Номер 16, страница 9 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс учебник Афанасьева, Михеева

Unit 1. Choosing a Career: The World of Jobs. Reading for Country Studies: «Unusual Jobs: A Bodyguard» - номер 16, страница 9.

Условие.

READING FOR COUNTRY STUDIES

16 A. Listen to the text “Unusual Jobs: A Bodyguard” (No. 2) and say which of the following things are not mentioned in it.

a) The place where secret agents are trained.

b) How much money is spent on their training.

c) Some difficulties of the profession.

d) The four American presidents who were killed.

e) Who killed them.

f) How secret agents are selected.

g) Some of the things that they do as part of their work.

h) How much money secret agents get.

i) Some of the people usually protected by bodyguards.

B. Now read the text and choose the right answers to the questions after it.

Unusual Jobs: A Bodyguard

1 The profession has been recently romanticized through American films. For a long time it has been primarily associated with American lifestyle, and it’s not surprising.

2 Altogether, four American presidents have been assassinated and attempts have been made on the lives of others. The first president to have been killed was Abraham Lincoln. He was shot while attending the theatre in Washington. James Garfield was shot a few months after his inauguration and died at the age of forty-nine. William McKinley was killed in Buffalo, New York in 1901. John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas in 1963.

3 After the third assassination in 1901, the protection of presidents was put in the hands of the United States Secret Service and nowadays wherever a president goes he is surrounded by Secret Service guards who all have a tendency to look very similar — the unsmiling men with short haircuts and sunglasses are easy to recognize in the crowd. There are women too, but many more men. If the president wants to go fishing or horse-riding, the Secret Service agents will have to learn enough about the activity to accompany him.

4 Their training as agents takes place at a training centre in a little town called Beltsville, Maryland. All the prospective agents are carefully selected. The actual training includes learning to shoot pistols, rifles and how to drive at high speeds and in minimum space. Agents always examine the area of a proposed presidential visit. In fact, they can veto a visit if they consider it unsafe. Then they decide what equipment and manpower will be needed. The team also produces details of escape routes and plans for emergency evacuation. In June 1992, for example, when a problem arose on President Bush’s trip to Panama City, he and Mrs Bush escaped in an armoured limousine which had been parked in a side street.

5 Nowadays, there is a large number of people protected by the Secret Service: the president and vice-president and their families, former presidents, their wives and children up to the age of 16, visiting heads of state and spouses, other important foreign visitors and US representatives on special missions abroad. The Secret Service budget is about $500 million.

6 The Secret Service does of course keep very quiet about its operations, but it is of great interest to the general public. That is why there are so many books and films about secret agents. Film companies often employ real agents as advisers so that the film should be true-to-life.

(from “Speak Out”, adapted)

1. Who surrounds US presidents wherever they go?

a) The US Secret Service.

b) Unsmiling men with short haircuts.

c) The Secret Service guards.

d) The US representatives.

2. Where are secret agents trained?

a) In Panama City.

b) In a little American town.

c) In the US capital.

d) In New York.

Решение.

Решение 2.

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А. Прослушайте текст «Необычные профессии: телохранитель» (№ 2) и скажите, какие из следующих вещей в нем не упоминаются.

a) Место, где тренируются секретные агенты.

b) Сколько денег тратится на их обучение.

c) Некоторые трудности профессии.

d) Четыре американских президента, которые были убиты.

e) Кто их убил.

f) Как отбирают секретных агентов.

g) Некоторые из вещей, которые они делают в рамках своей работы.

h) Сколько денег получают секретные агенты.

i) Некоторые из людей, которых обычно защищают телохранители.

Ответ:

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Б. Теперь прочитайте текст и выберите правильные ответы на вопросы после него.

1. Кто окружает президентов США, куда бы они ни пошли?

Ответ:

c) The Secret Service guards. / c) Охранники Секретной службы.

2. Где тренируются секретные агенты?

Ответ:

b) In a little American town. / b) В маленьком американском городке.