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Here is a letter for you. - (-) (, ).
" horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare). - : , - ! !
cut himself with a knife.- (-).
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That's the letter you have been expecting. - , .
Look at the horse! Isn't it marvellous! - ! , !
Pass me the knife, please. - , , ().
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From far away there appeared a ship. - (-) .
Suddenly I heard a loud cry. - (-) .
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...The ship was glistening in the sun. - .
...The cry came from a dark yard. - .
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Christopher Wren was a great English architect. - ( ) .
, : - , , , (a star, a river, a wood, a storm); - , , (a city, a district, a port); - , , (a street, a square, a store); - , , , , (a tooth, a finger, a hand, a foot, an eye).
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Leo Tolstoi was in his time the most distinguished personality in Russia. - .
The second World war began in 1939. - 1939 .
. , : The spaceman Gagarin. : Gagarin is a valorous spaceman. Titov is a renowned spaceman. : Valentina Tereshkova is the only woman astronaut. ( )
: - , , (the sun, the moon, the sky); - , (the capital, the population); - , (the City Soviet, the main street), - , , (the head, the heart, the brain).
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My father planted a birch. - ( ).
I took a taxi. - ( ).
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My favourite tree is the birch. - - .
The taxi is a car with a taxi-meter. - - , .
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"Why don't you do something?", said the woman in the hat to her husband in that maddening way women have. I felt quite sorry for the fellow (I. Murdoch). - ? - , . .
Trailing its broken wing, the bird sheltered in the tall grass. - , .
