Complete the sentences with the following words: books, landscapes, architecture, illustrated, strong-willed, graduate, famous, travelled, made,
realistic, exhibition, spent, life, himself, such, nature.
American Painter Rockwell Kent

Rockwell Kent was born in New York. He studied 1) … at Columbia
University, but did not 2) … it, as he decided to become a painter.His first 3) … ,
held when he was 20 years old, 4) … him famous.
He 5) … much, especially in the Far North , and 6) … many years in Alaska,
Greenland and Canada.He is characterized as an artist by his 7) … manner of
painting and his love for 8) … men. His 9) … show the beauty of 10)… in the Far
North and the hard 11) … of people there. 12) … pictures as “Greenlanders”,
“Northern Greenland”, “Summer in Greenland”are poems of the North.
But Rockwell Kent is 13) … for his black and white illustrations. He 14) … his
books” It’s Me Oh, Lord” and “This is My Own”. In his paintings and 15) …, mostly
autobiographical, he speaks about his time and 16) … , also about the United
States of America.

1. They haven't done anything. Have they done anything?
2. He hasn't given them any money. Has he given them any money?
3. You haven't brought anything for us. Have you brought anything for us?
4. I haven't taken any English books from you. Have I taken any English books from you?
5. She wasn't reading anything. Was she reading anything?
6. He hasn't written a letter to anybody. Has he written a letter to anybody?
7. Nobody by the name of Petrov lives on the third floor. Does anybody by the name of Petrov live on the third floor?
8. They don't have any English books. Do they have any English books?
9. There aren't any tall trees in front of their house. Are there any tall trees in front of their house?
10. Peter doesn't have anything in his box. Does Peter have anything in his box?
11. There aren't any parks in his town. Are there any parks in his town?
12. There aren't any good bookshops in our district. Are there any good bookshops in our district?

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During the czar rule Russian rubles were one of the worlds highly valued currencies as they were backed by serious stockpiles of gold. During the Bolshevik revolution, most of that gold was shipped out of Russia, so the Soviet ruble's did not have much value. It did not matter anyway as the Soviet rules kept fixed rate of ruble. In 1993 Russian government has removed price fixing, but it continues to intervene into currency markets to keep the value of ruble at a lower rate than it actually is to stimulate Russian export producers.

Democratic revolution of 1991 led to abandonment of price fixing. "The shock therapy" resulted in immediate plunge of national currency as former soviet republics continued to print Russian rubles and exchange them for Russian goods creating inflation in Russia and devaluing its currency. Inflation was as high as 1000% per year! By mid 90s Russian authorities announced that they would no longer allow now formally independent countries to print Russian national currency. Russian ruble grew steadily until 1998 when the Asian financial crisis moved on to Russia. Value of ruble dropped four times overnight and has not changed ever since. 

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