Упр.1 Юнит 2 Step 10 ГДЗ Rainbow English 11 класс
I. Listening 1 Listen to the text about Sir Christopher Wren and say if these facts are true, false or not stated.
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Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Баранова, Афанасьева, Михеева 11 класс, Дрофа:
I. Listening
1 Listen to the text about Sir Christopher Wren and say if these facts are true, false or not stated.
1) Sir Christopher Wren was born and died in one and the same century.
2) St Paul’s Cathedral is extremely important among the other buildings Wren designed.
3) Sir Christopher Wren designed the first building of St Paul’s Cathedral.
4) St Paul’s Cathedral was rebuilt after the Great Fire of London.
5) There are two towers in the structure of St Paul’s Cathedral.
6) Sir Christopher Wren painted the walls of St Paul’s himself.
7) The wedding of Queen Elizabeth II was held in St Paul’s Cathedral.
Текст аудирования:
Sir Christopher Wren is a famous British architect. He was born in 1632 and died in 1732. As an architect Wren introduced the forms of a Renaissance design to the English architecture.
After the Great Fire of London of 1666 thousands of buildings were destroyed in the capital of England. Wren began to replan the city and rebuilt 51 churches. Saint Paul’s Cathedral is one of them and this work of the prominent architect is certainly very special and important. Wren usually produced only a general plan of a church he was building and left the interior to be decorated by others. But Saint Paul’s Cathedral was a different story. It was too grand and magnificent. Wren worked on this Baroque-style building for about forty years. His final plan for it was in the form of a Latin cross with a huge dome that rises to 365 feet and is the Cathedral’s crowning glory. The building is decorated with two towers. There is a clock in one of them and the largest bell in England “Great Paul”. There are 12 smaller bells in the other tower. The Cathedral’s west front is decorated with rows of graceful columns.
St Paul’s has become the spiritual centre of the City of London. It has been the place for important occasions in the nation’s history: the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, the wedding of the Prince of Wales. It is also the final resting place for many of the nation’s heroes.