"It'll be great. I love you, Mom." She hugged me tightly for a minute, and then I got on the plane, and she was gone. It's a four-hour flight from Phoenix to Seattle, another hour in a small plane up to Port Angeles, and then an hour drive back down to Forks. Flying doesn't bother me; the hour in the car with Charlie, though, I was a little worried about. Charlie had really been fairly nice about the whole thing. He seemed genuinely pleased that I was coming to live with him for the first time with any degree of permanence. He'd already gotten me registered for high school and was going to help me get a car. But it was sure to be awkward with Charlie. Neither of us was what anyone would call verbose, and I didn't know what there was to say regardless. I knew he was more than a little confused by my decision -- like my mother before me, I hadn't made a secret of my distaste for Forks. When I landed in Port Angeles, it was raining. I didn't see it as an omen -- just unavoidable. I'd
flashed his winning smile. We'd been unpacking for days, yet he still looked amazing. Leanly built, dark-haired, and green-eyed, Cary was a man who rarely looked anything less than absolutely gorgeous on any day of his life. I might have resented that if he hadn't been the dearest person on earth to me. "I'm not talking about a bender," he insisted. "Just a glass of wine or two. We can hit a happy hour and be in by eight." "I don't know if I'll make it back in time." I gestured at my yoga pants and fitted workout tank. "After I time the walk to work, I'm going to hit the gym." "Walk fast, work out faster." Cary's perfectly executed arched brow made me laugh. I fully expected his million-dollar face to appear on billboards and fashion magazines all over the world one day. No matter his expression, he was a knockout. "How about tomorrow after work?" I offered as a substitute. "If I make it through the day, that'll be worth celebrating."
_ 9 I sometimes _________________________________ (ride) my bicycle to school. 10_ She usually _________________________________ (go) to the gym on Friday evenings. Marks: /10 2 Choose the correct tense (present simple or present continuous) in these sentences. 1 How do you usually start/are you usually starting your day? _____________________________________ 2 What time do you go/are you going to bed at weekends? _____________________________________ 3 This Girlzone CD is belonging/belongs to Alan. _____________________________________ 4 I understand/am understanding English, but not Spanish. _____________________________________ 5 Why does she run/is she running? Because she's late for work. __________________________________ 6 She doesn't enjoy/is not enjoying the film. _____________________________________
3 1 f hindsight 4 c evocative 5 comes to, more in common 2 broadened out 2 a recall 5 b recollection 6 she's passed on to me 3 a shred 3 d reminisce 6 e ingrained genetically 4 plausible 5 obsolete 4 1 I've asked you time and time 3 1 There's a strong resemblance again to keep the noise down. between Paul and Joe. 1D Sporting origins page 67 2 She recognised him at once. 2 Phobias can be genetically 3 He's working at his father's shop inherited. 1 1 staunchly / resolutely for the time being
by Roald Dahl (1916-1990) The room was warm and clean, the curtains drawn, the two table lamps alight - hers and the one by the empty chair opposite. On the sideboard behind her, two tall glasses, soda water, whiskey. Fresh ice cubes in the Thermos bucket. Mary Maloney was waiting for her husband to come him (correction: home) from work. Now and again she would glance up at the clock, but without anxiety, merely to please herself with the thought that each minute gone by made it nearer the time when he would come. There was a slow smiling air about her, and about everything she did. The drop of a head as she bent over her sewing was curiously tranquil. Her skin - for this was her sixth month with child - had acquired a wonderful translucent quality, the mouth was soft, and the eyes, with their new placid look, seemed larger darker than before. When the clock said ten minutes to five, she began to listen, and a few
school's top runner for the last two years. Next spring he ... (4 run) the London Marathon. But my friend Kelly is the best. She ... (5 start) skating when she was four. She ... (6 have) the best results and she ... (7 win) lots of prizes. She ... even ... (8 be) on TV. Kelly ... (9 break) her arm twice while doing a jump on the ice, but she's OK now. Last year she ... (10 travel) to Canada to practise in a training camp. I'm sure sometime in the future she ... (11 win) an Olympic medal. By that time, I ... (12 be) a famous author and she ... (13 ask) me to write a book about her way to the top. That's why I ... (14 start) taking notes of her and my other classmates' results. 3. Complete the exercise with the verbs in the past simple, the past continuous, or the past perfect tense. Do you remember? I went I was / we were going I had gone I couldn't wait for the first day of school to show off the new bike which I ... (1 get) as a birthday present. As I ... --- 5
impossible for you to live there. The demon has black wings and a power to spread disease, too." "I don't know about the last fact, but I do have wings, actually." "Yea right and cats can fly! That's not even a laughing matter to my mind." "Apart from your good looks, you sure can be rude," said Misery in a low voice. The man stared blankly back at her they were both angry now. "Well, I am sorry for disturbing you, but it's really time for me to go now. Farewell." And the light-haired man disappeared to a tunnel leading to the royal labyrinth. Misery took secretly quite a liking to him so she decided to follow. /.../ Questions: a) Who is the main character? ...................................................................................................... ...................................................................................................... ......................................................
Considering I was ten when Estonia became a Republic, it makes sense. We began studying Russian in first grade, though it was simplified – "koška" instead of "kot", "medvešonok" instead of "medved", "saichik" etc. Did not make much sense and we mostly played some games in Russian (Tare-tareke etc). Learned as much playing outside, since we had Estonian-Russian kids around as well. Not that we played with them. It's sad to say but it was not a nice time to be a Russian kid. We were mean to them, and we did not even know why. I think that's the only time I've ever been part of bullying someone, but there was this kid everybody called Vene-Russ and we spent a lot of time playing mean tricks on him. Well, there's that. And I also learned a lot of Russian from my mother's lover who was a Russian military officer and pretty much my father figure at the time. I tried to teach him Estonian and learned some Russian instead
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