Question

Listen. Are the statements true (T) or false (F)? 1 Agatha Christie has sold a million books in English. 2 She grew up in a cramped, poor home. 3 Christie was her first husband's name. 4 She had a job during the First World War. 5 She wrote her first book ten years after the war. 6 She disappeared for a few days in 1926. 7 Her second husband was much older than her. 8 One of her novels is set in Egypt. 9 Agatha Christie died of old age. Прилагаю текст аудио: Track five Agatha Christie is one of the world's most famous writers of crime fiction. She wrote more than 80 novels of murder mystery and crime, which have sold more than a billion copies in English, and another billion in more than 100 other languages. Born into a comfortable, pleasant home in England, to a British mother, and an American father, Agatha, had a quiet conventional childhood in the seaside town of Torquay, in the southwest of England. That's the beginning of the First World War in 1914. She married a pilot called Colonel Archibald Christie. During the war, she worked in a hospital and then in a pharmacy. It was in these jobs that she learned a lot about dangerous chemicals and poisons, and later she used this knowledge in her books. She published her first book, The mysterious affair at styles a couple of years after the war. In it, she introduced Hercule Priora, who was to become one of fiction's most famous detectives. Sadly, her marriage to Colonel Christie was unhappy. And in 1926, Agatha Christie was in a real life mystery. When she herself disappeared. Her car was found abandoned, and despite newspaper stories, she was missing for several days. Eventually, she was found in a hotel in the north of England using a false name. She claimed that she had lost her memory because of her mother's death, and the shock that her husband loved another woman. Two years later, she and Colonel Christie were divorced. In 1930, she married an archaeologist Max Malone, who was 14 years younger than she was. They spent a lot of time traveling in Egypt and other eastern countries, and this provided the location for one of her novels, death on the Nile. Agatha Christie said an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her. Unlike many of her characters, Agatha Christie died naturally of old age in 1976

Answer 1

Ответ:

F-1. F-2. T-3. T-4. F-5. T-6. F-7. T-8. T-9

Answer 2

Let's go through each statement and determine if it is true or false:

1. Agatha Christie has sold a million books in English. False. The statement is incorrect. Agatha Christie's books have sold more than a billion copies in English.

2. She grew up in a cramped, poor home. False. The statement is incorrect. Agatha Christie grew up in a comfortable, pleasant home in England.

3. Christie was her first husband's name. True. Agatha Christie's first husband's name was Colonel Archibald Christie.

4. She had a job during the First World War. True. During the First World War, Agatha Christie worked in a hospital and later in a pharmacy.

5. She wrote her first book ten years after the war. False. The statement is incorrect. Agatha Christie published her first book, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles," a couple of years after the war.

6. She disappeared for a few days in 1926. True. Agatha Christie did disappear for several days in 1926. Her car was found abandoned, and she was eventually found in a hotel in the north of England using a false name.

7. Her second husband was much older than her. False. The statement is incorrect. Agatha Christie's second husband, Max Mallowan, was 14 years younger than she was.

8. One of her novels is set in Egypt. True. Agatha Christie's novel "Death on the Nile" is set in Egypt.

9. Agatha Christie died of old age. True. Agatha Christie died naturally of old age in 1976.

So, to summarize: Statement 1: False Statement 2: False Statement 3: True Statement 4: True Statement 5: False Statement 6: True Statement 7: False Statement 8: True Statement 9: True