Fill the blanks with the necessary words: 1. The square, the street and the park which I can ... from my windows are becoming darker and looking still more beautiful now. (see, look, watch) 2. The beauty of Ukraine was ... in folk songs about the quite waters of the Desna river, the picturesque tops of the Carpathian Mountains, the blue wood land lakes and the vast Black Sea steppes, (praise, estimate, boast) 3. The students ... in disputes, referendums and even campaigns dealing with environmental protection, (take part, participate, collaborate) 4. During our tour they ... a special interest in historic monuments of Ukraine, (take, display, show
2. I've kept the luggage label as a souvenir to remind me of the wonderful holiday we had.
3. After taking a general course she decides to specialise in tropical medicine.
4. After trying for an hour I finally succeed in starting the car.
5. Where will I find the money to pay for a new suit?
6. That coat belongs to Andrew and this is Ricky's.
7. Some guests have objected to having to pay extra to use the swimming pool. I'm not surprised they're annoyed!
8. Army helicopters were brought in to the help search for the missing children.
9. I had never believed in ghosts until I stayed at a mysterious old house in the country.
10. He wrote a letter to a pologise for all the trouble he had caused and asking her to forgive him.
11. He's the person in charge. I blame him for the mix-up.
12. By the way she spoke you could see that she didn't approve of the arrangements for the wedding.
13. I don't think I'll ever forgive her for the way she made me look such a fool in front of all those people.
14. The policeman accused him of breaking into the house but he said he could prove he had been somewhere else.
15. Let's hope for the best. You never know-the weather might clear up.
The 2014 Winter OLYMPICS, officially known as the XXII Olympic Winter Games, were a major international multi-sport event held in Sochi, Russia, in the tradition of the Winter Olympic Games.
Sochi was selected as the host city in July 2007, during the 119th IOC Session held in Guatemala City. It is the first Olympics in Russia since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Soviet Union was the host nation for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
A total of 98 events in 15 winter sport disciplines were held during the Games. A number of new competitions were held during the Games, including biathlon mixed relay, women’s ski jumping, mixed-team figure skating, mixed-team luge, half-pipe skiing, ski and snowboard slopestyle, and snowboard parallel slalom. The events were held around two clusters of new venues; anOLYMPIC Park constructed in Sochi’s Imeretinsky Valley on the coast of the Black Sea, with Fisht Olympic Stadium, and the Games’ indoor venues located within walking distance, and snow events in the resort settlement of Krasnaya Polyana.
In preparation, organizers focused on modernizing the telecommunications, electric power, and transportation infrastructures of the region. While originally budgeted at US$12 billion, various factors caused the budget to expand to over US$51 billion, surpassing the estimated $44 billion cost of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing as the most expensive Olympics in history.
With an average February temperature of 8.3°C and a humid subtropical climate, Sochi is the warmest city to host a WinterOLYMPIC Games. It is also the first time that an Olympic Park has been built for hosting a winter games.
SochiThe Sochi Olympic Park was built by the Black Sea coast in the Imeretin Valley, about 4 km (2.5 miles) from Russia’s border with Georgia. The venues are clustered around a central water basin on which the Medals Plaza is built, allowing all indoor venues to be within walking distance. The new venues include: