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• The tourists set __ at 8.00 a.m..
• The spring was really setting __when they arrived in Moscow
• My parents want to buy a new house, so they try to set __ as much money as possible.
• Ted had an accident on his way, so it set him __.

N our time, life is not so interesting and exciting as it can be. The world has become a bland and safe place. Each day is like another and we are so tired of such life. People in the past used to risk their life by hunting animals, taking part in expeditions. We need some adrenaline and extreme to feel that our life is going forward.

Risk sports become the fastest-growing leisure activities. More and more people try anything from organized bungee jumping to illegally jumping off buildings. And people never feel so alive as when they are risking their life. The real thrill-seekers in their quest for the ultimate sensation are thinking up more and more elaborate sports.

There are other opinions about why some people choose risk sports, whereas others in that time sit at home doing whatever they want. Some say that people who do risk sports are reacting against a society, which they feel has become dull and constricting. In other words people now turn to risk sports as an escape from all boring things in their life. Moreover risk sports help to overcome fears that affect us in reality. It’s very important for people who work a lot and cannot cope when things go wrong, which mean that they can’t control the situation.

People invented a lot of possibilities to make their life more interesting and exiting. Now you can try everything: ‘zip wiring’, which involves sliding down a rope from the top of cliff suspended by a pulley attached to your ankle, bungee jumping and other. But of all the risk or adrenaline sports, bungee jumping is the most popular. Worldwide, one-and-a-half million people have tried it. You hurtle towards the ground from 200 metres up and, at the last moment, when you are about to hit the water or land and death seems certain, a rubber band yanks you back to life. You can decide whether to jump from a crane, a bridge or a balloon. Attached to a length of elastic rope, jumpers experience a free fall of nearly 100mph, before they’re slowed by a quickly increasing pull on their ankles. After five or six bounces jumpers are lowered on to a mattress and set free. Almost inarticulate, they walk around with idiotic grins on their faces. Their hands can’t stop shaking, they can only use superlatives and say repeatedly how amazing it was. You feel as if you’re floating the air
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I want to describe the picture of Graham Children, written in 1742 by William Hogarth. The painting depicts four children, watching the bird. Moreover, if younger children are passionate about what is happening and lively react to it, the older girls are frankly posing for the artist, there is no childish innocence in their characters. The boy is  playing on a mechanical organ, probably to improve the birds singing. The baby is sitting on chair near the basket with flowers. The cat on the back of the chair is enchanted by watching the bird  in a locked cage. The clock on the mantelpiece, decorated with the figure of Cupid with a plait, is next to a sandglass. These symbols of death, probably,  is not accidental. It was known that when the artist had been painting the picture, the baby was no longer alive.  After careful examination of the picture  you begin to feel anxiety:  a sinister subtext is hidden under a visible (seeming) tranquillity. Although the children are exposed to light, the world directly behind them is dark and threatening(ominous). Hogarth makes it clear that only ignorant (inexperienced) in life can smile with such confidence because they do not understand the signs that inexorable time sends to them. It opens the hidden  matter of the painting - the fragility and uncertainty of human being.