Номер 2, страница 159 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс учебник Лапицкая, Демченко

Unit Five.

Lesson Nine.

Exercise Two.

Three Men in a Boat.

I remember a holiday of mine, which was completely ruined one late autumn, because we were foolish enough to read the weather forecast in the local newspaper.

Heavy showers with thunderstorms may be expected today, it said on Monday, and so we gave up our picnic and stayed indoors all day, waiting for the rain.

And people passed the house, as happy and merry as could be, with the sun shining out and not a cloud to be seen.

Ah, we said, as we stood looking out at them through the window, won't they come home wet? And we chuckled to think how wet they were going to get.

By twelve o'clock, with the sun pouring into the room, the heat became unbearable, and we wondered when those heavy showers and thunderstorms were going to begin.

Ah, they'll come this afternoon, you'll see, we said to each other.

Oh, won't those people get wet?

At one o'clock, the landlady came in to ask if we weren't going out, as it seemed such a lovely day.

No, no, we answered with a knowing chuckle. Not we.

We don't mean to get wet. No, no.

And when the afternoon was nearly gone and still there was no sign of rain, we tried to cheer ourselves up with the idea that it would come down all at once, just as the people had started for home, and they would finally get wet more than ever, but not a drop ever fell, and it finished a great day and a lovely night after it.

The next morning, we read that it was going to be a warm, fine, fair day, much heat.

And we dressed ourselves in light things and went out. And half an hour after we had started, it began to rain hard, and a very cold wind began to blow, and both kept on for the whole day.

So we came home with colds and rheumatisms all over us and went to bed.

The weather is a thing I never can understand.