"Thee mirror had been broken.The TV had been stolen"

«You foreigners are so clever,» said a lady to me some years ago. First I considered this remark exaggerated but complimentary. Since then I have learnt that it was far from it. These few words expressed the lady’s contempt and slight disgust for foreigners.
If you look up the word «clever» in any English dictionary, you will find that dictionaries are out of date and mislead you on this point. According to the «Pocket Oxford Dictionary», for instance, the word means quick and neat in movement … skilful, talented, ingenious. All nice adjectives, expressing valuable and estimable characteristics. A modern Englishman, however, uses the word «clever» in the sense: shrewd, sly, furtive, surreptitious, treacherous, sneaking, crafty, un-English, un-Scottish, un-Welsh.
In England it is bad manners to be clever. It may be your own personal view that two and two make four, but you must not state it in a self-assured way, because this is a democratic country and others may be of a different opinion. A continental gentleman seeing a nice panorama may remark: «This view rather reminds me of Utrecht, where the peace treaty concluding the War of Spanish Succession was signed on the 11th April, 1713. The river there, however, recalls the Guadalquivir, which rises in the Sierra de Cazorla and flows southwest to the Atlantic Ocean and is 650 kilometres long.»
This pompous, showing-off way of speaking is not permissible in England. The Englishman is modest and simple. He uses but few words and expresses so much — but so much — with them. An Englishman looking at the same view would remain silent for two or three hours and think about how to put his profound feeling into words. Then he would remark: «It’s pretty, isn’t it?»
An English professor of mathematics would say to his maid checking up the shopping list: «I’m no good at arithmetic, I’m afraid. Please correct me, Jane, if I am wrong, but I believe that the square root of 97344 is 312.»
And about knowledge. An English girl, of course, would be able to learn just a little more about, let us say, geography. But it is just not «chic» to know whether Budapest is the capital of Romania, Hungary or Bulgaria. And if she happens to know that Budapest is the capital of Romania, she should at least be perplexed if Bucharest is mentioned suddenly.
It is so much nicer to ask, when someone speaks of Barbados or Fiji: «Oh those little islands… Are they British?» (They usually are.)

Выберите правильную форму глагола:
a. is b. was c. are d. be

a) since; b)from; c)with
6. We had sent the letter we learnt the news.
a) before; b) after; c) till
Щ. I enjoyed the trip it rained.
a) although*; b) however; c) as
8. They have white paper than we have.
a) less; b) least; c) fewer
9. He said that he to be a doctor.
a) is siudmg; b) studies; c) studied
10. When the academic year we shall go to the country.
a) is oven b) will be over; c) will have been over
11. My father home at 5 о clock yesterday.
a) was coming; b) has come c) came
12. Foreign languages by the students.
a) have learnt; b) are learnt c) are learning
13. My brother music lessons for three years now.
a) has taken; b) has been taking; c) takes
14.1 shall ring you as soon as I - home.
a) came; b) come; c) shall come
15. The report ready by 6 о clock yesterday.
a) was; b) has been: c) had been
16. After the festival is over she' a vacation with her family.
a) will take; b) take; c) is taking
17. We thought you help us.
a) will; b) should; c) would
18. She said she graduated from the Institute a few years ago.
a. had; b. has; с was
19. Many new houses built in our town at present
a. were; b. are being; с have
20. The children were playing in the garden while we__ TV. a. were watching; b. were watched; с have watched
21. This plant before we came to live in this town.
a. was built b. has been built; с had been built

have been d) if i had been

little white kid gloves while she was talking. 'How CAN I have __4___ that?' she thought. 'I must be ____5____ small again.' She got up and went to the table to measure herself __6__ it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet __7____, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found __8__ that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it ___9____, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.

'That WAS a ___10____ escape!' saidAlice, a good ___11__ frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in ____12____; 'and now for the garden!' and she ran with all speed back to the little door: but, __13___! the little door was shut again, and the little __14____ key was lying on the glass table as before, 'and things are worse than ___15__,' thought the poor child, 'for I never was so small as this before, never! And I declare it's too bad, that it is!'

As she said these ___16___ her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash! she was up to her chin in __17___ water. Her first idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea, 'and in that case I can go back by ____18______,' she said to herself. (Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with spades ____19______, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.) However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of __20___ which she had wept when she was nine feet high.

away where they would not be lost

3 Why have these cups been put here in this cupboard ?

4 Evidently Nick had been told to go home at once when I gave him the things his mother had asked for , for he refused even to take a cup of tea

5 Invitatuons have been sent to all the old pupils to be present at the schools thirtieth anniversary

6 All the passengers in the bus were listerning to the story of the boy who had been saved from drowning be the quickness of the driver

7 The work was finished in time

8 The child is taken care of

9 When was it done ?

10 What museums were visited last year ?

11 Have your compositions been handed in ?