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Arthur: I have been searching (search) for a house for a week now but so far I __________ (not/find) anytning suitable.                                                                      

Sandra: Why __________ (you/want) to move.    

Arthur: Well, the people living next to me __________ (be) the main problem. They (always/argue), especially at night.                                  

Sandra: Oh dear! __________ (you/ever/complain) to them?

Arthur: Yes, but they __________ (not/stop). They __________ (keep on) making noise. I (not/be able) to sleep well lately, and I __________ (feel) sleepy all week.

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When I entered the house something smelt awful. Someone had been cooking (cook) and __________ (burn) the meal. I __________ (visit) the house once before and __________ (meet) the family but I didn't know what __________ (happen) since then. The house was a mess.

The children __________ (play) in the living-room and __________ (leave) their toys all over the floor. Someone __________ (leave) all the windows open. It __________ (rain) for hours and all the curtains __________ (get) wet and dirty. I asked the children where their parents were. They told me that their mother __________ (be) in hospital for the past two weeks. Their father __________ (look after) them since then.

Obviously he __________ (do) his best, but he couldn't do any better since he worked all morning and had to leave them alone most of the day. I had to do something to help them.

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Professor Higgins, who was awarded (award) a major science prize last month __________ (invite) to take part in a conference which __________ (hold) in London last week. He __________ (meet) at the airport by a driver who, unfortunately, __________ (give) the name of the wrong hotel to take the professor to. A large reception __________ (organise) for the professor, and at least 200 eminent scientists __________ (invite) to meet him that evening. The poor professor, however, __________ (leave) at a small hotel in a rather bad area, and when he asked to speak to the Head of the Conference Committee he __________ (tell) to try somewhere else because  __________ (not/hear of) there. Luckily, later that evening, the driver __________ (send) to the hotel where the reception __________ (hold), and when he __________ (ask) what he had done with the professor, everyone realised that a mistake __________ (make).

The professor says that if he __________ (ever/send) another invitation to a conference, he hopes it  __________ (organise) more efficiently.

ВАРИАНТ 3

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Stock markets

Usually, stock markets do not change very much in one day. But on October 19 1987, the Dow-Jones index fell by more than 500 points. Other stock exchanges around the world also fell. People became very worried about this because of what had happened nearly sixty years earlier. In 1929, the stock markets fell quickly and suddenly in the same way - and for the next ten years the world economy was in serious trouble. That period was called the Great Depression. People lost money, lost their jobs, and lost hope in the future of business.

Before the crash in 1929, the stock market in Wall Street was doing well - very well. People were spending money and companies were getting bigger. New companies were appearing as new inventions filled people's homes: fridges, electric lights, radios. Buying stocks in companies seemed like a good way to make money. Everybody wanted to buy stocks, so the price of stocks went up - and so people did make money. People were borrowing money to buy stocks and get rich.

But the economists at that time were worried. They knew that the stock market could not continue to go up when people were borrowing so much money. In October 1929, the market in Wall Street began to fall. As it fell, more and more people wanted to sell their stocks, so the market fell more quickly. Nobody answered the telephones at the stock exchange because it was too busy, so angry crowds came to Wall Street, trying to sell their stocks. Soon nobody could stop the fall.

The crash of the stock market changed the way Americans felt about money. Suddenly, they did not want to buy stocks. They did not feel that their money was safe in banks either, so many people started keeping their money in boxes at home. Banks and other companies went out of business as people stopped spending. By 1933, there were 13 million people without work in the USA. Some of these people also lost their homes.

The Depression in the USA caused problems in other countries, too, because a lot of countries traded with the USA. Businesses closed and millions of people lost their jobs. Governments and economists have studied the reasons for the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the Depression of the 1930s. Today, there are more rules in the world's stock markets about buying and selling stocks. The stock markets still go up and down, but everybody hopes there will not be another crash like the one in 1929. However, nobody can be sure that it will never happen again.