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1. You _____________(always/be) my best friend, I can always count on your help.
2. Jack _______________(not/play) in the school team this season.
3. I want to buy these apples. They_____________(look) nice.
4. __________________(you/ever/be) to the USA?
5. The library ______________(open) at 10 and _____________(close) at 18.
6. We ________________(not/talk) to each other since last week.
7. Where is John? – He _______________(smell) flowers in the garden.
8. Jane ________________(always/take) my umbrella. It makes me crazy!
9. It _______________(snow): the garden is covered with snow.
10. Birds_____________(flow away) to the North in winter.
11. She _______________(usually/drink) coffee in the morning but today she ______________(drink) tea.

see her taxi pull up. She …………………………….. (can \ not \ drive), so she ……………………………. (call) one to take her to the airport. She was very excited. Julia …………………………….. (go) on her very first business trip. Her boss, a strict woman named Ms Dryer, ………………….. (choose) her from all the other salespeople in the office. Julia ……………………………….. (prepare) for her trip all week. All her clothes ………………………………. (pack), also she ………………………… (get) all her papers in order, bought her ticket, ordered a taxi for 7 o’clock that morning. The only problem now was, where was the taxi? While she …………………….. (stand) at the window nobody passed her house. Julia ………………………. (tell) herself not to panic, the taxi would arrive, she just had to be patient. She thought, “I …………………………….. (give) the taxi another five minutes and then I will call my friend Bill, and ask him to take me to the airport”. Ten minutes ………………………… (pass) and Julia ………………….. (call) Bill. He ………………………………… (probably \ wake up) by her telephone ring, as he murmured, “Hello, Bill ………………………… (speak)”. In a nervous voice, she ……………………. (say), “ Bill, I’m sorry to bother you but I ………………….. (wait) for a taxi to take me to the airport for over an hour now and I think I …………………………… (miss) my plane. It ………………………… (leave) at 10am.” Julia’s calm returned as she heard Bill …………………. (say) that he would take her to the airport.

Once, while I 1__________ (walk) in a park in London, I 2_________ (see) an old strange-looking man. He 3_______ (sit) on a bench 4________ (hold) a closed book in his hands. I 5_______ (sit) down on the bench and 6________ (look) at the book. I 7 (see) that the book 8_______ (be) of great interest. It 9________ (be) a very old copy of early Byron's works. I 10_________ (look) at the old man in surprise and 11__________ (understand) that he 12_________ (know) I 13_____________ (sit) on the bench because of him and the book he 14__________ (hold) in his hands. I 15______ (smile). "It is the last I 16_______ (have)," he said and 17________ (stretch) it out to me. I 18_______ (take) with the words, "I 19________ (be) a lover of old books."

I 20_____ (open) this small book and 21_______ (look) at the date. "Oh," I said. "It 22_________ (be) a remarkable book." "Yes," he 23________ (sigh). "I 24________ (have) to sell it to buy the necessities of life. I 25__________ (have) a hard life and this book 26________always_______________________ (be) a comfort to me."

I 27_______ (nod) and 28________ (think) that I 29_______never______ (see) such a remarkable book.

and ...(to live) with his uncle and aunt after his mother's death. His father and uncle ...(to be) merchants: they ...(to go) to Kublai Khan in China twice and on their second journey they (to take) Marco with them.

Marco Polo was 17 when they (to leave) for China. They ...(to sail) from Venice to a port in Palestine called Acre. From there they (to ride) xamels to a port in Persia called Hormuz. They ...(to want) to sail from Hormuz to China, but they (not to think) the ships ...(to be) strong enough to sail. They continued their journey by camel across the deserts and mountains of Asia. In three years they ...(to reach) Kublai Khan's palace in Shandu.