Reading Task, страница 63 - гдз по английскому языку 6 класс (starlight) рабочая тетрадь Баранова, Мильруд

Module 6. 6i - страница 63.

Условие.

Reading Task (Gapped Text)

Read the text. Five sentences are missing.

Match the sentences (A-F) to the gaps(1-5). There is one extra sentence.

A Postman's Dream

How did a simple country postman single-handedly build an extraordinary castle in the French countryside? This is a story of how even the wildest dreams can come true with a lot of hard work and a wheelbarrow!

One day in 1879, country postman, Ferdinand Cheval, was making his rounds delivering the post to the town of Hauterives in Southern France, when he tripped on a stone and picked it up. 1 Inspired by that stone, he decided to act on his life long dream of building a palace despite the fact that he wasn't really a builder. 2 Little did Cheval know then that he would create a fairy-tale palace that would later inspire artists and sculptors around the world. 3 First he carried them in his pockets, then in baskets and finally he got a wheelbarrow as he collected more and more stones. He took these stones and found a way to put them together with lime and cement. 4 After this, he added statues of animals and scenes from mythology to decorate the outside of the building.

Cheval worked mostly at night. According to Cheval himself it took him 33 years or "more than 10,000 days or 93,000 hours" to complete what is known today as 'Ideal Palace' or 'Palais Ideal'.

Once word got out about Cheval's creation, it didn't take long for the villagers and farmers of Heuterives to think Cheval had gone mad. 5 He kept in mind the words of the emperor Napoleon who said that impossible did not exist or shouldn't exist. He finished Ideal Palace in 1912 at the age of 75. Over the years, Ideal Palace became not only a popular tourist attraction, but an admired architectural wonder. Today it is a World Heritage Monument and stands as proof to what a man full of determination can do.

A Then he started to build the outer walls of the palace.

B Cheval didn't care about what they thought; he continued to build his dream palace.

C Cheval was fascinated by the unusual shape of the stone.

D This castle compares with the great castles of the world.

E It started with Cheval bringing home unusual stones from his 32 km postal route.

F He had no previous training as an architect or even as a sculptor.

Решение.

Решение 2.