2020-07-12
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Make up a summary of the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8u3iIHhZPM
Summary:
- The whale started to sense the danger approaching. An unpredictable race started between the immersed sperm whale and “The star of the East”.
- The whale started thrashing its giant tail on the water, causing massive waves that crashed around the boats.
- Bartley and his team realized that they were in dangerous waters and had to get out of there.
- Suddenly, they felt a splintering crash underneath the hull, which sent their boat spinning into the air. The whale broke the wooden longboat into a million pieces, and the five men landed in the water.
- Another longboat rushed to their rescue and picked up all the men in the water. Except for one apprentice – James Bartley.
- Many hours had passed since that incident in the morning. And, right before sunset, the whale was still floating on the surface of the water. It was clear now that it was no longer alive.
- That afternoon, as someone was investigating the bloated whale they captured the night before, he noticed something moving in its stomach.
- Everyone thought that a huge fish was inside, and the doctor decided to perform an incision.
- Right then and there, to everyone’s surprise, the missing sailor - James Bartley, slid out. Everyone cheered. He was alive.
- He couldn’t speak, and he was taken into a confined cabin onboard the ship. He wasn’t allowed to leave the room.
- He recalled how he was able to breathe, but after some time he blacked out. The young sailor couldn’t remember anything after that.
- The crew members of the ship started sharing his story by word of mouth, and it began gaining momentum.
- In 1896, the first article was published in the New York World, telling a small portion of the story.
- Years later, a historian picked up the story and began an investigation. His name was Edward Davis. He read the stories that were published and noticed a lot of factual inconsistencies.
- He found that James Bartley’s name wasn’t even on the crew member list.
- And there was another flaw in the story: It would be scientifically impossible for a human being to survive inside a whale’s stomach, even if they’re swallowed whole.
2. Find the Russian equivalents for the following words and phrases: cast lots, top dog, pawn, deus ex machina, to finger-flip, Babylon engulfing disobedient Israel, car ferry, gastric fluids, India-rubber, incarceration, Jaws, gill-bearing ancestors, being devoured by, the penitent, salvation, gourd, a maggot, Ninevites, to vomit up.
3. Find the Russian sentences in the text:
1) Там он сел на корабль, отправляющийся в самый дальний конец известного мира - в испанский город Фарсис. 2) Внутри кита, три дня и три ночи, Иона молился Господу и так преуспел в заверениях относительно своей будущей покорности, что Бог повелел рыбе извергнуть узника. 3) Он, разумеется, не учел того, что Господь прекрасно знает, где находится его непокорный раб, и, более того, обладает оперативным контролем над водами и ветрами Восточного Средиземноморья. 4) Все карты на руках у Бога; он и берет все взятки. 5) Момент ли заглатывания, эта борьба страха с надеждой на спасение, когда мы воображаем себя чудом избегнувшими смерти в волнах только ради того, чтобы быть съеденными живьем? 6) Мы люди бывалые и умеем отличать мифы от реальности. 7) В то же время я сильно страдал от жары, которая прямо-таки палила меня и быстро росла. 8) И, если вы ученый или просто человек желчный и недоверчивый, взгляните на это вот с какой стороны. 9) И однажды произойдет случай, в который поверите даже вы: моряк исчезнет в пасти кита и будет освобожден из его чрева; пусть не через полдня, быть может, только через полчаса. 10) Постепенно он обрел прежнее здоровье, однако кислота вытравила из подвергшейся ее действию кожи все пигменты.
