Aesop and the traveller
Aesop, a Greek philosopher, was famous for his jokes. One day Aesop was out for a walk when he saw a man. The man was lost. The man greeted Aesop and asked him how long it would take him to get to the town? Aesop told him to go. The traveler didn't understand the reply. He said that he knew that he had to go and repeated his question, but Aesop's reply was the same. He told him to go again very politely.
The traveller went away. He decided that the man was mad. After the traveller had gone some
distance, Aesop shouted after him that he would get to the town in two hours.
The traveller came back to Aesop and asked why he hadn't told him that before? Aesop replied that he hadn't told him because he hadn't known how fast the traveller could walk.
Поделитесь своими знаниями, ответьте на вопрос:
с Англиским 1 Выполните письменный перевод текстов. Установите соответствие между текстами A–E и рубриками 1–6. Занесите свои ответы в тетради. Используйте каждую цифру только один раз. В задании одна рубрика лишняя. 1 Helping the poor 4 Sports 2 Politics 5 Food 3 Shopping 6 Sightseeing A. What an incredible end to the men’s NCAA basketball national championship game last night! It was the Villanova Wildcats (a Philadelphia team) versus the University of North Carolina Tar Heels. Both teams took the lead throughout the game. And the score was 74-71 for Villanova with just a few seconds left. Then it got really interesting. B. The U.N. was formally set up, or founded, just after the end of the Second World War in 1945 It replaced the League of Nations. This organization was formed after the end of the First World War (1914–1918 Its main purpose was to stop any future wars from happening. Yet the League was not successful and it failed to prevent the start of the Second World War in 1939 C. In 1749 the Dutch House in Kuskovo was erected in memory of Peter the Great, whom Field Marshal Boris Sheremetev served as companion-in-arms. This house is modeled on typical late seventeenth-century Dutch town house. It is a two-storey brick building. The house was plastered and painted in imitation of brickwork. D. Imagine walking into a grocery store, putting the food items you want into your bag and then just walking out. Done. No checkout lines. No looking for your wallet. Amazon (the online store that started out by selling books) is opening a grocery store just like that in a few months. They made the announcement yesterday. There will only be one store at first – in Seattle, Washington. E. At a restaurant in Madrid, Spain, regular paying customers come for breakfast and lunch. In the evening, the restaurant is reserved exclusively for the homeless. The money that’s made from the meals paid for earlier in the day is used to provide free dinners for homeless people later that night. The restaurant seats 50 people and each night the restaurant feeds 100 homeless people.