A cold wind swept the pavement, a scrap of silver paper from a chocolate box across the lamp-light. d. bearing 11) by the beauty of the twilight, he strolled away from the hotel. b. stirred 12) His tale , he put his head back and laughed. a. told d. being told - оба применимы 13) Huxley showed how colonialism a false channel for most developing countries, draining them of their wealth and their culture. b. had carved out 14) dinner he sat with his cigar in a somewhat deserted lounge, turning over weekly papers. a. finishing b. having finished - оба применимы 15) They now had all her telephone calls d. intercepted
The Rosetta stone is a basalt stele(slab), an ancient artifact. It was discovered (found) in 1799 by a French soldier digging the Egyptian sand. Rosetta stone has become one of the greatest archeological finds for the present and the main source of modern understanding of the Egyptian hieroglyphs. The stone is a fragment of a larger stone which has the decree of the tsar Ptolemaeus the Vth (about 200 years BC) written on it and translated into three languages. The Rosetta stone is 114,4 cm(centimetres) high, 72,3 cm wide and 27,9 cm thick. It weighs approximately 760 kg. There are three inscriptions there.(The stone contains three inscriptions). The top register contains Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the second one contains Demotic text, and the third one is written in Ancient Greek.
11) by the beauty of the twilight, he strolled away from the hotel. b. stirred
12) His tale , he put his head back and laughed. a. told d. being told - оба применимы
13) Huxley showed how colonialism a false channel for most developing countries, draining them of their wealth and their culture. b. had carved out
14) dinner he sat with his cigar in a somewhat deserted lounge, turning over weekly papers. a. finishing b. having finished - оба применимы
15) They now had all her telephone calls d. intercepted