Стр.94-95 Unit 9 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 11 класс
READING AND VOCABULARY 1 In pairs, read the list of situations and answer questions 1-3. • You strike up a conversation with someone and discover you have a friend in common.
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Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Вербицкая, Камине Д.Карр, Парсонс 11 класс, Просвещение:
READING AND VOCABULARY
1 In pairs, read the list of situations and answer questions 1-3.
• You strike up a conversation with someone and discover you have a friend in common.
• You think about someone, and shortly afterwards they phone or email you.
• You go shopping alone and buy the same clothes as a close friend.
• Twin brothers have girlfriends with the same name.
1 Have you experienced any of these coincidences or others like it? If so, how and when?
2 Which was, or would be, the strangest or most unusual for you? Why?
3 Do you think coincidences happen for a reason, or are purely chance events? Why?
2 Read the blurb on the back of the novel and look at the sketch. Whattasks the central plot of the book?
Isabel Dalhousie, the charming, well-intentioned editor of a philosophy journal in The Sunday Philosophy Club, is back in Alexander McCall Smithtasks new book, Friends, Lovers, Chocolate.
Isabeltasks inability to ignore people in need inevitably involves her in unusual situations. By chance she meets Ian, a psychologist, who recently had a heart transplant. Ian tells her about a serious problem, which might prevent his recovery. Hetasks been having disturbing visions of an unfamiliar face - a face he thinks his new heart might remember … Isabel is intrigued and finds herself involved in a dangerous investigation. But she still has time to think about the things that possess her - like love and friendship and, of course, chocolate …
PART I
taskWhat are you getting involved in now?task
Over the next few minutes, Isabel told him about her chance meeting with Ian and about their conversation at the Scottish Arts Club. Jamie was interested - she could tell that - although he, like Isabel herself, seemed incredulous when she mentioned cellular memory.
"Theretasks a rational explanation for these things,task he said when she had finished talking. "There always is. And I just dontaskt see how anything other than brain cells could store memory. I just dontaskt. And thattasks on the strength of my school biology course. Ittasks that basic.task
taskBut thattasks exactly the problem,task retorted Isabel. Wetaskre all stuck with the same tried and trusted ideas. If we refused to entertain the possibility of something radically different, then wetaskd never make any progress - ever. Wetaskd still be thinking that the sun revolved round the earth.task
Jamie affected surprise. taskIsabel, dontaskt start challenging that now!task
Isabel accepted his scepticism good-naturedly. taskI should point out that Itaskm completely agnostic on all this,task she said. taskAll Itaskm doing is trying to keep an open mind.task
taskAnd where does this take you?task asked Jamie. So what if the cells in the transplanted heart or whatever think they remember a face. So what?task
Isabel looked about her, for no reason other than that she felt a slight twinge of fear. That was in itself irrational, but she felt it.
"The face that he remembers could be the face of the driver who killed the donor,task she said. taskIt could have been imprinted in memory – whatever sort of memory - after hetaskd been knocked down and the driver came and looked down at him.task
Jamietasks lip curled. taskReally, Isabel!task
taskYes,task she said quickly. taskReally. And if it is the face of the driver, then we may have a description of the person responsible for the death."
Jamie thought for a moment. It was now obvious to him what Isabel had been doing in the library. taskYoutaskve found a report of the accident?" he asked. taskYou know who the donor was?task
taskI think so,task said Isabel. taskWe know that the donor was a young man. Thattasks as much as Ian knows. So I put two and two together and concluded that a sudden, violent death on the day on which they called Ian in for his transplant would probably supply the identity of the donor. And it has. Theretasks nothing brilliant in that. Ittasks all pretty obvious.task
But was it? It crossed her mind that she was assuming too much, and too readily. There might have been other incidents, other young men 56 who could have been donors, but no, Edinburgh was not a very large place. It would be unlikely that two young men had died a sudden death that night. Her assumption, she decided, was reasonable.
3 Listen and read Part 1 of the extract. Complete sentences 1-9 with Isabel, Jamie, Ian or the donor.
1 … was willing to consider theories that have not been scientifically proved.
2 … mighttaskve died in a car accident.
3 … was troubled by strange visions.
4 … was sceptical about the idea that heart cells can remember events and images.
5 … had a heart transplant.
6 … had been doing some research before this conversation took place.
7 … mighttaskve seen the face of the driver before he died.
8 … knew the heart donor was young.
9 … believed the person whotaskd died in the accident was the heart donor.
4 Match 1-5 with a-e to make phrases from the extract.
1 tried and
2 entertain the
3 keep
4 a twinge
5 put two
a possibility
b and two together
c of fear
d trusted
e an open mind
5 Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the phrases from Exercise 4.
1 When she heard footsteps behind her, she couldntaskt help feeling a twinge of fear.
2 Itaskm not sure whether I like him or not. I am keeping an open mind at the moment.
3 Anntasks not a very adventurous cook. She always sticks to the same tried and trusted recipes.
4 He loved his home town and had never even entertained the possibility of living abroad.
5 After shetaskd seen him with the same girl for the third time, she put two and two together.
6 Before you look at Part 2, discuss these questions.
• Are Isabeltasks assumptions about the identity of the donor reasonable? Why?/Why not?
• Will Jamie support Isabel in her investigations? Why?/Why not?
• What will Isabel do next? Why?
7 T060 Listen and read Part 2 of the extract on page 96. Are the statements true or false? Were your predictions correct?
1 Jamie had become involved in Isabeltasks investigations before.
2 Isabel had already assumed that Jamie would want to help her.
3 Neither of them knew if the police had identified the driver.
4 Ian had described the face of the man he kept imagining to Isabel.
5 Isabel believed that the police would act on the information she had.
6 She felt obliged to take responsibility for problems of people she met.
7 Isabel believed that justice must be done.