3 ** Complete the text with the past simple form of the reporting verbs in the box. ti 2 admit agree ask complain convince explain order refuse ed Police catch Manchester football thieves m Police told reporters how they caught a gang of thieves in Manchester, north-west England. The gang — admitted that they rob the homes of footballers who are playing in matches in other towns. The police caught the gang after several famous footballers ! that their houses had been burgled. A police investigation led to Adnan Daci. At first, Daci? to speak. Later, he that the gang's boss had him and three other men to work for the gang. The police 5 Daci a lot of questions about the gang's boss. Then they 6 Daci to take them to the boss's house. In exchange, the police not to prosecute Daci. 3 4

In a period when several inventors (33) D) were working toward more effective communication by wire, Alexander Bell, a teacher of the deaf, came in first with his invention of the telephone. It was his fascination with the human ear, especially the way sound waves cause the soft membrane of the eardrum (34) А) vibrate, that led him to believe that voices could be sent mechanically.
The patent was granted (35)А) on March 7, 1876. Three days later, Bell's
assistant became the first person to receive a phone call. Bell, who (36) D) had spilled acid on his clothes, called over the phone, "Mr Watson, come here. I want you." Just over a year (37) D) later , the first telephone line was installed.

Вот, держи, можешь сократить.Abakan - the capital of the Republic of Khakassia in 4218 km east of Moscow. Located at the confluence of the Yenisei River to Abakan, in the central part of Minusinsk depression. According to statistics, real incomes of Abakan in 2002, compared with the previous, have increased by 9.5%. The cost structure is dominated abakantsev payment services, taxes and mandatory payments, the purchase of goods. Population: 165,200 people (2002). Men: 46.2%. Women: 53.8%. During the period from January to November 2002 it decreased by one thousand people due to the increase of migration and natural decrease. But in foreign countries in 2002 from Abakan has left 37 people less than in 2001. They left their homeland only 156 immigrants. The climate is continental. The average January temperature of -15 to -21 C, July 17-20 C. Precipitation 300-600 mm per year. Railway lines connected with Achinsk, Novokuznetsk and Taishet. At the intersection of the Yenisei with railway Novokuznetsk - Abakan - Taishet Abakan built a major river port. From Abakan is Usinsky tract in Tuva. In 1675 near the mouth of the river Abakan Abakan stockade built (Abakansk), which initiated the development of the Minusinsk depression. In 1780-ies. there was the village of Ust-Abakan, in 1931 transformed the city Abakansk. Modern Abakan - industrial, cultural and scientific tsenrt Khakassia. ON "Abakanvagonmash", light industry and processing of agricultural and forestry raw materials: meat flour mill, wine and dairy factories, furniture, knitting and sewing factory. Factory repair of equipment for the forest industry. Shoe factory. In Abakan - Khakassia Research Institute of History, Language and Literature, Pedagogical Institute, Polytechnic, College of Agriculture, health, educational and music schools. Drama theater, museum, the television station, arboretum, zoo. In Abakan gardens, squares, boulevards occupy 1/3 of the city. At its center - the old part of the former s. Ust-Abakan, which subsequently merged station Abakan (1925), and station settlement. Built up in small wooden houses and multi-story stone buildings (including hotels "Khakasia", "Abakan", "Kantegir", "Friendship"). With the 1950s. built typical 4-5-storey brick and large-panel house for facades that used red and white ceramic tiles, plaster terrazitoaya with white marble chips, with the 1970s. - 7-9-storey house, decorated with local marble, granite and other stones.