1Choose the correct answer. Выбери правильный вариант. Mum’s been out for / since 10 o’clock.
I haven’t seen Monica for / since a few days.

2 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.Use the Present Perfect or Past Simple tense.
When (you / go) away on your holiday last year?
We (eat) some fantastic food in our hotel this week.
How long (you / live) here now? Is it six years?
I (see) a brilliant concert last weekend.

anna akhmatova - was the pen name of anna andreevna gorenko, the leader and the heart and soul of st petersburg tradition of russian poetry in the course of half a century.

akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to universalized, ingeniously structured cycles, such as requiem (1935-40), her tragic masterpiece on the stalinist terror. her work addresses a variety of themes including time and memory, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of stalinism.

early life

akhmatova was born in bolshoy fontan near odessa. her childhood does not appear to have been happy; her parents separated in 1905. she was educated in kiev, tsarskoe selo, and the smolny institute of st petersburg. anna started writing poetry at the age of 11, inspired by her favourite poets: racine, pushkin, and baratynsky. as her father did not want to see any verses printed under his "respectable" name, she had to adopt the surname of one of her tatar ancestors as a pseudonym.

In the tundra, you can see the polar bears, reindeer, musk muskox, tundra wolves, arctic fox, arctic hare and lemmings. In the vast taiga zone inhabited by grizzly bears, Canadian lynx, cougars, wolves, fox, wolverine, caribou, elk, red deer, moose, marten, sable, beaver and otter. In the mountainous areas there are bighorn sheep and mountain goats and bison remained in the reserves. In the steppes of the main inhabitants are rodents: field mice, moles and gophers. Numerous lakes along the coasts of the country and settle in the colony a wide variety of birds. In fresh waters and coastal waters they are inhabited by numerous species of fish.