LizaDemidova3101

03.08.2020 19:53 •  Английский язык

ВСТАВИТЬ СЛОВА ПО СМЫСЛУ МОЛЮ СКИНУ ПОЛТОС НА КАРТУ КЛЯНУСЬ I remember it well. 0) There was a time in the past when I 1) go to lunch without having to answer calls 2) my boss, my wife, my children and my bank manager. There 3) to be a time when notions 4) as 'peace', and 'privacy' actually had a literal meaning. And when there was someone that you didn't want to speak to. never mind the reasons, you had the freedom not to 5) . Excuses were easy: I was out. I was sleeping, the phone was off the hook, and so on. It's all changed now. 6) of those old defences work. The callers simply come back at you with something like "but didn't you see my unanswered call on your mobile?" 7) about the very phrase for a moment: to see one's unanswered call. No running 8) from it. folks: you'd have to be deaf and blind to be able to sit on that old park bench. And even then, if you've got one of those mobile phones 9) have vibration alert, you could still be in for some trouble. I'm not a technophobe. I'm really not. It's just that I've 10) shown to be tragically wrong about this one. I once 11) "It's just a fad - it'll go away." That was eight years 12) , and the people that walked around the streets talking away on those clumsy-looking devices were few and far 13) and they looked ridiculous to everyone else. Now it's the other way around. 14) you don't have a mobile phone. you're the 15) one out. and others look at you as though you're walking around without any trousers.