Match the highlighted phrasal verbs in the text with their definitions below. 1 to have a (good / bad) relationship with 2 to abandon or leave 3 to complete something 4 to match or equal 5 to use all of your supply of something 6 to agree to do something (e.g. work) 7 to succeed in finding or reaching somebody 8 to look and act like part of a group 9 to tolerate or be patient about something

Ex 1. Open the brackets. Use the correct verb form (Past Simple, Past Progressive, Past Perfect)

1. Mike didn’t pass the exams though he (had studied) hard.

2. When I (saw) my friends, they (were playing) football.

3. When we (were walking) about in the forest, we (saw) a hare.

4. Michael (returned) from the cinema by 5 o’clock.

5. I (finished) my homework by 7 o’clock.

6. Yesterday I (found) the book which I (had lost) in summer.

7. By 8 o’clock the rain (did not stop).

8. I (did not play) computer games yesterday.

9. When Nick (came) home, his brother (was playing) with his toys.

10. I (washed) the dishes at 4 o’clock yesterday.

Объяснение:

Olympic games and Kazakhstan

July 17 at 11:35 am

 Taufik KARIMOV, a political analyst

On the eve of the main sporting event of the quadrennial year-the London Olympics-let's remember the achievements of Kazakhstani athletes at the Olympic games of our time.

Participation of Kazakhstani athletes in the Olympic games of our time should be divided into two parts – first as part of the USSR national team, and then, after independence, as part of the national team under its national flag.

However, first I want to warn readers – here you will see some discrepancies with the generally accepted data. For example, it is believed that for the first time Kazakhstan took part in the Olympics in 1956, in my opinion – in 1952 (then, by the way, the first medal was won, and not in 1960, as it is believed).

The first Olympic champion-Kazakh in official sources is called the wrestler Zhaksylyk USHKEMPIROV (1980), although in fact this is Alzhan ZHARMUKHAMEDOV (1972). Without detracting from the merits of our outstanding athlete, we just note that Ushkempirov is indeed the first Kazakh Olympic champion who represented Kazakhstan directly. And Kazakh Zharmukhamedov, who became the champion of the Munich Olympics in the Soviet basketball team, then lived in Moscow and played for CSKA. Then we all lived in a single state called the USSR, and it often happened that the best athletes, and not only from Kazakhstan, played for other Union republics. However, in order