Forming a Government. The Cabinet. The party which wins the most seats in the General Election
forms the government in Britain. The leader of the winning
party becomes Prime Minister. As leaders of their political
parties and leaders of the country, Prime Ministers are powerful
because they have the majority support in Parliament and
they can choose their own ministers and government.

The PM, chooses a committee of ministers called the Cabinet. This is made up of a selection of senior MPs from the House of
Commons and some members of the House of Lords. Each
member of the Cabinet is a minister responsible for a
government department: for example, the Secretary of State
for Education and Science is responsible for all the schools,
universities and teachers in Britain. The Cabinet of ministers
runs the country. The Cabinet meets at the Prime Minister's
house — 10 Downing Street.

The cabinet works as a team and all ministers must accept the decisions of the "group". The team of ministers must always agree in public because they are collectively responsible for the decisions they make. If a minister cannot agree with all the others, he usually resigns from the cabinet. Cabinet meetings are held in private and the details must remain secret for at least 30 years. Margaret Thatcher tried to change this style of the Cabinet and was forced to resign when the other ministers could not agree
with her.

Cabinet ministers cannot, however, do as they please!
They are responsible to Parliament and must answer questions
from backbenchers from the House of Commons. Even the
Prime Minister must answer questions every Tuesday and
Thursday in the Commons — this is «called Prime Minister's
Question Time. Everyone wants to know what has been decided
behind the closed doors of the Cabinet Room.

Questions: 1. Which party forms the government? 2. Who becomes Prime Minister? 3. Why are Prime Ministers powerful? 4. Where does the Cabinet meet? 5. What did Margaret Thatcher try to do? 6. Why was Margaret Thatcher forced to resign? 7. Whose questions must Cabinet ministers answer? 8. What does everyone want to know? очень полным ответом

1) I lost my keys while I was walking  to school.

2) Hardly we  had finished dinner when the doorbell  rang.

3) He  was listening to the radio while he

was preparing breakfast.

4) My father  was driving at 70 km per hour when a policeman

stopped him.

5) When they came to London, they  visited many museums and art galleries.

6) Cindy  broke her leg while she was snowboarding.

7) After Angela  had locked the door, the school bus

arrived.

8) He  had met a lot of friendly people before he

moved to California.

9) While we  were waiting, we  were doing crossword.

10) The students  opened their exercise books and

started writing.

11) What were you doing when you  heard the news?

12) While the children  were drawing, their parents  were watching TV.​

Объяснение:

1. The first voyage was to a strange country Lilliput. As the result of a shipwreck Gulliver finds himself in a country, inhabited by a race of people about six inches high. Everything else in this country is on a correspondent scale. Swift meant this small country with it's shallow interest, corrupted laws and evil customs to symbolize the England of the 18'th centure, the court with it's atmosphere of hostility, hypocrizy and flattery where the author felt as lonely as his hero when among the liliputians.

2. Before long Gulliver undertakes another voyage. The ship anchors near the land of the giants to take in a supply of water. While on shore Gulliver is captured by the giants. They are good-natured creatures and treat Gulliver kindly, though they are amused by his small size and look upon him as a plaything.

Brobdingnag is an expression of Swift's desire to find the ideal and escape from the disgusting world of the Liliputians. The author idealizes an agricultural country ruled by ideal monarch. Swift creates such a monarch in the king of Brobdingnag. He is clever, honest and kind to his people. He hates wars and wants to make his people happy.

3. The third voyage is to Laputa, a flying island Laputa. Swift's imagination the bitterness of his satire reach their climax in the third part where he shows the academy of sciences in Laputa (the author touches upon all the existing sciences). It is easy enough to understand that in ridiculing the academy of Laputa. Swift ridicults the scientists of the 18'th century. The scientists are shut in their chambers isolated from all the world.

3. In the 4'th part Swift describes Gulliver's adventures at the Heuyhnhnms - a ideal land where were is neither sickness, dishonesty, non any of the frivo-lities of human scociety. The human race ocupies a position of servility there and a noble race of horces rules the country by reason and justice.

"Gulliver's travels was one of the greatest works of the period of the Enlightment in world literature. Swift's democratic ideas expressed in the book had a great influence on the English writers who came after Swift.