Номер 1, страница 28 - гдз по английскому языку 10 класс учебник Юхнель, Наумова

1. Read the short article about Tracy Chevalier’s books. Have you read any of them? Have you seen the film mentioned in the article?

Tracy Chevalier is the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring, a novel which was made into a film starring Scarlet Johansson and Colin Firth. The film tells us about a poor girl who works in the house of Johannes Vermeer – a famous Dutch artist of the 17^th century. She becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous masterpieces – the painting which is sometimes referred to as ‘The Mona Lisa of the North’ or ‘The Dutch Mona Lisa’.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, about 1665

A still from the film with Scarlet Johansson, 2003

As in Girl with a Pearl Earring, in Falling Angels Tracy Chevalier displays her talent for recreating a particular period and place. Falling Angels is a powerful novel, as cleverly atmospheric as Girl with a Pearl Earring. In January 1901, the day after Queen Victoria’s death, two families visit neighbouring graves in a fashionable London cemetery¹. They dislike each other but their daughters become friends behind the tomb-stones. As the girls grow up and the new century finds its feet, as cars replace horses and electricity outshines gas lighting, their relationship develops.

¹ cemetery – кладбище

1. Прочитайте короткую статью о книгах Трейси Шевалье. Вы читали какие-нибудь из них? Вы видели фильм, упомянутый в статье?

Ответ:

As an AI, I do not have personal experiences like reading books or watching films. Therefore, I have not read any of Tracy Chevalier's books, nor have I seen the film mentioned in the article, Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Перевод:

Как искусственный интеллект, у меня нет личного опыта, такого как чтение книг или просмотр фильмов. Поэтому я не читал ни одной из книг Трейси Шевалье и не смотрел фильм, упомянутый в статье, «Девушка с жемчужной серёжкой».