Номер 3, страница 221 - гдз по английскому языку 10 класс учебник Юхнель, Наумова

3. a) Read the story written by Corey Levitan, an LA journalist and a writer. Describe what is happening in the picture.

Well it was about 40 years ago. Passing notes behind the teacher's back at school, going for pizza at the mall, blowing off homework to

watch TV. Dec. 8, 1980 started out as just another unmemorable day for this 15 year old.
“SPECIAL REPORT,” two words flashed across the screen, followed by a two-second silence, some flipping of papers, and finally a male voice.
“John Lennon, former singer for the rock group The Beat-les...”
I knew this couldn’t be good. They don’t interrupt “The To-night Show” to announce concert tours or sales posters. But nothing could prepare me for the completion of that sentence, which unfolded in such slow motion it feels like it continues to this day.
“...is dead.”
The next morning, my father slowly opened the door to my Beatles-postered bedroom on Long Island, thinking he had a grave task to perform. But he could see I already knew. I was ly-ing in bed, red-eyed listening to WNEW-FM through head-phones.

The disc jockeys were openly crying on the air as they tried to repeat the news in between round-the-clock Lennon and Bea-tles songs. Though I had been a fan since fifth grade, this was how I heard Lennon’s “Love” for the first time.

My mom was actually upset that I was so upset. Two months earlier my 80-year-old great grandfather had died and I didn’t sulk, much less cry. She couldn’t understand how I could feel so deeply the loss of a person I never knew.

But I did know John Lennon – better, in a sense, than I knew my mom. I connected intimately to the pain he expressed in

songs such as “Yer Blues,” “Mother” and even the superficially joyful “Help.” Very much like myself, Lennon was an outcast and a loser in childhood. And he was an open wound during in-terviews, sharing fears, dreams and insecurities my own best friends wouldn’t dare. And there was nothing else for my friend Gary Haviv and I to do but travel to Lennon’s apartment at the Dakota since two hours after the murder.

Hardcore Beatles fans, who proudly pinned Lennon buttons up and down the denim jackets they never washed, had always made me feel sick. And now I had every reason to hate them more: one of them had killed my idol.

But the people gathered this night did not fit the profile. They were men in business suits and construction uniforms, women in dresses and jogging suits. Ordinary folk.

“All we are saying,” Gary and I sang along with the crowd, “is give peace a chance.” Someone kept rewinding the song on a boombox. After a while, no one could hear the recorded version. There was no reason for any of us to be there. All the wish-ing in the world could not change what happened. But there was nothing else to do.

Every hour the owner of the restaurant across the street (we were told it was Lennon’s favourite) brought over trays of steaming coffee, which he handed out for free. It was extreme-ly cold, about 20 degrees outside – and absolute zero in our hearts. Even the reporters and policemen, who had come to do their jobs, appeared lost and shaken.

The agonising irony is that Lennon had finally got his life back on track and was indeed “starting over.” He had just lost 10 pounds, released a new hit album and looked happier than he’d been since his Beatles days.

“Life begins at 40 – so that’s my promise,” he told in an inter-view a month before his murder. “And I believe it, too. I feel fine and I’m very excited. It’s like, you know, hitting 21, like, ‘Wow, what’s going to happen next?’”

“Are you OK?” a stranger asked, putting his arm around my shoulder.

I was not OK. In a way, I never would be again.

b) Find the sentences in the article that prove the following sta-tements true.

1. The writer was a teenager when the described event hap-pened.
2. The piece of news on TV was totally unexpected.
3. The author was a huge Beatles fan.
4. His parents were supportive but couldn’t feel his pain.
5. John Lennon was open and sincere in his interviews, which made many feel as if they knew him well.
6. Lennon was killed by one of his fans.
7. John Lennon promoted peace in the world.
8. A great number of people of different age and social level were shocked by the tragedy.
9. John Lennon was too young to die.

b) Найдите в статье предложения, которые доказывают истинность следующих утверждений:

1. Писатель был подростком, когда произошло описанное событие.

2. Новость по телевизору была совершенно неожиданной.

3. Автор был большим поклонником Beatles.

4. Его родители поддерживали его, но не могли разделить его боль.

5. Джон Леннон был открытым и искренним в своих интервью, что заставляло многих чувствовать, будто они его хорошо знают.

6. Леннона убил один из его фанатов.

7. Джон Леннон продвигал мир во всем мире.

8. Большое количество людей разного возраста и социального положения были шокированы трагедией.

9. Джон Леннон был слишком молод, чтобы умереть.

Ответ:

1.Dec. 8, 1980 started out as just another unmemorable day for this 15 year old.

2.But nothing could prepare me for the completion of that sentence, which unfolded in such slow motion it feels like it continues to this day.

3.The next morning, my father slowly opened the door to my Beatles-postered bedroom on Long Island...

4.My mom was actually upset that I was so upset... She couldn’t understand how I could feel so deeply the loss of a person I never knew.

5.And he was an open wound during interviews, sharing fears, dreams and insecurities my own best friends wouldn’t dare.

6.And now I had every reason to hate them more: one of them had killed my idol.

7.“All we are saying,” Gary and I sang along with the crowd, “is give peace a chance.”

8.They were men in business suits and construction uniforms, women in dresses and jogging suits. Ordinary folk.

9.“Life begins at 40 — so they promise,” he told in an interview a month before his murder.

Перевод:

1.8 декабря 1980 года начиналось как еще один ничем не примечательный день для этого 15-летнего подростка.

2.Но ничто не могло подготовить меня к завершению этого предложения, которое разворачивалось так медленно, что, кажется, продолжается и по сей день.

3.На следующее утро мой отец медленно открыл дверь в мою спальню на Лонг-Айленде, увешанную плакатами The Beatles...

4.Моя мама на самом деле была расстроена тем, что я был так расстроен... Она не могла понять, как я могу так глубоко переживать потерю человека, которого никогда не знала.

5.И он был открытой раной во время интервью, делясь страхами, мечтами и неуверенностью, на которые не осмелились бы даже мои лучшие друзья.

6.И теперь у меня были все основания ненавидеть их еще больше: один из них убил моего кумира.

7.«Все, что мы говорим, — пели мы с Гэри вместе с толпой, — это дайте миру шанс».

8.Это были мужчины в деловых костюмах и строительной форме, женщины в платьях и спортивных костюмах. Простые люди.

9.«Жизнь начинается в 40 — так обещают», — сказал он в интервью за месяц до своего убийства.