Стр.GV6 Grammar & Vocabulary ГДЗ Starlight Баранова 9 класс

Text completion

11. Read the text below. Use the words in brackets in the correct form so that they fit the text. Complete the gaps with those new words. Every gap corresponds to a different task (1–9).

    THE BUSINESS MEETING

    You never can tell when opportunity will knock on your door. One day, Maggie 1) ______ in the lounge area of a 5-star hotel waiting for a client. Suddenly, she 2) ______ a really famous businessman a few tables away. She couldn’t believe her eyes! When she 3) ______ over her shock, she suddenly had a brainwave and decided to go over and introduce herself.

    “Hi, I’m Maggie O’Brian,” she said confidently to the amazingly successful businessman.

    “Ermm … excuse me, but I’m about to close the 4) ______ important business deal of my life. It 5) ______ help me if I could look important. Please could you come over and say hi when my client 6) ______?”

    “Sure!” the businessman replied, to Maggie’s surprise.

    So, a few minutes after Maggie’s client arrived, the businessman approached them and said, “Maggie! I 7) ______ from you for ages! I hear business is good!”

    Immediately, Maggie turned to the businessman and said, “Mike, hi! Nice 8) ______ you! Sorry, but I’m in the middle of an important meeting right now. I’ll come over and say hi later.”

    You 9) ______ the look on her client’s face—it was priceless!

Word formation

12. Read the text below. Form derivatives from the words in brackets so that they fit the text. Complete the gaps with those new words. Every gap corresponds to a different task (1–6).

    Where no man has come before

    Satellite navigation systems (or satnavs) that help to guide us to our destinations while driving don’t work in space. The 1) ______ from the satellites, orbiting a tiny planet called Earth, are 2) ______ too great. However, scientists now think they may have worked out how to get around this problem by using a similar system to the one that 3) ______ sailors used to steer by using the stars and moon.

    A pulsar is a star that has reached the end of its life. Its end is marked by a 4) ______ explosion that destroys most of it. What is left behind spins very fast and produces a beam of x-ray light. The new system would calculate the 5) ______ times of the light from pulses on board a spacecraft in order to locate its position. This would work everywhere in the solar system, and even further. Our descendants won’t have to worry about 6) ______ GPS for space travel.