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что-то, чтобы рассказать больше о своих сильных и слабых сторонах,
достижениях.
Exercise 452. Find and correct the mistakes.
1. In other hand, Sydney are used to be put on team with people from a different
backgrounds and experience levels, as she haves much experience on hers line
work.
2. It no-brainer that Reed a meticulous employer will not to assign these big
project to rookies.
3. Notably, Adam a stingy boss used to forgetting discuss perks on interview, and
his assistant would sometimes to remind his about it than.
4. Actual, Parker a handsome godfather would to pride on be so savvy once on
blue moon.
5. For record, Robin a determined spouse getting used to voice his ideas these
month.
Exercise 453. Read and discuss the facts. Exciting Facts About EBay
 eBay was created by an Iranian-American computer programmer called
Pierre Omidyar, on September 3, 1995.
 At the age of 28, he was working on designing code for an online auction
website originally called Auction Web. Auction Web was a side project,
for fun alongside his everyday job. It wasn’t until the website was getting
too much traffic that he decided to launch as a business and re-branding it
as eBay.
 The first item to be sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer. The
broken laser pointer was an item laying around Omidyar’s house, that he
thought he would use to test out the site. In the first week, he listed it as
$1 and to no surprise, it didn’t sell. So he listed it again for the same price
for a second week. This time a bidding war took off and it sold for $14.83.
He contacted the seller to check that they realized what they had bid on,
and it turned out they were a collector of broken laser pens!
 Thanks to eBay, a new species was discovered. In 2006 a type of sea
urchin was listed after being found in the Pacific Ocean. This is not the
first time an item has been listed in the wrong category, or identified as
something it is not. A British scientist and Zoologist named Simon
Coppard came across the urchin and from the photo recognized that this
was something new. At the time, Coppard was working with The
Natural History Museum in London and was able to confirm from the
photo uploaded that the species was unidentified, making it a new
discovery of sea urchin that he named Coelopleurus exquisitus.

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