D Read the text in c again. Complete the questions. 1 Where? San Francisco

2. there? Ten years ago

3. a good time? Yes, they did.

4. on well? Yes, very well

5. How many times ? Only once

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the british press. the british press consists of several kinds of newspapers. the national papers are the ones sold all over the country, with a large circulation, giving general news. there are two main types of national paper - the "popular" papers and the "quality" papers. the popular papers are smaller in size (they are tabloid size), with lots of pictures, big headlines and short articles. they are easy to read and often contain little real information. they give much space to opinions. they usually have "human interest" stories - stories about ordinary people and events. examples of this type of newspapers are "the daily mail". "the sun", etc. "quality" papers appeal to the more serious reader, who wants to read about politics and foreign affairs. these papers such as "the daily telegraph", "the guardian" are bigger in size (they are called "broad-sheets"), with longer articles and a wider coverage of events. they have different pages for home news, foreign affairs, features articles, fashion, business, sport and so on. people in britain buy more papers on sunday than on weekdays. the sunday papers have a higher circulation than the dailies. as with the dailies, there are both popular and quality sunday newspapers. the quality ones have different sections and a colour magazine (usually full of advertisements)

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1) use space satellites to monitor the movement of cyclones and anticyclones and on the basis of this information to prepare weather forecasts.

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future – one of the strongest magic words in the history of humanity. from old times people began to ponder upon their future. sometimes ill-omened sometimes hopeful but it always attracted the human thoughts. there were many clairvoyants being engaged in predicting the future and very often there was nothing but pessimistic ways in their conclusions. and many times our civilization really stood on the edge of total wreck but heavens and just ordinary people by their efforts allow our planet to survive. but now standing on the boundary of the centuries and considering all the circumstances concerning with the problems of interrelations between countries, threat of ecological catastrophe, possibility of the beginning of the third world war, especially in the light of the events in yugoslavia, we cannot be sure that and this time any miracle will save the humanity from disaster.                but diverting from such pessimistic thoughts let me imagine our future concentrating on the aspects of developing and applying new technologies.                a few words about the space. i guess that cosmology will make a great strides in the near future. there will be a good possibility of inventing the light speed engine for the space vehicles or using the directed emission of the elementary particles but even otherwise i'm sure that the human civilization will spread its influence at least on the now known expanses of the universe. we will settle our colonies on the various planets and who knows whether on the earth there will be the centre or if you want the capital of mankind. maybe on these planets we will find the remains of old civilizations and use their knowledge and technologies for our needs. or, it's also possible, we will disturb any martial people and our civilization will be erased from the face of the universe. who knows? eventually, still sallusty said: “all that come into the world doomed to death”.