Complete the sentences with the Past Simple and Past Continuous of the verbs in brackets. 1. Why you   (interrupt) me while I  (explain)? Now, everybody is confused!

2. Kate  (laugh) all evening because Sam  (tell) her a very funny joke.

3. Michael  (swim) when his mother  (come) to tell him the good news.

4. She  (have) a shower when the phone  (ring).

5. They  (walk) down the street when they  (hear) a noise.

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A: How are you going to spend your winter holidays?
B: This winter I'm going to the countryside to meet my grandparents.
A: Do you always go to the country in January?
B: No, I go there very seldom. Last time I went to the country two years ago.
A: And what do you do there?
B: I like to ski and  skate. I also like to play snowballs with my friends. 
A: Can you ski well?
B: Oh, yes. Skiing is one of my favourite kind of sport. I have been skiing since my childhood.
A: And what do you do in the country when the weather is bad?
B: If the weather is bad I prefer to stay at home. I like to read books and drink hot tea with my grandmother.
A: How long do you usually stay there?
B: I usually go to the country for one week but maybe, this time, I will go there for two weeks.
A: Lucky you are. Have a good time.

For the history the Buddhism could become several times the state religion in this or that Asian country. Somewhere he was supported, somewhere expelled, and in some centuries started being supported again. The Buddhism as world religion endured a set of transformations, having stratified on a set of schools and currents in number of which any other world religion won't be compared to it. Opportunity to treat Buddhism dogma at discretion allowed it to unite with radical religions of many countries, having turned into a Lamaism in Tibet or a zen Buddhism in China. Exoticism of Buddhist dogma at last brought it into Europe and America where it was picked actively up by people who weren't satisfied any more by Christianity.Specifics of the Buddhism that it contains in itself(himself) lines of world religion both open system, and line of national religions - the closed systems about which it is accepted to say that they can "be absorbed only with mother's milk". It is caused historically, in the Buddhism there were in parallel two processes: - distribution in the different countries of big traditions (Hinayana, the Mahajana and Vajrayana), uniform for Buddhists of the whole world, on the one hand- and emergence of the national forms of household religiousness dictated by specific conditions of life and cultural realities with another. It is remarkable that in India the Buddhism didn't gain further development. According to statistical data for the beginning of the XXI century it is professed by less than 0,5% of the Indian population (1), what even it is less, than in Russia where 1% of the population ranks itself as Buddhists. The dominating religion of India there is a Hinduism, Islam is also widespread.