Listen to Max and Lara's conversation
Several years ago Max found a top secret document that held information about the history of the portals between the worlds. Unfortunately, some parts of the document were destroyed in the flood, so it took him a long time to investigate the data. Maybe you can restore the document faster?
Fill in the table
Read the text and fill in the gaps A–E with the parts of the sentences indicated by the numbers 1–6. There is one extra part in the list. Enter your answers in the table.
- in case someone from another world tries to cross the border
- so nobody found courage to go through the portal
- we had to learn to predict opening of the new ones to increase our chances
- as they were wearing metal clothes and rode horses
- we have not got enough time to make our own
- that a month before the opening the mountains go up from the bottom of the ocean
The first portal appeared in 1697 because of the severe skyquake. Our people were fascinated by the beauty of that crack. However, it was still terrifying, A _____. The second crack appeared two years later, after another natural disaster, so nature itself was the source of the portals.
Our first travellers went on their expedition in 1699. They were scared of the strange people in another world, B _____. But they found some extremely valuable materials there: paper, water and others. We realised that we needed to establish a link between our worlds to move those precious materials to our world. But the old portals started closing and C _____.
Natural disasters became rare and new cracks started appearing in random places. We noticed D _____ and the Moon becomes orange. A week before the opening the rain falls from the sky and not the ground. A day before the opening the area for the future crack becomes red and starts burning.
We invented a machine for extracting the valuable materials from another world, and the process went faster. But the cracks became smaller with each time. After 400 years only two tiny portals remained, and we left them for special occasions. Everyone, except for the portal engineers, was forbidden to travel through the cracks.
Today our modern engineers learned to open the portals with the help of the moon power. Random cracks still appear sometimes, when the weather is bad. Our engineers control the damage after those random openings. It is our top priority to investigate all of the random portals E _____.
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