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. It took him a long time to investigate the data. Maybe you can cope with it faster?
Determine which of the texts A–E contains answers to questions 1–6 that interest you. One of the questions will remain unanswered. Enter your answers in the table.
- Why were the portals so important?
- What made the portals open?
- Is it possible to open a portal without natural disasters?
- Can the creatures from this world travel to another world?
- How many portals were there earlier?
- How can one predict a portal opening?
Fill in the table
Match the questions to the paragraphs which contain the answers to them.
Click to read text A
A. The first portal appeared in 1697 because of the skyquake. Our people were fascinated by the beauty of that crack. However, it was still terrifying, so nobody found courage to go through the portal. The second crack appeared two years later, after another natural disaster, so nature itself was the source of the portals.
Click to read text B
B. Our first travellers went on their expedition in 1699. They were scared of the strange people in another world, as they were wearing metal clothes and rode horses. But they found some extremely valuable materials there: paper, water and others. We realised that we needed more portals to move those precious materials to our world. But the old portals began to close, and we had to learn to predict opening of the new ones.
Click to read text C
C. Natural disasters became rare and old cracks started to appear in random places. We noticed that a month before the opening the mountains go up from the bottom of the ocean 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.
Click to read text D
D. 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 there were only two tiny portals, and we left them for special occasions. Everyone, except for the portal engineers, was forbidden to travel through the cracks.
Click to read text E
E. Today our modern engineers have learned to open the portals with the help of the moon power. Random cracks still appear sometimes, when the weather's bad. Our engineers control the damage after those random openings. It is our top priority to investigate all of the random portals in case someone from another world tries to cross the border.
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