номер 4, страница 108 - гдз по английскому языку 7 класс учебник Wetz, Styring

4 BUILD YOUR VOCABULARY Find adjectives 1-5 in blue in the text. Then match them with definitions a-f. There is one definition you do not need.

Feel the fear!

I hate spiders. A lot of people dislike spiders, but I'm really scared of them. If there's a spider in a room, I won't go in. I have stayed at friends' houses three times because there were spiders in our house. It sounds ridiculous, but if you haven't got a phobia, you won't understand. I have got a phobia - arachnophobia.

Two months ago, I went with my mum to see a specialist called Mark Tanner. Mark has helped a lot of patients with phobias. Some patients had 'normal' phobias, like being frightened of dogs, or snakes, or the dark. Some patients had really weird ones, like phobias of bananas, or eating in public. He's helped a girl with a phobia of school as well. She hasn't been at school this year!

I've seen the specialist a few times and he's been really helpful. First, we looked at photos of spiders, and then we watched spiders on a DVD. Next, he gave plastic spiders to my family and they hid them around the house. That was really unpleasant, but it's made me much less phobic. I also wrote in my 'spider diary' every time I saw a real spider.

I've looked at hundreds of spiders with Mark and my phobia has improved a bit. That's the idea of 'exposure therapy'. After you've seen a thousand spiders, you aren't scared of them anymore. Next week, Mark says that I must touch one. I don't think I'm ready for that! I haven't touched a spider before and I don't know if I can. We'll see ...

by Georgia Bushell, Birmingham

Some phobias and their names

fear of flying - aerophobia

fear of thunderstorms - brontophobia

fear of being in a small space - claustrophobia

fear of dentists - dentophobia

fear of teenagers - ephebiphobia

fear of snakes - ophidiophobia

4 ПОПОЛНИТЕ СВОЙ СЛОВАРНЫЙ ЗАПАС. Найдите в тексте прилагательные 1-5, выделенные синим цветом. Затем сопоставьте их с определениями a-f. Одно определение лишнее.

Ответ:

1 ridiculous – d very silly, absurd (нелепый – очень глупый, абсурдный)

2 weird – f unusual, strange (странный – необычный, чудной)

3 unpleasant – e not nice (неприятный – нехороший)

4 phobic – a having a phobia (страдающий фобией – имеющий фобию)

5 real – b existing, not imaginary (настоящий – существующий, не воображаемый)