52. Choose the sentences with the correct form of the Possessive Case of Nouns.
1. The child's learned the poem.
2. The Smiths' old photo was placed above
the bed.
3. I had a good time at my friend's on
Sunday.
4. Shakespeare's the world-famous writer.
5. Computers are one of the modern world's
wonders.
A) 2, 3, 5
B) 1, 2, 5
C)1, 2, 3
D)3,4
E) 1,4
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The current time differs from the previous one: here is ruled by technology and product is information. no wonder they say that the 21st century is the century of information technology. what only recently seemed new and unknown, it is now irrelevant. we conquer space not in the near-earth space, and sent their research mini-station on mars, is the exploration of saturn, jupiter, and titan. once this can only be read in science fiction books. for example, the ideas of the novels of jules verne, such as a submarine, became a reality in the 20th century. the time has come to realize the most daring fantasies of modernity. man explores the ocean floor with the help of sophisticated equipment and online mode it can be observed by millions of internet users. the global wide web has become a comprehensive space, which united all and all.

Nursultan, formerly (until 1961) Akmolinsk, (1961–92) Tselinograd, (1992–98) Aqmola, and (1998–2019) Astana, city, capital of Kazakhstan. Nursultan lies in the north-central part of the country, along the Ishim River, at the junction of the Trans-Kazakhstan and South Siberian railways.

It was founded in 1824 as a Russian military outpost and became an administrative centre in 1868. Its population had reached 33,000 when it was made an oblast (province) centre in 1939. The city’s importance was greatly enhanced during the Soviet period by the government’s Virgin and Idle Lands Campaign of the mid-1950s—Tselinograd was Russian for “City of the Virgin Lands”—and by the city’s role as capital of a kray (region) that united the five northern provinces of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic in 1960–65. There was much new construction and the establishment of various research and higher educational institutions (teacher training, agriculture, medicine, and engineering and construction).