Task 4. Complete the sentences using Past Simple or Present Perfect. He’s very intelligent. He (pass) all his exams last year.
(you/try) Japanese food?
(they/visit) Portugal last July?
We (be) at this school since we were five years old.

1 one day in 1777, Joseph Montgolfier, sitting in front of the fire, noticed that one of his shirts had started to float upwards. He did some experiments and came to the conclusion that smoke had the power to lift things up and carry them through the air.
The Montgolfier brothers quickly realised that it was heat and not smoke that had the power to lift things. On 19th September 1783, they presented their first hot-air balloon, which was made from paper and cloth. They burned some straw underneath it and the heat helped the balloon to float. A sheep, a duck and a chicken were in the basket that hung below the balloon for the two-mile journey and they landed safe and sound. Shortly afterwards, the brothers asked the king for permission to send men up in the balloon. the king agreed, and the first flight consisting of human passengers took place in Paris on 21st November 1783, with great success

1) Lomonosov was born in 1711, 19 of November
2) The first man who was on the space is Gagarin
3) Lomonosov found university in 1935
4) Gagarin lived in the village named Klushino, when Yuri was a child he liked making things from trees
5,6,7)ames Kuk was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.
8) президентом какой страны?
9) participated in the US independence war