Номер 9, страница 29 - гдз по английскому языку 7 класс (starlight) учебник Баранова, Дули

9 Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Continuous or the Past Simple.

In 2004, 23-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, 1 ..... (launch) Facebook while he 2 ..... (study) at Harvard University. People 3 ..... (want) a university website with students' profiles, so Mark 4 ..... (decide) to do something about it. 1,200 students 5 ..... (sign up) within 24 hours! He then 6 ..... (expand) the site to include other universities. Mark 7 ..... (face) some difficulties, though. Three Harvard seniors 8 ..... (insist) that while Zuckerberg 9 ..... (work) on a similar project with them, he 10 ..... (use) their ideas to create Facebook. This 11 ..... (not/stop) Mark, though, and Facebook soon 12 ..... (become) the biggest social networking site in the world with 500 million users to date.

9 Put the verbs in brackets into Past Continuous or Past Simple.

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.

Поставьте глаголы в скобках в Past Continuous или Past Simple.

Ответ:

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

Перевод:

Люди впервые узнали о социальных сетях в конце 20 века. В то время как западные пользователи 1) получали информацию из различных источников, российская социальная сеть ВК (сокращение от ВКонтакте) 2) появилась. Люди, которые 3) говорили на разных языках, 4) начали использовать ее, но особенно популярной она 5) стала среди российских пользователей. Регистрация пользователей изначально была ограничена университетскими кругами, но сайт все же 6) быстро рос. Количество людей, которые 7) хотели зарегистрироваться, 8) становилось больше с каждым годом. В начале 2021 года сайт ВК 9) имел 97 миллионов пользователей по всему миру и 10) занял 15-е место в сфере своей популярности.