Прочитайте текст Unit 1 №55 ГДЗ Английский 8 класс Биболетова М.З.
Read the text.
a) Guess if it is a frightening or a funny story.
Who’s There?
I work in a space station. From my office, I can
see the Earth twenty thousand miles away. It
floats in space like a big green and blue ball.
I am the Station Supervisor. I like my job, but
I sometimes get bored inside the space station.
One day I was in my office watching the men
working outside. They were building part of the
station. Suddenly I was called on the radio from
the Satellite Control Office.
“There is something about two miles away and
it’s hardly moving. Can you see what it is?”
I took out my binoculars and looked at the
sky. A small satellite was coming towards us.
It looked old.
1 was told to go out and to bring it in.
I put away my papers and went to get my
spacesuit. All the spacesuits were kept in large
lockers. On my way to the lockers I met our cat,
Tommy. Most animals don’t like to live in space,
but Tommy was happy, All the men liked him.
I climbed into my spacesuit and soon I was
in space. I saw the satellite and began to move
towards it.
But at that moment something went wrong.
I heard a noise. It was a strange noise.
Something was scraping on the metal of the
spacesuit. I froze with fear. There’s something
outside. It was alive. And it was trying to get into
my spacesuit, I thought.
'Bernie Summers! I thought. He died in space.
His spacesuit broke open. After the accident,
Bernie Summers' spacesuit had been repaired.
Was his ghost trying to get back into my
spacesuit? I had heard strange stories about
ghosts in space. I grew more and more afraid.
I switched on the radio and shouted: “Help!
I’m in trouble! Did this spacesuit belong to...”
I never finished the sentence. At that moment,
1 felt something. Something patted me softly on
the back of my neck. I screamed as loud as 1 could.
I fainted and fell down.
Sometime later, 1 woke up. I was back in the
space station. The doctors were round my bed.
But they weren’t looking at me. They were
looking at something more interesting.
b) Try to predict the end of the story:
What were the doctors looking at?
Who patted the spaceman on the back of his
neck?
Now read the end of the story and find out if
you were right.
The doctors were playing with three kittens.
Then I remembered the cat. Tommy. Tommy?
A tom-cat? We had all made a mistake.
Our Tommy wasn't a tom-cat. She was
a mother! She had put her babies in the pocket
of the spacesuit. One of the kittens had patted
me on the neck with its soft little paw. I had been
knocked out by a kitten!
