10.Установи соответствие между текстами A–G и заголовками 1–8. Занеси свои ответы в поле ответа. Используй каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний. 1. An object to study atmospheric conditions 2. Fear of danger from another country 3. Unexplained events in ancient history 4. Possible explanations 5. Mistake resulted in the stereotype 6. Supposed place to study aliens 7. The systematic study of a UFO 8. Covering up military aircrafts A.The first well-known UFO sighting occurred in 1947, when businessman Kenneth Arnold claimed to see a group of nine high-speed objects near Mount Rainier in Washington while flying his small plane. Arnold estimated the speed of the crescent-shaped objects as several thousand miles per hour and said they moved "like saucers skipping on water". In the newspaper report that followed, it was mistakenly stated that the objects were saucer-shaped. So, now the traditional shape of a UFO is a flying saucer. B. In 1947, a farmer Mac Brazel found a mysterious 200-yard long wreckage in his sheep pasture near an Army airfield in Roswell, New Mexico. Local papers reported it was the remains of a flying saucer. The U.S. military issued a statement saying that it was just a weather balloon, though the newspaper photograph suggested otherwise. Fifty years later, the military admitted that the Roswell wreckage was part of Project Mogul, a top-secret atomic espionage project. С. Sightings of unidentified phenomena increased, and in 1948 the U.S. Air Force began an investigation of these reports. The Cold War tensions between America and the Soviet Union were increasing, and the initial opinion was that the UFOs were most likely sophisticated Soviet aircraft. However, some researchers suggested that they might be spacecraft from other worlds. D.After some time, a longest-lived project appeared. It was Project Blue Book, headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. From 1952 to 1969, Project Blue Book collected reports of more than 12,000 sightings or events, each of which was ultimately classified as (1) "identified" with a known astronomical, atmospheric or artificial (human-caused) phenomenon or (2) "unidentified". The latter category, approximately 6 percent of the total, included cases for which there was insufficient information to make an identification with a known phenomenon. E. In the 1950s and 60s, multiple UFO sightings were reported around Area 51 in Nevada, a site used variously by the CIA, U.S. Air Force, and the Lockheed Martin corporation to test flights of experimental aircraft, or "black aircraft". Declassified documents show Area 51 was home to a Cold War program dedicated to creating a spy aircraft that would be undetectable in the air. The resulting SR-71 Blackbird, F-117 Nighthawk, and Archangel-12 (A-12) travelled at speeds upwards of 2,000 miles an hour. These mysterious planes helped fuel rumours that Area 51 was used to conduct different experiments on extraterrestrial life and their spaceships. F.In the Soviet Union, sightings of UFOs were often caused by tests of secret rockets for the army. In order to hide the tests from the people, the government sometimes encouraged the public's belief that these rockets might be extraterrestrial ships but eventually decided that the descriptions themselves might give away too much information. UFO sightings in China have been similarly provoked by army activity that is unknown to the public. G.UFO reports can't be truly reliable. Optical illusions and the psychological desire to interpret images explain many visual UFO reports. Radar sightings, while in certain respects more reliable, fail to discriminate between artificial objects and meteor trails, rain, or thermal discontinuities in the atmosphere. "Contact events", such as abduction, are often associated with UFOs. However, an explanation for abductions is disputed by most psychologists. They suggest that a common experience known as "sleep paralysis" may be the culprit, as this causes sleepers to experience temporary immobility and a belief that they are being watched.

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10. Установи соответствие между текстами A–G и заголовками 1–8. Занеси свои ответы в поле ответа. Используй каждую цифру только один раз. В задании один заголовок лишний.

1. An object to study atmospheric conditions

2. Fear of danger from another country

3. Unexplained events in ancient history

4. Possible explanations

5. Mistake resulted in the stereotype

6. Supposed place to study aliens

7. The systematic study of a UFO

8. Covering up military aircrafts

A. The first well-known UFO sighting occurred in 1947, when businessman Kenneth Arnold claimed to see a group of nine high-speed objects near Mount Rainier in Washington while flying his small plane. Arnold estimated the speed of the crescent-shaped objects as several thousand miles per hour and said they moved "like saucers skipping on water". In the newspaper report that followed, it was mistakenly stated that the objects were saucer-shaped. So, now the traditional shape of a UFO is a flying saucer.

B. In 1947, a farmer Mac Brazel found a mysterious 200-yard long wreckage in his sheep pasture near an Army airfield in Roswell, New Mexico. Local papers reported it was the remains of a flying saucer. The U.S. military issued a statement saying that it was just a weather balloon, though the newspaper photograph suggested otherwise. Fifty years later, the military admitted that the Roswell wreckage was part of Project Mogul, a top-secret atomic espionage project.

С. Sightings of unidentified phenomena increased, and in 1948 the U.S. Air Force began an investigation of these reports. The Cold War tensions between America and the Soviet Union were increasing, and the initial opinion was that the UFOs were most likely sophisticated Soviet aircraft. However, some researchers suggested that they might be spacecraft from other worlds.

D. After some time, a longest-lived project appeared. It was Project Blue Book, headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. From 1952 to 1969, Project Blue Book collected reports of more than 12,000 sightings or events, each of which was ultimately classified as (1) "identified" with a known astronomical, atmospheric or artificial (human-caused) phenomenon or (2) "unidentified". The latter category, approximately 6 percent of the total, included cases for which there was insufficient information to make an identification with a known phenomenon.

E. In the 1950s and 60s, multiple UFO sightings were reported around Area 51 in Nevada, a site used variously by the CIA, U.S. Air Force, and the Lockheed Martin corporation to test flights of experimental aircraft, or "black aircraft". Declassified documents show Area 51 was home to a Cold War program dedicated to creating a spy aircraft that would be undetectable in the air. The resulting SR-71 Blackbird, F-117 Nighthawk, and Archangel-12 (A-12) travelled at speeds upwards of 2,000 miles an hour. These mysterious planes helped fuel rumours that Area 51 was used to conduct different experiments on extraterrestrial life and their spaceships.

F. In the Soviet Union, sightings of UFOs were often caused by tests of secret rockets for the army. In order to hide the tests from the people, the government sometimes encouraged the public's belief that these rockets might be extraterrestrial ships but eventually decided that the descriptions themselves might give away too much information. UFO sightings in China have been similarly provoked by army activity that is unknown to the public.

G. UFO reports can't be truly reliable. Optical illusions and the psychological desire to interpret images explain many visual UFO reports. Radar sightings, while in certain respects more reliable, fail to discriminate between artificial objects and meteor trails, rain, or thermal discontinuities in the atmosphere. "Contact events", such as abduction, are often associated with UFOs. However, an explanation for abductions is disputed by most psychologists. They suggest that a common experience known as "sleep paralysis" may be the culprit, as this causes sleepers to experience temporary immobility and a belief that they are being watched.

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