Прочитайте текст. Определите какие из приведенных утверждений 1-8 соответствуют содержанию текста(1-TRUE), какие не соответствуют(2-FALSE) и о чем в тексте не сказано(3-Not STATED), то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного ни отрицательного ответа. Nobody walks anywhere in America nowadays. The ordinary American walks less than 75 miles a year — about 1.4 miles a week, only 350 yards a day. I walk more than that just looking for the channel changer.
One of the things we wanted when we moved to America was to live in a town within walking distance of shops. Hanover, where we came to live, is a small, typical New England town, pleasant and compact. It has a wide vil¬lage green, an old-fashioned Main Street, nice college buildings with big lawns, and leafy streets. It is, in short, an agreeable, easy place to walk. Nearly everyone in town is within a five-minute walk of the shops, and yet as far as I can tell no one does.
I walk to town nearly every day when I am at home. I go to the post of¬fice or library or the local bookshop, and I stop at Rosey Jekes Cafe for a
cappuccino. All this is a big part of my life, and I wouldn't dream of doing it other than on foot. People have got used to this eccentric behaviour now, but several times in the early days neighbours used to slow down and offer me a lift.
"But I'm going your way," they used to say when I politely said no. "Really, it's no trouble."
"Honestly, I enjoy walking."
"Well, if you're absolutely sure," they used to say and leave, as if they felt they were leaving the scene of an accident.
People have become so habituated to using the car for everything that they don't even think about using their legs. The other day I was in a little nearby town called Etna waiting to bring home one of my children from a piano lesson when a car stopped outside the local post office and a man about my age went out and entered the post office (and left the motor running). He was inside for about three or four minutes, then came out, got in the car, and drove exactly 16 feet (I had nothing better to do so I walked this distance) to the shop next door, and went in again, engine still running.
And the thing is this man looked really fit. I'm sure he jogs impressive distances and plays squash and does all kinds of very healthy things, but I am just as sure that he drives to each of these places. It's crazy. A neighbour of ours was saying the other day about the difficulty of finding a place to park outside the local gymnasium. She goes there several times a week to walk on a treadmill. The gymnasium is, at most, a six-minute walk from her front door. I asked her why she didn't walk to the gym and do six minutes less on the treadmill.
She looked at me as if I were unable to understand simple things and said, "But I have a programme for the treadmill. It shows my distance and speed, and I can change the level of difficulty." It had not come into my mind that nature is not perfect from this point of view.
1) Main Street in Hanover can be called a shopping street.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
2) A lot of people in Hanover live far away from the shops.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
3) The author's behaviour was considered to be strange by local people.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
4) The author's daughter takes piano lessons.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
5) The man, whom the author saw in Etna, preferred driving a few metres to walking that distance.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
6) The man, whom the author saw in Etna, didn't look healthy.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
7)A lot of people visit the local gym. 1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
8)The author's neighbour gives some reasons for exercising in the gym.
1) True 2) False 3) Not stated
Abai was born August 10, 1845 in Chingiz mountains, Semipalatinsk region (under the current administrative division) from one of the four wives kunanbai, senior Sultan karkarala district. Abai's family was aristocratic, and grandfather (Oskenbai) and grandfather (Irgizbaya) dominated in his family as rulers and biys. He was lucky in the sense of family coziness and home care, as both mother Ulzhan and grandmother zere were extremely charming and gifted natures. It is with the light hand of the mother the father the name of "Ibrahim" was replaced by the hypocoristic "Abai", that means "circumspect, thoughtful". Under this name he lived all his life and went down in history.
Begun in early childhood introduction to the oral folklore of the people and home the training was continued mullahs in the madrassas of Imam Ahmad Riza. Simultaneously, he studied at Russian school and by the end of the five-year study began to write poetry. With 13 years Kunanbay starts to accustom Abai to administrative activity of the head of family. He had to understand the intergeneric disputes, quarrels, intrigues, and gradually he was disappointed to administrative and political activities, which led to the fact that at the age of 28 years, Abay departs from it entirely took up self-education. But for 40 years he is aware of his vocation as a poet and citizen, in particular, putting under the poem "Summer" is his name (he had previously attributed his works to a friend Zhantasova Kokay). Considerable impetus to the erection high potency of Abay at this point was his Association with the exiled Russian, with E. P. Mikhaelis, N. Dolgopolov, S. Gross. Abay's treatment of Russian culture in the nineteenth century experienced a period of "storm and stress" in literature and art, was the more natural that in the Eastern tradition, the poetic word was highly appreciated. Abai was closed to the poetry of Pushkin, Lermontov, Goethe and Byron. He is in his transcriptions of the Kazakh subtly conveyed the spirit of the translated poems and adapted for attitude of the tribesmen.
For 20 years the blooms are extremely versatile genius of Abai, he gains extraordinary authority, huge and hitherto in the desert not seen the popularity. To it flock the akyns, singers, composers, crowding around him talented young people, creates socio-philosophical and literary schools.
But Abay as the dominant causes wild envy, the rabid animosity shown in the most artful forms. Last strokes of bad luck are connected with death of Abdrahman and magavi. He rejected treatment of an illness and has voluntary doomed itself to death. He is buried near his wintering in the valley zhidebai, near the Chingiz mountains, 60 year life.