2. Light faster than sound. a. travel c. travelled
b. is travelling d. travels
3. My mother five languages and two more.
a. Speaks / understands c. has spoken / understood
b. is speaking/ is understanding d. Spoke / understands
4. The teacher very fast but today he slowly.
a. is usually speaking / speaks c. usually spoke / speak
b. usually speaks /is speaking d. usually speaks / spoke
6. Where is your mother? she
a. comes now c. is just coming
b. is already coming d. comes soon
7. Elias in this company since he graduated.
a. is working c. had worked
b. has worked d. will have worked
8. What since you returned from abroad?
a. have you done
b. are you doing
c. you have done
d. did you do
9. Since the day he to this organization Alex has done a lot.
a. has come c. came
b. comes d. had come
10.I him last Sunday but I him since then.
a. saw/haven’t seen c. saw / didn’t see
b. have seen / didn’t see d. have seen /haven’t seen
11.I the fiction “Great Expectation”
a. read c. had read

invention of the washing machine

in the past, people used sticks and stones or scrub boards to clean their clothing. as it was sweaty, backbreaking work, we owe a world of to james king because he created the model for the modern washing machine in 1851. the most important issue was that this machine cleaned clothes while a person cranked the handle. doing this made people who used it develop strong muscles in their arms. later, in 1908, alva j. fisher created an electric washing machine named thor. this one was not the first automatic washing machine. however, it was one of the most popular models at the time.

the part where he says my friends

when connie willis was 12 years old, her mother died. in january of 2003, willis was interviewed for locus magazine. she recognized that death is a major issue in her writing, specially because the vacuous and appalling things that people tend to say in order to support you when someone you loved dies.

but there is another aspect that i have learned from connie willis's quote. in his famous work "danubio", the italian writer claudio magris describes literature as house removals. some messages reach us, other messages get lost in the labyrinth. those messages which are our inheritance teach us how to live and how to die, how to love and how to hate, how to laugh and how to cry. i think that tales really shape us if we listen to them. maybe through the stories we read we learn how to emphatize with others, knowing that the bells tolls for every each of us.