Fill in the blanks with a suitable word. Use the correct form. matter n,arrival, arrive, passv(2), changev(2), coverv,movev(2), truth, whole, hard, awful, exact, dull, sure, true, fast, strange
1. The traffic lights — from green to red and all cars stop. 2. Let's go out on the platform. The train will be — any minute now. 3. The light is too strong, it's bad for the eyes, — the lamp with something. 4. That was an — thing to do! Go and say you're sorry. 5. There's no such thing as easy work. All work is —. 6. She wrote to a friend asking him to meet her daughter upon her — in Sebastopol, giving him the — time, date and place. 7. Some people say that Dickens is too — for the modern reader, but nothing can be farther from the —. 8. I wonder what's the — with John. He's so quiet these days. 9. After a night of heavy rain the roads were very slippery. I — along in my car very slowly, but I was afraid the — time. 10. Did he say he was coming at four? Are you — you heard him right? 11. Several years — before the magazine published the — story of the poet's life. 12. The other day my neighbour came to me with a — story. It was something about noises he heard at night. I didn't know what to think. 13. The boy was learning — but there was still a lot to learn. 14. She telephoned to say that as she was — to another part of the town, she would be also — her place of work. 15. A week —, then another, and still there was no news of the expedition.
Green the winner of the prestigious Pritzker prize (2006) for his debut novel "looking for Alaska", and his latest novel "the Fault in our stars" debuted at No. 1 on the bestseller list "new York times" in January 2012. An eponymous film adaptation, released in 2014, at the time of the premiere in the United States was number 1 in the box office, collecting over the entire period of the rental in the United States $124 438 000. In 2014 green was included in the list of "100 most influential people in the world" by Time magazine.
In addition to writing, Greene is also known for its activities in the field of Internet technologies. In 2007, he launched the YouTube channel VlogBrothers (English).Russian., managed with his brother, Hank green. He also implemented such Internet projects as "Amazing" and VidCon (English).Russian. and created, along with his brother, a total of 11 online series of educational programs, including world history, biology, ecology, chemistry, psychology and other disciplines.