Номер 8, страница 13 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс рабочая тетрадь Вербицкая, Уайт

8 Quickly read the other paragraphs and check your answer to Exercise 7.

A

This level of difficulty means that only thirty monks completed the challenge in the whole of the twentieth century. In previous centuries, men died and their graves are along the route of the race. For the monks who enter the race, there is no room for failure: if they don't complete the course, they have to kill themselves (although there haven't been any suicides since the nineteenth century).

B

For the first three years of training, the monks run 40 kilometres a day for 100 days. In years four and five, they have to run the same distance but for 200 days. In the last two years of training, things get even more arduous. By the sixth year, they have enough stamina to run 60 kilometres a day for 100 days and this is increased to 84 kilometres — or two marathons — a day in the seventh year. To add to the difficulty of the test, they must stop and pray at 260 temples on the route which means the run can take 20 hours, so they have very little time for sleep.

C

These Japanese monks complete a challenge in which they run two marathons every day for one hundred days. They do this incredible test of strength to increase their spiritual knowledge. To have the right level of fitness for this extraordinary challenge, they have to train for seven years.