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МатематикаВопрос:
1 Read the text. Where is Howells's hard drive? How much is it worth? Did he find it?
Ответ:
Howells's hard drive is in an enormous rubbish dump. It is worth $$7.5 million. He never found it.
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- 4 Complete the sentences. Use the past perfect form of the verbs in brackets. Remember that go can have two past participles.
- 5 USE OF ENGLISH Rewrite each pair of sentences as one sentence, using after. 1 I bought a lottery ticket. Then I went home. 2 I went to the cosmetics store. Then I went to the hairdresser's. 3 I paid for the flowers. Then I left the shop. 4 Jim did some shopping. Then he caught the bus home. 5 My dad left university. Then he became a teacher. 6 The chemist's closed down. Then a charity shop opened in the same building.
- 6 Complete the text with the phrases below. Use the past perfect. buy his ticket not check the numbers lose lose his ticket win the lottery take the lottery company When Martyn Tott learned that he <sup>1</sup>__________, he was, of course, delighted. He <sup>2</sup>__________ months earlier at his local newsagent's. He <sup>3</sup>__________ at the time, but he knew he was the winner because he always chose the same six numbers. But there was a problem. He <sup>4</sup>__________! Martyn Tott's computer records proved that he was the winner, but the lottery company refused to pay him without a ticket. Two years later, he was almost penniless. He <sup>5</sup>__________ to court, but <sup>6</sup>__________ the battle. He said he wished he had never played the lottery!
- 7 Read the sentences below. Then think of explanations for the situation or event using the past perfect. What had happened? 1 A man was holding a lottery ticket and smiling. 2 The car drove onto the pavement and hit a lamp post. 3 A cleaner found a wallet under the seats in the cinema. 4 A security guard stopped a woman outside the department store. 5 The boy opened the envelope, read the letter and started to dance around.
