Упр.3 Юнит 4 Step 3 ГДЗ Rainbow English 10 класс
3 Read the text and choose the right answers to the questions after it. The Stowaways When I lived in Liverpool, my best friend was a boy called Midge.
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3 Read the text and choose the right answers to the questions after it.
The Stowaways
When I lived in Liverpool, my best friend was a boy called Midge. We had a lot of things in common. There were things we enjoyed doing: climbing trees, playing footy, going to the pictures. And there were things we didn’t enjoy doing, like sums, washing behind our ears, eating cabbage.
But there was one thing that really brought us together — a love of the sea.
In the old days the river Mersey was far busier than it is today. Those were the days of the great passenger liners and cargo boats. Large ships sailed out of Liverpool for Canada, the United States, South Africa, all over the world. My father had been to sea and so had all my uncles, and my grandfather and many other men in Liverpool. By the time they were twenty, most of them had visited parts of the globe I can’t even spell. I often thought about those exotic places, all those exciting adventures. Midge and I knew what we wanted to do when we left school… become sailors. Of course, we were only about seven or eight at the time so we thought we’d have a long time to wait. But the call of the sea came sooner than we’d expected.
One day Midge and I got into trouble at school. I don’t remember what for. And to make matters worse, my mum and dad got angry and sent me to bed early for being childish (Childish! I ask you. I was a child).
So that night in bed I decided… to run away to sea. The next day Midge and I began planning our amazing around-the-world voyage. I read somewhere that sailors lived on rumand dry biscuits, so I poured some of my dad’s into an empty bottle and borrowed a handful of chocolate biscuits.
Saturday morning, when the big hand of the clock was on twelve and the little one was on six, Midge and I met and ran as fast as we could to the pier where a lot of ships were tied up. There I chose a small ship where the crew were getting ready to set out. They were so busy doing their work that it was easy for us to slip on board unnoticed. We looked around for somewhere to hide and climbed into one of the lifeboats. Some minutes later we were off. Soon we’d be digging for diamonds in the Brazilian jungle or building sandcastles on a tropical island. After what seemed like hours and hours we decided to eat our rations, which I divided up equally. I gave Midge all the rum and had all the biscuits. That probably wasn’t a good idea as Midge got sick and we had to give ourselves up. We climbed down on to the deck. I looked out to sea hoping to catch sight of a whale, a dolphin, perhaps see the coast of America coming into view. And what did I see? The buildings of Liverpool.
Anyone can make a mistake, can’t they? We didn’t know we’d chosen a ferryboat. One that goes from Liverpool to Birkenhead and back again. We’d done four trips hidden in the lifeboat and ended up back in Liverpool. And we’d only been away about an hour and a half. We got the bus home. My mum and dad were having their breakfast. They were surprised to see me awake at such an early hour and thought I was making a joke when I told them I had run away to sea.
1) Why did the boys dream of the sea?
a) They hated school.
b) They wanted to be independent.
c) They hoped to sail to Canada, the USA and South Africa.
d) They lived in the atmosphere of sea adventure.
2) Why did the two boys make friends?
a) They shared the same interests.
b) Their relatives were sailors.
c) They both got into trouble at school.
d) They were the same age.
3) What made the storyteller think of running away?
a) He wanted to become a sailor.
b) He felt unhappy because of some happenings.
c) He wanted to find some gold and diamonds.
d) He wanted to see the world.
4) What helped the boys to get on board?
a) They managed to arrive before the sailors.
b) The sailors did not check the lifeboats.
c) The sailors had no time to look around.
d) It was still dark at 6 a. m.
5) Why did the boys leave the lifeboat?
a) They had been hiding too long.
b) They had eaten everything they brought.
c) One of them wanted to see whales and dolphins.
d) One of them had a health problem.
6) What kind of mistake did the boys make?
a) They arrived back in Liverpool.
b) Ferryboats don’t travel long distances.
c) They got on board a ferry.
d) The ship they chose was too small to make a voyage across the ocean.
7) Why did the boy’s parents take his words for a joke?
a) Because it is impossible to run away to sea at night and return early in the morning.
b) Because he returned home by bus.
c) Because little boys don’t run away.
d) Because they knew he had a good sense of humour.