English. Соколова Е.В. - 5 стр.

    So, some do this, some do that. But what do most of us do? Yes, most of us love
to read books. Statistics say that the books people like best are about legendary peo-
ple, contacts of cosmic civilizations, global catastrophes, and traditions of other na-
tions.
    If we talk about new ideas, we have to answer one more question: what is the
easiest, fastest, and least expensive way to get information? It may be a paradox, but
most people just talk to each other.
    I'm sure, today information has no limits. Write to me how you usually get it, and
what information interests you most.

   1.7 Образуйте Past Indefinite, Participle II, Participle I от следующих гла-
голов

    prove, find, grow, lose, appear, develop, originate, lead, study, exist, divide,
change, belong, freeze

   1.8 Прочтите текст вслух, употребляя глаголы в скобках в соответст-
вующей форме простого настоящего или прошедшего времени

                                          Magnus

    More than two thousand years ago there (live) a boy, Magnus by name. Every day
he (watch) his sheep.
    Magnus (have) a long iron stick. One day he (put) his slick down on a rock. He
(want) to run after the sheep but he (can) not take his stick off the rock. The rock
(have) a mysterious force which (hold) iron.
    Magnus (be) the first person who (find) this kind of rock. And that's why we
(call) it magnet.
    Of course, this is a legend. Scientists (prove) that magnets (take) their name from
the town of Magnesia in Asia near which there (be) pieces of magnetic rock.

   1.9 Прочтите текст, стараясь понять основную идею

                                  What Geologists know

     Geologists know a lot about the functions of the Earth. For example, they discov-
ered how mountains were made and what a volcano is. But they do not know when
exactly a volcano will start its activity. They know much about the outside of the
Earth, but they are not quite sure about the inside. The scientists are not quite sure
about the origin of the Earth. They have many different ideas about this, but there are
still more difficult questions for them.




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