PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.) 1. more stressful a. feeling relaxed 2. attitudes towards long b. unwind 3. come back from a holiday c. hundreds of e-mails 4. came back from a holiday more d. economy 5. returning to e. with work 6. the weakened global f. than working 7. cut off contact g. mode 8. Uncertain economic h. summer breaks 9. totally i. times 10. fully get into holiday j. stressed

It was a beautiful spring day. Natalie was going along the street and looking at the strangers. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, but Natalie paid no attention to the wonders of nature. From her childhood Natalie was used to achieving what she wanted and she would work hard to earn money. Getting rich was her greatest ambition, and she spared no efforts to become rich and famous. She couldn’t waste time on anything else. 
Years passed. Natalie devoted her life to making a career and she neglected her family and friends. She lost interest in hobbies and it never came to her mind to take up some sport. She did reach her aim in the end but somehow she felt far from happy. 
One day she discovered her life was over. Natalie didn’t have children or friends, so by the time she had enough money to burn, she had no one to share it with. Natalie understood her main mistake and died with the words: “If I could live my life from the beginning, I would have devoted it to people instead of money.”

ответ:I would call a supermarket the most convenient inventions of the XX cen-tury. We should be thankful to Micheal Callan, an American who worked as an administrator in a grocery store and then in 1930 opened his own first supermarket with a wide range of goods.

He opened his first supermarket in his garage but it wasn’t an obstacle for his business and only 2 years later he owned a network of this kind of supermarkets.

The idea of opening a store where you could buy a wide range of products not only foods was welcomed by the Americans. Since that time supermarkets started developing and became bigger as well as started selling more and more kinds of goods.

Later supermarkets came to Russian. At first there were cashiers to help customers but then it became 100% self-service.

Nowadays there are supermarkets in every city of our country. Most of the time it’s a network of supermarkets that you can see everywhere like “Mag-net” and “Pyaterochka”.

Hypermarkets are very popular now as well. They are usually located in big shopping centers. Many people have heard of “Okay” and “Perekrestok” and most probably even have bought something there like food, household goods and chemicals and clothes.

I believe our life would be much harder if we didn’t have supermarkets. It would take us much more time to buy some basic things. That’s why I think it’s great to have everything in one place and don’t waste time in differ-ent queues.

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