номер 2, страница 108 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс учебник Эванс, Дули

2. 8.2.8.1 8.4.2.1🎧Listen to and read the text. For questions 1-3, choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D). Then, explain the words in bold.

1. Scrooge thinks he 'is treated badly' because

A he doesn't get paid enough.

B he has to pay his employees when they take a day off.

C his employees are always asking for higher wages.

D his employees don't work hard enough.

2. What is Scrooge's opinion of Christmas?

A He thinks that it's at an inconvenient time of year.

B He wants it to take place more than once a year.

C He suspects people steal money from him on Christmas Day.

D He believes people should still go to work on Christmas Day.

3. What does the last paragraph tell us about the clerk?

A He is afraid of Scrooge.

B He is excited about Christmas.

D He is a young man.

C He is late for an appointment with his family.

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

After a long day, it was time to close the office. Bad-tempered, Scrooge got down from his stool and told the clerk in the small office, who instantly blew out his candle and put on his hat.

"You'll want the whole day off tomorrow, I suppose?" asked Scrooge.

"If it's convenient, sir."

"It's not convenient," moaned Scrooge, "and it's not fair! And if you don't get your half-crown* for it, you'll think I'm treating you badly."

The clerk smiled a little.

"And yet," said Scrooge, "you don't think I'm treated badly when I pay someone a day's wages for no work."

The clerk pointed out that Christmas was only once a year. "That's still not a good excuse for taking my money every 25th December!" muttered Scrooge, doing up the buttons on his coat to his chin. "I suppose you must have the whole day, but be here very early the next morning."

The clerk promised that he would, and Scrooge walked out angrily. The office closed shortly afterwards, and the clerk went down a slide on Cornhill with a group of boys twenty times, in honour of it being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as fast as he could, to be with his family.

* an old British coin

Послушайте и прочитайте текст. На вопросы 1-3 выберите правильный ответ (A, B, C или D). Затем объясните выделенные жирным шрифтом слова.

Ответ:

1. B he has to pay his employees when they take a day off. (он должен платить своим работникам, когда они берут выходной.)

2. C He suspects people steal money from him on Christmas Day. (Он подозревает, что люди крадут у него деньги на Рождество.)

3. B He is excited about Christmas. (Он в восторге от Рождества.)