Номер 5, страница 156, часть 2 - гдз по английскому языку 11 класс учебник Демченко, Бушуева

5. a. Read the text and make a list of characteristic features of the Brits according to this text.

My wife, who is French, has lived in England for twenty-five years. When she arrived, she was both surprised and favourably struck by the comparative disinterest, even of the rich, in material comfort and pleasures, and by the uprightness and straightforwardness of the public administration. Her career as a doctor was spent treating old people, and she developed a great respect for the British character shown by her patients. Among their virtues were politeness, lack of self-importance, stoicism, emotional self-control. No matter to which social class they belonged, they had dignity and self-respect. Their virtues far outweighed their vices.

My medical experience happens to prove it as well. I remember at the beginning of my career as a doctor in a rural area, where one day an old man called me out to his home. He had been very weak for some weeks so that he had difficulty in raising himself from the sofa on which he was lying.

“I tried for as long as I could not to bother you, doctor,” he said, “but I can’t manage it any longer.”

“Doctors are supposed to be called out when the person is very weak”, I said. But I was really impressed with his behaviour.

b. Compare both texts and say why they are so different.

5. a. Прочитайте текст и составьте список характерных черт британцев согласно этому тексту.

Ответ:

According to the text, the characteristic features of the Brits are:

Disinterest in material comfort and pleasures.

Uprightness and straightforwardness.

Politeness.

Lack of self-importance.

Stoicism.

Emotional self-control.

Dignity.

Self-respect.

Перевод:

Согласно тексту, характерными чертами британцев являются:

Незаинтересованность в материальном комфорте и удовольствиях.

Порядочность и прямолинейность.

Вежливость.

Отсутствие самомнения.

Стоицизм.

Эмоциональный самоконтроль.

Достоинство.

Самоуважение.