Номер 4, страница 15 - гдз по английскому языку 7 класс (starlight) рабочая тетрадь Баранова, Дули

Grammar

4 ★ Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or past continuous.

In 2005, three young men, Chad Hurley, Steve Chan and Jawed Karim, 1) ........................ (establish) the company "YouTube". The men 2) ........................ (meet) while they 3) ........................ (work) at another Internet company. They 4) ........................ (share) ideas about the Internet when they 5) ........................ (realise) that it was not easy to post and share video clips on the Internet. So, the men 6) ........................ (decide) to create a website to do exactly that. In February 2005, they 7) ........................ (register) youtube.com and 8) ........................ (go) online. YouTube 9) ........................ (become) an instant success as it was user-friendly with a modern design. Everyday, while more and more people 10) ........................ (upload) videos to the site, even more people 11) ........................ (watch) the videos. After only a few months online, videos 12) ........................ (attract) more than 130 million viewers. In 2006, the three founders of YouTube 13) ........................ (sell) their company to Google for 1.65 billion US dollars! YouTube is the third most visited website on the Internet!

4 ★ Put the verbs in brackets into Past Simple or Past Continuous.

VKontakte

People first learnt about social networks at the end of the 20th century. While western users 1) .......................................... (receive) information from various sources, the Russian social network VK (short for VKontakte) 2) .......................................... (appear). People who 3) .......................................... (speak) different languages 4) .......................................... (start) to use it, but especially popular it 5) .......................................... (become) among Russian users. User registration was initially limited to university circles, but the site still 6) .......................................... (grow) quickly. The number of people who 7) .......................................... (want) to sign up 8) .......................................... (become) bigger with each year. At the beginning of 2021 the VK website 9) .......................................... (have) 97 million users all over the world and 10) .......................................... (get) the 15th place in the sphere of its popularity.

Вставьте глаголы в скобках в Past Simple или Past Continuous.

Ответ:

People first learnt about social networks at the end of the 20th century. While western users 1) were receiving (получали) information from various sources, the Russian social network VK (short for VKontakte) 2) appeared (появилась). People who 3) spoke (говорили) different languages 4) started (начали) to use it, but especially popular it 5) became (стала) among Russian users. User registration was initially limited to university circles, but the site still 6) was growing (росла) quickly. The number of people who 7) wanted (хотели) to sign up 8) became (становилась) bigger with each year. At the beginning of 2021 the VK website 9) had (имела) 97 million users all over the world and 10) got (заняла) the 15th place in the sphere of its popularity.