№ 1

We arrived at the lake very early. It was cold but in spite of that there were several ___MAN___ MEN there. Dad pulled our fishing rods out of the rucksack and we joined the others.

“Hey, look what I___CATCH___HAVECAUGHT !” a man sitting several metres upstream proudly showed us his bag. There was a large fish in it.

“Good job,” Dad ___SAY___SAID and everyone became quiet again.

“How long do we have to wait? When will they bite?” I whispered.

“I ___NOT/KNOW___DONOTKNOW ,” Dad whispered back and a moment later he was holding a little, silver fish.

“See?” he turned to me. “But this one is too small. We’d better let it go and wait for the next one.” And he let ___HE___HIS fish go.

The second fish was ___BIG___ BIGGER than the first one and soon Dad caught a few more.

“If it goes on like this, mum ___COOK___WILLCOOK us a great dinner,” he said.

We kept fishing till noon but I didn’t catch anything ___I___MYSELF and got really bored with it. To me, it ___BE___WAS a stupid waste of time but I certainly wasn’t going to tell Dad that. He wouldn’t have liked it.

№ 2

When I came into the room, my computer was on. It worried me since I ___NOT/REMEMBER__DIDNOTREMEMBER _ switching it on. I looked around – there ___BE___WAS nobody in my room and everything was in its usual place. Suddenly I ___UNDERSTAND___ UNDERSTOOD – the book had gone! I had left it on the table but it wasn’t there any more. I checked the window – it ___CLOSE___WASCLOSED . That meant that someone had come into the room through the door. My ___ONE___FIRST impulse was to call the police but I called Jim instead. “What ___HAPPEN___HASHAPPENED ?” Jim sounded sleepy. I explained that someone ___TAKE___HADTAKEN the book. “Oh, no!” Jim sounded unhappy. “Have you any idea how valuable it is?” “There’s another thing I ___NOT/CAN___CANNOT understand,” I interrupted Jim. “My computer’s on but I always switch it off before leaving home.” “Ok, stay at home. I’ll be at ___YOU___ YOUR place in half an hour,” he said and the phone went dead.

№ 3

Michael could not imagine his life without computers. His parents ___BUY___BOUGHT him his first computer at the age of seven. It took ___HE___HIM several days to learn how to use it. His mum said that the younger people were, the ___FAST___FASTER they could learn computer skills. That was probably true – most ___CHILD___CHILDREN in Michael’s class were very competent computer users. Michael was really surprised to find out that the first personal computer ___INVENT___WASINVENTED in the 70’s of the last century.

“And how did you chat or send your e-mails without computers?” he asked his mother.

She smiled: “We ___NOT/SEND___DIDNOTSEND each other e-mails. And there were no networks.”

She also said that it ___BE___WAS fun to communicate face-to-face, to play out-of-doors and to visit friends’ homes.

“But if there ___BE___WERE no computers, I wouldn’t be able to communicate with my friends who live far away from me,” Michael replied.

“True. Technological progress is a great thing,” his mother said “And I think people ___CREATE___WILLCREATED even more amazing communication devices in the near future.”