- •Isbn 978-5-600-01014-7
- •The imperative mood
- •A few golden rules
- •Roast chicken with rosemary
- •Ingredients:
- •D o’s and don’ts around dogs
- •How to put things right
- •If you phone:
- •The verb to be
- •Sacred mountains of the world
- •Amazing but useless facts
- •Richard Wagner
- •It’s an Amazing World!
- •Ice and water
- •Amazing facts about your body
- •The present indefinite tense
- •It is so hard to be an Irishman!
- •How people greet each other in different countries
- •Little Red Riding Hood
- •The past indefinite tense
- •Roald Dahl
- •Lamb to the slaughter
- •Lazy Jack
- •История почтовой марки
- •The future indefinite tense
- •5 Things you can expect from the house of the future
- •Irish wife
- •Умная Эльза
- •General review: indefinite tenses
- •The turnip
- •Битва с бабочками
- •The present continuous tense
- •Welcome to the World of Fun!
- •The strange doctor
- •The past continuous tense
- •The founding of Narnia
- •B. Несчастный старик
- •The future continuous tense
- •General review: continuous tenses
- •The man who could work miracles
- •Роман биржевого маклера
- •The present perfect tense
- •Digory and his uncle
- •Start exploring your life on earth!
- •Медовый месяц
- •The past prefect tense
- •The lady vanishes
- •A confession
- •The star talers
- •The mouse and Henry Carson
- •Hello? Anybody there?
- •The future perfect tense
- •Learn your horoscope for the coming week!
- •General review: perfect tenses
- •The Man, the Boy and the Donkey
- •Дама, которая никогда ничего не выбрасывала
- •The present perfect continuous tense
- •The story of the Three Bears
- •The past perfect continuous tense
- •General review: perfect continuous tenses
- •A gateway to “the Otherworld”
- •Долгое ожидание
- •The passive voice
- •Thanksgiving
- •Doctors without Borders
- •How chocolate is made
- •103. Open the brackets using the Passive form of the Past Indefinite tense. Amazing facts from History
- •The history of yo-yo
- •A laconic answer
- •A. Death comes to the squire
- •B. The hanging gardens of Babylon
- •A brief history of Facebook
- •Spartan upbringing
- •By Henry Miller in New York
- •T he history of Barbie
- •General review: the passive voice
- •Do you know that…
- •Quitters, Inc.
- •The sequence of tenses. The reported speech
- •I will not
- •Agony aunt
- •I don’t feel the same.
- •Муравей и кузнечик
- •General review: tense and voice forms
- •Реформация Джимми Вэлентайна
- •Modal verbs
- •Twenty ways of saving money!
- •How good a detective are you?
- •Rules for kids
- •Б укет колокольчиков
- •The oblique moods
- •If I Were King
- •I often wish I were a King,
- •Memory problems
- •A truly bizarre death
- •The depression years
- •General review: modal verbs. The oblique moods
- •П рогулка по пляжу
- •The infinitive
- •How to be a good friend
- •Идеальная женщина
- •The participle
- •The history of the sewing machine
- •A meal to remember
- •The complex object
- •Beatrice and the nightingale
- •Однажды в понедельник
- •The complex subject
- •Secrets of the world’s oldest people
- •Интересные факты из жизни американских президентов
- •The gerund
- •Mark Twain’s famous quotes
- •The top ten fears
- •The meaning of dreams
- •1. Flying 2. Getting stuck 3. Falling 4. Fire 5. Mountains
- •Strange deaths
- •Gerund and infinitive after certain verbs
- •General review: the verbals
- •Flying Dutchman
- •The great mouse plot
- •General review: mixed structures
- •Героиня
- •Sources
- •Internet sources
- •Contents
The history of yo-yo
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of the oldest known toys, it is likely that yo-yo _______ (1)
independently in several different areas. Stone yo-yos more than
three thousand years old have been found in Greece and evidence
indicates that yo-yos were present in ancient Chinese culture. In the
1700s, the yo-yo or jou-jou, as it _______ (2),
provided entertainment for the French royal court. In the 1800s, the
toy _______ (3)
popular with children in Victorian England. It _______(soon)
(4) to
the United States, where patents _______ (5)
and design changes _______ (6)
to improve its play. However, by the early 1900s, the toy _______
(almost)
(7).
