AND VOCABULARY
1 In pairs, read the list of situations and answer questions 1-3.
• You strike up a conversation with someone and discover you have a friend in common.
• You think about someone, and shortly afterwards they phone or email you.
• You go shopping alone and buy the same clothes as a close friend.
• Twin brothers have girlfriends with the same name.
1 Have you experienced any of these coincidences or others like it? If so, how and when?
2 Which was, or would be, the strangest or most unusual for you? Why?
3 Do you think coincidences happen for a reason, or are purely chance events? Why?
2 Read the blurb on the back of the novel and look at the sketch. What’s the central plot of the book?
Isabel Dalhousie, the charming, well-intentioned editor of a philosophy journal in The Sunday Philosophy Club, is back in Alexander McCall Smith’s new book, Friends, Lovers, Chocolate.
Isabel’s inability to ignore people in need inevitably involves her in unusual situations. By chance she meets Ian, a psychologist, who recently had a heart transplant. Ian tells her about a serious problem, which might prevent his recovery. He’s been having disturbing visions of an unfamiliar face — a face he thinks his new heart might remember … Isabel is intrigued and finds herself involved in a dangerous investigation. But she still has time to think about the things that possess her — like love and friendship and, of course, chocolate …
PART I
‘What are you getting involved in now?’
Over the next few minutes, Isabel told him about her chance meeting with Ian and about their conversation at the Scottish Arts Club. Jamie was interested — she could tell that — although he, like Isabel herself, seemed incredulous when she mentioned cellular memory.
«There’s a rational explanation for these things,’ he said when she had finished talking. «There always is. And I just don’t see how anything other than brain cells could store memory. I just don’t. And that’s on the strength of my school biology course. It’s that basic.’
‘But that’s exactly the problem,’ retorted Isabel. We’re all stuck with the same tried and trusted ideas. If we refused to entertain the possibility of something radically different, then we’d never make any progress — ever. We’d still be thinking that the sun revolved round the earth.’
Jamie affected surprise. ‘Isabel, don’t start challenging that now!’
Isabel accepted his scepticism good-naturedly. ‘I should point out that I’m completely agnostic on all this,’ she said. ‘All I’m doing is trying to keep an open mind.’
‘And where does this take you?’ asked Jamie. So what if the cells in the transplanted heart or whatever think they remember a face. So what?’
Isabel looked about her, for no reason other than that she felt a slight twinge of fear. That was in itself irrational, but she felt it.
«The face that he remembers could be the face of the driver who killed the donor,’ she said. ‘It could have been imprinted in memory – whatever sort of memory — after he’d been knocked down and the driver came and looked down at him.’
Jamie’s lip curled. ‘Really, Isabel!’
‘Yes,’ she said quickly. ‘Really. And if it is the face of the driver, then we may have a description of the person responsible for the death.»
Jamie thought for a moment. It was now obvious to him what Isabel had been doing in the library. ‘You’ve found a report of the accident?» he asked. ‘You know who the donor was?’
‘I think so,’ said Isabel. ‘We know that the donor was a young man. That’s as much as Ian knows. So I put two and two together and concluded that a sudden, violent death on the day on which they called Ian in for his transplant would probably supply the identity of the donor. And it has. There’s nothing brilliant in that. It’s all pretty obvious.’
But was it? It crossed her mind that she was assuming too much, and too readily. There might have been other incidents, other young men 56 who could have been donors, but no, Edinburgh was not a very large place. It would be unlikely that two young men had died a sudden death that night. Her assumption, she decided, was reasonable.
3 Listen and read Part 1 of the extract. Complete sentences 1-9 with Isabel, Jamie, Ian or the donor.
1 … was willing to consider theories that have not been scientifically proved.
2 … might’ve died in a car accident.
3 … was troubled by strange visions.
4 … was sceptical about the idea that heart cells can remember events and images.
5 … had a heart transplant.
6 … had been doing some research before this conversation took place.
7 … might’ve seen the face of the driver before he died.
8 … knew the heart donor was young.
9 … believed the person who’d died in the accident was the heart donor.
4 Match 1-5 with a-e to make phrases from the extract.
1 tried and
2 entertain the
3 keep
4 a twinge
5 put two
a possibility
b and two together
c of fear
d trusted
e an open mind
5 Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the phrases from Exercise 4.
1 When she heard footsteps behind her, she couldn’t help feeling a twinge of fear.
2 I’m not sure whether I like him or not. I am keeping an open mind at the moment.
3 Ann’s not a very adventurous cook. She always sticks to the same tried and trusted recipes.
4 He loved his home town and had never even entertained the possibility of living abroad.
5 After she’d seen him with the same girl for the third time, she put two and two together.
6 Before you look at Part 2, discuss these questions.
• Are Isabel’s assumptions about the identity of the donor reasonable? Why?/Why not?
• Will Jamie support Isabel in her investigations? Why?/Why not?
• What will Isabel do next? Why?
7 T060 Listen and read Part 2 of the extract on page 96. Are the statements true or false? Were your predictions correct?
1 Jamie had become involved in Isabel’s investigations before.
2 Isabel had already assumed that Jamie would want to help her.
3 Neither of them knew if the police had identified the driver.
4 Ian had described the face of the man he kept imagining to Isabel.
5 Isabel believed that the police would act on the information she had.
6 She felt obliged to take responsibility for problems of people she met.
7 Isabel believed that justice must be done. *Цитирирование части задания со ссылкой на учебник производится исключительно в учебных целях для лучшего понимания разбора решения задания.

Ответ

3

1. Isabel
2. the donor
3. Ian
4. Jamie
5. Ian
6. Isabel
7. the donor
8. Ian
9. Isabel

4

1. d — tried and trusted
2. a — entertain the possibility
3. e — keep an open mind
4. c — a twinge of fear
5. b — put two and two together

5

1. When she heard footsteps behind her, she couldn’t help feeling a twinge of fear.
2. I’m not sure whether I like him or not. I am keeping an open mind at the moment.
3. Ann’s not a very adventurous cook. She always sticks to the same tried and trusted recipes.
4. He loved his home town and had never even entertained the possibility of living abroad.
5. After she’d seen him with the same girl for the third time, she put two and two together.