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HOME, SWEET HOME
I’ve been living in this house since the day I was born. It’s been a really long time as I’m going to celebrate my 7 anniversary next week. Of course, the house looked different in my childhood. It 8 dark green and had a large garden around it. There 9 different plants in the garden: young apple, pear, and plum trees, blackberry bushes, and lots of flowers. My mum was fond of flowers and spent most of her free time taking care of 10 . Yellow roses, Mum’s favourite, still grow in front 11 the house.
Once I decided to leave the countryside and move to the city. I 12 a job and rented a small flat there. But I couldn’t adapt to the city lifestyle and missed my house very much. A year later I came back. Fortunately, 13 had bought my house by that time and I happily settled back.
7. 1) sixty 2) sixteen 3) sixtieth 4) sixties
8. 1) paint 2) is painted 3) painted 4) was painted
9. 1) is 2) are 3) was 4) were
10. 1) this 2) them 3) they 4) themselves
11. 1) on 2) in 3) to 4) of
12. 1) find 2) have found 3) found 4) was found
13 1) nobody 2) somebody 3) anybody 4) everybody
2. The King and the Queen of Spain gave Columbus money for voyage.
3. There were 3 caravels: the Santa Maria, the Nina and the Pinta.
4. Columbus named the land they had reached San Salvador ("Holy Saviour").
5.European people came to the New Land for many reasons, each person had its own reason but here are main: Some hoped to find gold, silver and other treasures, some wanted to bring Christian religion to the indians, and some came there to start a new life without religious problems.
6.Pilgrims were a small group of English people. They wanted to live in a country that Columbus discovered.