Вставьте слова в данные пропуски. IS ‘NESSIE’ AN ELEPHANT? 1) _____ huge animal is...

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Вставьте слова в данные пропуски. IS ‘NESSIE’ AN ELEPHANT? 1) _____ huge animal is rumoured to 2) _____ living in Loch Ness, in Scotland. “Loch” 3) _____ a Scottish word meaning “lake”. The water in Loch Ness is deep, cloudy, and extremely cold 4) _____ makes it hard to explore. The Loch’s mystery inhabitant, “Nessie”, is said 5) _____ have a huge body, a long neck and flippers. Some people think Nessie 6) _____ be an ancient species of reptile, called a plesiosaur. But experts disagree, for two main reasons. First, plesiosaurs 7) _____ believed to be extinct; they probably died out millions of years 8) _____ . Second, plesiosaurs were cold-blooded animals, so they could never 9) _____ survived in the freezing waters of Loch Ness, Recently, it has been suggested that “Nessie” could 10) _____ an elephant! One expert pointed out that in the past, Nessie 11) _____ often seen when a famous circus came to Scotland. The circus often stopped at the Loch 12) _____ that the animals could cool down. The elephants often swam in the Loch. When an elephant is swimming, only 13) _____ long neck and two small humps (part of the head and back) can be seen. Might eyewitnesses have mistaken this for a monster?


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тоже олимпиада по англ?)


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