С ЗАДАНИЕМ! Michael Phelps–Most Successful Swimmer of All Times Michael Phelps, the most
successful swimmer of all times, ended his career after his last (1)
at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. He won a total
of 28 Olympic medals, 23 of them in gold. In the 2008 Beijing games he broke Mark
Spitz's (2) record, winning 8 gold medals at a single Olympics. In
the 2016 Olympic Games, Phelps won 5 gold (3) and one in
silver. His last competition was the butterfly leg in the 4X100 m men's(4)
.After the event Michael Phelps, at the age of 31, declared
the end of his so (5) career. The American swimmer came
back from (6) after the 2012 Olympics in London. In Rio, he
was chosen to lead America's Olympic team into the stadium and carry the (7)
.Born in Baltimore, Michael was the youngest of three
children. He began swimming at the age of 7. By the time he reached 10 he had
already held a national (8) for swimmers of his age in the
100-meter butterfly event. In 2000 he became the youngest male to join the US
Olympic swimming team in 68 years. At his first games in Sydney, Phelps finished
fifth in the 200m butterfly event. In the following years Phelps (9)
the swimming world. He competed in 6 single events,
including butterfly, freestyle and backstroke as well as the medley races. Phelps not
only became the world's best swimmer, but also (10) other
Americans. At the Rio games, the United States was the world's most successful
swimming (11) .Now, Michael Phelps wants to spend more
time working with his foundation, which he created after the Beijing Olympics to
make swimming more (12) among young people. He also
wants more time with his family.

Glastonbury is the largest open-air music festival in the UK. 200,000 music fans from
all over the world attend the five-day (1), which takes
(2)at the end of June. Over the years, the site has grown to the
(3)of about 500 football pitches, which makes it the largest

open field festival in the world. In (4)to contemporary music,
the festival (5)hundreds of comedians, dancers and other
performing artists. Glastonbury has many interesting things to see, including a
(6)stage which is never shown on a (7)of
the festival site. Several films and recorded albums have
been(8)over the decades. Every year the festival attracts
(9)TV and media coverage. The first festival was held in 1970,
largely (10)by the hippie movement of the 1960s.Only 1,500
music fans paid 1 pound for the whole event. Since then, prices have soared to 248
pounds for a weekend ticket today. The(11)from the festival go
(12)to charity organisations like Oxfam and Greenpeace.
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