In 1928, Donald Duncan, a successful businessman, _______ (8) a young man named Pedro Flores playing with a yo-yo in Los Angeles. Enamored with the toy, Duncan _______ (9) Flores’s small yo-yo making company for $25,000. Soon, Duncan _______ (10) hundreds of ‘Yo-Yo Men’ to travel over the country demonstrating amazing yo-yo tricks. The yo-yo was a huge success. Three American presidents, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, publicly _______ (11) with the toy. In 1992, a yo-yo _______ (12) into space by astronaut Jeffry Hoffman on the space shuttle Atlantis.
106. Translate the following.
1. Самая высокая температура в мире (+63 С) была зарегистрирована в Эфиопии.
2. Первым романом, который был напечатан на машинке, был «Том Сойер». Он был написан Марком Твеном.
3. Старейший университет в мире был создан в Египте. Он был основан как академия в 989 г. В это время там преподавались такие предметы, как математика, астрономия, медицина и география.
4. Старейший национальный флаг в мире был принят в Дании в 1218 году.
5. Знаменитый мемориал Стоунхендж (Stonehenge) был построен между 1800 и 1400 годами до нашей эры для наблюдений за небом. Каждый из камней, из которых он состоит, достигает высоты 4-4,6 метров. Ученые полагают, что некоторые камни были принесены с расстояния в 31 километр от этого места.
6. Эйфелеву башню (The Eiffel Tower) построили в память о выставке, проходившей в Париже в 1889 году. Башню назвали в честь Александра Густава Эйфеля (Alexandre Gustave Eiffel) - человека, построив–его ее. Она была построена за поразительно короткий срок - всего лишь за 17 месяцев. Сегодня она используется для многих целей: для рекламы, как маяк для самолетов, а также в качестве радио- и телепередатчика.
7. Что такое Версальский дворец (The Palace of Versalles)? Это жилище использовалось как охотничий домик короля Франции Людовика XIII (Louis XIII). По приказу короля Людовика XIV его превратили в великолепный дворец и перенесли сюда королевский двор. Дворец был обставлен самой красивой мебелью, украшен скульптурами и картинами. Почти ежедневно здесь устраивались развлечения для короля и его придворных.
8. Статуя Свободы - это символ Америки– страны свободных людей. Однако сделана она была во Франции. Ее привезли в Соединенные Штаты в качестве подарка от дружественного народа Франции. В 1886 году ее торжественно открыл президент США Гровер Кливленд (Grover Cleveland).
107. Open the brackets using the verbs in the proper voice form of the Present Indefinite and Past Indefinite Tenses.
NOTE: This text is an extract from the novel “Brave New World” written by Aldous Huxley. The book is set in an imaginary future 600 years on. In this new world humans are bred and conditioned by scientific methods to create a society in which people have peaceful, reasonably happy lives. People are divided into classes (Alphas, Betas, Gammas and so on), each of them performing their own functions in the Society. The extract describes the Central London Hatching and Conditioning Centre where humans are made.
T
he
Director (give 1)
the students a brief description of the modern fertilizing process;
(speak 2)
first, of course, of the operation necessary for the beginning –
‘the operation which (accept 3)
willingly for the good of Society, not to mention that those on whom
it (perform 4)
(pay 5)
six months’ extra salary’. He (describe 6)
how the eggs after removal from the body (keep 7)
alive and developing; (mention 8)
the liquid in which they (keep 9);
and leading the students to the work tables, (show 10)
how this liquid (take 11)
from the test tubes; how, drop by drop, it carefully (examine 12)
on specially warmed slides; how the eggs (examine 13)
to make sure they were normal and then (count 14);
how they afterwards (transfer 15)
to a container which (and he (take 16)
them to watch the operation) (place 17)
in a warm solution in which the male fertilizing agents (swim 18)
freely; at least one hundred thousand of them in every thousandth of
a litre of solution; how, after ten minutes, the container (lift 19)
out of the solution; how the fertilized eggs (go 20)
back on their shelves. There the Alphas and Betas (remain 21)
until definitely bottled, but the Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons (bring
22)
out again, after only 36 hours, to be treated by Bokanovsky’s
Process.
(from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley)
108. Supply suitable verbs in the Active or the Passive form and finish the story. You will have to use some of the verbs several times.
