Раздел 3 (задания по грамматике и лексике)

TIME is a weekly magazine published in New York. In 2010 the magazine __________________ Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as Person of the Year.

CHOOSE

Everything began in February 2004, when Zuckerberg was still a student at Harvard. He made an online platform to connect college students. It helped __________________ to learn and socialise.

THEY

Soon, other __________________ joined Facebook and then it became popular with a much wider audience.

UNIVERSITY

Today Facebook __________________ by over a billion people. They play games, find friends, learn the news, and share photos there.

USE

Not everyone, however, __________________ Facebook is a good thing.

THINK

My __________________ friend, Nicky, believes that I spend too much time online, on social networks.

GOOD

“I wish you__________________ more time with your real friends,” he keeps saying.

SPEND

Last Saturday when Nicky came to my place to discuss a school problem, I __________________ online. He waited for a while but then left without saying a word.

CHAT

And he __________________ since then.

I feel I’ll probably have to change my habits if I want to have real friends, not only virtual ones.

NOT/CALL

St Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. St Patrick is __________________ for his heroic deeds.

FAME

People gladly believe in __________________ tales about St Patrick and don’t look for any historical evidence to prove them.

AMAZE

And the facts often__________________ with the tales. For example, an old legend says that St Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland.

AGREE

This myth is actually untrue. At the time snakes appeared on the planet, Ireland was __________________ covered by water.

COMPLETE

Now it is an island which means it is surrounded by water. The water makes it__________________ for snakes to get to the island.

POSSIBLE

The same__________________ is true for New Zealand, Greenland, and many other islands.

SITUATE