Номер 6, страница 61, часть 1 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс учебник Афанасьева, Михеева

Часть 1. Unit 2. The printed page: books, magazines, newspapers. Step 2 - номер 6, страница 61.

Условие.

6 A. Read the text and match its parts with the following statements. There is one statement you don’t have to use.

a) This library once changed its name.

b) This library is mostly used by scientists.

c) This library was first used by a rather small group of people.

d) This library changed the place of its location not so long ago.

e) This library enlightens people in different ways.

The Famous Libraries of the World

1. The US Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. It has about 90 million items — books, manuscripts¹, maps, photographs and pieces of music etc. The library has about 350 miles² of bookshelves in three gigantic [ʃaɪˈɡæntɪk] buildings in Washington, D.C. The collection was started in 1800 to help congressmen with their work. When, in 1814, the books were destroyed in a fire, the Congress bought Thomas Jefferson’s personal library of about 6500 books — the beginning of a new collection. Now the library is open to the public.

2. The Bibliothèque Nationale (National Library) is the most important library in France and one of the oldest in the world. Its beginning was the first royal library started by Charles V in the 14th century. In 1692 the library was opened to the public and renamed the Bibliothèque Nationale in 1795. The library’s collection nowadays includes about 14 million books and 180 thousand manuscripts from France and other countries.

3. The Russian State Library in Moscow is one of the largest in the world. It has more than 44 million items in 247 languages: books, newspapers, maps, music and other things. The library is not only a place to read. It is also a learning centre which organizes lectures [ˈlektʃəz], discussions and presentations. The library was opened in the 18th century based on Count Rumyantsev’s collection and since that time it has been used by millions of people who come to the library and use its Internet site.

4. The British Library is the national library of the UK. It has a large new building in London which was finished in 1996. Before that the library was part of the British Museum. Nowadays every visitor to the museum can see the famous Reading Room designed as Rome’s Pantheon¹. Some of the greatest thinkers and the most famous people of their times have worked in this room: writers, dramatists, politicians such as Charles Dickens, Bernard Shaw, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin.

B. Some words in the text may be new to you. Do you understand what they mean? What helped you to understand their meanings?

Решение 1.

Решение 2.

Решение 3.

A. Прочитайте текст и сопоставьте его части со следующими утверждениями. Одно утверждение лишнее.

Ответ:

1 - c) This library was first used by a rather small group of people. (Эта библиотека сначала использовалась довольно небольшой группой людей.)

2 - a) This library once changed its name. (Эта библиотека однажды сменила свое название.)

3 - e) This library enlightens people in different ways. (Эта библиотека просвещает людей различными способами.)

4 - d) This library changed the place of its location not so long ago. (Эта библиотека сменила свое местоположение не так давно.)

The extra statement is b) This library is mostly used by scientists. (Лишнее утверждение - b) Эта библиотека в основном используется учеными.)

B. Некоторые слова в тексте могут быть для вас новыми. Вы понимаете, что они означают? Что помогло вам понять их значение?

Ответ:

Yes, a few words were new to me, for example, manuscripts. I understood from the context that it must be something like old handwritten documents, as it was listed with books and maps. The word gigantic was easy to understand because it's similar to a word in my native language. For other words, I used a dictionary.

(Да, несколько слов были для меня новыми, например, manuscripts (рукописи). Я понял(а) из контекста, что это, должно быть, что-то вроде старых рукописных документов, так как это слово стояло в списке с книгами и картами. Слово gigantic (гигантский) было легко понять, потому что оно похоже на слово в моем родном языке. Для других слов я использовал(а) словарь.)