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The Man and His Donkey
There was a man who had a donkey. The man took his donkey to a nearby city to buy some salt. On A 2) their way home they came to a small river. The donkey accidentally B 1) fell into the river. When he got out, he felt that the bags of salt were much lighter, because the salt was all gone. The man took his donkey back to the city and filled its bags with even C 4) more salt. When they came to the river a second time, the lazy donkey fell down in the same place, because he D 3) did not want to carry the heavy bags all the way home. The man understood what the donkey was doing. He took the donkey back to the city and filled the bags with sponges. When the donkey fell in the river again, the sponges collected all the water and became E. 4) much heavier.
A. 1) there 2) their 3) theirs 4) theirs'
B. 1) fell 2) fall 4) fallen
C. 1) most 2) much 3) the more 4) more
D. 1) does not want 2) do not want 3) did not want 4) not wanted
E. 1) much heavy 2) the heavier 3) more heavier 4) much heavier
1 Complete the dialogue with the future perfect or future continuous form of the verbs in brackets.
A What kind of life do you think we 1_ (shall be living) in 30 years’ time?
B Many more people 2_ (will be working) from home, there will be more electric cars on the roads, and more people 3_ (will be using) bicycles in crowded city centres.
A 4Will people _ (be suffering) from the same illnesses?
B I don’t think so. Doctors 5__ (will have developed) vaccines for a number of diseases, and they 6_ (will be workin) on new ones.
A 7Will scientists (have found) other sources of energy?
B They 8__ (will not have invented) anything to replace our natural energy resources by that time, I don’t think. But scientists 9_ (will be thinking) seriously about nuclear energy.
A Do you think computers will be cleverer than humans?
B No, they won’t. They 10__ (will be doing) plenty of useful things in the home and the workplace, but I don’t think they’ll be more intelligent than us.