Номер 98, страница 80 - гдз по английскому языку 10 класс (enjoy english) учебник Биболетова, Бабушис

98 Read the following article and then choose the sentence that best summarises the main idea.

1 NASA [CG] and the Russian Aerospace Agency wanted to draw attention to space exploration in an unusual way.

2 A space marriage was organized not to put off the ceremony.

3 Russian cosmonaut and his bride wanted to have the strangest wedding ever held.

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A Space Wedding

On her wedding day, Ekaterina Dmitrieva, didn’t worry, unlike many brides, that her husband-to-be wouldn’t turn up. She knew for sure that he wouldn’t be there, at least in person. At that moment the Russian astronaut Yuri Malenchenko was orbiting the Earth in a spacecraft. But he had prepared for the wedding: he was dressed up and he even had a best man.

There was nothing normal to the wedding apart from two things: the bride’s traditional white dress and the car she had arrived in. When the guests came to the reception they were greeted by a life-size cut-out figure of the groom because he wasn’t able to attend the ceremony. The couple had decided to get married while Yuri was still in space because they didn’t want to wait for the end of the extended mission.

The wedding ceremony took place in the main hall of NASA’s Space Centre in Houston. The groom and his best man, Yuri’s fellow astronaut, appeared on a video link-up between the station and the wedding hall. The service lasted 25 minutes and about two hundred people were present at it.

The bride said that the physical distance wasn’t a problem for them but they had had to overcome some difficulties as the officials didn’t want to allow them to get married till the end of the space mission.

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98 Прочтите следующую статью, а затем выберите предложение, которое лучше всего отражает ее основную идею.

Ответ:

98 The sentence that best summarises the main idea is: 2 A space marriage was organized not to put off the ceremony.

98 Предложение, которое лучше всего отражает основную идею, это: 2 Космическая свадьба была организована, чтобы не откладывать церемонию.