ACTIVATE Complete the sentences using thе past perfect and your own ideas.
I was tired because
I was tired because I hadn't slept well.
1 By the time I was ten,
2 They were late because
3 Before I went out,
4 I couldn't call you because
5 When I read the email, I realized ​

The main advantage compared to small shops - a huge range of products on the shelves. No need to run to the shops and idle for several bursts in different departments - choose the products you like and pay for all at once. Leisurely strolling through the maze of the many windows with a basket or cart, you choose whatever you want, well, or whatever you ordered his wife.

2. Another advantage of the supermarket - due to the large volume of sales prices for many types of goods in them, tend to be lower, not to mention the permanent discounts, promotions and sweepstakes prizes. It turns a double saving: time and money. What is not a good incentive to look at the light?

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But there is such stores and disadvantages, which show not only the complaints of customers, but also the results of numerous tests. Due to the large quantity of goods, sellers do not always have time to change price tags on them, and the prices in our time as the weather - things are very volatile. So, sometimes, gaining to cart items by one value at the checkout you can get a surprise, and not always pleasant.

2. One of the downsides of supermarkets - always visnuschie computers on hand, which does not care, you are in a hurry to work late or on a date. They irritate both the buyers and sellers. The author of this article, and once she became a member of such a battle the computer in one of the supermarkets. It turned out that the price of the cake, which I chose the long and hard, was not entered in the computer. To resolve the issue, I was offered either to wait until the correct error, or take another cake.

Select the first option, I had to wait about twenty minutes before slow seller to repair a technical misunderstanding. But the mood was pretty spoiled.

Here is another case, narrated by one of the supermarket buyers, whose name we do not articulate. A woman came to a large supermarket to buy bread. At the same time I decided to buy biscuits and sweets for tea. Choosing the right products, it is, as a good buyer went to the cashier to pay. When the seller has announced her fabulous for such a modest amount of purchases, she was surprised, but did not argue, paid, and went to check a broken home. In what kind of a shock threw her what she read later on the check: it turns out, in addition to the above mentioned products, it has become even packing sardines and squid. However, as the poor woman did not look for them in my bag, but to find and could not.

Task 1. Read the text and open the brackets using the right form of the verb

Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States. It 1 (occupies) the extreme region ofthe North American continent and 2 (is separated) from Asia by the 82-km-wide Bering Strait. It 3 (was bought) from Russia by Secretary of State William H. Seward in 1867. Alaska 4 (belongs) to the United States. By 1900 Alaska 5 (had become) a land of golden opportunity due to gold discovery. Though 6 (having) very little population, it is one of the wealthiest nations in North America. The official language of Alaska is English. While most of the people speak English, the other 7 (recognized) languages are Native North American, Spanish, Yupik, Tagalog and Inupiaq. Alaska 8 (is nicknamed) „America‟s Last Frontier‟ and „Land of the Midnight Sun‟. The official state flower of Alaska - the wild forget-me-not is worth 9 (mentioning). 10 Have you (heard) that there are some areas in Alaska that have 24 hours daylight and some that have 24 hours night? 17 of the 20 highest peaks in the United States 11 (are located) in Alaska. 12 The only capital city in the United States that is accessible by boat or plane only, Juneau, the capital of Alaska, attracts tourists.