1. в каком из следующих слов звук, передаваемый “ir’ отличается от остальных: 1) first, 2) fire, 3) birth, 4) girl, 5) bird, 6) shirt, 7) skirt. 2. укажите, в каком предложении глагол стоит в past perfect: a) she has bought a new pair of shoes. b) she has a lot of of different shoes at home. c) she had bought a pair of new shoes for yesterday’s party. d) she is going to buy a pair of new shoes for the party. e) she had new shoes on at the party. 3. выберите правильную форму глагола: 1) the rain … before we reached home. a) stopped b) had stopped 2) the taxi … by 5 o’clock. a) arrived b) had arrived 4. выберите правильную форму глагола: 1) i … not … your book today. a) have brought b) had brought 2) … you … the dinner by the time the guests came? a) have cooked b) had cooked 5. выберите правильный глагол: 1) … the delegation visit your school? a) did b) has c) had 2) … i help you? a) has b) have c) shall 3) i … not seen you for ages. a) has b) have c) shall 4) i … not known the truth before she told me. a) has b) had c) shall 6. укажите предложения, в которых “have” является глаголом: 1) have you worked all day? 2) have a good time! 3) they have never met before. 4) she has a lot of animals at home. 7. соедините правильно две половины в одно предложение: 1) she plays tennis … 2) she is playing tennis … 3) she has played tennis … 4) she played tennis …. 5) she will play tennis … 1) … at this moment. 2) … an hour ago. 3) … every monday. 4) … next monday. 5) … for two hours. 8. сопоставьте предложения с : 1) she is typing the letter. a) она написала письмо. b) она пишет письмо. 2) they have come. a) они идут. b) они пришли. 9. завершите разделительные вопросы, выбрав правильный вариант: 1) mother is watching tv, … ? a) isn’t she b) doesn’t she c) hasn’t she 2) you have built your house, … ? a) aren’t you b) don’t you c) haven’t you 3) they had cleaned the house before our arrival, … ? a) didn’t they b) hadn’t they c) won’t they 10. какой вопрос относится к подчеркнутому слову? mary loves nick, her neighbour. who loves nick? whom does mary love? what is nick? why does mary love nick?

1. 2 2. с 3. b b 4. a b 5. a c b b 6. 1 3 7. 3 1 5 2 4 8. b b 9. a c b 10. whom does mary love?

We live in the era of high technologies, and we use modern inventions in our everyday life because they have brought us much comfort. New technologies have spread on every field over the past 15 years. Moreover, they are rapidly changing. For example, video-recorders, DVD-players or compact disks have already become obsolete and have been replaced by more up-to-date devices. Today we can hardly imagine our life without such modern mobile devices as cell phones or laptops. Our offices are fully equipped with computers, printers, scanners, air-conditioners, interactive whiteboards and wi-fi modems. Household appliances (vacuum-cleaners, coffee-machines, dish-washers, food processors and others) help us to save our time and energy.

However, we should realize that digital and electronic inventions have both negative and positive impact on our daily life.

I am absolutely positive that new technologies or gadgets are making things faster, easier, more comfortable and interesting. For instance, if you install a GPS (Global Positioning System) in your car you’ll never get lost again. And could we imagine just 15 years ago all the things we can do on the wireless Internet nowadays: connecting with friends from all over the world, online shopping and banking, distance online learning, finding virtual relationships and even working from home? Isn’t that awesome?! Our parents used to go to post-offices to send letters or pay bills, they went to libraries to find a good book and they used telephone-booths for phone-calls.

On the other hand, I know some people who are strongly against some modern inventions because they really miss those days when they talked to each other face to face in reality, and not virtually. I partially agree with that as I really believe that people are becoming anti-social and too dependent on their gadgets. Some of my friends also spend half of the time occupying their shiny gadgets (smart-phones or i-pads) even when we go out together. Besides, people who use various social networks a lot (such as Facebook or Instagram) should worry more about their privacy.

Summing up, I could say that there are serious arguments both for and against the use of new technologies but anyway it’s really difficult to imagine our life without them today.

Объяснение:

1. i am confident that he will visit us before you leave moscow.2. when i met george, he had already heard the news.3. why did you go to the store yesterday? (why you went to the store yesterday? )4. i have not seen you for ages.5. we can go outside now. rain no longer goes.6. when i arrived, anna was waiting for me.7. what do you usually do in your spare time? 8. have you ever seen niagara falls? 9. mary usually calls me on fridays, but she did not call me last friday.10. do not call me tomorrow. i will write a draft all night.11. i still do not know what to do. i have not decided.12. "what are you reading now? " "i read the book tom."13. who was on the phone at 5 pm? 14. "he often goes shopping? " "yes. he goes shopping every day. "15. he had not eaten since the morning.16. when we left the house, the rain has stopped.17. i have read this book.18. when we left england, he had learned to speak well in english.19. where were you yesterday? 20. he does not do homework every day.21. what a pity that my friend left.22. in your place i would be offended.23. if the weather was better than yesterday, we would go out of town.24. if it does not rain, we could go out of town today.