Задания 19-25
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Pets of my childhood
My pet history began when I was five. One summer day, while my mother ___IRON___ clothes with the window open, a nice canary flew in. We called it Chirpy and it became our first pet.
Soon, while Chirpy was still alive, my parents bought a pair of ___MOUSE___, whom we named Timmy and Tina.
Unfortunately, Timmy and Tina lived only two years, and after they died we ___NOT/GET___ any more pets.
Popular destination
Barcelona offers an exciting mixture of Catalan history and architecture. It is a regionally dominant city and it ___NOT/HAVE___ to compete with its neighbours.
Barcelona ___BE___ popular since the city hosted the 1992 Olympics. At present this metropolis welcomes millions of tourists every year.
___WOMAN___ make up the majority of the city’s visitors. It’s not surprising because Barcelona’s shops offer a wide variety of fashionable clothes.
Bears
There are many kinds of bears. The polar bear lives mostly in the Arctic North, often on drifting masses of floating sea ice ___CALL___ ‘floes’.
Brown bears, once widespread in Europe and Asia, are now rare. The American black bear is ___SMALL___ than the brown bears.
The spectacled bear, which gets its name from the light-coloured rings around its eyes, is the only bear of the Southern Hemisphere. It ___FIND___ in the Andes Mountains.
