Номер 2, страница 147 - гдз по английскому языку 10 класс учебник Юхнель, Наумова

2. a) Read the article below. What problem does Britain face? How is it possible to solve it?

Graffiti

Graffiti vocabulary:

to bomb – to paint many surfaces in an area;

mural['mjʊərəl] – a large graffiti painting, that often incorporates 3-D effects, many colours and colour-transitions, as well as various other effects

tag – a stylized signature, normally done in one colour. The simplest and most common type of graffiti

writer – a graffiti artist

Graffiti is everywhere in 21st century Britain – on park benches, street signs and bus shelters, in car parks and train stations.

Authorities spend a lot of money cleaning up graffiti and some people have put graffiti together with drugs and criminal behaviour as “bad symptoms” of modern society.

An attempt was made to ban the sale of spray paints to under-18s.

But there is an entirely different view. Instead of dismissing graffiti as vandalism, we need to “legalize” graffiti by funding giant murals in prominent inner-city sites.

Many people want to see graffiti walls, which are set up and run as ongoing-projects, for artists to exhibit their work.

Companies often use graffiti imagery to promote things to young people. We have to accept that graffiti is part of their lives. So, graffiti walls are needed and, if they are going to mean anything, they need to be in prominent places.

2. a) С какой проблемой сталкивается Британия? Как ее можно решить?

Ответ: Britain faces the problem of widespread graffiti. Authorities spend a lot of money cleaning it up, and some people associate it with criminal behaviour. A possible solution is to "legalize" graffiti by funding giant murals in prominent inner-city sites and creating graffiti walls where artists can exhibit their work.

Перевод: Британия сталкивается с проблемой повсеместного граффити. Власти тратят много денег на его очистку, а некоторые люди ассоциируют его с преступным поведением. Возможное решение — «легализовать» граффити, финансируя гигантские муралы на видных местах в центре города и создавая стены для граффити, где художники могли бы выставлять свои работы.