Exercise B Fill in the gaps with the simple past form of the verb in brackets.
Sleeping Beauty
Once upon a time a king and a queen (1)
(live) in a
castle. They (2)
want) children and one day their
baby princess was born. They (3)
(be) very happy
and they (4)
(invite) all the fairies to the castle
for a party. Unluckily, one wicked fairy
(5)
(not receive)
an invitation. She (6).
(be) very angry and put an evil
spell on the princess. She said,
"When you are sixteen, you
will prick your finger and die!" But
a good fairy (7)-
(change)
the spell. She said, "The princess will sleep for 100 years." The
king and queen (8).
(try) to protect the princess by
taking away all the needles. People (9)
(not use) needles at all. But one day, on her sixteenth birthday
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First of all I want to tell you that my name is Nina and I am 15. A few  words about my appearance. My height is nearly 149 cm. But I'd like to be a bit taller. Well, I am not slim but I am not fat either.  I have a round face as everyone has, a bit long nose and big cheerful grey eyes. My skin is a bit pale but I like this fact, I don't like ruddy faces. I have no freckles as my friend Olga has. My forehead is open. I think I have a charming smile.  My hair isn't very short but it's not long either. It is straight and black. I am very confident, ambitious, and honest. I think that I look like my her father.

Agency with sport information "All Sport" continues the project to determine the best athlete of Russia. Best athlete of the second week of April (April 5-11) became weightlifter Evgeny Chigishev, the third time in his career, won the European title - this time in the heavyweight category of over 105 kg.

"The best athlete of the week" - only the first phase of our project. Ten of the most distinguished in the week we call ourselves, in a poll of the Agency "All Sport". The second stage - the definition of "the best athlete of the month." As a result of all the weeks of the month to a vote of readers include 20 athletes who have distinguished themselves in the past month and dozens of members weekly.

In the meantime, the best athlete of the second week of April (April 5-11) became weightlifter Evgeny Chigishev, the third time in his career, won the European title - this time in the heavyweight category of more than 105 kg.