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2.Раскройте скобки, поставив глаголы в Past Simple.

Complete the magazine article. Write the Past Simple form of the verbs in brackets.

Sally Ride - a career in space

One day in 1977, a young American scientist, Dr Sally Ride, opened (open) her newspaper and saw (see) a job advertisement with a difference. It …..(ask) for applications for the job of astronaut with NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Sally …..(read) the long list of qualifications and she….(think): ‘I’m one of those people’.

In the following year, NASA……(choose) her and 34 others out of ;nearly 6,500 applicants. Five years later she….(become) the first American woman in space. Sally…. (fly) on another successful trip the following year. She also…. (help) to design the Shuttle’s robot arm, and she….(write) an important report - the Ride Report - on NASA’s future in space.

3.Раскройте скобки, поставьте глаголы в Present Perfect Simple. Complete the magazine article. Write the Present Perfect Simple form of the verbs in brackets.

Ride’s work lives on

Today, Sally Ride is no longer with NASA. She has gone (go) back to her research work at Stanford University. There she…. (continue) working on space projects. Meanwhile, the Ride Report ….(help) NASA in its recent work. Her successes at NASA….(do) a lot to help change NASA’s view of women, too. NASA….(put) a lot more women into the space programme in recent years. More women…. (join) Space Shuttle trips and…. (fly) in space. In fact, it….'(become) completely normal for women to travel in space.

4.Выберите подходящее время. Объясните свой выбор.

  1. In the UK today, the number of women in work reached/has reached nearly 50% of the working population.

  2. In the 1950s and early 1960s, very few women went/have gone out to work.

  3. In those days, husbands often didn't let/haven't let their wives get jobs.

  4. Today the situation changed/has changed a lot.

  5. In the 1970s, new laws made/have made employers offer women and men equal pay and conditions.

  6. Several changes in the present law gave/have given women today better conditions than before.

  7. However, women’s average salaries at the moment didn't rise/haven't risen to the average level of men’s salaries.

  8. This is partly because the biggest increase in work for women in the last 20 years was/has been in part-time jobs.

  9. It is also because most of today’s women didn't climb/haven't climbed to higher levels of management.

5.Раскройте скобки, поставьте глагол в подходящем по смыслу времени.

Mike Skidmore designs company magazines, brochures, and many other products. Complete the text about him. Write the Past Simple or the Present Perfect Simple form of the verbs in brackets.

A success story

Skidmore Turnbull Design began (begin) business with four staff in a small office in London in 1989. In that year, Mike Skidmore …..(form) a partnership with an old friend and colleague, Mark Turnbull. Skidmore……(bring) the design ideas to the business, and Turnbull……(provide) the business skills. They…..(start) their company during the bad economic recession from 1989 to 1993, but they…..(get) through those difficult years well. Now, they….(develop) into one of the most popular design studios in London. They….(move) offices twice as they….(grow). Today, their annual turnover….(increase) from nothing in 1989 to around &3 million.