About Myself It is not an easy thing to speak about myself, but who knows you better than you yourself do? I am a girl of seventeen. When I look at myself in the mirror I see a blond girl with short straight hair, dark eyes and a slender figure. I am neither short nor tall. I like to wear high-heeled shoes, trousers or jeans. I think that I'm calm and modest. But sometimes I can lose my temper and become either angry or sad. I don’t like staying alone. My friends say I’m sociable and have a good sense of humour. There are many things I like and some I dislike. I like cooking so I enjoy going round the markets or food stores. I'm fond of reading as it gives not only knowledge, but also wonderful moments of joy and pleasure. I hate lazing on the sofa in front of the TV. I was born on the 25th of April 1985 in the town of Tumanovo where I live now together with my parents and my younger sister. We are a friendly family. At school I really enjoyed studying and did a lot of homework. I was good at English, Russian and Literature. Math and sciences were sometimes a problem. School for me was not only lessons and learning. I had a lot of friends there. We organized extra class activities, took part in sports competitions and other social activities. It was difficult to decide what I wanted to be. First I wanted to follow my mother’s advice and to study economics. But at last I made up my mind to specialize in humanities and learn foreign languages. I will do my best to enter the University. And finally, the things I hope to achieve in my life are: to graduate the University, to have a very successful career, to build the house of my dreams and to find someone in my life to share all that with. 4. Выпишите из текста по одному предложению с глаголом каждого времени (см.: Грамматический справочник §5). Подчеркните сказуемые. Настоящее Будущее

The influence of Islam in Europe even in the middle ages was diverse and versatile, this has affected to a greater or lesser extent for all levels of European society, which covered a variety of areas: household, trade and economic, technical, political.
In Western Europe Islam came just a few decades ago. Up until the late 1940s Muslims there almost was not, or was quite a bit (mostly in France - 120 thousand in the middle of the 1920s). First of mass migration was connected with the war in Algeria (1954-1962). After the forced consent of France on the proclamation of independence of this North African nation hundreds of thousands of Muslims took advantage of an opportunity to move to his former metropolis.
The growth in the number of European Muslims contributes encouraged public social programs high fertility. In Muslim families, the average number of children, as a rule, not less than four. Possession of many children of Muslim families contrasts with малодетностью and the crisis of the traditional family values among the indigenous Europeans. The most important democratic achievement of modern Western civilization proclaims the freedom of homosexual relations, and in some countries (the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Spain, and Switzerland, and a number of US States) were legally allowed same-sex marriages.
Europe was the scene of the activity of Islamic terrorists, who organized the explosions in Madrid and London, as well as the murder of Dutch film Director Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam. While terrorism is caused not only by internal reasons, but the processes that occur within the Muslim communities of Europe. Many participants of the terrorist attacks on the US of September 11, 2001, were Muslims of European countries, where was formed their world view that denies the liberal and democratic values. Most committed the attacks of 11 March 2004 in Madrid were also young Muslims belonging to the second or third generation immigrants. They were not linked to foreign terrorist organizations, though they declared that are the followers of al-Qaida. The group included the inhabitants of Madrid and equal citizens of Spain (mostly of Moroccan origin), who have recognized the radical ideas under the influence of the information that they get on the Internet on Islamic websites. The same pattern was observed in the UK, where the London terrorist attacks on 7 July 2005 were implemented young Muslims full - fledged British гражданами.На our eyes Islam became an important factor in European public life and without taking into account this factor cannot be any serious prognosis of the future development of Europe, and the whole modern world. We see that a significant part of Europe's Muslims did not integrate into the European reality and consciously refuses to accept the Western European way of life, morals and values. A growing number of Muslims prefer to live within their own community, exclusively by its own laws and not even speak the languages of their countries.

Millions of people all over the world spend their holidays travelling. They travel to see other countries and continents, modern cities and the ruins of ancient towns, they travel to enjoy picturesque places, or just for a change of scene. It is always interesting to discover new things, different ways of life, to meet different people, to try different food, to listen to different musical rhythms.Those who live in the country like to go to a big city and spend their time visiting museums and art galleries, looking at shop windows and dining at exotic restaurants. City-dwellers usually like a quiet holiday by the sea or in the mountains, with nothing to do but walk and bathe and laze in the sun.Most travellers and holiday-makers take a camera with them and take pictures of everything that interests them — the sightsof a city, old churches and castles, views of mountains, lakes, valleys, plains, waterfalls, forests, different kinds of trees, flowers and plants, animals and birds.Later, perhaps years later, the photos will remind them of the happy time they once had.People travel by train, by plane, by boat, and by car. All ways of travelling have their advantages and disadvantages. And people choose one according to their plans and destinations.If we are fond of travelling, we see and learn a lot of things that we can never see or learn at home, though we may read about them in books and newspapers and see pictures of them on TV. The best way to study geography is to travel, and the best way to get to know and understand people is to meet them in their own homes.