Номер 2, страница 21 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс рабочая тетрадь Комарова, Ларионова

Unit two. Reading. Exercise two.

Two famous criminals.

Jesse James.

Jesse James was born in Missouri in eighteen forty-seven.

When he was fifteen, he left home with his older brother Frank and joined a gang of gorillas.

They were fighting for the Confederates in the American Civil War.

While they were fighting the Union soldiers, the gang became famous for murder and armed robbery.

They robbed mail coaches and murdered their prisoners of war.

In one attack, they killed more than one hundred and fifty people in one town and burned down all the buildings.

When the war ended in eighteen sixty-five, Jesse and Frank formed a new gang.

They robbed banks, trains and coaches.

They also murdered people.

In eighteen seventy-six, Jesse James changed his name to Thomas Howard and moved to hide from the police.

But Jesse started robbing banks again.

In eighteen seventy-nine, the governor of Missouri offered a reward of ten thousand dollars to anybody who caught him.

One of Jesse's gang, Robert Ford, shot him three years later for the reward money.

William Bonney.

William Bonney was born in eighteen fifty-nine in New York.

He became one of the most famous American outlaws known as Billy the Kid.

When Billy was a teenager, the police arrested him for stealing.

He escaped from jail and ran away to Arizona.

His life of crime didn't stop and soon he was stealing horses.

In eighteen seventy-seven, Billy killed for the first time.

He was only eighteen years old.

Billy ran away again and settled in New Mexico.

He joined a gang of horse thieves.

They wanted to kill Lincoln County Sheriff William Brady because he was responsible for killing their leader.

Billy murdered the sheriff and his deputy.

In eighteen eighty-one, Sheriff Pat Garrett caught Billy the Kid.

He arrested Billy for murder and sentenced him to death.

Billy escaped from the jailhouse, but Garrett went after him, caught him and shot him.

The next day, the newspaper headline said, The Kid killed.