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That is the college ... parade float won the second prize last year.

The doctor asked if I included .... in my daily diet.

My neighbour got his dog from the animal ...

Steve asked the officer where ... his stolen motorcycle. 

They want to have a beach party so they can say a(n) ... goodbye to summer before they start school.

Sue is really afraid of snakes, and every time she sees one she just ...

Remember to call Mr Smith when  you ... to the office

It is not very easy for my mum to ... the house tidy as she has four children

Barney had some rest after he ... the chores.

Kate ... five of her paintins so far, but she hopes she will sell more.

It was very kind of you ... us move the furniture.

If only I ... so much homework to do!

I cannot go to the cinema tonight. I ... to a party with my sister later.

You have made you sister cry! Are you happy with  ... now?

Since there is ... gravity in space, astranauts have to strap everything down.

The scientists caught a ... of the whale before it disappeared back in to the water.

Clean the scratch and put a ... on it

Robert has some difficulty ... portraits

If I .. you, I would cut down junk food

Will robots ever be able to ...more complicated tasks such as driving or flying a plane?

The cut on your leg looks bad; you need to ... by a doctor.

Betsy did not remember ... Stephen to the party, so she sent him another invitation.

What time ... Aron to his piano lesson today

By the time Mum gets home, we .... for her more than an hour and a half

You should better book tickets to the show now, ... the concert sells out

The film has not received very good reviews though it has a(n) ... cast.

Carrol hardly talks to anyone, she is ... person I have ever met.

The neglected kittens ...from their irresponsible owner.

I cannot invite ... I want to the party. I can only have ten guests.

This suit looks ... perfect on you; you should buy it.

В каком тексте содержится ответ на вопрос : ОДИН ИЗ ВОПРОСОВ ОСТАНИЕТСЯ БЕЗ ОТВЕТА

1. What are the impressive facts about Sunday papers?

2. What is one more proof of the importance of the papers?

3. What are the papers for better educated people?

4. What were the results of the desire to attract more readers?

5. What is the alternative source of news?

6. How could one in Britain tell what kind of paper the person was reading?

7. What can we find in any newsagent`s shop in Britain?

A. As in many other European countries, Britain’s main newspapers are losing their readers. Fewer and fewer people are buying broadsheets and tabloids at the newsagent’s. In the last quarter of the twentieth century people became richer and now they can choose other forms of leisure activity. Also, there is the Internet which is a convenient and inexpensive alternative source of news.

B. The ‘Sunday papers’ are so called because that is the only day on which they are published. Sunday papers are usually thicker than the dailies and many of them have six or more sections. Some of them are ‘sisters’ of the daily newspapers. It means they are published by the same company but not on week days.

C. The quality papers or broadsheets are for the better educated readers. They devote much space to politics and other ‘serious’ news. The popular papers, or tabloids, sell to a much larger readership. They contain less text and a lot more pictures. They use bigger headlines and write in a simpler style of English. They concentrate on ‘human interest stories’ which often means scandal.

D. Not so long ago in Britain if you saw someone reading a newspaper you could tell what kind it was without even checking the name. It was because the quality papers were printed on very large pages called ‘broadsheet’. You had to have expert turning skills to be able to read more than one page. The tabloids were printed on much smaller pages which were much easier to turn.

E. The desire to attract more readers has meant that in the twentieth century sometimes even the broadsheets in Britain look rather ‘popular’. They give a lot of coverage to scandal and details of people’s private lives. The reason is simple. What matters most for all newspaper publishers is making a profit. They would do anything to sell more copies.

F. If you go into any newsagent’s shop in Britain you will not find only newspapers. You will also see rows and rows of magazines for almost every imaginable taste. There are specialist magazines for many popular pastimes. There are around 3,000 of them published in the country and they are widely read, especially by women. Magazines usually list all the TV and radio programmes for the coming week and many British readers prefer them to newspapers.