(Time: 80 minutes) Vocabulary & Grammar
A Fill in the missing word.
1 Can you buy me a magazine from the , please?
2 I'm not really the mood to go out - can we stay in instead?
3 Children in my country don't to wear a school uniform.
4 This jacket is expensive. I can't afford it.
5 I wonder if this fiat is
6 A burglar broke our house and stole everything.
7 This time next week, I will lying on a sandy beach.
8 I'm looking
a present for my brother.
9 My cousin is
married on Saturday
10 That outfit is too
-fashioned. Why don't you wear something trendier?
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Marks
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I used to have a dog when I was a child
He used to be noisy when he was young
She used to go to the country when she was 7
I used to walk many years ago
They used to drive fast when he was 20
Did you use to have a dog?
Did she use to go to the country?
Did he use to drive fast/
Did they use to walk 5 years ago?
Did you use to play tennis 5 years ago?
I didn't use to walk when I was 5
He didn't use to drive when he was 18
She didn't use to go to the country when she was 7
My mother didn't use to play tennis when she was a pupil
He didn/t use to have a dog

Recently our lives have become asolutely dependent on modern technologies.  More and more people have computers, mobile phones and sophisticated household appliances.  Nowadays mobile telephones replaced ordinary old-fashioned telephones in the houses.  They are smaller in size and more convenient because they can be used anywhere.  The only problem may arise if the battery  is off. But in this case this problem may become a total disaster for the mobile phones owners. 

The same applies to computers.  Very few people today know how to send letters or telegrams. People also more see each other on the screen of the monitor than in real life.  Conversations and private meetings between friends become less and less frequent. However  if there is a problems with eletricity, we can face another disaster in the form of total loss of commuication.

Copying machines also do a lot of work for us.  We have simply become too lazy to re-write long texts.

As to cars, motorbikes and other vehicles, they stole from us one more chance to walk and enjoy a beautiful view of the nature or of the city. 

In other words modern technologies made our lives more comfortable and convernient.  But at the same we lost some skills that our parents used to have.