Соедините два предложения, изменив союз then на союз, указанный в скобках.
Example : Mrs Garrett made a cake. Then the guests came. (before) –
Mrs Garrett had made a cake before the guests came.
1)
Everybody sang “Happy Birthday”. Then Natalie blew out the candles on the cake. (after)
2)
Rose invited Mike to her birthday party. Then he went to a gift shop. (after)
3)
He was ill. Then he died. (before)
4)
They had dinner. Then Betty came. (after)
5)
Natalie’s parents bought a car. Then they gave it to her. (after)

The Princess and the Pea 

Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. There was always something about them that was not as it should be. So he came home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real princess.

One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was heard at the city gate, and the old king went to open it.

It was a princess standing out there in front of the gate. But, good gracious! what a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she said that she was a real princess.

Well, we'll soon find that out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses.

On this the princess had to lie all night. In the morning she was asked how she had slept.

"Oh, very badly!" said she. "I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body. It's horrible!"

Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds.

Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that.

So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess; and the pea was put in the museum, where it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it.

There, that is a true story.

Riding a bicycle is very useful. But people don't always take a bicycle for the following reasons. One of the reasons is the absence of bicycle lanes. Let's look an adcantages and disadvantages of riding a bicycle and building bike lanes. The most important advantage is more simplier and safer riding for bikers around the city. The disadvantage is that there isn't enough place for bike lanes in the city. So, it will be necessary to allocate part of road or pavement. As a result, there will be no place for pedestrians and road capacity will be reduced. Besides, many pedestrians ignore road signs and go along the bike lanes. This impedes bike traffic and increases the probability of accidents. In addition, a lot of money is required for building of bike lanes since it is necessary to put asphalt, draw markings and place road signs. I believe that in future the bike lanes will be an integral part of roads and a bicycle will become an important part of our life.