Английский язык. 11 класс (О. В. Афанасьева и др.)
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| No. 18. Exercise 5. Listen to the descriptions of people’s behaviour which
are taken from popular legends and say in which of them Man a) becomes an outsider in his community; b) demonstrates kindness; c) gets punishment for his disobedience; d) doesn’t know what sympathy is; e) can’t resist his desire. 1. Many people know the story of Daedalus and his son Icarus. Before the story begins, the wife of King Minos has been made by the gods to fall in love with a bull and has given birth to a monster, half bull, and half human, called the Minotaur. King Minos employs Daedalus to build a maze, or a labyrinth, to imprison the dangerous creature. Daedalus does as he is asked but later he angers the king and finds himself locked with his son Icarus in his own labyrinth. But the man is incredibly skilful and soon the wings that can carry him and his son in the sky are ready. But Icarus doesn’t follow his father’s warning never to fly too close to the sun. Thinking he is invulnerable he approaches the sun and dies. 2. One day a skilled blacksmith made a beautiful silver box. It was a divine piece of art and the gods filled it with something and forbade the man to open it. The blacksmith’s bosom friend saw the box and was amazed by its beauty. It was a real masterpiece. The friend wanted to have the box in his possession and the blacksmith couldn’t help giving it to the person he loved so much. But he instructed his friend never to open the box. The latter agreed. Admiring the box every evening before going to bed its new owner grew more and more restless as he wanted to know what was hidden inside. So, one night the blacksmith’s friend understood he could no longer bear the torture. His whole body trembling, he knelt down beside the box and opened it and at once all the problems of the world that had been long kept locked up, exploded into the world. 3. There was once a large Indian village situated on the border of a lake. And in it there dwelt an old man, a widower with two sons. The youngest was very small, weak and often ill, which didn’t prevent his brother from treating him with great cruelty. He would burn the other’s 100 hands and face with hot coals. When their father, coming home, asked why the child was so disfigured, his brother would promptly say that it was the fault of the boy himself. He had been forbidden to go near the fire but he had disobeyed and fallen in. 4. Once there was a young man who was very poor. His parents had died when he was only a boy and he was brought up by his grandparents. But now they were dead, too, and he was lonely and unhappy. He had no cattle, no fine clothes, no valuable belongings, and because of this the people of his village ignored him. One day, the poor man decided he had had enough of his unfriendly village. He would set off – it didn’t matter where – to see if he would have better luck in another part of the country. 5. Once a man set off towards a faraway village. He walked for miles across the dusty plain and by midday he was hot and tired. Luckily, there was a tree nearby. So he sat under it and rested in the shade. Feeling hungry he opened his bag and took out a hunk of meat he had. Just as he was pulling it out he heard something scratching the ground behind him. He looked around and there was a scrawny-looking hyena eyeing the meat. “Excuse me,” it said, “but do you think you could spare the bones when you have finished the meat? You see, I haven’t eaten for two days.” The man decided to share his meat with the animal. жүктеу/скачать 0,65 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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