номер 4, страница 84 - гдз по английскому языку 6 класс учебник Goldstein, Jones

4 Read the text again and choose the correct answers.

1 Tom laughed and clapped because ...

a he wanted Maggie to get into trouble.

b he thought Maggie looked strange and funny.

2 He left her alone because.

a it was dinner time and he was hungry.

b he wanted to punish her.

3 Maggie's mother screamed because she was

a shocked.

b frightened.

4 When Maggie came into the dining room, Uncle Glegg

a didn't know who she was.

b made jokes about her.

5 Aunt Glegg

a thought Maggie's behaviour was terrible.

b didn't like little girls.

6 The person Maggie turned to was

a her brother.

b her father.

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In Exercise 4 you need to look at specific parts of the text to find the answers. First, scan quickly to find the right part of the text. Then read this section carefully to decide on your answer.

"Well, how are you? I hope you're good children, are you?" said Aunt Glegg. "Put your hair behind your ears, Maggie, and keep your dress on your shoulder."

"I think the girl has too much hair, Aunt Pullet said. "It should be thinner and cut shorter. It isn't good for health."

"Maggie," said Mrs Tulliver, "go and brush your hair."

A big idea was taking shape in Maggie's mind. "Tom, come out with me," she whispered. "There's something I want to do before dinner."

Tom followed Maggie upstairs into their mother's room. She opened a drawer and took out a large pair of scissors.

"What are they for?" said Tom.

Maggie answered by taking the front part of her hair and cutting it straight across the middle of her forehead.

"Oh, Maggie, you'll be in trouble!" exclaimed Tom.

Snip! went the scissors again, and Tom couldn't help feeling it was rather good fun. Maggie would look so weird.

"Here, Tom, cut it behind for me," said Maggie, excited by her own bravery.

"You'll be in trouble, you know," said Tom, as he took the scissors.

"Never mind, hurry!" said Maggie, giving a little stamp with her foot. Her cheeks were red. One delicious snip, and then another and another. The hair fell heavily on the floor, and Maggie stood there, badly cropped but with a new sense of freedom.

in trouble: сәтсіздікке ұшырау; иметь неприятности

stamp: тепкілеу; топнуть

cropped: қысқыртылған; укороченные

"Oh, Maggie," said Tom, jumping round her and slapping his knees as he laughed. "Oh, you look so weird! Look in the mirror."

Maggie felt an unexpected pang. She had only wanted to get free from her annoying hair and people's annoying comments about it. She didn't want her hair to look pretty. But now, when Tom began to laugh at her, everything seemed different. She looked in the mirror. Tom was still laughing and clapping his hands. Maggie's cheeks lost their colour and her mouth started to tremble a little.

"You'll have to go down to dinner now," said Tom. "Oh, Maggie!"

"Don't laugh at me, Tom," said Maggie, stamping, and giving him a push.

"Now then, spitfire!" said Tom. "Why did you cut it off, then? I'm going down. I can smell the dinner going in." He hurried downstairs and left poor Maggie alone.

After some time, she stood up, slowly made her way downstairs to the dining room and went towards the empty chair.

Mrs Tulliver gave a little scream and dropped her spoon. All eyes turned towards Maggie, whose cheeks and ears began to burn, while Uncle Glegg said:

"Hey! What little girl's this? I don't know her. Is it some little girl you've picked up in the road?"

"For shame!" said Aunt Glegg, in her loudest voice. "Little girls who cut their own hair should be whipped and fed on bread and water, not come and sit down with their aunts and uncles."

"Yes" said Uncle Glegg, meaning to be playful. "She must go to prison, where they'll cut off the rest of her hair."

"She's a naughty child who will break her mother's heart," said Mrs Tulliver, with tears in her eyes. Tom whispered, "I told you you'd be in trouble!" and it seemed to Maggie that he was enjoying the scene. Her heart swelled, and getting up from her chair, she ran to her father, hid her face on his shoulder and burst into tears.

pang: жан ауруы; боль

whipped: жазаланушы; наказанный

swelled: көбею, өсу; увеличиваться

Прочитайте текст еще раз и выберите правильные ответы.

Ответ:

1. b he thought Maggie looked strange and funny.

(b он думал, что Мэгги выглядит странно и смешно.)

2. a it was dinner time and he was hungry.

(a было время ужина, и он был голоден.)

3. a shocked.

(a шокирована.)

4. b made jokes about her.

(b шутил над ней.)

5. a thought Maggie's behaviour was terrible.

(a думала, что поведение Мэгги было ужасным.)

6. b her father.

(b ее отец.)