номер 1, страница 54 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс учебник Эванс, Дули

1. 8.4.2.1 8.4.3.1 Why do you think people call Jules Verne the father of science fiction? Read the biography to find out.

Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was born in Nantes, France. As a young man, he studied law in Paris, but then he decided to become a writer. He published his first novel Five Weeks in a Balloon in 1863, and Journey to the Centre of the Earth in 1864. Other famous novels include Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne liked writing adventure stories and was very imaginative. He wrote about inventions like submarines, television and spaceships. This was in the 1860s when such things didn't yet exist. For this reason he is known as the father of science fiction.

1. Как вы думаете, почему люди называют Жюля Верна отцом научной фантастики? Прочтите биографию, чтобы узнать.

Ответ:

Jules Verne is known as the father of science fiction because he wrote about inventions like submarines, television and spaceships in the 1860s, when such things didn't yet exist.

Перевод: Жюль Верн известен как отец научной фантастики, потому что он писал о таких изобретениях, как подводные лодки, телевидение и космические корабли, в 1860-х годах, когда таких вещей еще не существовало.