Номер 1, страница 65 - гдз по английскому языку 10 класс учебник Афанасьева, Михеева

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My name is Maggie Cade. I would like to tell you about a very special man in my life. He was a fount of knowledge and a storyteller, a family man and a true gentleman. He was not tall or even good-looking. In fact, he was short, not very young and quite bald. My mother called him one of nature's gentlemen, but I just called him Grandad. He was a gentle country man who had worked close to the natural world. He was always willing to share his experiences with us children, and he told me many sayings and anecdotes. A simple walk with him turned into a journey of exploration and wonder. My Grandad was always ready to answer lots of questions of a child thirsty for information. History came to life as he began speaking about his youth. I learned a lot from the stories of his days on the farm, where he had been sent to be a farm boy. Over the years, I have found that many things in his stories are absolutely true. For instance, if the sun shines at midday on Christmas Day, then we can expect a good fruit season.

Are you skeptical? Don't you believe? Well, wait and see. He was a real family man in every sense of the word. He loved his daughter and his grandchildren, and tried to do everything he could for them. A lot of fruit and vegetables grew in his home garden. He admired flowers too, but never grew them himself. You can't eat flowers, he said to me. He had a cart to carry his things to and from the field. It was really just an orange box on four wheels. But he was proud of it. He was not a churchgoer, this man I loved so much, but he loved his God in the natural way of his daily life. I feel that of all the people I have ever known, he had the greatest influence on me, both as a child and as a grown-up.