Choose the correct preposition.
1 Mount Everest is the tallest
mountain to/on/of Earth.
2 We still don't know
with/for/from certain who
reached the summit first.
3 Mallory and Irvine started
climbing by/on/in the hope of
reaching the summit.
4 At/Of/On the time of
Mallory's expedition, climbing
equipment was very basic.
5 They think the climber died
under/about/from a bad fall.
2) Americans celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December.
3) The 1st of January is not so widely celebrated in the United States as we do it
in Russia.
4) The most important holiday in America is the 4th of July,
The Independence Day.
5) The 4th of July is the day-off and people don't go to work. Other holidays
when people don't go to work are: Martin Luther King's day on the 20th of January, Labour Day on the 7th of September and Thanksgiving on the last Friday of November.
6) It is a big white stone on the shore in Plymouth in Massachusetts, that the pilgrims landed on. It is called «The Plymouth Rock».
7) Halloween is children's most favourite holiday.