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Write the appropriate ending to the story given below.after Somerset Maugham I suppose every family has a black sheep. Tom had been a sore trial to his for twenty years. He had begun life decently enough: he went into business, married, and had two children. The Ramsays were perfectly respectable people and there was every reason to suppose that Tom Ramsay would have a useful and honourable career. But one day, without warning, he announced that he didn't like work and that he was…

Find and underline ten mistakes (lexical and grammar) and write the wrong variant in the left and the correct variant in the right column of the table below the text. Текст с ошибками Why Do Seashells Sound Like The Ocean? Its lovely to reminiscence about your beach vacation by listening to the sound of waves in a big conch shell — but be aware that it isn't the ocean you listen. The shape of seashells allow them to capture and reflect ambient noise, amplifying certain frequencies, so when you hold one to your ear, your really just hearing echoes of the quite sounds that are already surr…

Comment on the following statement: «Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference» (Sir Winston Churchill)…

Read the titles of some of the best novels in English. Who were these novels written by? Authors: Jane Austen; Emily Brontë; Agatha Christie; James Fenimore Cooper; Charles Dickens; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Kazuo Ishiguro; Jack London; W. Somerset Maugham; Oscar Wilde. Нажмите на название книги, чтобы увидеть её автора и сравнить со своим ответом.  The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro Wuthering Hei…