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Loch Ness Monster

Every year thousands of visitors arrive at Loch Ness in the hope of seeing the
Loch Ness Monster and perhaps even taking a photograph of her. Nessie, as the
creature is affectionately known, is a national treasure.
The legend of Nessie isn't new; she was first mentioned as early as the 6th
century, when Saint Columba, the Irish monk who converted most of Scotland to
Christianity, stopped the beast from eating an innocent passer-by. However, the
modern legend of Nessie really began in 1934 when Dr Robert Kenneth Wilson, a
London physician, claimed he had photographed a beast with a long neck emerging
out of the dark waters. There have been over 4,000 purported Nessie sightings since
then.
One of the latest videos was taken in May 2007. Gordon Holmes, a lab
technician from Yorkshire, took amazing pictures of an unknown beast swimming in
the lake. My initial thought was that it could be a very big eel; they have serpent-like
features which may explain all the sightings in Loch Ness over the years, he said.
Marine biologists take the case seriously: there is room in the lake for a huge,
unknown beast. In fact, theres room for a whole family of them: Loch Ness is the
largest and deepest inland expanse of water in the UK. It holds 263 thousand million
cubic feet of water, resulting in such low visibility below the surface of the loch that
exploration is difficult.

QUESTIONS
I. READING COMPREHENSION. (2 POINTS) (0.5 points for each correct answer)
Add TRUE or FALSE and copy the evidence from the text to support your
answer.
NO marks are given for only true or false.
1. Local people think the monster is good for them.
2. The stories about the Loch Ness monster started in the XXth century.
3. Biologists dont think that such a big monster could live in a lake.
4. Gordon Holmes is a marine biologist specialized on Nessie.

II. CHOOSE TWO OUT OF THE THREE QUESTIONS:

A. LEXICON. (1 POINT) (0.25 points for each correct answer)
Find words or phrases in the text that mean the same as these given.
1. enormous
2. space
3. old story that people tell
4. most recent
B. PHONETICS. (1 POINT) (0.25 points for each correct answer)
a) Find in the text another word with the sound /ai/ as in arrive. (0,25)
b) ) Is the -ed ending in stopped pronounced /d/ or / /t/?. (0,25)
c) Find two words from the text with the diphthong / / as in hope. (0,50)

III. USE OF ENGLISH. (3 POINTS) (0.5 for each correct answer)

Rewrite the following sentences starting with the words given.
1. People think Nessie is a dinosaur.

Nessie is

2. Why dont we travel to Scotland next year?

use a modal

3. Although it is a myth, Nessie attracts a lot of people

In spite of.

4. I was in Scotland but I didn't see Nessie

I wish

5. No games are as popular as violent ones

Violent games

6. Scientists cant affirm the existence of Nessie because

they havent found proof.

If scientists

IV. COMPOSITION. (3 POINTS)

Write a composition of between 100 and 125 words on the following topic. Specify your
option.

What do you think about paranormal phenomena or mythical creatures such as the
Loch Ness monster?