I. Reading, страница 1 - гдз по английскому языку 11 класс учебник часть 1 Демченко, Бушуева

I. READING

1. Read the article and say in 2–3 sentences what it is about.

Abraham Lincoln ['eıbrəhæm 'lıŋkən] is a huge name in the history of the United States. Americans pay him a tribute in many ways: they placed Lincoln’s portrait on every five-dollar bill, they carved his face into Mount Rushmore in South Dakota; they named the first highway in the USA after him; they built a memorial in his honor¹ in Washington, D.C.; and they celebrate his birthday on President’s Day throughout all the country.

Abraham Lincoln grew up in Kentucky in a one-room log cabin. He couldn’t go to school, so he taught himself. He became a lawyer. Lincoln was against slavery and gave some famous speeches about his ideas when he was running for the Senate.

Abraham Lincoln became the 16^th U.S. president in 1861. He guided his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War (1861–1865) – after 11 of 15 Southern slaveholding states left the United States to form the Confederate States of America. President Lincoln freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. He had a plan to bring the South back into the Union after the Civil War, but he couldn’t carry out the plan because he was assassinated. On April 9, 1865 a Confederate sympathizer shot Abraham Lincoln to death. Five days after, the Confederacy surrendered.

The Lincoln Memorial commemorates the life of Abraham Lincoln. The monument’s design was modelled after the Parthenon in Athens. Inside the building, there is a 5,8-meter statue of a sitting Lincoln; on two opposite walls, there are stone engravings of two famous Lincoln’s speeches.

The construction of the Lincoln Memorial lasted from 1914 to 1922. It is pictured on the reverse of the US penny and the back of the US five dollar bill.

2. Find and read aloud the extract which says that Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning.

3. Who won the Civil War – the North (the Union army) or the South (the Confederate army)?

4. Why do Americans consider Abraham Lincoln a great man?

1. Прочитайте статью и скажите в 2-3 предложениях, о чем она.

Ответ: The article is about the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States. It describes his presidency during the American Civil War, his role in ending slavery, and the various ways Americans honor his memory.

Перевод: Статья посвящена жизни и наследию Авраама Линкольна, 16-го президента Соединенных Штатов. В ней описывается его президентство во время Гражданской войны в США, его роль в отмене рабства и различные способы, которыми американцы чтят его память.

2. Найдите и прочитайте вслух отрывок, в котором говорится, что Линкольну приходилось бороться за жизнь и за обучение.

Ответ: Abraham Lincoln grew up in Kentucky in a one-room log cabin. He couldn’t go to school, so he taught himself.

Перевод: Авраам Линкольн вырос в Кентукки в бревенчатой хижине с одной комнатой. Он не мог ходить в школу, поэтому учился сам.

3. Кто победил в Гражданской войне — Север (армия Союза) или Юг (армия Конфедерации)?

Ответ: The North (the Union army) won the Civil War. The text states that "the Confederacy surrendered."

Перевод: В Гражданской войне победил Север (армия Союза). В тексте говорится, что «Конфедерация капитулировала».

4. Почему американцы считают Авраама Линкольна великим человеком?

Ответ: Americans consider Abraham Lincoln a great man because he guided his country through the American Civil War, preserved the Union, and freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation.

Перевод: Американцы считают Авраама Линкольна великим человеком, потому что он провел свою страну через Гражданскую войну в США, сохранил Союз и освободил рабов с помощью Прокламации об освобождении.