Номер 4, страница 23 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс (starlight) учебник Баранова, Дули

4 Read the text. Decide which of the statements (1-8) are true (1 - True), false (2 - False) or not stated, meaning that you cannot give a clear answer to them (3 - Not stated).

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE INTERRUPT OUR PROGRAMME ...

It was Halloween Eve, 1938, and families around the USA changed stations on their radios to find themselves listening to a programme featuring Ramon Raquello and his Orchestra. Suddenly, an urgent voice interrupted it with some breaking news. "A huge flaming object" had fallen out of the sky in Grover's Mill, New Jersey. The programme returned to the music, but then broke off almost immediately for another bulletin. Something was climbing out of the smoke-filled crater, something from another planet.

the actors' piercing screams and terror-stricken voices were frighteningly realistic. It was so realistic that thousands of listeners were convinced that a real alien invasion was taking place.

The authorities advised citizens to stay indoors, scientists gave informed opinions and reporters presented eye-witness accounts: "Something's coming out of the shadows like a grey snake. Now here's another one and another one and another. I can see the thing's body now. It's large, large as a bear. It has skin like wet leather. But that face, it ... it ... ladies and gentlemen, it's indescribable. I can hardly force myself to look at it, it's so awful. The eyes are black and they shine like a snake."

How were people fooled so easily just by what they heard from a radio? Seventy years ago, very few households had a television so the only news sources were newspapers or the radio. They believed what they read or heard. Listening to just a part of the broadcast, they assumed that they were under attack. Added to that was the fact that it was the period between world wars. Most listeners had lived through the terrible events of World War I and were expecting another conflict very soon. Naturally, when people found out that the invasion was just a radio play, they were furious. The following day Welles' name was all over the newspapers and there were calls for the government to pass laws to stop similar things ever happening again.

Listeners panicked. Some ran onto the streets using wet towels as gas masks and some raced to be with their families in their last moments. Others loaded guns and hid in cellars, preparing to defend themselves against whatever had landed. Phone lines across America were jammed as desperate citizens tried to find out exactly what was happening. But what these people didn't realise was that they were listening to Orson Welles' radio play of H. G. Wells' science-fiction classic, The War of the Worlds.

Welles had not intended to fool the American people. Previous broadcasts in the series had included The Count of Monte Cristo and Dracula, and, as the show began, there was an announcement: "The Columbia Broadcasting System presents Orson Welles and The Mercury Theater on the air in The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells." However, listeners who had changed stations missed this and only heard what they thought was an attack from outer space.

Welles' novel was written at the end of the nineteenth century, forty years before the radio play, and detailed the events of an invasion by creatures from the planet Mars. Orson Welles' adaptation took the novel and portrayed the events as if they were happening at that moment in a news broadcast. There were sound effects and

After all the negative publicity, Welles was worried that his career was over, but he went on to be hugely successful, writing, directing and starring in Citizen Kane, a film widely considered to be one of the greatest ever made. However, for the listeners who lived through the night of his famous broadcast, he would always be known as the man who convinced America that the Martians had landed!

1 The strange events took place on the night of Halloween, 1938.
1 True 2 False 3 Not stated

6 Listeners had not been told that the broadcast was not real.
1 True 2 False 3 Not stated

2 Some people got ready to fight against the alien invaders.
1 True 2 False 3 Not stated

7 Orson Welles was upset that people had been tricked.
1 True 2 False 3 Not stated

3 In the play, there was just one alien creature.
1 True 2 False 3 Not stated

8 It took Welles a long time to find work after that broadcast.
1 True 2 False 3 Not stated

4 The broadcast was extremely true to life.
1 True 2 False 3 Not stated

5 Afterwards, people were quite angry about what happened.
1 True 2 False 3 Not stated

Grammar & Vocabulary – Task 2

Study skills

Text completion (lexis)

Read the text quickly to get the gist of it. Then, read a second time, stopping at each gap and deciding what is missing (it is usually a verb form but it can also be a pronoun, a comparative or superlative form of and adjective/ adverb, etc). Look closely at the words before and after each gap as well as time words and linkers. They will help you decide exactly what is missing. Read the completed text through to make sure that it makes sense.

4 Read the text. Decide which of the statements (1-8) are true (1 - True), false (2 - False) or not stated, meaning that you cannot give a clear answer to them (3 - Not stated).

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE INTERRUPT OUR PROGRAMME ...

