ГДЗ Упражнение 27, Unit 4, из Английский язык Афанасьева О.В., Михеева И.В. 11 класс

27. A. In the text "The Happy Prince" you can find different ways of describing the process of giving off bright light. Find them (verbs or their derivatives in the text and match them with the following definitions: 1. to produce bright light; 2. to give off bright light suddenly and for a short time, then go dark again; 3. to produce a warm soft light; 4. to produce small bright points of light. B. In English there are some other words connected with the idea of giving light. They are: to glisten = to shine because the object is wet or oily and throws back the light from its surface especially in an attractive way. to gleam = to shine brightly especially by throwing back light off a very smooth surface. to shimmer = to shine with a soft light that seems to move very slightly and very quickly up and down and from side to side producing the effect that the light shakes slightly, to twinkle = (usually about a star, light to shine in the dark with small points of light. C. Of all the words connected with the process of producing light (sections A, B of the exercise say which denote giving off 1. bright light; 2. soft light; 3. light that disappears very quickly; 4. light that is not even, or moving; 5. light that is reflected from the surface; 6. light that comes from wet surfaces; 7. light that comes from smooth surfaces; 8. light that usually can be seen in the dark and rapidly changes from bright to faint; 9. light produced in small points.