Упр.7 Юнит 2 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ Rainbow English 7 класс
7. Read the text and complete it with the phrases (a—f).a) often last longer than sixty minutesb) like the airc) an American linguistd) except on very cold dayse) people create languagesf) and it is not from GuineaEnglish Is a Crazy LanguageHave you got any problems with English?
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7. Read the text and complete it with the phrases (a—f).
a) often last longer than sixty minutes
b) like the air
c) an American linguist
d) except on very cold days
e) people create languages
f) and it is not from Guinea
English Is a Crazy Language
Have you got any problems with English? Does it sometimes seem too difficult or illogical? Richard Lederer, (1) an American linguist, writes many interesting things about his native language. Here are some of them.
Let’s face it — English is a crazy language, the most lunatic of all languages.
In the crazy English language, blackboards can be green or blue, and blackberries1 are green, then red and black only in the end.
There is no egg in eggplant, no grape in grapefruit, and no room in mushroom, neither pine nor apple in pineapple, and no ham in hamburger.
In this English tongue a guinea pig is not a pig (2) and it is not from Guinea.
Language is (3) like the air we breathe — we just use it. But when we take the time to listen to what we say, we find that hot dogs can be cold and we can do homework at school. Hours — especially rush hours — (4) often last longer than sixty minutes , and most bath rooms don’t have any baths in them but have showers.
Why is it that a king rules a kingdom but a queen doesn’t rule a queendom?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn’t the plural of booth4 be beeth?
If people make olive, what do they make baby oil from?
If hard is the opposite of soft, why is hardly not opposite of softly? If harmless actions are the opposite of harmful actions, why are shameful behaviour and shameless behaviour the same? Why are pricey1 objects less expensive than priceless ones?
Why is it that the Sun or the Moon or the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible?
And in what other language can your nose run?
To tell the truth, all languages are a little crazy. That’s because (5) people create languages, not computers.
That’s why six, seven, eight and nine change to sixty, seventy, eighty and ninety, but two, three, four and five do not become twonty, threety, fourty and fivety. That’s why we wear a pair of pants but, (6) except on very cold days, not a pair of shirts. That’s why when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up a speech or an essay, I end it.