Номер 2, страница 31, часть 2 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс учебник Демченко, Севрюкова

2. a. Read a post from a garden writer's blog. Is the writer American or British? Why do you think so?

Gardening is very important to us. It is also a big part of how the rest of the world sees us. Throughout the country, there are gardens, great and small, formal and informal, public and private, that illustrate the passion. According to a recent survey, (1. ...) per cent of houses have private gardens and there are about (2. ...) million gardeners in the UK!

Our national love of gardening starts early. Such children’s books as “The Secret Garden”, “Wind in the Willows”, and “Winnie-the-Pooh” have nature at their hearts. So we learn very early that gardens are magical places and the landscape is very important to who we are. That sense of a private kingdom, a playground for our imagination, is at the very heart of our love. It’s interesting to observe how American gardens are often at the front of the house, open to the world, all “Hello, neighbour!” – while our gardens traditionally are at the back of the house, hidden, secret, private.

Gardening is not just popular as a practical hobby, but also as a leisure activity in the form of garden visiting, which is almost unknown elsewhere. People visit both historical gardens and modern private ones. Just imagine that only last year saw the opening of around (3. ...) private gardens, with the ticket money going to charity. Visiting other people’s gardens gives keen gardeners ideas and opportunities to compare themselves with others and ... to be nosy about other peoples’ lives.

Gardening in Britain has deep roots. Thanks to its geographical location and a long growing season, plants from different lands and climate zones can be grown together. Plant hunters, who were part of the story of the British Empire, brought lots of plants to the British shores. Some of them came to the gardens and greenhouses of the aristocracy, others to botanic gardens, such as that established at Kew [kju:] in 1759. Just ten years later it had more than (4. ...) species of exotic plants. At first the playthings of the rich, they soon found their way to common people’s gardens.

Gardening is not only about plants but also about landscape and garden design. Britain’s greatest gift to world culture has been the landscape movement. Until (5. ...) century gardens in Europe had been formal and geometric. British gardeners, however, broke with tradition. The landscape around the country house was made to look as natural as possible.

By the end of (6. ...) century, simple plants grown by country people had become more popular with gardeners than exotic plants. Thus was born the cottage garden movement which became the heart of the British garden ideal. Images of country gardens in books and magazines and on packaging showed the world what it meant to be British.

b. Fill in the gaps in the blog entry with numbers. Listen and check your guesses.

c. Look at the pictures of two types of gardens. Which of them is an earlier style of garden? Prove it.

a. Прочитайте пост из блога автора, пишущего о садах. Автор американец или британец? Почему вы так думаете?

c. Посмотрите на фотографии двух типов садов. Какой из них представляет более ранний стиль сада? Докажите.

Ответ:

a. The writer is British. They use pronouns like "us" and "our" when referring to British gardening traditions ("our national love of gardening"), mention "the UK" and "Britain", and directly contrast British gardens with American ones.

c. The picture of the formal, geometric garden (the bottom picture) is an earlier style. The text proves this by stating that until a certain century "gardens in Europe had been formal and geometric." Then, "British gardeners, however, broke with tradition" to create more natural landscapes, like the one in the top picture.

Перевод:

a. Автор — британец. Он использует местоимения «нас» и «наш», говоря о британских традициях садоводства («наша национальная любовь к садоводству»), упоминает «Великобританию» и «Британию» и напрямую противопоставляет британские сады американским.

c. Изображение с формальным, геометрическим садом (нижнее фото) представляет более ранний стиль. Текст доказывает это, утверждая, что до определенного века «сады в Европе были формальными и геометрическими». Затем «британские садовники, однако, нарушили традицию», чтобы создавать более естественные ландшафты, как на верхнем фото.