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</span><span>My Country House
</span><span>Let me introduce myself. My name Vlad and I’m 14 years old. I live in one of the largest and most beautiful cities in the world, in Moscow. My parents are both doctors, and they want to see me as a doctor in the future. We live in a three-bedroom flat on the outskirts of the city. My school is situated within a walking distance from our block of flats, but my parents take a subway to work every day, except weekends and holidays. We have a lovely country house in Podmoskovye. It’s the territory that surrounds Moscow. We usually spend weekends at this place. If we go by car, it takes us about two hours to get there. We all love the surrounding nature at that area. It’s simply wonderful. Our country house is situated next to the lake and the forest. In autumn my parents often pick mushrooms and berries in this forest. I prefer the summer weather. When it’s warm enough, I go swimming in the lake with my friends, who are also there for the weekend. Speaking about the structure of our house, I should mention that it’s a two-storey brick building with many windows and the front door. There are three bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs. There is a kitchen, a dining-room and a living-room downstairs. You can see vast expanses of land behind the house. My parents grow fruit and vegetables there. Each year, we have our own harvest of potatoes, cabbages, apples and pears. When it’s someone’s birthday, my father makes barbeque and we invite our friends and neighbors over. What I especially like about our country house and the area, where it is situated, is the peaceful atmosphere. There is neither city noise nor traffic jam. It’s one of the calmest and most beautiful places in Moscow region.
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1. a few 2. few, 3. a little 4… few.
вроде правильно...
Перевод:pair of shoes, shoe shop, drugstore to buy the magazine in a newsstand, tomatoes from the greengrocery, expensive clothes, the well-known toy store, long turn on sale, to watch the action movie, the main characters (heroes), to turn to the right, nearby
Ответ:
1. Past Simple - I wasn't at home.
2. Past Simple - We weren't at the lesson.
3. Past Continuous - We weren't learning English.
4. Past Continuous - You weren't eating lunch.
5. Past Simple - You didn't eat a sandwich for a lunch.
6. Past Continuous - It wasn't raining hard.
7. Past Simple - It didn't rain cats and dogs.
Neil Armstrong (05.08.1930 - 25.08.2012) - American astronaut.
Neil Alden Armstrong was born on 5 August 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. There were three children in a family of Viola Louise Engel and Stephen Koenig Armstrong. His father, Stephen Koenig Armstrong, worked as an auditor for the Ohio state government. Neil had younger brother Dean and younger sister June. Because of Stephen Armstrong’s service the family moved from one town to another and after Neil’s birth they lived in twenty different towns. When Neil was two years old his father took him to the Cleveland Air Races. At that time Neil grew fond of flying. The first airplane flight in Neil’s life was in July 1936 when Neil was six years old. It was in Warren, Ohio, when his father took him to go for a ride in a Ford Trimotor.
The final moving of the family was to Wapakoneta in 1944. Neil Armstrong entered Blume High School there. He started to attend flying lessons at the county airport and received the flight certificate at the age of fifteen. It should be noted that Neil Armstrong earned his driver’s license later than the flight certificate. He also was a member of the Boy Scouts and in the end he received the rank of Eagle Scout. From 1947 to 1955 Neil studied at Purdue University.
Personal life
The first wife of Neil Armstrong was Janet Shearon. He married her on 28 January 1956. They had two children. Son Eric was born in 1957 and daughter Karen was born in 1959, but she died in 1962. In a year son Mark was born. In 1994 their marriage broke down. In 1992 Neil Armstrong met Carol Held Knight who became his second wife. He married her on 12 June 1994 in Ohio.
Career
Neil Armstrong went down in history as an American astronaut, test-pilot and aerospace engineer. He was a United States Navy officer. Neil Armstrong began making a career in aviation and astronautics after serving in the Korean War. Then he served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics High-Speed Flight Station where he logged over 900 flights. Neil Armstrong was also university professor.
Neil Armstrong’s first spaceflight was in 1966. He was the command pilot of the NASA Gemini 8 mission. Neil Armstrong and pilot David Scott accomplished the first manned docking of two spacecraft.
The greatest achievement of Neil Armstrong was his second spaceflight in July 1969. On this mission he and Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface where they spent 2.5 hours. Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon.
After his greatest and last spaceflight Neil Armstrong began to work at the University of Cincinnati as a teacher. In 1979 he resigned. In the next years Neil Armstrong took part in different projects and went into business.
Death
Neil Armstrong underwent surgery on August 7, 2012, to relieve blocked coronary arteries. He died on August 25, in Cincinnati, Ohio, following complications resulting from these cardiovascular procedures.
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