The kakapo is an extremely rare parrot, from New Zealand. It is an unusual bird in many (1) It is the only kind of parrot that cannot fly, and adults weigh up to 4 kilos. They are green, (2) makes them very difficult to see on the forest floor. (3) they are unable to fly, they are good at climbing trees. They eat a (4) variety of food including roots. leaves, nuts, seeds and fruit. By the 1970s there were so few alive in the wild that it seemed there (5) soon be none left. A decision was (6) to move the birds that (7) to a few safe islands off the coast of New Zealand. There are now about 150 birds left, and they are carefully (8)
by scientists. However, they are free to go where they (9) on the islands and are allowed to behave as (10) as possible.
1)
a)styles
b)things
c)ways
d)senses
2)
a)why
b)what
c)where
d)which
3)
a)Although
b)Whether
c)Unless
d)Yet
4)
a)High
b)Wide
c)Full
d)Deep
5)
a)An
b)Would
c)Had
d)Ought
6)
a)Made
b)Help
c)Done
d)Got
7)
a)stayed
b)continued
c)remained
d)stood
8)
a)directed
b)guided
c)run
d)managed
9)
a)enjoy
b)please
c)amuse
d)hope
10)
a)naturally
b)correctly
c)accurately
d)properly
2. Another advantage of the supermarket - due to the large volume of sales prices for many types of goods in them, tend to be lower, not to mention the permanent discounts, promotions and sweepstakes prizes. It turns a double saving: time and money. What is not a good incentive to look at the light?
cons supermarkets
But there is such stores and disadvantages, which show not only the complaints of customers, but also the results of numerous tests. Due to the large quantity of goods, sellers do not always have time to change price tags on them, and the prices in our time as the weather - things are very volatile. So, sometimes, gaining to cart items by one value at the checkout you can get a surprise, and not always pleasant.
2. One of the downsides of supermarkets - always visnuschie computers on hand, which does not care, you are in a hurry to work late or on a date. They irritate both the buyers and sellers. The author of this article, and once she became a member of such a battle the computer in one of the supermarkets. It turned out that the price of the cake, which I chose the long and hard, was not entered in the computer. To resolve the issue, I was offered either to wait until the correct error, or take another cake.
Select the first option, I had to wait about twenty minutes before slow seller to repair a technical misunderstanding. But the mood was pretty spoiled.
Here is another case, narrated by one of the supermarket buyers, whose name we do not articulate. A woman came to a large supermarket to buy bread. At the same time I decided to buy biscuits and sweets for tea. Choosing the right products, it is, as a good buyer went to the cashier to pay. When the seller has announced her fabulous for such a modest amount of purchases, she was surprised, but did not argue, paid, and went to check a broken home. In what kind of a shock threw her what she read later on the check: it turns out, in addition to the above mentioned products, it has become even packing sardines and squid. However, as the poor woman did not look for them in my bag, but to find and could not.
The evening will be fine, if only we don't have a storm.
You might be of interest to me, if only I had time to waste on you.
If you leave at two, you will be there before dark.
When he is drowning, a man clutches (или will clutch) at any straw.
If only Greg could get some favourable shock, that's what would do it!
You can do it if you try.
You could do it if you tried.
You could have done it if you had tried.
We 'll go if it does not rain.
Fred will come if he has time.
If you take a taxi, you'll be in time.
If Mark has enough money, he will go to the university.
They won't unless you ask them to come
What remains if you subtract 5 from 10?
If you bought a packet of cigarettes costing 3$ and matches costing 2$, and gave the shopkeeper 10$ note, how much change ought you to receive?