Exercise 6. Use the Present Perfect Progressive instead of the infinitives in brackets. 1. I (not sleep) for twenty three hours. 2. She (work) in the library for the last five hours. 3. We just (speak) about you. 4. What you (do) in my absence? 5. He (stay) here for three months; and I think my father (entertain) him too long. 6. She (have) a toothache since morning. 7. They (play) football for two hours. 8. She (dance) since yesterday evening. 9. Where you (sit) all this time? 10. She (tell) a lot of lies about me, I’m sure. 11. What you (talk) about since I left?

Big Ben (Engl. Big Ben — the name of the largest of the six bells of Westminster Palace in London, often the name refers to the clock and Clock tower as a whole.
At the time of casting big Ben was the largest and heaviest (13,7 tons) a bell United Kingdom. In 1881 yielded to the bell Big Paul (English).Russian. (17 tons).
It is believed that the bell was named big Ben (Big Ben) in honor of sir Benjamin Hall, the curator of the construction work. According to another version, he is named in honor of Benjamin count (eng.)Russian., popular boxer in the heavyweight division
The tower was built by English architect Augustus Pugin in the Gothic revival style, 1859, the tower clock started on 31 may 1859.
The height of the tower, including the spire — 96.3 meters. The lower part of the clock mechanism located at a height of 55 meters.
The official name until September 2012 was the "Clock tower of Westminster Palace", in the press it was often called St. Stephen's Tower. According to the decision of the British Parliament renamed the Elizabeth Tower in honor of the 60th anniversary of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
The big clock of Westminster are the second largest in the world (next to the clock of the city Hall of Minneapolis) four-sided clock with fight.

The clock was designed by sir Edmund Beckett (English).Russian. and the astronomer Royal George airy. The creation of the watch was instructed in watchmaking master Edward John dent (English).Russian., after whose death in 1853 construction was headed by his stepson Frederick dent. Frederick completed the work in 1854.

The pendulum clock is installed inside the wind-proof box, located below the room with a clockwork mechanism. Its length is 4 meters, weight 300 kg. the pendulum is 2 seconds. The accuracy of the clock is regulated using coins, which are placed on the pendulum: the old (dodecahedra) coin 1 penny accelerates its motion by 0.4 seconds per day.

The total weight of the movement — 5 tons.

The dial diameter is 7 meters.

The length of the arrows is 2.7 and 4.2 meters.

At the base of each of the four dials is a Latin inscription "Domine Salvam fac Reginam nostram Victoriam primam" ("God save our Queen Victoria the First").

At the perimeter of the tower, to the right and to the left of the clock, is another phrase in Latin — "Laus Deo" ("Glory to God" or "praise the Lord")

July 27, 2012 from 8:12 to 8:15 the clock struck 30 times in honor of the opening of the XXX Olympic games. For the first time since 1952 chimes were working out the schedule.

раньше, народ не понимал,что можно сделать для улучшения жизни.сейчас же все иначе,все есть в магазинах,раньше людям бьло труднее жить что либо выращивать. сейчас цивилизация тоесть уже все современгное.раньше все вещи пусть они не крупные и важны но они лучше служили чем нынешние

перевод) before, people not very understood, that can be done to improve life.now everything is different,everything is in the stores,before people got harder to live anything to grow. now civilization that is already all modern.before all things they should not very big but they are better served than the current