Номер D, страница 45 - гдз по английскому языку 10 класс учебник Комарова, Ларионова

4. The wrong side of the law. Reading - номер D, страница 45.

Условие.

D ЕГЭ Now read the story again and choose the best answer.

police and my parents, and I just stayed put. I didn’t even go upstairs to check if the burglars had been to my room.

My parents were there within a few minutes. My mother ran upstairs to their bedroom to check, while my father stayed with me and waited for the police. Even though the mess was terrible, it didn’t look like anything was missing, which was strange, as some of the things we had in the living room were quite expensive, like the plasma TV set we had just bought the week before.

By the time the police arrived, we had been through the rooms and knew that only one thing had been stolen: my new laptop computer. My mum kept a bit of cash and her jewellery in her bedroom, but fortunately it was all still there. Apparently, the burglars had been looking for something downstairs, and when they didn’t find it, they went straight up to my room, took my laptop and left.

The police asked us a lot of questions, dusted for fingerprints, but couldn’t find any clues to how, when or why the burglars had broken into our house. They asked my father to sign a form and said they would investigate and tell us when (and if) they had arrested anyone!

My younger brother came home shortly after the police had left. Strangely, he didn’t seem at all curious about the obvious mess that the house was in. ‘What’s up?’ he asked, as if everything was normal. It was then that I became suspicious: there had been no burglary, this was all my brother’s doing!

‘Do you have any idea where my laptop is?’ I asked (I didn’t want to accuse him of anything). That did the trick. He immediately lost his cool, broke into tears and owned up to what he had done: he had accidentally dropped my laptop before going to school that morning and had broken the screen. Rather than face the consequences, he chose to get rid of the broken laptop, and stage a burglary!

My parents forgave him. As for me, I’m not sure I’ve completely forgiven him yet!

1 Why did the writer find it difficult to believe there had been a burglary?

a Their house had never been broken into before.

b There was no sign of a burglary.

c It had always been a quiet, safe area.

d The last burglary in the neighbourhood was before she was born.

2 When she realized there had been a burglary, she

a watched a crime series on TV.

b made some phone calls.

c panicked and stayed where she was.

d checked to see if the burglars were still upstairs.

3 The family thought that the burglars

a had been looking for something, but didn’t find it.

b were only interested in cash and computers.

c were only interested in the writer’s things.

d had left fingerprints.

4 The writer first suspected her brother when he

a asked about the mess that the living room was in.

b came home late from school.

c appeared immediately after the police had left.

d didn’t ask any questions about the mess.

5 Why did the writer’s brother stage the burglary?

a He wanted to steal the writer’s laptop.

b He was afraid to admit he had broken the laptop.

c He had taken the writer’s laptop to school.

d He was jealous because he didn’t have a laptop himself.

Unified State Exam Reading 12–18 → p195

Решение.