1.01 Задание 1. Задание на понимание основного содержания прослушанного текста

Speaker A

I have recently watched a film about travelling through time, and I wish I could do it myself. If I had a time machine, I would definitely go to the future. I really want to see what our world will look like in 1,000 years. I think life will be great, and I just want to see if scientists will be able to cure cancer, or will invent all those things we can see in sci-fi movies. I'd take pictures, and come back to my time, and show these pictures to everybody.

Speaker B

If you ask me, I think a time machine is an invention which is potentially very dangerous indeed. First of all, I don't think people should know what the future holds for them. This is my opinion about seeing the future with the help of a time machine. As for travelling back to our past, well, I think anything can change the course of events. Do we know what events might result from going back to the past? Nobody knows it. It's just not safe, I think.

Speaker C

If I could travel through time, I think I'd go and see the past. The period when dinosaurs lived, and then the Ice Age, and then how ancient people lived, and how the Egyptians built their pyramids, or how Stonehenge was built, and so on. There are so many mysteries around us, and I sometimes think scientists will never find the answers to all the questions that we have about our past. So, a time machine may be our only chance to learn the truth.

Speaker D

I think people will never be able to travel through time. If you read books about it, you can see that people have been dreaming about it for a long time really. If it were possible, we would already have learnt to do it. There are some things about our universe which will remain mysteries forever, and maybe it is good. Maybe it just should be this way. A time machine can exist only in sci-fi books or movies, but people will never be able to make one.

Speaker E

If I knew how to travel through time, I'd go to the past, and probably would never get back to our time. I think life was much better in the past. People were more honest and loyal, I believe. The air and the water were cleaner, there were not so many factories, and the world was safe to live in. Of course, there were more illnesses, and hygiene was a serious problem, but I don't want to go too far to our past, you know, maybe the 18th or the 19th century.

Speaker F

I don't think travelling through time is impossible. Let's see, a hundred years ago, the whole concept of the internet, smartphones, video calls and instant messaging services was far from looking real. Now, any five-year-old can surf the net or use a smartphone. I believe in the future. People will make a time machine because people are curious and they are capable of anything. I don't know if it's going to be good or bad to invent it though.