1. Use the right verb forms to complete the text.
Moscow is the capital of Russia. It _is_ (be) the biggest city in the country too. More than ten million people (live) there. The Moskva River (run) on its territory. There ___ (be) a lot of universities in our capital. It ___ (be) a political and business centre of Russia too. You can (find) many theatres, galleries, museums, parks and cine¬mas in Moscow.
The Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible (make) Moscow the capital of Muscovy in 1547. It (grow) up around the Kremlin, but in 1712 Peter the First (move) the capital to St Petersburg. But Moscow (be) an important city too. In 1918, Moscow (become) capital Russia again.
2. Complete the text with the right forms of the words on the right.
Norway is Europe's sixth (big) biggest country. It is wide in the south but narrow in the centre and in the north. The centre of Norway is the
(narrow) . There are a lot of mountains and (forest) in Norway. Summers in Norway are not hot, they are (cold)
than in many (country) on the continent, and the winters are (long) . It is very cold in the north but the rainy territories
of the country in the west are much (warm) because of the Gulf Stream.