Running your own business can (1) provide really high job satisfaction – the satisfaction of being in (2) charge of your own life and making your own (3) decisions about how things should be done. If you are ambitious, you may want to achieve (4) success on a large scale and eventually become rich. Or it may be (5) enough for you simply to enjoy work more and to achieve a modest increase (6) in living standards at the same time.
It's important to take into (7) account the less desirable aspects of the job as (8) well. For instance, if problems (9) arise, it will be up to you to sort them (10) out. You'll probably have to work harder and longer hours, especially in the (11) early stages. You'll probably see less of your family and friends too. And, of course, you won't enjoy the security of a (12) regular pay packet.
If you see all this as a challenge (13) rather than a disadvantage, you have at (14) least one of the qualities needed for success. Other qualities (15) include: the ability to work on one's own, a refusal to (16) give up, and a willingness to take on responsibility.
2. Present perfect VS past simple
:Where did you spend your last holiday?
A: I …went…. to Australia.
B: Really?...I have (never been) there. How …was……(it) ?
A:Well, .( it was) great ( I saw) many beautiful places and (met) many interesting people.
B: Are you thinking of going there once again?
A: Yes, I'm planning to go there with husband next year. …He has….(not been) to Sydney for 12 years. What about you? Where are you going this year?
B: Well, as always I'm not going abroad. I have (never been) really fond of it. I just find such trips boring.
A: That's too bad. I really hoped you would come with me next year.
3. Fill in the spaces with the simple past or past continuous form of the verb in brackets.
1.I (was working) when she called me.
2. She was cooking when we (arrived).
3.Gregory (was swimming) when it started to rain.
4.The children (were playing) outside when it started to snow.
5.Heather was listening to music when the power (went) out.
6.The dogs (were) born in 2004.
7.My laptop (stopped) when the battery ran out.
8.She (sang) after the music started.
9.Dina and Lisa (talked/were talking) while the movie was playing. оба
10.The telephone was ringing when she (began) to speak.
1) contemporaries as an outstanding novelIST.
2) His novels and tales WERE read widely in France,
3) Germany, Italy, Spain, England and THE USA.
4) The State Turgenev Museum openED in the
5) author'S native town of Oriol. Spasskoye-Lutovinovo,
6) where Ivan Turgenev (was) spent most of his life,
7) is also A museum and is open to the public. The
8) museum IS visitED by tourists from Russia and abroad.
9) The memorial department of (a) THE museum
10) ( is attracted) ATTRACTS many visitors. The rooms in this
11) building IS redecorated to look like the author's
12) original(ly) home. The "Living Room", the
13) "Dining Room", THE "Study-Bedroom" and the
14) "Library" ARE showN to the public. In the memorial
15) part of the museum one can (be seen) SEE the writer's
16) desk. Turgenev's WONDERFUL (wondering) novels: Rudin,
17) Fathers and Sons (CHILDREN),
18) On the EVe WRITTEN (wrote) there.
19) The sofa, which he (was) called "Samson,'
20) the ancient clock and other thingS,
21) WHICH (who) have been described by him in his works,
22) Can BE SEEN (see) in the museum.