Задание

Read the text and fill in the gaps with the right phrases.

London, the capital of Great Britain, is a very old town. It is two thousand years old. on the river Thames. There were a lot of villages around it and after many years London and three hundred villages . Some of the names of those villages you can find in the names of the streets of modern London — Kensington, Westminster and others.

There were many wars in the past and people from other countries came to Great Britain and destroyed London, .

. Many ships from other countries came to the port of London and . Factories grew in London and other cities. Many shops were opened in the centre of London. In 1863 the first underground railway began to work. It was very short at that time.

Now London is a beautiful city . London is one of the biggest cities in the world.