Id she … very busy a. was b. is 9. He realized that the police … arrest him a. will b. would 10. I suddenly understood why he … come the previous night a. didn’t b. hasn’t c. hadn’t 11. She thought children … in the yard a. played b. were playing 12. I knew that he … at his English hard a. works b. worked 13. We are sure that his new picture … a masterpiece a. will be b. would be 14. I was afraid you …fall a. will b. would Mass media in Russia Newspapers and magazines play a great and very important role in the life of a modern man. Reading a newspaper you can get information about the events that have taken or are going to have place in this country and abroad. You can also read articles about historical events and public figures of the past. The pages of newspapers carry articles on our economy, industry, agriculture and social life. Practically all newspapers also give radio and TV programmes, weather forecasts. Today Russia can be proud of the variety of newspapers circulating throughout the country. One can find newspapers of all kinds: national and local, official and private, quality and popular, newspapers for children, teenagers, for all kind of fans: sport-fans, car-fans, music fans, etc. The freedom of press has become actual and real today. Most of the newspapers have their individual styles, their peculiarities. There is no need to read all of the articles. People can look through the newspapers and read the columns they are interested in. Russia has close to ninety officially registered television companies, 25,000 newspapers, over 1,500 radio programmes and 400 news agencies—over half of them independent, the rest entitled to full or partial government financing. The Mass Media Act, passed in December 1991, regulates their activities. 82 per cent of the Russian public see television as the principal information source, and prefer it to the press. Radio comes next with 24 per cent. The total number of subscriptions to publications exceeded 61~5 million in 1994, with newspapers accounting for 43.8 million. 78 per cent of Russians are regular readers of local periodicals whose total circulation accounts for 25.2 million copies, while that of national papers is 18.1 million copies. The weekly «Argumenty i fakty» (in Russian) leads the national press, with 36 per cent of the polled readership, and is the most popular among people with college and university degrees and those in managerial occupations. «Moskovsky Komsomolets» (in Russian), a Moscow daily, is second in popularity, with a huge number of subscribers and sells like hotcakes on the newsstands. The respectable daily «Izvestia (News)» is a pronounced preference in cultural, research and business circles, 35 out of a hundred political activist pollees are also its regular readers. Of the Russian dailies «Nezavisimaya Gazeta», «Commersant Daily», «Moskovsky Komsomolets», «Rossiiskaya Gazeta» and «Pravda» are also popular among political leaders, as are the weeklies «Finansovaya Gazeta» and «Moscow News». Opinion polls highlight the most popular TV programmes - «Wonderfield Quiz», «Topic», with its social and political charge, news programmes, and foreign serials. The Mir (World) interstate television and radio company, established in the middle of 1992, is jointly sponsored by Russia, Armenia, Tajikistan, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and some other Commonwealth countries. Mayak (Beam), a round-the-clock radio station, which broadcasts news every thirty minutes, is most popular. Private radio stations—Europe Plus, Radio 101, M Radio, Moscow Echo, Radio Nadezhda (Hope), Nostalgie and others also have huge audience. They broadcast information, the analysis of the most important events and music. The new radio station Auto-Radio telling the audience about the situation in the Moscow traffic and about everything connected with cars has rapidly gained popularity.