113. Read the story and find out if you were right. Six Robinsons and Their Guitar: Nobody lives on the little island of Ata, in the warm South Sea, where it is summer all year round. Everybody knows that ships don’t stop at Ata, but once “The Mary Jane” suddenly changed her course and went towards the island. Some people on the ship had noticed a number of small figures on a hill not far from the sea coast. They were shouting and jumping up and down. When the ship came nearer, the small figures ran down the hill and into the water to meet the ship. There were six of them, all boys. They swam to the ship, climbed up and were soon telling their strange story. Fifteen months before, they had gone out fishing. Their little boat had gone down during a terrible storm, and the sea had carried them a lot of kilometres to this little island. The boys had arranged their life very well: each boy had his own duties. Their food was birds, birds’ eggs, fruit, fish, whatever they could find on the ground, in the air and in the water. The Robinson Crusoes had even made a kind of guitar: they danced and sang songs that they had made up themselves. They explained that they were glad to be saved, and were happy to return home to their own country.

Перевод задания: Прочитайте рассказ и выясните, правильно ли вы догадались.

The story is about six boys whose boat was lost in a storm. They survived on the island of Ata for fifteen months, found food, shared duties and made a kind of guitar. When a ship came near, they swam to it and were rescued. So the predictions about the boys’ life on the island and their rescue were right. (Рассказ о шести мальчиках, чья лодка затонула во время шторма. Они пятнадцать месяцев выживали на острове Ата, находили пищу, распределили обязанности и сделали подобие гитары. Когда рядом оказался корабль, они доплыли до него и были спасены. Значит, предположения о жизни мальчиков на острове и их спасении оказались верными.)