ii. read the magazine article below. six sentences have been removed from it. choose from the sentences a-f the one which best fits each gap. there are two extra sentences which you do not need to use. tired of talking to yourself? are you stuck at home or feel shy about going out on your own to meet new people? it's not hard to learn how to make friends online. first, scan the website. when you join an online community, it's smart to scan the site or "lurk" on (browse) the forums, comments and message boards. just like when you walk in the door of a social event, you want to feel the atmosphere or the place and find out how the people are interacting. you can tell from the comment conversations if these people will be the ones you can relate to or not. some online communities require that you sign up before you can read the boards or comments. you can do a little research about websites by reading reviews or reading the website itself to see if it might be a good match for your personality. identify users who share your interests. once you're signed up on a website, it's time to find users that you think might make good friends for you. the easiest place to start from is identifying others who share your interests. you can contact them immediately using the methods the website provides (such as clicking on their username to open a chat or clicking "new message" by their name). you can also copy and paste their name somewhere on your computer (or write it down) so that you can write a message to them later when you feel more comfortable. decide on a good username. even though you'll likely want to join more than one website — which means you'll be setting up several user accounts — you obviously want to be able to remember them all. creating a username that you can use across all the websites is useful for this. you may have to tweak the name for different sites but in general similar names will prevent you from getting confused. for example, myrajane might be in use, or myra_jane might be available. use a different password for each site to protect your identity. create a file on your computer (such as word or excel) and save all the username/ password combinations so that you don't have to keep resetting the them. be kind and polite. in your comments, don't be biased or rude. although you want to be able to express yourself, jumping into a conversation with your guns blazing makes people want to get away from you, especially if they disagree. instead, maintain a polite and kind tone — even when you do disagree — to avoid polarising the conversation and losing friends before you even start. don't personally attack anyone. online spaces are just as particular about this as real-life places. this fact is easy to forget on online, where you aren't seeing people's body language.
a) just like in real life, listening is a key for making online friendships. b) be open about your life when you are asked questions, because just like in real life, being shy will push most people away. c) save your passionate opinions for a one-to-one chat with someone who agrees or for forums specifically designated as a space for debate. d) if a website already has a user with the name you picked out, adding a number, letter or special character can usually allow you to still use that name. e) if you see a comment that someone left about how much they love football or baking, and you love that thing too, you may want to pursue friendship with that person. f) the internet is a great place to shake off your shyness, meet new people from around the world and form friendships with people who share your interests and passions.
Remarkable “pearls” can be found in the archive. Such pages of the history of our city, which are not written in any textbook. For example, the following memo from a veterinarian to the City Council. We are talking about the place where now the favorite place for festivals of the Annunciation is about the central square:
“January 23rd day of 1891. Along the embankment, between Blagoveshchenskaya and Chigirinskaya streets, there is a landfill site where manure is brought from all over the city. Manure also comes from yards where epizootics exist. Stray cattle and pigs go to the landfill site and select the remaining food from the manure, which circumstance may cause the spread of a particular epizootic in the city. Bringing this to the attention of the City Council, I would ask, in the interests of the city, to fence the designated dump site with a fence and to warn residents of Blagoveshchensk not to let cattle out of the yards by publication. ”
Judging by the fact that in 1909 the following article appeared in Amurskaya Gazeta, the wasteland, on which Lenin Square is now, was not as beautiful as it is now: “Urban residents are now, as always, forced to use instead some dung infusion of water, since the entire coast of the Amur River is littered with a thick layer of dung. In particular, a lot of manure was piled near the bathhouse. ”
One hundred years ago, one of the favorite summer activities in Blagoveshchensk was “boat trips”. True, admiring the views of the city from the river side was much more expensive than today: gentlemen had to pay one and a half rubles for such a pleasure, and ladies - one ruble (do not forget: the teacher received 25 rubles per month).
But the buffets on the "pleasure boats" could compete with any restaurant today! The daily menu of the Steamboat Count Putyatin steamer’s buffet included: a consomme with croutons, three kinds of villagers, veal and mutton cutlets, “sour cream”, “in Russian” and “a la Cossack” burgers, Little Russian borscht, steaks, filet “ sauté "and" minion "and" Nelson’s images "(what is the reason for the old Russian dish, whose name, according to Dahl’s dictionary, meant" duality, duplicity, "and the legendary English admiral - it’s not clear), Viennese schnitzel, ham and peas , entrecote with potatoes, fried and “steam” chickens, wild goose with cabbage, scrambled eggs with jam and “sou Tang "cakes. The cheapest dish - chickens - cost 20 cents per serving. The most expensive is the fillet “sauté” and “minion” - twenty rubles per serving, that is, more expensive than the “female” steamer ticket.
From the report of the military governor of the Amur Region (the reports were read personally by the emperor) for 1908: “... The reporting year was marked by the opening of a through postal route along a new highway - the Amur Highway, along this route the transportation of mail, cargo and passengers began. The communication between the Blagoveshchensk and Trans-Baikal regions is supported by winter along the ice of the Amur River, and during spring and autumn thawing by a pack path along mountain paths, partly along valleys and fields along the same Amur. "
One way to leave your name in history is to get a penalty from your superiors. As now, a hundred years ago, all reprimands were recorded in documents. “Order: to dismiss the horse guard of the Night Guard of the city of Roman Bolobon and the foot guard of the Night Guard of the city of Vadim Cross.” Reason: at night, leaving the streets of the city, which were supposed to go around, the guards drank in a tavern. And right after the order there are documents on conducting an “official investigation”. We checked Roman Bolobon’s statement that he had a birthday. We talked with the mistress of the pub, where friends had the misfortune not only to drink, but also to buzz. And fired. A birthday man is not a birthday man, but do not drink in the service!
By the way, for information: the guards of the night security of the city at that time received more than teachers: 30 rubles a month. Plus, at the same time, when they got a job, they paid 60 rubles of uniform (it was expensive uniform!), And equestrian guards also paid 300 rubles a year to keep the horse (forging, treatment, equipment). Of course, hardly so much was spent on a horse and uniform. Most likely, part of this money is the marina of the Amur Shipping Company. the servants took themselves.
An English teacher wrote these words on the whiteboard: «woman without her man is nothing». The teacher then asked the students to punctuate the words correctly.
The men wrote: «Woman, without her man, is nothing.»
The women wrote: «Woman! Without her, man is nothing.»
Учитель английского языка написал эти слова на доске: «Женщина без ее человека - ничто». Затем учитель попросил студентов правильно перемещать слова. Мужчины писали: «Женщина, без ее человека, ничто.» Женщины писали: «Женщина! Без нее человек ничего. »