Упр.3 Юнит 1 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ Rainbow English 10 класс
3. Read the texts (1—7) and match them with the statements (a—h). There is one statement you dontaskt have to use.
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3. Read the texts (1—7) and match them with the statements (a—h). There is one statement you dontaskt have to use.
a) This person helped to improve the situation in the contemporary society.
b) This person became famous overnight.
c) This person’s health problem stood in the way of his creative activity.
d) This person was able to solve engineering problems of his time.
e) New technologies helped this person to make his artistic career.
0 This person’s contribution to science was widely acknowledged.
g) This person became famous when he was still fairly young.
h) This person’s tastes and lifestyle differ from those typical of young people.
1. William Armstrong had a passion for solving difficult problems. His company built machines using new technology invented by Armstrong himself. In 1863 he bought some land and began to build a house. His new house in northern England was called Cragside because of the many rocks in the valley. Armstrong started a massive project to create a large park. He hired a team of hundreds of gardeners and workers. They planted millions of trees and dug five artificial lakes. The water from the lakes was used to generate electricity for the house. Cragside became the first house in the world to use hydroelectricity. The house used this electricity to power all kinds of new gadgets that nobody else in England had: a lift, dishwasher, and central heating.
2. 1905 is known as his “Miracle Year”, as he published three important essays including one on the Special Theory of Relativity. Later Einstein would write the Theory of Gravity and the General Theory of Relativity. In 1921 Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics and became a worldwide celebrity. He modestly travelled third class to Stockholm to receive the prize. He used his influence to lecture around Europe and the USA to promote world peace.
3. In Victorian England the most popular novelist was Charles Dickens. His books were funny and exciting, but with a serious message. He described the hard lives of poor people. The rich read the books and began to understand the terrible social problems which existed at that time. For example, after publishing the book Nickolas Nickleby, some of the cruel boarding schools were closed down.
4. Daniel Jacob Radcliffe is one of the richest film stars in the UK but he does not have expensive tastes. When he turned 18, he said, “I don’t plan to be one of those people who, as soon as they turn 18, suddenly buy themselves a massive sports car collection or something similar. I don’t think I’ll be extravagant. The things I like buying are things that cost about 20 pounds — books, CDs and DVDs.” One of Daniel’s favourite things to do is to hide from everyone. “I lock myself up in my room and listen to music and read,” he said. And he doesn’t like parties. “I don’t know what to do with myself when I’m standing there.” Dan supports many charities.
5. Most of the well-known composers of that time worked for wealthy families. Beethoven was too independent and rebellious to work for anyone else, so he worked for himself. He was the first great composer to do this. His love of independence he also showed in music. Unfortunately, when Beethoven was in his late twenties, a terrible thing happened to him. He began to lose his hearing. Eventually, he would be completely deaf. Beethoven was very angry and upset by this. Sometimes he broke the strings of his piano because he hit the keys so hard to hear the notes.
6. Justin Bieber was born on the 1st of March, 1994, in London, Ontario. When he was a kid, he taught himself to play the piano, guitar and trumpet. When he was twelve, Justin took part in a local singing competition and won second place. His mother posted a video of his performance on YouTube for their family and friends to see. But it turned out that other people liked it too. Very soon Justin had thousands of Internet fans. His will-be manager clicked on one of Justin’s videos by accident and was greatly impressed by the boy’s performance.
7. Mark Zuckenberg is best known as one of the co-founders of the social networking website Facebook. Together with his college roommates and fellow university students he launched Facebook from Harvard University. The project became a huge success and brought a lot of money. By the time Mark began classes at Harvard, he had already achieved a reputation of a “programmer prodigy”. He studied psychology and computer science. In his second year at university he created a new program and initially called it Face mash. The program let students select the best looking person from a choice of photos. This site built for fun was soon closed. The following semester in January 2004, Zuckenberg began writing code for a new website and a month later launched Thefacebook, which made him a true celebrity.