Номер 5, страница 130 - гдз по английскому языку 11 класс учебник Афанасьева, Михеева

Number thirteen.

Exercise five.

Listen to the text Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages and match the names of some of these wonders from one to four with the statements about them from A to D.

Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages are list of wonders which were created after the Middle Ages. Some items on this list are not technically from the Middle Ages.

Some representatives are

First. Stonehenge.

It is a huge prehistoric temple on Salisbury Plain in Southern England. The main part is a great circle of standing stones. Each is more than twice as tall as a man and weighs nearly thirty tons. Flat stones were laid across the tops of the standing stones to form a ring. Inside the ring stood smaller stones and a great block that may have been an altar.

Second. The Colosseum.

The Colosseum of Rome was a giant sports stadium built by the ancient Romans. It could hold more than fifty thousand people and was the largest building of its kind in the Roman Empire. Although the Colosseum has suffered several earthquakes, much of it still stands. The floor or arena was used for gladiators combats, battles between men and animals or between different kinds of animals. It was also used for showing rare wild creatures. The floor could also be flooded so that sea battles could be fought on it.

Third. The Great Wall of China.

More than two thousand years ago the first emperor of China built this wall to keep out China's enemies from the North. The Great Wall is the longest wall in the world. It stretches for two thousand four hundred kilometers from Western China to the Yellow Sea. The wall is made from earth and stone. Watchtowers were built every two hundred meters along it. Chinese sentries sent warning signals from the towers if anyone attacked the wall. The signal was smoke by day and a fire at night.

Fourth. The Leaning Tower of Pisa.

This is a round bell tower in the city of Pisa in Italy, which leans to one side. The citizens of Pisa liked to believe that the architect of the Leaning Tower deliberately planned it that way because he was a hunchback. Actually, the soft soil beneath the foundation gives way. This causes the unsafe angle. On its completion in thirteen fifty, the tower leaned fourteen feet off, and it has been moving further ever since at the rate of a few inches a year. Nowadays, the tower is in danger of falling down completely.