Номер 2, страница 142 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс учебник Комарова, Ларионова

Extra contents. 7. Social science - номер 2, страница 142.

Условие.

Braille

2 Read the text about Louis Braille. Say if the sentences are true or false.

READING BY TOUCH

Louis Braille was born near Paris in 1809 with perfect sight, but when he was four years old he had an accident which made him blind. He was intelligent and although he came from a poor family, a wealthy neighbour paid for him to attend one of the first schools for the blind, the Royal Institute for Blind Youth. At school he learnt to read by touch, but the method was difficult to use and it could take months to read one book.

Louis was still only 15 years old when he developed a coded reading system which worked effectively, now known as braille.

In 1821, a captain from Napoleon's army visited the school and demonstrated a system of 'night writing' which soldiers used for passing messages in silence and in the dark.

It used a code of six raised dots to represent the alphabet in the space of a fingertip. Louis spent the rest of his life teaching the system to students at the school and translated many books into braille. He suffered from poor health and tuberculosis and died at the age of 43.

Louis realized that a similar system could be developed for blind people and he started to work on his own version.

In 1952 the French government gave him a hero's burial in the Pantheon in Paris and the importance of his contribution is recognized worldwide.

1 Louis Braille was blind from birth.

2 Louis Braille came from a wealthy family.

3 Night writing was used by Napoleon's soldiers.

4 Braille uses a code of 8 raised dots to represent the alphabet.

5 Louis Braille spent his adult life teaching his system to other blind or partially sighted people.

6 The French government gave Louis Braille a hero's burial when he died.

Решение 1.

Решение 3.

Прочитайте текст о Луи Брайле. Скажите, верны или ложны следующие утверждения.

Ответ:

1 False - Ложь

2 False - Ложь

3 True - Правда

4 False - Ложь

5 True - Правда

6 False - Ложь