Номер 1, страница 36 - гдз по английскому языку 11 класс рабочая тетрадь Вербицкая, Фрикер

Unit 5. Express yourself - номер 1, страница 36.

Условие.

GRAMMAR AND SPEAKING

Reported Speech → see page 101

1 Look at the quotes by famous people. Then complete the text with the correct forms of the verbs.

'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.'
G.K. Chesterton, English writer

'Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.'
Voltaire, French writer, historian, philosopher

'To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of people, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but most people can't eat it.'
Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer

'Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.'
Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist

'Turgenev's writings are beautiful in form, but their content is not worthwhile, and his attitude towards writing is not serious. Dostoevsky's writings are rich in content but bad in form, though his attitude to writing is serious.'

'It's kind of fun to do the impossible.'
Walt Disney, American cartoonist

'I have never seen this man and I have never had any relations with him, but suddenly, when he dies, I understand that he was the closest, the dearest person, whom I badly need.'
Leo Tolstoy about Feodor Dostoevsky

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There are many famous quotes, some of which are very funny or thought provoking, and some which are just strange. The poet and writer G.K. Chesterton, most famous for his Father Brown detective stories, said that poets ¹ had been silent on the subject of cheese. Maybe he liked cheese?
Leo Tolstoy, like G.K. Chesterton, brings art and food together, but his quote is easier to understand. He thought that to say that a work of art ² ______ good but incomprehensible to the majority of people ³ ______ the same as saying of some kind of food that it ⁴ ______ very good but that most people ⁵ ______ eat it. Leo Tolstoy was uninterested in following fashion and didn't pretend to enjoy 'art for art's sake' which was in vogue at his time. His views on his contemporaries were rather controversial. Once he said about Ivan Turgenev, that Turgenev's writings ⁶ ______ beautiful in form, but their content ⁷ ______ not worthwhile and his attitude towards writing ⁸ ______ not serious. This caused storms of protest from Turgenev's readers.
Leo Tolstoy compared Turgenev to Dostoevsky, whose writings, in Tolstoy's opinion, ⁹ ______ rich in content but bad in form, though his attitude to writing ¹⁰ ______ serious. Upon Dostoevsky's death, Leo Tolstoy wrote in a letter to Nikolay Strakhov, a literary critic, that he ¹¹ ______ that man and he ¹² ______ any relations with him, but suddenly, when Dostoevsky died, he understood that he ¹³ ______ the closest, the dearest person, whom Tolstoy badly needed.

Решение.