Номер 4, страница 109, часть 2 - гдз по английскому языку 10 класс учебник Демченко, Юхнель

4. a. Can you name any world-famous entrepreneurs with unconventional ideas?

b. Read the article and check if any of the names you have mentioned appear in the text. Look the unfamiliar words up in a dictionary.

Time magazine’s article on “business geniuses” is full of admiration for entrepreneurs the USA has had in the last century, with business people replacing thinkers and poets as national icons. Among the names are Henry Ford, Walt Disney and Bill Gates.

Are they real heroes, or just dubious icons of dubious achievements of this century? Henry Ford gave us the automobile, and with it pollution, global warming, suburban sprawl, oil drills and spills, the paving of millions of acres of good land, and 40,000 traffic fatalities each year. Walt Disney offered us shallow entertainment and the mickeymousification of world culture, while sending millions of families on pilgrimages to Disneyland parks and shopping malls. Bill Gates engineered a monopoly in PC products, only to divert our attention from Ford-Disney products and distract ourselves with video games, virtual reality, and endless chitchat. All of them seem to be wasted genius. They are not as useful to humanity as a good bicycle mechanic is.

Yet, business turns into a new religion. The young no longer admire Albert Einstein or Leonardo da Vinci. New idols appear – Google’s Sergey Brin, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and SpaceX’s Elon Musk. Should we play by the new rules and call them geniuses, or should we possibly think of a new definition of the word ‘genius’?

c. What is the attitude of the author to business geniuses?

4. c. Каково отношение автора к бизнес-гениям?

Ответ: The author's attitude towards business geniuses is critical and skeptical. He questions whether they are "real heroes" or just "dubious icons," pointing out the negative consequences of their achievements, such as pollution, shallow entertainment, and monopolies. The author suggests their genius might be "wasted" and that they are not as useful to humanity as a good bicycle mechanic, implying that the term "genius" might need a new definition when applied to them.

Перевод: Отношение автора к бизнес-гениям является критическим и скептическим. Он сомневается, являются ли они «настоящими героями» или просто «сомнительными иконами», указывая на негативные последствия их достижений, такие как загрязнение окружающей среды, поверхностные развлечения и монополии. Автор предполагает, что их гений, возможно, «растрачен впустую» и что они не так полезны человечеству, как хороший веломеханик, подразумевая, что термин «гений» может потребовать нового определения в их отношении.