Номер 1, страница 98 - гдз по английскому языку 4 класс книга для чтения Верещагина, Афанасьева

1. Read the text and explain why the giants became friends again.

The Two Giants

Once upon a time, two Giants lived in a beautiful country. In summer it was warm and in winter the land was even more beautiful covered with snow.

Each day the Giants walked together through the mountains and in the forests. They took care not to step on the trees. Everybody liked the Giants as they were kind and brave and true friends.

One day the two Giants found a pink shell on the beach. The shell was bright and very beautiful. Both Giants liked it very much and wanted to have it.

“It's my shell,” said the Giant called Boris, “I will wear it on my neck.”

“Oh, no! It will be my shell,” said Sam, the other Giant. “It will look better on my neck.”

For the first time in their life they began to argue. As they did, the sun went behind a cloud and the cloud became bigger and blacker. The wind blew and blew and the clouds grew and grew. It began to rain. The more the Giants argued, the colder the day became. The waves of the sea became high and dangerous. Boris and Sam were in a hurry to dress. They put on their socks very quickly without even looking at them, but before they could put on their shoes, a huge wave covered the beach. The wave took away the Giants' shoes and the shell.

The Giants were angry and threw stones at each other while they were running to the mountains because the water level began to rise. Soon the whole country was under water except the tops of two mountains which became the only islands in a wide, cold sea. Boris lived in one and Sam in the other.

Boris and Sam became real enemies. They were always angry and threw big stones and even huge rocks at each other. On Mondays, Sam threw a rock at Boris. On Tuesdays, Boris threw a rock at Sam, and so on, every day except Sundays, every week.

Now it was cold in their country as it was always winter. The Giants forgot how lovely the summers used to be. Each day was very cold. And each day they threw rocks and soon there were many rocks in the sea.

One day Sam decided to use them as a bridge. He wanted to come to Boris's mountain when Boris was sleeping. Sam wanted to hit Boris on the head and make him sleep all day and miss his turn to throw a rock. However, Boris opened his eyes when Sam was in the middle of his way and understood everything. He got up and went to meet Sam. The whole world shook when the Giants were moving to each other.

Suddenly both Giants stopped. Sam looked at Boris's feet. Boris looked at Sam's feet. Each Giant had one black and white sock and one red and blue sock. They looked at their socks for a long time. The black and white socks were Boris's socks. The blue and red socks were Sam's and then they remembered their friendship and their fight. “Do you remember why we began the fight?” Boris asked.

Sam didn't. And Boris didn't either. They began to laugh and even dance.

When they came back to their islands, each of them found a small white flower on his island. They felt the warm sun on their faces, and the water began to move away. Trees grew where the water had been. Birds began to come back to the forests, and the country was large and beautiful again.

Sam and Boris sat among the flowers, they listened to the birds' songs and were happy. The seasons came and went as before. Occasionally the Giants walked about their country, and sometimes played snowball fights, and often they helped the birds to build their nests.

Whatever they did, they did it together and they always wore odd¹ socks. Even when one of them had a new pair, he always gave one sock to the other Giant just in case!²

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Ответ:

The giants, Boris and Sam, became friends again when they stopped fighting and looked at each other's feet. Sam had one black and one white sock, and Boris had one red and one blue sock. Seeing their odd socks made them remember their old friendship and forget why they had started fighting. Boris asked if Sam remembered why they began the fight, and Sam didn't, so they started laughing and dancing instead. They returned to their islands, where everything became beautiful again, and they were happy.

Великаны, Борис и Сэм, снова стали друзьями, когда перестали драться и посмотрели друг на друга ноги. У Сэма был один черный и один белый носок, а у Бориса – один красный и один синий. Вид их разных носков заставил их вспомнить свою старую дружбу и забыть, почему они начали драться. Борис спросил, помнит ли Сэм, почему они начали ссориться, а Сэм не помнил, поэтому они начали смеяться и танцевать. Они вернулись на свои острова, где все снова стало прекрасным, и они были счастливы.