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19.05.2022 18:49 •  Английский язык

Умоляю решите по .
i. read the text and choose a word from the list to complete each gap. change its form to make a word/a group of words that fits in the gap. different aspects of form change are possible: active or passive voice; indicative, imperative or subjunctive mood; finite or non-finite forms (infinitive, gerund, participle), etc.
for example:
(be) he is said to have been the greatest surgeon of his time.

assume
attract
bury
do
get

hide
intend
lose
reflect
time

they are about 750 mm long, 150 mm wide and usually made of tough pvc. they are time capsules. although ancient civilisations often left items in graves that 1. … their way of life, they 2. … for the afterlife. what seems to be new about the current craze for time capsules is the idea of leaving things for future generations to learn about us (always 3. …, that is, that they will be sufficiently interested 4. … so). apart from individuals, there are also many organisations busy 5. … these brightly-coloured canisters. often 6. … to coincide with a company anniversary, the event may be marked by a ceremony designed 7. … useful media coverage. schools, too, 8. … in on the act, with projects based on capsules. there is, though, just one problem with time capsules: in many cases, nobody can remember where they are. of the 10,000 known 9. … in various parts of the world during the last 60 years, over 9,000 10. … .

ii. read the text and look at the given list of stems/roots. match each of them with the corresponding gap. use these stems/roots to form new words that fit in the gaps.

conserve like marry negotiate prospect

christina of denmark, duchess of milan. she’s 16 years old and she’s a widow wearing widow’s clothes. you look at her hand and you’ll see her wedding ring. she didn’t seem to be too upset that she’s a widow but the 1. … to her husband, the duke of milan, was arranged for her and when he died, well, she’s on the market again. this picture was made by hans holbein, a german artist who was working in london and it was actually made for a 2. … husband who sent holbein to meet christina and to paint her 3. …, to take it back to him to see if he liked her. and the husband-to-be was called henry viii and henry viii, as i’m sure you know, got through wives like there was no tomorrow. this particular wife-to-be certainly tickled his fancy because the story goes that when he saw the picture he went straight up to it and planted a big wet kiss on the lips, which 4. … now of course try to persuade people not to do to old master paintings. but, of course, henry had paid for the picture; this was going to be his wife. christina of denmark was spared the fate of marrying henry. the marriage 5. … fell through and, in fact, christina later in her life is reported to have said that she was very glad that she didn’t marry henry because she felt she was rather too attached to her head.