Номер 2, страница 118, часть 2 - гдз по английскому языку 9 класс учебник Демченко, Юхнель

2. a. Match the beginnings and endings of the sentences taken from an article about the future of communications.

1. What we need to know is...

2. If we don’t do anything about aggression-promoting TV programmes, Internet and mobile phone addictions today, ...

3. It is always possible ...

4. Sometimes we take it for granted ...

5. Though it seems ...

6. When we think about the future,

7. We don’t know ...

8. But the thing that worries many of us most is ...

9. It appears ...

10. The question is whether new technologies will be just fads...

a) ... it might be too late tomorrow.

b) ... what we are going to do about the changes that all these new inventions bring along and how they will affect our lives.

c) ... whether new means of communication will be available in the future and whether they will change the quality of our life.

d) ... we imagine something really revolutionary like time travel or telepathy.

e) ... that our life is becoming more and more comfortable and successful with all the new means of communication and new devices – plasma TVs, portable computers, wireless Internet and smartphones.

f) ... that there is a contradiction between the advantages of new technologies and the disadvantages we can’t help noticing.

g) ... that new ways of keeping in touch will appear and replace the old ones.

h) ... or whether they will improve our communication seriously.

i) ... as if everything has already been created, inventors surprise us with new gadgets every year.

j) ... what can be invented in 10, 20 or 50 years from now.

b. Define the types of the subordinate clauses in the sentences above.

c. Moving activity “Line up!”

d. Listen and check yourselves.

2. a. Сопоставьте начала и окончания предложений, взятых из статьи о будущем коммуникаций.

Ответ:

1 - b

2 - a

3 - g

4 - e

5 - i

6 - d

7 - j

8 - c

9 - f

10. - h

Перевод:

1 - b

2 - a

3 - g

4 - e

5 - i

6 - d

7 - j

8 - c

9 - f

10 - h