Номер 3, страница 7 - гдз по английскому языку 11 класс рабочая тетрадь Афанасьева, Михеева

Unit one. Sounds of music - номер 3, страница 7.

Условие.

Read the text and do the tasks (1–6) after it circling one of the letters (A–D).

Musical Cat

(Part 1)

After lunch Louisa, as usual, went to the piano. She was a competent pianist and a genuine music-lover, and almost every afternoon she spent an hour or so playing for herself. The cat was now lying on the sofa, and she paused to stroke it as she went by. It opened its eyes, looked at her for a moment, then closed them again and went back to sleep.

“You’re an awfully nice cat,” she said. “And such a beautiful colour. I wish I could keep you.”

She went over and sat down on the long piano bench, but she didn’t immediately start to play. One of her special little pleasures was to make every day a concert day, with a carefully arranged programme which she worked out in detail before she began. She never liked to break her enjoyment by having to stop while she wondered what to play next. All she wanted was a brief pause after each piece while the audience clapped enthusiastically and called for more. It was so much nicer to imagine an audience, and now and again while she was playing — on the lucky days — the room would begin to swim and fade and darken, and she would see nothing but row after row of seats and a sea of white faces upturned towards her, listening with a rapt and adoring concentration.

Sometimes she played from memory, sometimes from music. Today she would play from memory; that was the way she felt.

And what should the programme be? She sat before the piano with her small hands clasped on her lap, a plump rosy little person with a round and still quite pretty face. By looking slightly to the right, she could see the cat curled up asleep on the sofa, and its silvery-grey coat was beautiful against the purple of the cushion. How about some Bach to begin with? Or, better still, Vivaldi? Then perhaps a little Schumann. Vivaldi? That would be fun. And after that — well, a touch of Liszt for a change. One of the Petrarch Sonnets. The second one — that was the loveliest — the E major. Then another Schumann. And lastly, for the encore a Brahms waltz, or maybe two of them if she felt like it.

A very nice programme, one that she could play easily without the music. She moved herself a little closer to the piano... lifted her hands to the keyboard and began to play. She wasn’t at that particular moment watching the cat at all — as a matter of fact she had forgotten its presence — but as the first deep notes of the Vivaldi sounded softly in the room, she became aware out of the corner of one eye, of a sudden flurry, a flash of movement on the sofa to her right. She stopped playing at once.

The animal, who a few seconds before had been sleeping peacefully, was now sitting bolt upright on the sofa, very tense, the whole body aquiver, ears up and eyes wide open, staring at the cat’s face closely now. She was curious to see what would happen a second time — she reached out her hands to the keyboard and began again to play the Vivaldi.

This time the cat was ready for it, and all that happened to begin with was a small extra tensing of the body. But as the music swelled and quickened into that first exciting rhythm of the introduction to the fugue, a strange look that amounted almost to ecstasy began to settle upon the creature’s face. At that moment Louisa could have sworn that the animal was actually appreciating the work.

What she saw (or thought she saw) was something she had noticed many times on the faces of people listening very closely to a piece of music. When the sound takes complete hold of them and drowns them in itself, a peculiar intensely ecstatic look comes over them that you can recognise as easily as a smile. So far as Louisa could see, the cat was now wearing almost exactly this kind of look.

(after Edward the Conqueror by Roald Dahl)

1. Louisa usually spent her afternoons _________ .

A. entertaining her friends

B. playing for her family

C. in the loneliness of her house

D. playing with her cat

2. Louisa _________ the piano.

A. was not so good at playing

B. was learning to play

C. was a diligent pupil and practiced playing

D. was quite capable of playing

3. Louisa took time before playing _________ .

A. to concentrate

B. to decide what pieces to play in what order

C. to dream of playing for a big audience

D. to talk to the cat

4. On the day described in the story the cat _________ .

A. heard Louisa play for the first time

B. moved itself closer to the piano to hear the music better

C. didn’t feel like listening to music at all

D. left the room not to hear Louisa play

5. The cat’s reaction to Vivaldi’s music _________ .

A. was negative

B. was typical of cats

C. was hardly noticeable

D. gradually changed

6. The cat seemed to _________ .

A. be indifferent to what it heard

B. hate Louisa playing

C. enjoy the music

D. show signs of nervousness while listening to music

Решение.

Решение 2.

Прочитайте текст и выполните задания (1–6), обведя одну из букв (A–D).

1. Луиза обычно проводила свои дни ______.

2. Луиза ______ на пианино.

3. Луизе потребовалось время перед игрой, чтобы ______.

4. В день, описанный в рассказе, кошка ______.

5. Реакция кошки на музыку Вивальди ______.

6. Казалось, что кошка ______.

Ответ:

1. C. in the loneliness of her house

(в одиночестве своего дома)

2. D. was quite capable of playing

(была вполне способна играть)

3. B. to decide what pieces to play in what order

(решить, какие произведения и в каком порядке играть)

4. A. heard Louisa play for the first time

(впервые услышала, как играет Луиза)

5. D. gradually changed

(постепенно менялась)

6. C. enjoy the music

(наслаждалась музыкой)