Put the verb in brackets into the correct form of the Past Simple Passive. (Поставь глагол в скобках в нужную форму простого времени в пассивном залоге.) 1. These books
very quickly. (to sell out)
2. My sister
by a dog last month. (to bite)
3. How much water
? (to pollute)
4. The play
by Shakespeare. (to write)

1 Great Britain has the official name – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (or UK – for short).

2 The British Isles lie in the north-west of Europe.  They consist of two large islands, Great Britain and Ireland,

3 The territory of the United Kingdom is about 244 square kilometres. His the 75th place among other countries in the world.
 
4 The United Kingdom is made up of four countries: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland-

5 The capital of the country is London.  The 4 capitols of the United Kingdom are : England is London, Wales is Cardiff, Scotland is Edinburgh and Northern Ireland is Belfast.

6  The two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) are based at The Palace of Westminster, 
in London.

7 The British Parliament is the oldest in the world. It originated in th 12th century as Witenagemot,

8  Britain is a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch – Queen Elisabeth II as a head of state.

It is almost impossible to imagine our life without TV. It plays a great and a very important role in the life of modern man. There is practically no family that doesn't have a TV set. TV is one of the mass media kinds. Radio and newspapers tell us about different events but TV not only tells but also shows. TV has a lot of channels and everybody can watch the programs he likes. Our television suggests various programs: talk show and game show, news and sporting events, about animals and about foreign countries and so on. Soaps-lovers can watch their favorite films almost every day. TV shows us a lot of films of different countries: detective and melodrama, comedy and triller. As former I like to see adventure films, fantasy, comedies. My favorite sporting events programs are about volleyball, swimming, track-and-field athletics and gymnastic. I watch many programs with great interest. These programs are: a wild nature program, "Anshlag", some game shows and so on. There are a lot of films (most of them of foreign TV-companies) with a great number of corpses, with seas of blood now. It's not very good to my mind. I think that one of the aims of TV is to bring up TV-viewers, to cultivate love to our country, kindness and other positive features of character.