4 Look at the words in blue in the text. Then complete the rule.
We use could, was/were able to and managed to
to talk about ability in the past. For a single event in
the past, we only use — and — in positive
statements.​

albert, my best friend, is inviting me to the party. he is celebrating his graduation from the high-school. as he told me, party is going to start at 8 p.m. business as usual, he's organizing the party at home again. that's not a big deal because his home is very big with broad neighbouring area. his parents and the next house neighbours left to the sea, that's why nobody would bother us, i hope.

поставь "лучшее решение", если несложно.

                                                                    the most unusual story i've heard.    not so long ago, my friend told me a very unusual story, which he'd read in spiegel. i'm sure everyone's heard, that rock music is harmful for plants, and animals. apparently, wolves are not fans of rock music as well!   more than that , some of them are scared of it!     this story happened somewhere in the countryside of norway. a 13-year old boy was walking home from his school bus stop. he was listening to the rock music in his mobile phone, while he noticed 4 wolves on the hillside. at first he thought, that they were just neighbor's dogs, but very soon he realized that they were real mother had told him, that he should never run away from wolves. it is impossible to escape that way, and by trying so, you would encourage them to chase you down. the boy said, that he was really scared and would not be able to run any way. he just pulled out headphones from his cell phone, turn the volume as loud as he could and started yelling, while flailing his arms. wild animals did not enjoy his heavy metal show. they turned around and trotted away.       it is hard to say now, what scared wolves more: a strange, yelling boy, or a heavy metal. probably combination of both. fortunatly for the boy, his plan worked!   maybe if red robin hood would listen to the heavy rock, nobody would have to kill big gray wolf.

christmas tragedy with happy end

christmas eve it’s a time when magical things happen.

i’d like to tell you a real story that happened last year on christmas eve.

that evening i together with a friend went to greet my grandparents who live not far from us. everything went very well, we were having fun, but finally were supposed to go home. we said good-bye to my grandparent and run home to have a party with my parents and their friends. as soon as i live on the 5-th floor, i never hesitate to use an elevator. i pressed the button, the elevator arrived, opened the door, we entered, pressed the necessary button, the door closed, and than we heard a strange sound that reminds sound of a dying light bulb, the light switched off and the elevator stopped.   all this happened 40 minutes before midnight. we were staying in that dark quiet box.

thanks god, i had my cellular phone with me, i called my parents, and they called the elevator repair company, but nobody answered there.

than my friend and i began to plead santa tearfully to do a miracle and let us out of the elevator. and i think that we asked him so earnestly to do a miracle, that that miracle happened: the light turned on and the door opened three minutes before midnight.

and we all had a really happy christmas.

1)have

2)should

3)will

4)never

5)have