Task 1. Read the text about Charlie Chaplin's early life and answer the true/false or doesn’t say.

1 Charlie had to work in order to help his mother.

2 His parents died an alcoholic when Charlie was 12.

3 When Chaplin was a child he had to stay in a bed for weeks because of serious illness.

4 Especially children loved Charlie Chaplin.

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It is winter now and it is often cold. I really can't stand the cold. So sometime ago I suddenly fell ill. I had a high temperature, a running nose and a sore throat. I also had a splitting headache and a cough. My whole body was aching. Mymother fixed me a hot lemonade but that didn't help me much. Shewanted to give me some aspirin too, but there wasn't any at home. My mother told me to stay in bed and calleda doctor. The doctor came, took off his coat and put on hiswhite gown. The doctor asked me to strip to the waist. Heexamined my lungs and throat, took my pulse and temperature, measured my blood pressure. Finally he said that it was a light case of flu andtold me to stay in bed and have complete rest. He wrote aprescription for some gargle and cough medicine. He also gave mesome sulfa pills, a slip for X-Ray and blood examination. Herecommended to apply glass-cups and mustard plasters. I followed all thedoctor's instructions and very soon I felt much better. I fully recovered in ten days and resumed my studies.

1. Potatoes were bought yesterday. 2. The books will be brought tomorrow. 3. The clock is being repaired now. 4. Milk is sold in this shop. 5. The whole text has been translated by me. 6. The window was broken  last week. 7. When I came home, they the sweets had been eaten. 8. The work will be done in the evening. 9. This book was written in the 19th century. 10. Tennis was being played from four till five. 11. A lot of money was stolen from the shop by him. 12. By six o'clock the work had been finished. 13. At twelve o'clock the trucks were being loaded by the workers. 14. By three o'clock the trucks had beeen loaded by the workers. 15. Our daughter is sent to rest in the south every year. 16. This film will be shown on TV. 17. A new concert-hall is being built in our street. 18. A number of important experiments have been made in this laboratory. 19. Central Africa was explored by Livingstone in the 19th century. 20. By the middle of autumn all the trees had beenplanted. 21. This play will be staged at the beginning of next season. 22. The story has been forgotten. 23. Have you been explained the rules of the game? 24. My skates haven't been brought back.