Номер 5, страница 7 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс рабочая тетрадь Афанасьева, Михеева

Unit one. Pages of history: linking past and present - номер 5, страница 7.

Условие.

SFA 5. Read the text and complete it filling the blanks (A–J) with the missing phrases (1–11). One of them is an extra phrase.

1. a narrow-minded English king

2. were discovered

3. trade with China and the Far East

4. a colony in the New World

5. saw the real beginnings of what afterwards

6. forty thousand pounds of his own money

7. China could be reached by going round Cape Horn

NORTH AMERICA

Virginia AMERICA

ENGLAND

EURASIA

INDIA

CHINA

AFRICA

ATLANTIC OCEAN

PACIFIC OCEAN

INDIAN OCEAN

SOUTH AMERICA

Fire Land Cape Horn

ARCTIC OCEAN

AUSTRALIA

England's failed attempts to find sea routes to India and China in XV–XVI c.

Francis Drake 1577–1580

Trade routes to India and China, by the middle of XVII c.

8. because of the bitter persecution which he imposed

9. importing the silks and spices to the East

10. the days of Elizabeth and James I

11. to colonize the new lands to the West

England's Expansion in the 16th—17th Centuries

Very little had been done in England to encourage A. ________ until the reign of Elizabeth, although stories of its wealth had been current since the travels of Marco Polo, two hundred years earlier.

The ports of Bristol, Boston and Hull were already sending ships to the Scandinavian countries, and as early as the reign of Richard III trade had been increasing in the Mediterranean. Now the merchants began to dream of rich profits to be made by B. ________.

There were always sailors in England ready to brave distant seas. Thus, renowned seaman of the Elizabethan era Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe in 1577–1580. Drake successfully completed the journey and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I upon his triumphant return. Now the merchants were more than ever ready to fit out ships for what they hoped would be prosperous voyages. Everyone now knew that the earth was round and that C. ________ or the south of Africa.

These passages were long and dangerous, and many of the voyages in D. ________ were attempts to find a way to India and China by the northwest passage, round the north of Canada. All failed, but many new lands E. ________.

More important for the trade of Britain, goods began to arrive from China and the East in greater abundance than ever.

Already in Queen Elizabeth's reign attempts had been made F. ________, now the United States of America. Sir Walter Raleigh and his cousin had obtained a patent from the Queen in 1578 to found G. ________. Although the attempt failed, this adventure paved the way for the beginnings of the British Empire. Sir Walter Raleigh is said to have spent H. ________ in colonizing ventures, chiefly in Virginia, so named after the Queen.

It was not until the sailing in 1620 of the Pilgrim Fathers, men and women who found life in England under King James impossible I. ________, that the first permanent British colony was founded. Thus the United States of America really owes its beginnings to the stupidity of J. ________.

Blanks	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J
Phrases

Решение.

Решение 2.

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски (A-J), используя предложенные фразы (1-11). Одна из фраз лишняя.

Ответ:

A	3. trade with China and the Far East	торговля с Китаем и Дальним Востоком
B	9. importing the silks and spices to the East	импорт шелков и специй на Восток
C	7. China could be reached by going round Cape Horn	до Китая можно было добраться, обогнув мыс Горн
D	10. the days of Elizabeth and James I	во времена Елизаветы и Якова I
E	2. were discovered	были открыты
F	11. to colonize the new lands to the West	колонизировать новые земли на Западе
G	4. a colony in the New World	колонию в Новом Свете
H	6. forty thousand pounds of his own money	сорок тысяч фунтов из собственных денег
I	8. because of the bitter persecution which he imposed	из-за жестоких гонений, которые он устроил
J	1. a narrow-minded English king	ограниченного английского короля