choose the correct answer a, b or c.

11. they won the first prize two years ……
a. just b. ago c. yet

12. we haven’t left the library
a. recently b. yet c. ever

13. have you been living here?
a. so far b. how long c. since

14. this place has changed our last visit.
a. for b. since c. already

15. alex has been going out a lot .
a. last b. recently c. yet

at last the winter holidays came! i was very happy!     i hadn't to get up early in the morning and run to school. i could stay in bed till midday. but i didn't want to sleep. there were a lot of things to do.

the weather was fine so my friends and i went to the skating- rink almost every day. it was fun!

then i spent a week in the country where my grandfather and grandmother lived. it was great. i drank milk and ate a lot of tasty food that my granny prepared for me.

i have many friends in this village because i go there every holidays.

we went to the forest to ski, we made snowmen and played snowballs. we even played hockey!

but the winter holidays were over and i returned to the city again.  i liked my holidays very much.

наконец наступили зимние каникулы! я был счастлив!   я не должен был вставать рано утром и бежать в школу. я мог оставаться в постели до полудня. но я не хотел спать. было так много дел.

погода была хорошая, так что мои друзья и я ходили на каток почти каждый день. это было весело!

затем я провел неделю в деревне, где   живут  мои дедушка и бабушка  . это было здорово. я пил молоко и ел много вкусной пищи, которую моя бабушка готовила для меня.

у меня много друзей в этой деревне, потому что я езжу туда каждые каникулы.

мы ходили в лес кататься на лыжах, мы делали снеговиков и играли в снежки. мы даже играли в хоккей!

но зимние каникулы закончились, и я вернулся в город снова. мне понравились мои каникулы.

1.  the article having been read we knew the subject much better. b)  так как статья была прочитана; 2.  having stopped the computer he left the shop. d)  остановив компьютер.

3. the operating machine was installed in the shop. a)  работающая машина; 4.  having installed the new computer we obtained the results of the calculations quicker.

a)  установив новый компьютер;

for many, the most important day of birth day of the year. this is not surprising. after birthday - this is the only festival in the center of attention of which is you and only you. in the morning you wake up and realize that today a special morning and afternoon will be special because on that day you was born, first saw the sun, the sky, my mother's eyes. congratulate you, give gifts, come to visit friends, parents are allowed to do whatever you want. you can lie in bed until you get bored, and no one will force you to clean up the room. and how could it be otherwise? for you today - especially, but because everything has to be as much as you want what do you want on this day? a lot of gifts? idle? or do those who are with you on this day, just as happy as you yourself? help, for example, to prepare the birthday cake, clean the room. after all, today you will come to your friends who love and respect you.and you also must show respect for them and found they were not sleepy in bed in the room where they will have nowhere to sit because of the scattered books, and in the retracted and light room, light, and how your mood, as well as yourself. and meeting friends, you will not forget that the role of the celebrant not only gives you the right to be special in that day, but requires to be a true master. and who is the real owner? he friendly, attentive, considerate and friendly. and when my mother will give treats to the table, her eyes are not tired from the time spent in the kitchen, and happy. sitting down with friends at the table, you will not forget to invite the parents. his birthday and they make you prazdnuesh and should always be aware of this. and then you can have fun with friends and, in fact birthday - is first and foremost fun.and you will know that on this particular day, you do not become conceited because of its "features", and made close to you people a little happier. so, you were born not in vain, and your birthday is really - is special.