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. Being recorded for the first time 2. The first picture 3. Revealing modern mistakes 4. Scientific investigations of the waters 5. The ancient origins of the monster 6. Loch Ness tours 7. Increasing popularity in the media 8. No scientific confirmation A. The Loch Ness Monster is a mythical animal that, according to the legend lives in Loch Ness, a large freshwater lake near Inverness, Scotland. Although accounts of an aquatic beast living in the lake date back 1,500 years, all efforts to find any credible evidence of the animal have failed. However, scholars of the Loch Ness Monster find a dozen references to "Nessie" in Scottish history, dating back to around 500 AD, when local Picts carved a strange aquatic creature into standing stones near Loch Ness. B.The earliest written reference to a monster in Loch Ness is a 7th-century biography of Saint Columba, the Irish missionary who introduced Christianity to Scotland. In 565 AD, according to the biographer, St. Columba was on his way to visit the king of the northern Picts near Inverness when he stopped at Loch Ness to confront a beast that had been killing people in the lake. C.On May 2, 1933, the Inverness Courier reported that a local couple claimed to have seen an enormous animal. The story of the Loch Ness Monster became a media phenomenon, with London newspapers sending correspondents to Scotland and a circus offering a 20,000 pound reward for the capture of the beast. London's Daily Mail newspaper hired big-game hunter Marmaduke Wetherell to capture "Nessie". After a few days searching the loch, Wetherell reported finding footprints of a large four-legged animal. In response, the Daily Mail carried the dramatic headline: "Monster of Loch Ness is not a legend but a fact". D.In 1934, a famous photograph, Robert Wilson, showed a dinosaur-like creature with a long neck emerging out of the water, leading some to speculate that the beast was a survivor of the long-extinct plesiosaurs. The aquatic plesiosaurs were thought to have died off with the rest of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. E.However, the theory that the Loch Ness monster is a plesiosaur does not hold water. Loch Ness was frozen during recent ice ages, however, so this creature would have had to have made its way up the River Ness from the sea in the past 10,000 years. And the plesiosaurs, believed to be cold-blooded, would not long survive in the frigid waters of Loch Ness. More likely, others suggested, it was an archetype, a primitive whale with a serpentine neck that is thought to have been extinct for 18 million years. Sceptics argued that people who saw "Nessie" were mistaken. F. Amateur investigators kept an almost constant vigil, and in the 1960s several British universities launched expeditions to Loch Ness, using sonar to search the deep. Nothing conclusive was found, but in each expedition the sonar operators detected large, moving underwater objects they could not explain. In 1975, Boston's Academy of Applied Science combined sonar and underwater photography in an expedition to Loch Ness. A photo showed the giant flipper of a plesiosaur-like creature. Further sonar expeditions in the 1980s and 1990s resulted in interesting but unconvincing readings. G. Many more photos have been taken over the years, but have since been discredited as fakes. In 2007, Gordon Holmes, a lab technician, filmed what he claimed was the Loch Ness monster, but a marine biologist said it was more likely to have been an otter, seal or water bird. Then, in 2011, a boat captain on the Loch Ness photographed a sonar image of a 4.9 foot wide object which appeared to follow his boat for several minutes, but just a year later this was discovered to be a bloom of algae.

Задание

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. Being recorded for the first time

2. The first picture

3. Revealing modern mistakes

4. Scientific investigations of the waters

5. The ancient origins of the monster

6. Loch Ness tours

7. Increasing popularity in the media

8. No scientific confirmation

A. The Loch Ness Monster is a mythical animal that, according to the legend lives in Loch Ness, a large freshwater lake near Inverness, Scotland. Although accounts of an aquatic beast living in the lake date back 1,500 years, all efforts to find any credible evidence of the animal have failed. However, scholars of the Loch Ness Monster find a dozen references to "Nessie" in Scottish history, dating back to around 500 AD, when local Picts carved a strange aquatic creature into standing stones near Loch Ness.

B. The earliest written reference to a monster in Loch Ness is a 7th-century biography of Saint Columba, the Irish missionary who introduced Christianity to Scotland. In 565 AD, according to the biographer, St. Columba was on his way to visit the king of the northern Picts near Inverness when he stopped at Loch Ness to confront a beast that had been killing people in the lake.

C. On May 2, 1933, the Inverness Courier reported that a local couple claimed to have seen an enormous animal. The story of the Loch Ness Monster became a media phenomenon, with London newspapers sending correspondents to Scotland and a circus offering a 20,000 pound reward for the capture of the beast. London's Daily Mail newspaper hired big-game hunter Marmaduke Wetherell to capture "Nessie". After a few days searching the loch, Wetherell reported finding footprints of a large four-legged animal. In response, the Daily Mail carried the dramatic headline: "Monster of Loch Ness is not a legend but a fact".

D. In 1934, **** a famous photograph, Robert Wilson, showed a dinosaur-like creature with a long neck emerging out of the water, leading some to speculate that the beast was a survivor of the long-extinct plesiosaurs. The aquatic plesiosaurs were thought to have died off with the rest of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

E. However, the theory that the Loch Ness monster is a plesiosaur does not hold water. Loch Ness was frozen during recent ice ages, however, so this creature would have had to have made its way up the River Ness from the sea in the past 10,000 years. And the plesiosaurs, believed to be cold-blooded, would not long survive in the frigid waters of Loch Ness. More likely, others suggested, it was an archetype, a primitive whale with a serpentine neck that is thought to have been extinct for 18 million years. Sceptics argued that people who saw "Nessie" were mistaken.

F. Amateur investigators kept an almost constant vigil, and in the 1960s several British universities launched expeditions to Loch Ness, using sonar to search the deep. Nothing conclusive was found, but in each expedition the sonar operators detected large, moving underwater objects they could not explain. In 1975, Boston's Academy of Applied Science combined sonar and underwater photography in an expedition to Loch Ness. A photo showed the giant flipper of a plesiosaur-like creature. Further sonar expeditions in the 1980s and 1990s resulted in interesting but unconvincing readings.

G. Many more photos have been taken over the years, but have since been discredited as fakes. In 2007, Gordon Holmes, a lab technician, filmed what he claimed was the Loch Ness monster, but a marine biologist said it was more likely to have been an otter, seal or water bird. Then, in 2011, a boat captain on the Loch Ness photographed a sonar image of a 4.9 foot wide object which appeared to follow his boat for several minutes, but just a year later this was discovered to be a bloom of algae.

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