Упр.2 Unit 5 Тест в Рабочей тетради ГДЗ English Кузовлев 7 класс
II READING COMPREHENSION
Here is an extract from the story “Under a Spreading Chestnut Tree” about Henry Longfellow, a popular American poet, and his friends. Read the story and mark the statements 1–9 T (true), F (false) or U (unstated).
Henry Longfellow lived on Brattle Street in Cambridge and worked at Harvard University. Every day when he walked to work he went by a large chestnut tree. Longfellow admired the tree so much that one day he decided to write a poem “The Village Blacksmith” which became one of his most famous poems.
Longfellow was a very popular person who a lot of people visited every day. Among these people were Charles Dickens and Pedro II, the emperor of Brazil who Longfellow wrote to in Portuguese. But there were also not-so-famous neighbours, especially the children.
The city of Cambridge grew and townspeople decided to cut down the chestnut tree, which Longfellow made famous. Longfellow’s neighbours and friends decided to make an armchair for Longfellow from the tree’s wood. Seven hundred children donated money to pay for the chair. They gave the armchair to Longfellow on his seventy-second birthday on February 27, 1879. They also gave him a book that had the names of all the children who had contributed.
Longfellow was happy with his birthday present. He put the chair in his study and showed it to his visitors. Longfellow wanted to thank the children and wrote a poem, “From My Armchair”. When one of the children who had contributed to the chair came to visit him, Longfellow let the child sit in the armchair and gave him or her a copy of the poem “From My Armchair”.
- Henry Longfellow worked at Cambridge University.
- Every day Henry Longfellow walked to see a large chestnut tree.
- Longfellow wrote a poem under the chestnut tree.
- Longfellow was a person who visited a lot of popular people every day.
- Henry Longfellow made friends with popular and not-so-popular neighbours.
- Children raised money for making an armchair from the chestnut tree’s wood.
- The book, which Longfellow’s friends gave him as a present, had his name.
- Longfellow wrote a poem “From My Armchair” because he wanted to say “Thank you” to the children.
- When the children who had donated money visited him, Longfellow wrote them new poems.
- F — Henry Longfellow worked at Harvard University, not at Cambridge University.
- T — Every day he walked by a large chestnut tree on his way to work.
- F — He wrote the poem The Village Blacksmith, not under the chestnut tree.
- F — The text says that many people visited him every day, but not that he visited popular people every day.
- U — The text says he had both famous and not-so-famous visitors, but it does not say that he made friends with them.
- T — Seven hundred children donated money for the armchair.
- U — The book had the names of the children who contributed, but it does not say that it had Longfellow’s name.
- T — Longfellow wrote From My Armchair to thank the children.
- T — When a child who had contributed visited him, he gave the child a copy of the poem.
