Заполните каждый пропуск одним словом, подходящим по смыслу. 1. I was surprised when Jean told me yesterday ... she and Mark loved ... other and were going to get married. I have always thought that Mark is ... selfish that he only loves .. .
2. Today a great amount of personal and business communication ... place by telephone and fax machine. It's usually quite easy to make a call to someone right on the other side of the world because ... days most long-distance calls travel via satellite. Fifty years ago, however, it sometimes took the operator a very long ... to make a connection.
3. How do you react when you look at … in the mirror? Do you smile or do you feel … crying? Body image has become … an important issue in our society that many young women and teenage girls go on dangerous diets trying to copy their favourite celebrities. They forget that individuality is … makes them special.
4. My life is very different from that of my grandparents' generation. Some things are better today and ... things are worse. For example, my grandparents didn't have to live with pollution. They could breathe clean ... when they walked in the streets. Also, ... was less crime in those days. My grandparents didn't have to worry about being burgled in the same way ... we worry today.
5. ... of the most interesting things to see in Brazil is the place ... two rivers meet but do not mix. They are the "white” Solimoes River and the "black” Negro River. They flow next to ... other for six kilometres in the Amazonas State, but the colours of the water don’t mix because of different temperatures and speed — the Solimoes River is faster and cooler ... the Negro River.
6. I work in a call center, which means I’m constantly on the phone. Apart from lunch and two short breaks during the day I’m speaking to people … day long. And of …, you never get to see who you’re speaking to! The breaks are … short that there’s no time to do anything other than get a drink and something to eat. I’d love to be able to go for a walk but … is nowhere to escape to within easy walking distance.
7. ... is sometimes said that animals use language. Certainly some animal species have developed amazingly sophisticated ways of communicating with ... another. But ... are huge differences between the ways animals communicate and the ways human beings do. When animals make a sound, such as a bark or a call, it is in reaction to ... is happening around them.
Топик на английском по теме: Psychology / Психология
War / ВойнаSummary: Chapter 1- Human beings since the beginning of time have not been able to escape war. There has always been some sort of conflict between each other since the beginning of time. War always seems to bring a sense of reason with it or need to the people. It makes them feel like we are fighting for a just cause. This past century war has been at its worst. This last one hundred or so years have been the goriest of times. It seems like every so many years there is war being fought. People around the world today have had an urge to go to war, even though there might not be a exact cause of it. For example the two major wars in the past few decades: one being Vietnam, and the other in Iraq. There seems to be no exact cause of fighting in these wars. People better start to realize that war is not always the answer.
Summary Chapter 2- If you take a look back into history there have been a ton of wars fought before and after the birth of Christ. When the bombs were dropped in 1945, it has effected the world in more ways then we could have ever imagined. Peace in a way is a lot like war, because it takes more than one person to decide to have peace. It is a lot easier to go to war, then to have a peaceful settlement. There is always a need to take an eye for an eye. As Ghandhi once said «An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind». I think that statement is true when going to war, it never seems like anyone is the winner in the long run.
Summary Chapter 3- People often have a different reality then what is out there. Most people go through each day the same way. Well there are other things going on in the world that people have no reality of. They live in their own comfortable reality. We all have magical or mythical realities. This is where we fascinate about other parts outside