Read the text and put the verbs in brackets in the present perfect or the past simple. 1) … (you/ever/ have) a survival experience? I have. Last summer, er, my friend Stan and I
2) (go) on beach holiday, but we 3) (can/not) find a cheap hotel.
4) (suggest) going camping instead. Stan
5) (get) very excited because he
6) (always/like) nature. On our first night, though, it was very windy, and our tent
7) (blow) away! the end, we 8) (spend) the night in the car, but at least we were safe.
The Internet forms global information space, forms a physical basis for the World wide web. The Internet "took root" long ago and now everything "sprouts" in our daily reality more strongly. And if we in our severe conditions, unfortunately, often only hear about these or those possibilities of the Internet or only we start them to master, in the West already them use. In many countries for a long time use the Internet for the following purposes:
– as source of reference information (news, weather forecasts, exchange rates, schedule of trains and other transport, repertoires of theaters, programs of telecasts and so forth);
– that easily and quickly to send mail to the North Pole (if is to whom there to write) and even to receive the answer (if is to whom to answer);
– to download the necessary programs, books, music, films and other electronic documents;
– by search of friends in all corners of the globe;
– for carrying out the joint scientific researches, allowing to unite computers in different corners of the world for the solution of a global problem.
Many people like to travel by air as it is the fastest way of traveling. A lot of people like to travel by train because they can look at passing villages, forests and fields through windows. Some people like to travel by car. There they can go as slowly or as fast as they like. They can stop when and where they want.
People who live in big cities use various means of communication to get from one place to another. Londoners use the underground railway. They call it “the tube”. London's underground is the oldest in the world. It was opened in 1863. There was one route at that time, four miles long. Now London's underground has 277 stations and it is 244 miles long. Londoners use buses. The first bus route was opened in London in 1904 Today there are hundreds of routes there. The interesting thing is that some of the routes are the same as many years ago.
London's buses are double-decked buses. Londoners do not use trams, though London was the first city where trams appeared. And now it is one of the biggest cities in the world where there are no trams. The last tram left the streets of London many years ago. Londoners use cars. One can see a lot of cars in London streets. When Londoners leave the town, they use trains, ships or planes.