Номер 18, страница 165, part 1 - гдз по английскому языку 5 класс учебник часть 1 Афанасьева, Михеева

18 Read the text and the sentences after it. Say which of the sentences (a-h) are false.

Curious Plants

Plants were the earliest forms of life on our planet. The first known plants appeared about 500 million years ago. Flowering plants appeared millions of years later, during the Jurassic [dzə'ræsık] period. They gave birth to modern plants. Today, there are more than 400,000 kinds of them. Anyhow, some plants haven't changed since the prehistoric age ginkgo¹, for example. It is nearly the same as it was 195 million years ago when dinosaurs² ate its leaves.

Some plants are most unusual. The famous baobab trees may be the oldest life forms in Africa. They are one of the symbols of the black continent. Many baobabs that are still standing today have been growing since Roman times. They have no leaves for most of the year, and their thick trunks³ keep water during the dry months. Some baobab trunks are so large that people live inside them.

Cactus plants can be very tall, but nobody will ever think of climbing them. The saguaro⁴ cactus which grows in America can be as big as a building of five floors. And the raffia palm⁵ from Africa has the world's largest leaves that grow up to 25 metres. The world's fastest growing plant is the giant bamboo. It grows from 50 to 100 centimetres a day.

giant bamboo

rafflesia

Amazon water lily

century plant

Rafflesia¹ is the biggest flower in the world. This flower can be more than a metre in diameter! It grows in the jungles of some Pacific islands. Anyhow, this purplish-red flower doesn't smell pleasant. In fact, it smells very bad — like meat which is no longer fresh. Another flower, the Amazon water lily from South America, is the largest water plant. Its leaves can grow up to 2 metres across. The leaves are so strong that a young child can stand or sit on them. The century plant's record is different: it blossoms only once in 25 years and then dies.

The green world of plants keeps a lot of secrets. Even common plants which seem so familiar to us have their own mysteries.

a) Plants appeared on our planet before animals.

b) Some plants on earth are relic — they are left from a past time.

c) Baobabs are trees without leaves.

ginkgo

baobab

saguaro cactus

raffia palm

d) A tree can grow giant leaves.

e) Giant bamboo is the tallest of all plants.

f) The biggest flower on earth smells unpleasant.

g) The century plant blossoms one time in a century.

Прочитайте текст и предложения после него. Скажите, какие из предложений (a–h) являются ложными.

Ответ:

The following sentences are false: / Следующие предложения являются ложными:

c) Baobabs are trees without leaves. / Баобабы - деревья без листьев.

e) Giant bamboo is the tallest of all plants. / Гигантский бамбук - самое высокое из всех растений.

g) The century plant blossoms one time in a century. / Столетник цветет один раз в столетие.