Задание

Read the text about a famous river and choose the best headline for each paragraph. There is one extra headline.

Write one letter in each gap.

A. Enormous territories being watered

B. The future of the river and its lands

C. Efforts to save the river

D. The tribes inhabiting Mississippi's banks

There is so much to consider along this great American waterway as it courses through 10 states — Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana — it would seem easy to overlook a few pieces. The Mississippi River, thus, drains 41 percent of the continental United States and carries more water than any other American river.

Native Americans have lived along the Mississippi River since at least the 4th millennium BCE, including the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Quapaw, Osage, Caddo, Natchez, and Tunica in the Lower Mississippi, and the Sioux, Sac and Fox, Ojibwe, Pottawatomie, Illini, Menominee, and Winnebago in the Upper Mississippi. The river provided transportation, clean water, and plenty of food, including freshwater mussels and fish.

Volunteer organisations are now working on the restoration of the river. They fight against building factories that cause its degradation. They also attract investors to buy the territories along the banks of the Mississippi and let the river occupy these territories (in order to stop drying out).