1. Check your understanding: multiple choice Circle the correct option to complete the sentences.
1. In the next ten years, mobile phones will .
a. be very similar to what they are like now
b. be much more expensive than they are now
c. have a different way of telling you when a message arrives
2. The MorePhone is based on technology invented in .
a. the UK
b. Canada
c. the USA
3. The flexible plastic displays .
a. are made of paper
b. look like writing on paper
c. are thicker than paper
4. The flexible plastic displays are .
a. always very small
b. not easy to break
c. quite heavy
5. This new technology .
a. could only be used at an airport
b. could have many uses
c. cannot be used with big signs
6. This new technology .
a. was developed quite quickly
b. is not really so different
c. could make mobile phones very different
What ...a fine day is today!
2.
He usually smokes ... cigarettes or ..a. pipe.
3.
What do you prefer: ... tea or coffee?
4.
I went to ... Iyanovs, but they weren't at home.
5.
They met at ..the. gate of .a.. school.
6.
In ... our region of ..a. country ... winter is ..a. very cold
season.
7.
..The. Large steel bridge joins ... two banks of ... river.
8.
... Rice and ..the. cotton grow in ... Ukraine now.
9.
... People who live in ... Canada speak French and ... English.
10.
Both ... silver and ... gold are metals.
11.
... North America is washed by ..the. Pacific and ..the. Atlantic oceans.
12.
He spent ... summer of 1990 in ... London.
13.
..the. triangle has 3 sides.
14.
the... knowledge is .the.. power.
Nigel: It`s about 3..-. Peter 4.the.. Great.
Kevin: Why? Is it our 5-... home task?
Nigel: No, 6... Kevin, it`s for our 7..-. club session - we are preparing 8...the reenactment show with some other 9-.. students from my 10..-. class.
Kevin: What will it be about?
Nigel: About his 11..-. green years - oue 12.-.. reenactment will show 13..-. Peter 14..the Great as 15..a. young boy, his 16...- studies and his 17..-. favourite pastimes - 18...a shipbuilding, 19.a.. sailing and commanding his 20-.. toy army.
Kevin: Do you like 21..the. book?
Nigel: Oh yes! I think it`s 22the.. best book about 23-... Peter 24.the.. Great!