Номер 1, страница 48 - гдз по английскому языку 10 класс учебник Афанасьева, Михеева

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In our class, there are many good skiers. John thinks he's the best, but I know that Andrew is he's much better. I'm not bad at skiing. There are three more boys in my class who are not bad at skiing either. Mike is probably the worst skier in our class. He's quite a bad skier.

The sport I like best is skiing. I think it's the most exciting sport of all. I believe it's certainly more interesting and more fun to go skiing than to go swimming or anything else. I also think that it is more fun to do cross-country skiing than normal skiing. The kind of skiing I like least is downhill skiing. It's much too dangerous.

Last Christmas, I spent two weeks at a skiing school. It wasn't much fun really. First, we all got up at six thirty every morning. That was terrible. We also made our beds ourselves. Then we went to the gym to do twenty minutes of exercise and then after that, we had our breakfast. At nine o'clock, the training began. We didn't stop until ten thirty, and then we had a twenty minute coffee break. After the break, we went to the hills again and skied till lunchtime. You can imagine how tired we were.

Some people say that skiing goes back to the Stone Age. Long before Christianity appeared, people used skis in Scandinavia. They even had a goddess of skiing and their winter god was shown on a pair of skis. The first skis were often made of animal bones and were used as a kind of transport.

Skiing as a sport began in Norway. In winter, snow covered the ground there for long periods of time. It was necessary to use skis to get about. When people went hunting in the mountains or had to visit neighboring villages or go to visit the market, they had to use skis. It may surprise you to know that there were skiing competitions for prizes in seventeen sixty-seven.

In his interview, Tony Clemer, a famous downhill skier, speaks about his favorite sport. He says skiing is an exciting and healthy sport that keeps people fit. It is great fun for many skiers to take part in competitions. But Ton admits that sometimes accidents happen when people ski. He says that skiing can be dangerous.