. Use the Simple Past or the Past Continuous. Late yesterday afternoon while I (prepare) … dinner, the doorbell(ring) … . I (put) … everything down and (rush) … to answer it.I (open) … the door and (smile) … at the stranger standing in mydoorway. He (hold) … a small vacuum cleaner. While he (tell) … meabout this wonderful vacuum cleaner that he wanted to sell me, thephone (ring) … . I (excuse) … myself and (reach) … for the phone.While I (try) … to talk on the phone and to listen to the vacuumcleaner salesman at the same time, my young son (run) … up to meto tell me about the cat. The cat (try) … to catch a big fish in myhusband’s prized aquarium. The fish (swim) … on the bottom toavoid the cat’s paw. I (say) … goodbye to the vacuum salesman and(shut) … the door. I (say) … goodbye to the person on the phone and(hang) … up. I (yell) … at the cat and (shoo) … her away from thefish. Then I (sit) … down in an easy chair and (catch) … my breath.While I (sit) … there, the doorbell (ring) … again. Then the phone(ring) … . Then my son (say) … “Mom! Mom! The dog is in the refrigerator!”I (move, not) … . “What’s next?” I said to myself.
2)The price of Manhattan Island in 1626 was twenty-four dollars.
3)Today it's the centre of business and commercial life of the country.
4)There are very few people live in Manhattan.
5)Broadway is famous for the Stock Exchange which is located here.
6)It is called like that because a lot of people came to the USA from different countries all over the world at the turn of the 20-th century.
7)The most important branches are producing paper products, vehicles, glass, chemicals and machinery.