Задания 19-25
As old as a brontosaurus
As we walked around the Prehistoric Park in Calgary, I had my six-year-old son, Jordie, pose for a picture with a brontosaurus in the background. After I took the photo, I ___COULD_NOT___ help crying.
«What’s wrong, Mom?» Jordie asked. I explained that when I was his age, my parents had taken my picture standing in exactly the same spot, and I was feeling rather nostalgic. I added that perhaps one day he ___WOULD_TAKE___ his son’s picture here.
Puzzled, he looked several times from the brontosaurus to ___ME___.
And then came the ___WORST___ moment of my life. My son said, «But …when you were a girl … it was alive then, right?»
Barbados
What do you know about Barbados? This island country is located on an island group in the Caribbean Sea ___LYING___ to the east of the West Indies.
It ___IS_THOUGHT___ to have received its name from the Portuguese word for ‘bearded’ because of the bearded fig trees that grow on the island.
Bridgetown is the capital, ___LARGEST___ city and only seaport.