Answer the questions: Have you read Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the sea" (Двадцать тысяч льё под водой)? Or have you watched a movie? Did you like it? Who was the ship's captain? How did they call a ship itself? Where did they sail to through the Mediterranean Sea? What interesting things did they find under the water? How did the call a city from thousands of years ago? Do you believe that we can also find some ancient cities under oceans? How do you imagine them to be?

Maria Yuryevna Sharapova is a Russian professional tennis player. Her parents are originally from Gomel, Belarus, but moved to Russia in 1986 in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Sharapova was born in Nyagan, Siberia, the following year.

At the age of three, Sharapova moved with her family to the resort town of Sochi, beginning to play tennis at the age of four, using a racquet given to her by Yevgeny Kafelnikov's father. At age five or six, at a tennis clinic in Moscow, Sharapova was spotted by Martina Navratilova, who urged her parents to get her serious coaching in the United States.

At the age of seven she and her father Yuri, who could speak barely any English, boarded a plane to the USA with only $700. When they arrived at Miami airport the next morning, her father took her on the handlebars of a bicycle to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy without any notice whatsoever. They arrived at the academy and one of the coaches checked her out. The story goes that Maria knocked his hat off with the tennis ball, thereby making a favourable impression. This led to her obtaining a scholarship. At the age of 9, she was signed up by a number of sponsors including Prince (racquets), Oakley and Nike.
In 2004, Sharapova became the second youngest Wimbledon women's champion in the Open Era (after Martina Hingis) by defeating defending two-time champion Serena Williams in straight sets (6-1, 6-4). In the process she also became the first Russian ever to win that tournament.

Sharapova is regarded by many as possessing a natural beauty and figure and has done some modeling, having signed a contract in November 2003 with IMG Models. She enjoys fashion and is known to read celebrity magazines. However, she says she does not want to overdo these activities, preferring to focus on her tennis. She is often compared to Anna Kournikova, also a Russian Bollettieri student and model. However, Sharapova, Bollettieri, and Kournikova all reject the comparison.

The girls went along the street and came over to the shop window. They stood looking at the only thing in the window, at a double rope of pearls.
"What do you think is the price of those pearls?" Annabel said.
"Oh, I don't know, I wonder if they are on sale," Midge answered.
"Go in and ask the price," Annabel said.
"Well," Midge said. "But you've got to come too."
They walked into the shop and a clerk came up yo them.
"It so happened that my friend and myself were passing by your shop," Midge started. "And we were wondering how much are those pearls you've got in your window."
"Ah, yes," the clerk said. "The double rope. That is two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, Madam."
"I see," Midge said.
"Would you like to look at it?" "No, thank you. We were just passing by." The clerk opened the door for them and they walked out of the shop.
They were silent and their eyes were cloudy. As they walked on down the street Midge said: "Two hundred fifty thousand! That's a quarter of a million! Have you ever heard of anything like that!"