Номер 10, страница 153 - гдз по английскому языку 10 класс учебник Афанасьева, Михеева

Unit 4. Man — the Seeker of Happiness. Reading - номер 10, страница 153.

Условие.

10. Read the text, complete it with the phrases below and offer your own title to the text.

a) though he passed his law exams

b) it was for the boy that

c) an idle student

d) that would take them half-way round the world

e) a longing to travel

f) according to his wishes

g) but his urge for travelling never seized

h) in several hundred acres of ground

In spite of his poor health, Robert Louis Stevenson travelled half-way round the world in pursuit of a dream – he wanted love and adventure, and found them both. From his early days he was filled with 1. ____.

Stevenson was born on 13 November, 1850 in Edinburgh. His father came from the great lighthouse engineering family. His mother with whom Stevenson shared a lung weakness that brought him close to death on many occasions, was the daughter of a clergyman. Both the parents doted on their first and only child.

At the age of seventeen Stevenson entered Edinburgh University to study engineering. On his own admission Stevenson was 2. ____ as his heart and thoughts were somewhere else; his ambition was to become a writer. Soon young Stevenson announced to his father that his chosen career was not to be lighthouse engineering but writing. Thomas Stevenson took this news calmly enough, believing it to be no more than a youthful fad, but insisted that his son should study law to provide a steady occupation, should writing fail.

Stevenson began his writing career by contributing to magazines. For some years he journeyed restlessly around Scotland and England as well as France, joking in a letter to his mother that she had a tramp and a vagabond for a son. 3. ____ he never practised law but continued writing. Soon he met the fulcrum and love of his life. In an artists’ colony in France he met a beautiful American woman, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, who was staying there with her daughter and son. For 25-year-old Stevenson it was love at first sight and when Fanny and her children returned to San Francisco, he followed them to America. They married in San Francisco

after which Stevenson, Fanny and her son Lloyd returned to Europe. And 4. ____ Stevenson made up the story of the Treasure Island. The book ensured his literary fame and became an adventure classic while Stevenson entered a most productive stage of his writing career, completing A Child’s Garden of Verses, Kidnapped and the Gothic shocker, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Now Stevenson was a celebrated writer who had a loving family and admiring friends 5. ____. Soon he made his dream come true. Following the death of his father in May 1887, Stevenson, his mother, Fanny and Lloyd set sail for America on an odyssey 6. ____. In America Stevenson hired a boat and ventured into the mysterious world of the South Seas. Stevenson’s friends found it difficult to understand his self-imposed exile. The fact was that he had more fun and pleasure of his life these past months than ever before, as he himself wrote.

Finally, Stevenson found his home at Apia [α:ˈpi:ə], the Samoan [səˈmɔən] Islands. Here, 7. ____, he built a big wooden house where he spent the happiest years of his life. Stevenson assembled round him a loyal household of Samoan servants, and installed himself, Fanny and her children, and his elderly mother Maggie.

Stevenson died aged forty-four on the point of gaining full maturity as a writer. 8. ____ he was buried at the summit of Mount Vaea ['vɛrə]. The bronze plaque on his tomb bears these famous lines from his poem Requiem:

Here he lies where he longed to be;

Home is the sailor home from the sea,

And the hunter home from the hill.

Решение 2.

10. Прочитайте текст, дополните его фразами из списка и предложите свой заголовок к тексту.

Ответ:

1.	e) a longing to travel	e) страсть к путешествиям
2.	c) an idle student	c) ленивый студент
3.	a) though he passed his law exams	a) хотя он и сдал экзамены по праву
4.	b) it was for the boy that	b) именно для мальчика
6.	d) that would take them half-way round the world	d) которая проведет их через полмира
7.	h) in several hundred acres of ground	h) на нескольких сотнях акров земли
8.	f) according to his wishes	f) согласно его желанию

Title for the text: Robert Louis Stevenson: A Life of Travel and Writing

Заголовок для текста: Роберт Льюис Стивенсон: Жизнь в путешествиях и творчестве