It was Halloween Eve, 1938, and families around the USA changed stations on their radios to find themselves listening to a programme featuring Ramon Raquello and his Orchestra. Suddenly, an urgent voice interrupted it with some breaking news. "A huge flaming object" had fallen out of the sky in Grover's Mill, New Jersey. The programme returned to the music, but then broke off almost immediately for another bulletin. Something was climbing out of the smoke-filled crater, something from another planet.

The authorities advised citizens to stay indoors, scientists gave informed opinions and reporters presented eye-witness accounts: "Something's coming out of the shadows like a grey snake. Now here's another one and another one and another. I can see the thing's body now. It's large, large as a bear. It has skin like wet leather. But that face, it ... it ... ladies and gentlemen, it's indescribable. I can hardly force myself to look at it, it's so awful. The eyes are black and they shine like a snake."

Listeners panicked. Some ran onto the streets using wet towels as gas masks and some raced to be with their families in their last moments. Others loaded guns and hid in cellars, preparing to defend themselves against whatever had landed. Phone lines across America were jammed as desperate citizens tried to find out exactly what was happening. But what these people didn't realise was that they were listening to Orson Welles' radio play of H. G. Wells' science-fiction classic, The War of the Worlds.

Welles' novel was written at the end of the nineteenth century, forty years before the radio play, and detailed the events of an invasion by creatures from the planet Mars. Orson Welles' adaptation took the novel and portrayed the events as if they were happening at that moment in a news broadcast. There were sound effects and the actors' piercing screams and terror-stricken voices were frighteningly realistic. It was so realistic that thousands of listeners were convinced that a real alien invasion was taking place.

How were people fooled so easily just by what they heard from a radio? Eighty years ago, very few households had a television so the only news sources were newspapers or the radio. They believed what they read or heard. Listening to just a part of the broadcast, they assumed that they were under attack. Added to that was the fact that it was the period between world wars. Most listeners had lived through the terrible events of World War I and were expecting another conflict very soon. Naturally, when people found out that the invasion was just a radio play, they were furious. The following day Welles' name was all over the newspapers and there were calls for the government to pass laws to stop similar things ever happening again.

Welles had not intended to fool the American people. Previous broadcasts in the series had included The Count of Monte Cristo and Dracula, and, as the show began, there was an announcement: "The Columbia Broadcasting System presents Orson Welles and The Mercury Theater on the air in The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells." However, listeners who had changed stations missed this and only heard what they thought was an attack from outer space.

After all the negative publicity, Welles was worried that his career was over, but he went on to be hugely successful, writing, directing and starring in Citizen Kane, a film widely considered to be one of the greatest ever made. However, for the listeners who lived through the night of his famous broadcast, he would always be known as the man who convinced America that the Martians had landed!

1 The strange events took place on the night of Halloween, 1938.
1 True 2 False 3 Not stated

2 Some people got ready to fight against the alien invaders.
1 True 2 False 3 Not stated

3 In the play, there was just one alien creature.
1 True 2 False 3 Not stated

4 The broadcast was extremely true to life.
1 True 2 False 3 Not stated

5 Afterwards, people were quite angry about what happened.
1 True 2 False 3 Not stated

6 Listeners had not been told that the broadcast was not real.
1 True 2 False 3 Not stated

7 Orson Welles was upset that people had been tricked.
1 True 2 False 3 Not stated

8 It took Welles a long time to find work after that broadcast.
1 True 2 False 3 Not stated

Прочитайте текст. Решите, какие из утверждений (1-8) верны (1 - Верно), ложны (2 - Ложно) или не указаны, что означает, что вы не можете дать на них четкий ответ (3 - Не указано).

Ответ:

1 The strange events took place on the night of Halloween, 1938.
(Странные события произошли в ночь на Хэллоуин 1938 года.)
1 True

2 Some people got ready to fight against the alien invaders.
(Некоторые люди приготовились сражаться с инопланетными захватчиками.)
1 True

3 In the play, there was just one alien creature.
(В пьесе было всего одно инопланетное существо.)
2 False

4 The broadcast was extremely true to life.
(Трансляция была чрезвычайно реалистичной.)
1 True

5 Afterwards, people were quite angry about what happened.
(После этого люди были довольно злы из-за произошедшего.)
1 True

6 Listeners had not been told that the broadcast was not real.
(Слушателям не сообщили, что трансляция не была реальной.)
2 False

7 Orson Welles was upset that people had been tricked.
(Орсон Уэллс был расстроен тем, что людей обманули.)
3 Not stated

8 It took Welles a long time to find work after that broadcast.
(Уэллсу потребовалось много времени, чтобы найти работу после той трансляции.)
2 False