Упр.2 Unit 1 Секция 6 Рабочая тетрадь 1 ГДЗ Enjoy English 9 класс
Do you know what the famous rock opera “Unona and Avos” is about? Read about some of the historical facts the opera was based on. Then complete the sentences with the verbs in their appropriate forms.
The rock opera “Unona and Avos” was based on a real story. It is the love story of a Russian traveller Nicholai Rezanov and a Spanish girl Conchita. In 1806 Nicholai Rezanov, one of the heads of the Russian-American Trading Company, (1) __________ an expedition to California. Two ships, “Unona” and “Avos”, sailed from Novo-Archangelsk to San Francisco. California was a Spanish colony in those times, and the aim of the expedition (2) __________ to establish trading relations with the Spanish colonists. Rezanov’s mission was very important as Russian settlements in Alaska (3) __________ food badly. He knew that people were starving there, as he (4) __________ to those settlements himself. In California the Russian traveller met a young daughter of the governor of California and they (5) __________ in love with each other. They wanted to get married, but they (6) __________ church permission as Conchita was a Catholic. It took Rezanov six weeks to buy the food, and the ships sailed back to Alaska. Conchita expected him to return in a year and bring church permission. However, Rezanov didn’t return. Conchita waited for him for many years before she learned that he (7) __________ in Krasnoyarsk on his way to St Petersburg. She never married any other man and spent her life taking care of the native people and the poor.
1. arranged — Past Simple, так как речь идёт о событии в прошлом.
2. was — в прошедшем времени для описания цели экспедиции.
3. needed — Past Simple, действие произошло в прошлом.
4. had been — Past Perfect, потому что это действие произошло раньше другого прошлого события.
5. fell — Past Simple, последовательность событий в прошлом.
6. needed — Past Simple, речь о прошлом факте.
7. had died — Past Perfect, так как смерть произошла раньше момента, когда Кончита узнала об этом.
Ответ: 1) arranged; 2) was; 3) needed; 4) had been; 5) fell; 6) needed; 7) had died.
