Task 1. Используйте слова в скобках для образования предложений в Past Simple. Обратите внимание, в какой форме должно стоять предложение (утвердительной, вопросительной или отрицательной). 1. Alice (not have) a sister. 2. Her sister’s name (to be) Ann. 3. they the flowers every 3 days? (to water)

1. Not stated

2. False (He heard the riverboat workers call out the words "mark twain!"...Later he used this word combination as a pen-name.)

3. Not stated

4. True (...Mark Twain used the language of a common, uneducated person to tell the story; no writer had ever done that before.)

5. False (He started writing in 1876, but put the story away after about two years of work. He returned to it in 1883...)

6. True (Some critics praised its realism and honesty but the others strongly disliked it. )

7. False (In 1935 Ernest Hemingway wrote: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn.')

8. True (...the novel ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ was a great inspiration for film producers – more than 20 screen versions of the book have been shot not only in America but in Europe, Russia and Japan.)

Life on the tiny Carribean island of Antigua has been the same for centuries. The few hundred inhabitants of the island (1) have always lived a quiet life, growing their own vegetables and catching fish. This nearly (2) changed, however, when a group of hotel developers (3) visited the island. They (4) offered to buy the houses and land of the locals so as to build a huge resort. The Antiguans (5) refused to sell. When the hotel developers (6) realised that the islanders wouldn't change their minds, they (7) left and the Antiguans (8) have enjoyed their peaceful lifestyle ever since.