Стр.14 Unit 1 Интересные жизни ГДЗ Комарова Ларионова 8 класс

Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Комарова, Ларионова 8 класс, Русское слово: Culture today
Nobel Prizewinners
There are six Nobel Prizes every year, for literature, peace, economics, medicine, physics and chemistry. The first Nobel Prizes were in 1901. Their founder was Alfred Nobel, a Swedish scientist, inventor and author. Nobel was the inventor of dynamite, but he was also a pacifist.
Winning women
Doris Lessing is a famous British writer. Her books include The Golden Notebook and The Grass is Singing.
In 2007, she was the oldest person to win a Nobel Prize -at the age of 87! In addition to being a writer, Doris Lessing was also a campaigner against apartheid in South Africa.
I n 2004, Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Her great achievement was to plant trees in Kenya. When Wangari was young, there were a lot of trees in her country, but later there was a process of deforestation. As a result, there wasn’t enough food and clean water. Wangari and her friends were very hard-working — they planted 30 million trees!
Gertrude Elion was an American biochemist. She was the winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1988. When Gertrude was young, there weren’t many opportunities for female scientists. But she was confident, and in the end her work was very important. Her inventions include drugs for diseases like malaria and leukemia.
Marie Curie was a Polish scientist, and she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. In fact, she was the winner of two Nobel Prizes — for physics (1903) and chemistry (1911). Marie Curie’s great discovery was radium. In the family there were three Nobel Prize winners -Marie Curie, her husband Pierre and their daughter Irene.
DID YOU KNOW …?
There are more than 770 Nobel Prize winners, but only 34 are women!
1 Read the text quickly. Match paragraphs 1-4 with these Nobel Prize categories.
peace
medicine
science
literature
2 (08) Read and listen to the text. Look at these definitions and then find the words in the text.
1 a substance that causes explosions
2 a system of racism that existed in South Africa
3 something successful that a person does
4 when trees disappear
5 illnesses, sicknesses
6 a science subject: physics, biology and …
3 Read the text again and answer the questions.
1 Who was the oldest woman to win a Nobel Prize?
2 Where was Wangari Maathai born?
3 What was her great achievement?
4 Was Gertrude Elion a writer?
5 Why is Marie Curie famous?
6 How many Nobel winners were there in her family?
4 Your voice Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.
1 Do you think girls and boys are good at different things?
2 Have a class vote: do you prefer science or arts subjects?
*Цитирирование части задания со ссылкой на учебник производится исключительно в учебных целях для лучшего понимания разбора решения задания.

Ответ

1. 1 — literature; 2 — peace; 3 — science; 4 — medicine.

2. 1 — dynamite
2 — apartheid
3 — achievement
4 — deforestation
5 — diseases
6 — science

3.
1. Doris Lessing was the oldest woman to win a Nobel Prize.
2. Wangari Maathai was born in Kenya.
3. Her great achievement was planting 30 million trees in Kenya.
4. No, she wasn’t. She was a biochemist.
5. Marie Curie is famous for her discoveries in physics and chemistry, especially for radium.
6. There were three Nobel Prize winners in her family.