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Unit Four. Steps to the Future. VI. Bonus for Eager Learners - страница 91.

Условие.

B. Read the children's utterances and decide what makes them funny.

The World Seen Through Children's Eyes

• An optimist is a doctor who treats your eyes.
• A myth is a female moth.
• A monastery is where monsters live.
• The inhabitants of Moscow are called Mosquitos.
• A virgin forest is a forest where the hand of man has never set foot.
• Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics.
• Queen Victoria sat on a thorn for 63 years. She was the longest queen.
• Mushrooms always grow in damp places and that is why they look like umbrellas.
• Electric volts are named after Voltaire who invented electricity.
• Gravity was invented by Isaac Newton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the apples are falling off the trees.
• A triangle which has an angle of 135 degrees is called an obscene triangle.
• H2O is hot water and CO2 is cold water.
• Marie Curie did her research at the Sore Buns Institute in France.
• Most composers do not live until they are dead.

Решение.

Решение 2.

B. Прочитайте высказывания детей и решите, что делает их смешными.

Ответ:

These children's utterances are funny because they are based on misunderstandings of words that sound similar (puns or malapropisms) or on naive, literal, or faulty logic. Children confuse words like "optimist" with "optometrist," "monastery" with "monster," or "hydraulics" with "hieroglyphics." Sometimes their logic is just amusingly wrong, like thinking mushrooms look like umbrellas because they grow in damp places, or that composers don't live until they're dead, which is a funny way to state the obvious.

Эти детские высказывания смешны, потому что они основаны на неправильном понимании похожих по звучанию слов (каламбуры или малапропизмы) или на наивной, буквальной или ошибочной логике. Дети путают такие слова, как "оптимист" (optimist) с "окулистом" (optometrist), "монастырь" (monastery) с "монстром" (monster) или "гидравлика" (hydraulics) с "иероглифами" (hieroglyphics). Иногда их логика просто забавно неверна, например, когда они думают, что грибы похожи на зонтики, потому что растут во влажных местах, или что композиторы не живут, пока не умрут, что является смешным способом констатировать очевидное.