Урок 2 Unit 1 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ English Кузовлев 9 класс
1. Great Britain is the birthplace of many famous writers.Which writers are these stories about? For questions 1 — 14, read the text below and fill in the gaps with the correct forms of the verbs given in capital letters.
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Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Кузовлев 9 класс, Просвещение:
1. Great Britain is the birthplace of many famous writers.
Which writers are these stories about? For questions 1 — 14, read the text below and fill in the gaps with the correct forms of the verbs given in capital letters. Match the texts and the portraits.
1. He was a famous novelist and poet. He (0) was born in Edinburgh. During his life he travelled a lot. When he (1) travelled in America, he (2) married Mrs Fanny Osbourne whom he (3) had met in France. Her young son, Lloyd, (4) inspired him to write his famous Treasure Island. The novel (5) was a great success when it (6) was published.
2. He was the greatest playwright of all time. Among the most famous of his plays are Romeo and Juliet Hamlet and King Lear. His plays (7) were set in the 16th century. He (8) was honoured by his contemporaries as a remarkable playwright and a great poet.
3. He was a great master of the detective story. He was born in the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh. He (9) published his first detective story when he was 28. He (10) was born his vivid imagination to develop fabulous plots. He (11) wrote powerful stories about a brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his friend Dr Watson. He vividly (12) described his characters. Readers (13) loved them and always (14) wanted more of these stories.
2. In your culture. Mikhail Lermontov is one of the most famous Russian poets. What is he famous for? Read Mikhail Lermontov’s biography. For questions 1—13, choose the best answer (a, b or c),
Mikhail Lermontov was born in Moscow, on October 15, 1814.
At the (0) a of three, he lost his mother and his grandmother, Yelizaveta Arsenyeva, took him to Tar-khany, Penzenskaya guberniya. The little boy was very talented. He learnt to read early and read many books in his (1) _. Mikhail studied French, English, German and read Byron, Walter Scott, Goethe and Schiller in the original.
When he was fourteen, Mikhail went to Moscow with his grandmother, where he entered the gymnasium. At the gymnasium he was (2) by the poetry of A. Pushkin and V. Zhukovsky, and began writing poems himself. In 1830, Lermontov’s first poem The Spring was (3)_. The same year he entered Moscow University. By 1832, he had (4) _ 200 lyric poems, 10 long poems and 3 plays. In 1832, Lermontov left the university and went to St Petersburg, where he studied in the cadet school till 1834. At that time, while he was working (5)_ the novel Vadim, he wrote his famous poem The Sail.
In 1837, Lermontov wrote his (6) poem The Death of the Poet, where he (7) _ the tsar’s role in Pushkin’s murder. It was published and was a huge (8)_. Because of that poem he was sent to the Caucasus.3
The Caucasus (9) _ Lermontov to write his wonderful poems: The Demon and Mtsyri. In 1840, Lermontov published his (10) novel A Hero of Our Time, where he gave a (11) _ picture of the life of his (12) _. The great writer died in 1841, at the age of 26. He was (13) by his contemporaries as a remarkable poet and novelist.