Номер 3, страница 104 - гдз по английскому языку 11 класс учебник Вербицкая, Каминс Карр

Unit ten.

Track seventy.

One.

I have chosen this photo partly because it has a lot of personal, um, significance for me. I've been to England a few times and there are quite a few things in the photo that make it instantly recognizable as England. There are the strong colors, the green of of the trees and the bright red against the white of the buildings. Then there's the fact that all this takes place on a typical English street. Except in a way it's not typical because there are no people there. So you have this sense of emptiness too. But of course what's particularly striking about it is the image of the destruction of a London icon, the famous red double decker bus. It looks as if it was made of cardboard or something that has just been torn apart.

Mm.

And and the way that in contrast another British icon, the red letter box is just standing there still in one piece. Almost defiantly, you could say. Like the people of the city.

Oh yes. Yeah yeah.

But the main reason that I chose the photo is that I was actually in London at the time.

Oh gosh.

I was doing an English course there and I traveled to school on the underground every day. I do remember being very scared at first.

True.

And thinking that maybe I should come home. But I decided not to and I'm glad because the atmosphere was really amazing there during the time immediately after the bombings. I think what I remember most clearly is the way Londoners just carried on with their lives as normal. They even went on traveling on public transport. For many, that was the only way they could get to work. They seemed so strong and, um, so resilient. It was as if they were saying, you can't frighten us. We've been through worse things than this. I think they were incredibly brave. And it was this courage of theirs that made the greatest impression on me.

True. True.

And so that's the concept that the photo represents for me.

Two.

Who can forget that terrible day? I know I sat watching the television reports in disbelief. It was such a tragic end to the year.

It really was, wasn't it?

At first when I looked at this photo and the caption underneath it, I thought it should represent peace because I was thinking of kind of spiritual peace for all the relatives of people who died as they remember their loved ones. It's true that it does have a peaceful feeling about it too with the lights glowing in the darkness. But then I looked at it closely again and thought about the the sheer size and number of lamps that are being released into the sky. I mean that would have been such a wonderful sight to see, wouldn't it?

Yeah.

Sure.

It's a nice thought.

And I decided that it should represent something more positive for the future, like hope. Hope that we'll never, ever have a natural disaster like this again, that somehow we'll be better prepared with warning systems and so on and be able to save people. I think the photo itself is absolutely stunning. I just wish that I could take photographs like that.

Ha.

I think what the photographer has managed to capture so well is a feeling of upward movement. The people really look as if they are having to hold the lamps down in case they get carried away by them into the night.

Yeah.

It's true.

That's true.

Yeah.

That's true.

That's what you mean.

And then you look at those specks in the sky and suddenly realize that they are not fireflies.

Oh.

But thousands of lamps as big as the ones on the beach.

Oh.

Yeah.

Of course.

Which are just floating away into, well, space. It's this sense of infinity that makes the photo so special for me.