Упр.4a Модуль 8d ГДЗ Spotlight 11 класс
Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Юлия Ваулина, Джунни Дули 11 класс, Просвещение: 4 a Match the highlighted words with their meanings below. • blown • be enough • imagine sth to be true • spotted • moving downwards & forwards • attached • happened to • thin ropes • details • tried • cracked or divided in two It would not be proper, for some reasons, to trouble the reader) with the particulars of our adventures in those seas; let it suffice , to inform him, that during our voyage to the East Indies, we were driven by a violent storm to the north-west of Van Diemen’s Land. We found ourselves in the latitude of 30 degrees 2 minutes south. Twelve of our crew were dead due to over-work and poor food; the rest were in a very weak condition. On the 5th of November, 1 … the weather being very hazy, the seamen spied a rock within half a cable’s length of the ship; but the wind was so strong that we were driven directly onto it, and the ship immediately split. Six of the crew, including myself, having let down the boat into the sea, attempted to get clear of the ship and the rock. I estimate that we rowed about three leagues’, till we were able to row no longer, being already exhausted from our labour on the ship. We therefore trusted) ourselves to the mercy of the waves. 2 … What became of my companions in the boat, as well as of those who escaped on the rock, or were left in the vessel2,1 don’t know; but I must assume that they were all lost. As for me, I swam as fortune directed me. and was pushed forward by wind and tide. I often let my legs drop, and could) feel no bottom; but when I was almost gone, and able to struggle no longer, I found that I could touch the bottom; and by this time the storm had calmed. The slope was so small that I walked almost a mile *Цитирирование части задания со ссылкой на учебник производится исключительно в учебных целях для лучшего понимания разбора решения задания.
1. spied — spotted
2. let it suffice — be enough
3. imagine — imagine sth to be true
4. driven — blown
5. let down — attached
6. rowed — tried
7. trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves — happened to
8. pushed forward — moving downwards & forwards
9. could feel no bottom — details
10. split — cracked or divided in two
