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раскройте скобки, используя глагол в past perfect continuous.
1. he (look) for a job for 3 months before he found what he wanted.
2. he (wait) for an hour but she didn‘t come.
3. yesterday i had a headache because i (watch) tv all day.
4. the phone bill was huge. she (talk) her boyfriend in australia.
5. the kids were very hungry when they came home. they (play) in the
yard all day.
The Unfortunate Tandem
It happened while Mr Harris and his wife sitting on the tandem behind him (0) __were cycling__ (to cycle) through Holland. As the roads (1) _were stony, Harris asked his wife to sit tight. She (3) _could not explain later why she (4) _thought her husband (5) had ordered her to jump down. And she did so. Harris (6) went go on without turning his head. He (7) believed his wife (8) was sitting behind him.
Mrs Harris (9) found herself on the road alone.
At first, she (10) supposed her husband (11)wanted simply to show his skill and he (12) would return) soon when he (13) reached the hill. But her husband (14) disappeared in the wood.
She (15) began to cry as she (16) had no money, and she (17) did not know Dutch.
People (18) thought she (19) had lost something so they (20) took her to the police station.
Meanwhile, Harris (21) was cycling with great pleasure. But soon he (22) felt wrong. He (23) looked back but (24) saw nobody there.
While thinking how to find his wife he (25) met some local people. They (26) were sure he (27) would find his wife at the police station. There he (28) was asked when, where and why he (29) had lost his wife.
The meeting of Mr Harris and his wife (30) was not a tender one.
Be careful on the roads!
Modern education system - a legacy of the industrial revolution of the XIX century. Initially, the school formed so that children are aware of the world that surrounds them. However, it was already 150 years, society has changed, the world has become much more difficult, as school let out and people are able to perform only primitive work and solve basic problems.
Ten years of its existence, the child spends at school, and she can not enrich his mind and soul, unable to come to the aid in the determination of a vocation. The school today are not taught to know themselves and to form relationships with other people. Today's children are in the majority are not able to reflect and expose the analysis of different situations, with the result that can not succeed and consequently become happy.
The only thing that is able to school today - the desire to kill and the ability to learn something new in its own way to train and to remember a bunch of absolutely necessary knowledge.
In addition, in the modern school is suppressed personality do not develop students' ability to think, to dream and to create. Children do not know how to find their own solution to the problem, think outside the box, self-development, to analyze. Hence the decline, and sometimes complete loss of curiosity.