Mr. Voronin usually 1. comes to the office at 9.30 in the morning. Every morning he 2. looks through the mail. Now Voronin 3. is sitting in the comfortable armchair and 4. is reading a newspaper. He 5. likes English newspapers. Today he 6. has only few letters on his desk. The engineers 7. comes to the office at 10.00. Now they 8. are in the office and 9. discussing business matters. Stepanov 10. is the director of the large company. They 11. sell different goods to many other companies. They 12. do business with English companies too. Stepanov usually 13. discusses business with his customers. Now you 14. are seeing him in the office. He 15. is sitting at the table and 16. is speaking on the phone. Mr. Bell’s secretary 17. is phoning him. They 18. are making an appointment for Friday.
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1. The myths about stars and the Universe were made .
b) to explain the movement of the sun and the stars
2. Aristarchus was the only astronomer who
c) declared that the Earth moved around the sun and the moon travelled
round the Earth
3. Nicholas Copernicus proved that
d) that the Earth moved round the sun
4. Copernicus explored the Universe using
a) homemade instruments
5. Copernicus didn't want to publish his ideas because
c) people were not ready to understand them
6. We honour Copernicus because
b) his ideas encouraged other astronomers