Помогите с английским пожалуйста)) 1)Who is he? a man with shoes and trousers too big for him,and jacket too tight,moustache,bowler hat and

1. The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, ...?
2. You are not upset, ...?
3. The young man on the left is your son, . . . ?

в этом тексте говорится о проблеме воспитания дисциплины у детей.

If you (to ring) me up, I would tell you a secret.

3) If you (to be) a poet, you would write beautiful poetry.

henry brown, when he's sober.
and who is the second best lawyer in town?
henry brown, when he's drunk.

Переведите пожалуйста в косвенную речь, за ранее спасибо!

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David Thomas failed all his math ex


David Thomas failed all his math exams and left school with no qualifications, yet this 30-year-old fire-fighter has just gone into the Guinness Book of Records by repeating from memory 22,500 digits of the mathematical constant.

After five months of training, in which he spent ten hours a day memorizing a quarter of million digits, David Thomas took part in a 16-hour mental battle. Witnesses watched in respect as Thomas set a new European record, earning the title 'Most Powerful Memory in The Western Hemisphere'.

David says, 'My education was very limited. My father left home when I was six years old, and my mother and stepfather don't open my eyes much. When I was at school I was hopeless. I couldn't remember anything, but now I can remember more facts than anyone in Europe. I think of myself as a mental athlete. If there were a memory Olympics, I'd have a good chance of a gold medal.

If they are given random numbers to learn, such as telephone numbers, most people can memorize only between seven and ten digits. So how does Thomas was.

'One night I was watching a TV programme and there was an interview with a man called Dominic O'brien, who had been the world memory champion five times. He can remember the answers to all 7,500 Trivial Pursuit questions! He used to be a gambler and developed his own mental memory aid for each card in order to remember which cards had already been dealt and which ones hadn't. Once ha had perfected his system, he began to win serious money.

Thomas became fascinated by O'Brien's theory that anyone can improve their memory by using specialized techniques. These techniques involve linking everyone to familiar people or objects.

'If you want to remember a phone number for example, you have to give the numbers life. Sometimes I associate a number with a person. Number 10 for me is always the Prime Ministry Tony Blair (who lives at number 10 Downing Street) and 50 is my uncle John who died at that age.

Sometimes if I want to remember a number, e.g. 42, I take the fourth and second letter of the alphabet (D and B) and then think of somebody, e.g. David Bowie. Or if I'm trying to memorize a pack of cards, the four of hearts would be DH (Damon Hill the ex-racing driver): D stands for 'four' and H stands for 'hearts'. Once you learned the system you never forget.'

If David is trying to remember facts he also links them to an image. 'For instance, if I was trying to memorize the name 'Tom Cruise', I would think of his film Top Gun, and that leads me to images of guns and cruise missiles. If I was trying to remembera place name, for instance 'Quito', the capital of Ecuador, I might think of a 'key to' open a door.'

You might wonder what the point is of being able to remember 22,500 numbers. But David id soon going to appear on TV's Record Breakers, and this week he is teching memory training and speed-writing at Huddlesfield University. His fees are 600 a day. He is sure that the future holds a lot more for him than a job as a fire-fighter.

'The future is about finding out what our natural capacities are, 'he says. 'there is no limit towhat our minds can do.'

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How to grab a better iPhone deal
Apple's new iPhone 5 handset may be in the spotlight, but older smartphones and special tariffs can signal great value
If you don't want to pay the price demanded for the new iPhone 5, but still want to get your hands on an all-singing, all-dancing smartphone, you may be wondering how long it will take for the price of existing models to start coming down.

With Apple reporting more than 2m first-day pre-orders for the latest version of the handset, which went on sale in stores on Friday, savvy shoppers are already looking forward to snapping up a bargain older model at a discounted price. The good news is that the big phone networks have already started cutting the upfront cost of the usurped iPhone 4S as attention shifts to the new handset.

Seasoned industry analysts are predicting that the iPhone 4S will be available "free" to those signing two-year contracts at around £25 a month "within the next three to six months". Hold your nerve for at least six weeks and you should be rewarded with a much better deal: £25 a month is considered by some as the price at which many consumers who want a high-end big-name phone, but won't pay sky-high launch prices, can be lured back into the market.

"Prices for the older models are already coming down as retailers make room for the new Apple device, and if you are prepared to wait a bit, you will be rewarded with some great handsets at significantly lower prices," said uSwitch's technology analyst Ernest Doku.

Kate Murphy, mobile spokeswoman at MoneySupermarket, agrees that buyers who are happy to take an iPhone 4S will be in luck. "Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone have already slashed the prices, with O2 and Three likely to follow suit. Two weeks ago someone looking for a £31 a month tariff with Orange for the 4S (16GB) would have needed to make an upfront payment of £169.99. Now it would cost just £49.99 on a 24-month contract."

Murphy warns that those hoping to resell a 4S to help with the cost of upgrading can expect less than they would have received before Apple launched the iPhone 5: "Just two weeks ago, recycling a 16GB 4S with Mazuma would have earned you £275. Now you will be offered more like £230. Owners of the 32GB model were getting £300 two weeks ago compared with £255 now."

To get an indication of how prices tumble, you only have to look at previous models. Apple has been remarkably successful at keeping the price of outgoing models high, but even the US giant is not immune to market economics. The iPhone 3GS, the hottest thing going in the summer of 2009, cost £96 to buy back then for someone taking on a mid-sized tariff costing £35 a month over 18 months. Until a few months ago that same smartphone could be had with an all-you-can-eat data package with no upfront fee on a £15 a month contact. Now it has all but been withdrawn.