Номер 21, страница 76, часть 1 - гдз по английскому языку 7 класс учебник Вербицкая, Гаярделли

Часть 1. Unit 8. Amazing mysteries - номер 21, страница 76.

Условие.

Reading and speaking

21 Read the next extract and answer the following questions.

1 What did Virginia offer the Ghost and why?
2 Why did he refuse to accept her offer?
3 What adjectives did he use to describe the whole family? Can you think of their antonyms?
4 Why, do you think, Virginia did not tell her family about the paints?
5 What did the Ghost want to do, but couldn’t?
6 Why was he so very tired?

The RAP

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The Canterville Ghost

By Oscar Wilde

Part III

A few days later Virginia Otis saw the Canterville Ghost! He was sitting by the window, watching the leaves fly by. He looked very sad. Virginia felt sorry for the Ghost. “My brothers are leaving tomorrow for school,” she said. “If you behave yourself, no one will bother you.”

The Ghost turned around. “It is my job to misbehave, I must rattle my chains and walk about at night, if that is what you mean. It is my only reason for existing,” he said. He continued to explain why he haunted the old house. He told her that his family starved him to death once.

“Starved you to death? Oh, Mr Ghost, I mean Sir Simon, are you hungry? I have a sandwich in my case. Would you like it?”

“No, thank you, I never eat anything now; but it is very kind of you, all the same, and you are much nicer than the rest of your horrid, rude, vulgar, dishonest family.”

... It turns out that Virginia knew all the time how and why the bloodstain on the carpet reappeared and changed its colour. But she never told her family that the Ghost had stolen the paints out of her box ...

“Nonsense!” said Virginia. She turned to leave.

“Please don’t go, Miss Virginia,” cried the Ghost. “I am so lonely, and I don’t know what to do. I want to go to sleep, but I can’t.”

“That’s absurd,” said Virginia.

“I have not slept for three hundred years,” he said sadly. “And I am so tired. I wish to fall asleep and never wake up,” said the Ghost.

Virginia opened her eyes in wonder and her lips trembled.

“Poor, poor Ghost,” she murmured, “have you no place where you can sleep?”

Vocabulary
horrid
rude
vulgar
dishonest
to starve to death
to tremble
to murmur

(to be continued)

Решение.

Решение 2.

1 Что Вирджиния предложила Призраку и почему?

Ответ: Virginia offered him a sandwich because the Ghost told her that his family starved him to death. (Вирджиния предложила ему сэндвич, потому что Призрак сказал ей, что его семья уморила его голодом до смерти.)

2 Почему он отказался принять её предложение?

Ответ: He refused because he never eats anything now. (Он отказался, потому что теперь он никогда ничего не ест.)

3 Какие прилагательные он использовал, чтобы описать всю семью? Можете ли вы придумать к ним антонимы?

Ответ: He called the family horrid, rude, vulgar, and dishonest. Antonyms: pleasant, polite, refined, honest. (Он назвал семью ужасной, грубой, вульгарной и нечестной. Антонимы: приятная, вежливая, утонченная, честная.)

4 Как вы думаете, почему Вирджиния не рассказала семье о красках?

Ответ: I think she felt sorry for the Ghost and understood his situation. (Я думаю, она пожалела Призрака и поняла его ситуацию.)

5 Что Призрак хотел сделать, но не мог?

Ответ: He wanted to go to sleep, but he couldn't. (Он хотел лечь спать, но не мог.)

6 Почему он был так сильно утомлен?

Ответ: He was very tired because he had not slept for three hundred years. (Он очень устал, потому что не спал триста лет.)