Номер 2, страница 271 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс учебник Лапицкая, Демченко

2a. What do you think the boys did?

2b. 🔊 Read Part II and check your guesses.

Part II

Finally, we decided to write an anonymous letter to A.J. Fiel-der explaining what Charles Pryor was doing. However, we did not want to say that it was Charles Pryor who was doing it. We just said that some student was doing this. In order to make sure that nobody would ever know who had written the letter, we put on gloves and bought a new pad of paper, so that our fingerprints (отпечатки пальцев) would not appear on the paper. We went through newspapers and found the words we wanted to write, cut them out with scissors and pasted them with glue. We got a new envelope and put the letter in the enve-lope. Then, we mailed the letter to Happy Jack.

paper      glue       envelope         scissors

A few days later, Happy Jack made an announcement (объ-явление) to all the physics classes. He read the letter in class. He wanted to know immediately who had written the letter and who the cheating student was. I kept silent and did not raise my hand and neither did Jimmy or Johnny Farrar.

A few days later, Happy Jack Fielder gave us another test. However, he did not give the same test to all three classes. In-stead, he gave an easy test to the students in period four. Ev-erybody in that class got 100 on that test. Then, he gave an ex-tremely difficult test to the students in periods 5 and 6. His message was clear: “If you do not say the name of the cheating student, all of you will fail. You will not be able to go to college and your futures will be ruined.”

I went over to Jimmy and Johnny Farrar’s house again. Now, we were really worried. We decided that we had no choice. We wrote another letter. The second letter contained only one sentence: “The person referred to in the previous letter is Charles Pryor.”A few days later, I was walking down the high school corridor past the classroom door and saw A.J. Field-er with my letter in his hand, having a heart-to-heart talk with Charles Pryor. I do not know what happened next and heard nothing more about this. We all passed our exams and went to college.

For 40 long years since 1961 I have been keeping this secret. In all these years, until today, I have never told anyone about this letter.

Today, after 40 years, I decided to look up Charles Pryor on the Internet, and here is what I found:

Charles W. Pryor has a Ph.D. degree¹ in Physics and is the CEO and Chairman of the Board² of Westinghouse Electric Corporation, whose technologies are used in nuclear power plants (ядерные электростанции) all over the world. Charles W. Pryor won the Academy of Distinguished Alumni Award³ for 1998.

We must now realize that he was not cheating after all. He was simply better at physics than we were.

This is a true story.

After Sam Sloan

2c. Explain why

1) they decided to write a letter;

2) they put on gloves and bought a new pad of paper;

3) all the students in period 4 got 100 on the test;

4) the three friends decide to write another letter;

5) Happy Jack had a heart-to-heart talk with Charles Pryor;

6) Charles Pryor always got 100 on Physics tests.

2c. Объясните почему

1) они решили написать письмо;

2) они надели перчатки и купили новый блокнот;

3) все ученики 4-го периода получили 100 баллов за тест;

4) трое друзей решили написать еще одно письмо;

5) Счастливый Джек провел душевный разговор с Чарльзом Прайором;

6) Чарльз Прайор всегда получал 100 баллов за тесты по физике.

Ответ:

1) They decided to write a letter to explain to the teacher what they believed Charles Pryor was doing.

2) They put on gloves and bought a new pad of paper to ensure their anonymity and to avoid leaving fingerprints.

3) The teacher gave an easy test to the students in period 4 to pressure the authors of the letter (who were in other classes) into revealing the name of the alleged cheater.

4) The three friends decided to write another letter because the teacher threatened that if they did not name the student, they would all fail, be unable to go to college, and their futures would be ruined.

5) Happy Jack had a heart-to-heart talk with Charles Pryor because the boys' second letter had identified him as the student who was supposedly cheating.

6) Charles Pryor always got 100 on Physics tests because he was not cheating; he was simply better at physics than the other students.

Перевод:

1) Они решили написать письмо, чтобы объяснить учителю, что, по их мнению, делал Чарльз Прайор.

2) Они надели перчатки и купили новый блокнот, чтобы обеспечить свою анонимность и не оставить отпечатков пальцев.

3) Учитель дал легкий тест ученикам 4-го периода, чтобы оказать давление на авторов письма (которые были в других классах) и заставить их раскрыть имя предполагаемого списывающего.

4) Трое друзей решили написать еще одно письмо, потому что учитель пригрозил, что если они не назовут имя ученика, они все провалят экзамены, не смогут поступить в колледж и их будущее будет разрушено.

5) Счастливый Джек провел душевный разговор с Чарльзом Прайором, потому что во втором письме мальчики указали на него как на ученика, который якобы списывал.

6) Чарльз Прайор всегда получал 100 баллов за тесты по физике, потому что он не списывал; он просто разбирался в физике лучше, чем другие ученики.