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I _____________ (never/meet) him.10. A: Is Martin here? B: No, he ___________(go) out.A: When exactly _________(he/go) out? B: About tem minutes ago.11. A: Where do you live? B: In Boston.A: How long ________ (you/live) there?B: Five years.A: Where ________(you/live) before that? B: In Chicago.A: And how long ________ (you/live) in Chicago? B: Two years.4 Translate from Russian into English.1. Я прожил в этом доме с 1970.

До этого я жил в квартире.2. Шекспир написал много пьес.3. Он не курит уже две недели.4. Я написала письмо, но у меня нет марки.5. Ты закрыл в доме окна перед тем, как уйти?6. Вот твоя рубашка, я только что её погладила.7. Мы встретились прошлым летом.8. Представление только что началось, вы опоздали лишь на пять минут.9. Я не видел его уже три года. Интересно, где он сейчас.10. Мой брат – писатель. Он написал 5 романов.11. Он сломал ногу, когда катался на лыжах в прошлом году.12.

Мистер Фунт – менеджер в банке. Он работает здесь уже 20 лет.13. Когда он приехал? – Он приехал вчера вечером.14. Я никогда ещё не пил виски.15. Она только что вышла.16. Ты уже позавтракал? – Да. Я позавтракал в 8 часов.17. Ты здесь раньше был? – Да. Я здесь был на каникулах в прошлом году.18. Когда я закончила школу, я постриглась, и с тех пор ношу короткую стрижку.19. Дженни проработала в нашей компании шесть лет, до этого она нигде не работала.20. Я прожил в Лондоне три года, а затем переехал в Глазго.18ReadingReflections on Modern Life: Travel BlogsFor people in the UK, taking a gap year totravel around the world is no longer a rareand unusual thing to do. Many students takea year out to go travelling after leaving schooland before starting university. Increasingly,older people are also choosing to take a yearaway from their work or careers in order tospend time travelling to discover newcultures, become more independent andbroaden their horizons.uploading photos.

Finally, it is supposed to bea secure way to store your information. Onceuploaded, your photos are safe. Once saved,the text you have written should be there forgood. So, there is no need to carry a heavydiary with you and the risk of dropping yourvaluable information on a bus you will neversee again is significantly reduced.However, there is a growing feeling that theadvent of such online recording of travellingis actually detracting from the overallexperience. There is a strong argument thattravelling is essentially a solitary experience.The whole point of a gap year is to distanceyourself from your normal life.

The aim is todiscover new and fascinating things not onlyabout the world but also about yourself.Furthermore, although your friends andrelatives can access the information free, itcan become an onerous task for them tofollow an almost daily, generic diary andaccess hundreds of photos while beingsimultaneously bombarded with Internetadvertising. Finally, although generallysecure, using an online storage system is notfree from risk. If the website you use ceasesto exist or is taken over by another company,you could potentially lose a significantamount of time and effort.One major difference between modern-daytravelers and those in the past is the rise oftechnology and the increasing use of onlinewebsites or ‘travel blogs” to chart atraveller’s progress around the world.

Blogs(a short form of “web logs”) are online diariesthat open up the travelling experience to theworld. Using both text and pictures, travellerscan communicate their adventures to anyonewith access to the web simply by stopping offonce in a while in an internet café. Suchadventurers are no longer solitary peoplewho disappear from society for a year toappear 12 months later as changed and wiserpeople. They no longer carry a diary to fillwith notes and sketches.

They arepermanently connected to the world.Those who believe that blogging is anessential part of modern life claim that thereare a number of advantages to using travelblogs. One suggested advantage is that youonly need to write once for all your familyand friends to be informed of where you areand what you are doing. It is also free. Thereis a whole range of sites available for you thatdo not require any payment and give you agenerous amount of storage space forSo, are online travel blogs killing the benefitsof travelling? Are they destroying themystery and the pleasure of escaping for ayear to play out the fantasy of adventure? Isit not more exciting to return home full ofstories to tell around a fire on a cold, frostynight?Steve Patterson191Read the magazine article again. What is the writer’s opinion? Underline the language in thetext that helped you choose your answer.1.

The writer is neutral. He presents both sides of the argument and does not suggest anopinion.2. The writer probably believes that travel blogs are a good thing.3. The writer probably believes that travel blogs are not necessarily a good thing.2 Choose the best definition for the following words from the text:1. uploading photos (para.3)a. printing photos, b. storing photos,c. transferring photos from your camera to the computer or Internet2. it is supposed to be a secure way (para.3)a.

some people claim it is a secure wayb. it is definitely a secure wayc. it is likely to be a secure way3. to detract from the overall experience (para.4)a. to change the overall experienceb. to have a negative effect on the overall experiencec. to add a new element to the overall experience4. to distance yourself from something (para.4)a. to make a change from somethingb. to forget about somethingc.

to separate yourself from something5. onerous (adj.) (para.4)a. difficult or unpleasantb. interesting or enjoyablec. boring or dull6. generic (adj.) (para.4)a. interestingb. with no special or unusual characteristicsc. boring or dull7. to be bombarded with something (para.4)a. to be shocked by somethingb. to be forced to face or look at a lot of somethingc. to have something appear in front of you20Unit test: Language practicePast simple or present perfect?1 Read the extract from the blog (online diary) of someone who has taken six month’ leave fromwork to travel around Central and South America. Fill in the gaps using the past simple or presentperfect form of the verb given in brackets and any other given words.It is Saturday and finally I (1)_____________ (arrive) in Arequipa in the south-west corner of Peruafter setting off from Quito ten days ago.

I (2)____________ (not/write) anything on my blog sincelast week and I (3) _____________ (already/fill up) the memory stick on my new digital camera. I (4)____________(do) so much this week, it (5) ___________ (be) truly incredible.I (6) ___________ (cross) the border with Ecuador at Tumbes and (7) ________ (look around) for abit before taking a plane straight to Lima. When I (8) ____________ (get to) Lima, I (9)_________(take) a bus to the centre and then a taxi to the hostel that I had booked. I (10)____________(only/stop off) in Lima for a day and then (11) ____________ (jump) on a bus straightdown to Pisco and then Nazca. I (12) ___________ (always/have) a lifelong ambition to see theNazca lines in the desert.

I can honestly say that I (13) _____________ (never/see) anything soamazing in my life.In the middle of the desert, there are huge designs and drawings of shapes and animals that canonly be seen from the air. I (14) ___________ (join) a group of five people from my hotel. We (15)____________ (take off) in a small plane and (16) ____________ (circle) the Nazca lines.

The pilot(17) ___________ (tilt) the plane to the side so we could look straight down at the designs below. I(18) _____________ (even/manage) to take some photos so click the link to have a look at myphoto album! I must finish uploading all my photos soon because I (19) _____________ (not /do)them all yet and I need the space on my camera. There (20) _____________ (be) too manydistractions this week! With all this going on, I mustn’t forget that I am going on to Cuzco earlytomorrow morning by train.2 Put the number of each gap in the text into the table below.Past simple for finished actionsin the past (often whendescribing a sequence of eventsof with a specific date/time)Present perfect for finishedactions in a time period thatcontinues up to nowPresent perfect for general lifeexperience with no specific timegivenPhrasal verbs3 Find the phrasal verbs in the text that have the following meaning:1.