Reading Test Red Rocks Amphitheatre

the mariinsky palace was built by emperor nikolay i for his daughter maria as a gift to her wedding with the duke maksimilian lejhtenbergsky. maksimilian was eugenie dе bogarne's son who was napoleon's stepson. wedding was on 5th december in 1838. the place for this palace was chosen opposite the isaakievsky cathedral, on the bank of the ekaterina channel. before there was tchernyshev's house there. the emperor wanted to build a palace which would differ from others. this palace should become the standard of comfort of that time. the builders used modern technical decisions and applied the modern building materials.

1. what do you read?

2. why are you always crying?

3. who is he?

4. where does he live?

5. when does your mother come home?

there was a girl with really bad character.she did not have frends because was angry.once she met a strange dog.it was magic dog.the dog tell about his life to the girl.his story was very unhappy: the dog was unpleasnt all his life and he lived alone.the girl had been frigthen and she changed her mind.she became to be a good girl.

i*ll tell you about armenia.armenia is one of the oldest countries in the world.the capital of armenia yerevan,early used to erebuni.one of the ciy was ani,but now it belongs to tyrkey.there are remains of  kilia kingdom,where the armenians in the 11-12 centuries had access to the mediterranean sea.there are now the kurds,who still haven*t got their territory.in the center of yerevan there is the square of mesrop mashtoth,it used to be the square of lenin.

there used to be lenin*s  statues.

  nowadays there are beutiful buildings and colorful,singing fantans.this is a favorite place for tourists