Sharks, a life-raft, to hit, a machine, Costa Rica, raw, the water, hands, Then, condition couple who survived an amazing 66 days at sea

A couple from Miami, Bill and Simone Butler, spent 66 days in (1) a life-raft in the seas of Central America after their yacht sank. They survived in very good (2) ________.

21 days after they left Panama in their yacht they met some whales. “They started (3) ______ the side of the boat,” said Bill, “and then suddenly we heard water.” Two minutes later, the yacht was sinking. They jumped into the life-raft and watched the boat go under (4) _____.

For twenty days they had tins of food, biscuits, and bottles of water. They also had a fishing-line and (5) _______ to make salt water into drinking water –

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two things which saved their lives. They caught some fish every day and ate them (6) ____. Then the line broke. “So we had no more fish until something very strange happened. Some (7) _____ came to feed, and the fish under the raft were afraid and came to the surface. I caught them with my (8) _____”.

After 50 days at sea the life-raft was beginning to break up. (9) _____ suddenly it was all over. A fishing boat saw them and took them to (10) _____. Their two months at sea was over.

Text D

to destroy, cathedrals, the animals, communicators, billion, jungles,

Voices, the moon, present, the world hello, people of the world!

There are five (1) billion people in the world and they live in all different corners of it. They live on the snow and ice of the Poles and in the tropical (2) ____ on the equator. They have climbed the highest mountains and walked on the sea bed. Some of them have even left the earth and visited (3) _____.

The human species is the most numerous and the most powerful of all (4) _____ on earth. How did this happen? In many ways animals can do things better than we can. But we are different. No other animal builds (5) ______, plays football, tells jokes or gets married.

There is one thing above all that makes people and animals different. People love to talk – talk – talk. We are the great (6) ________! And we can

communicate so many things in so many ways – with our faces, our hands, our bodies, and our (7) ______. Also we have a sense of past and future, not just (8) ______.

We are the only species that can change (9) ________, and we can choose either to look after our world or (10) _____ it.

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Grammar

I. Прочитайте предложения и заполните пропуски артиклями, где это необходимо.

Example: I’d like to go on an excursion to the Crimea.

1.___ President of ___ United States lives in ___ White House in ___ Washington D.C.

2. What do you think of Jane? - She's ___ extremely nice person.

3. Mary is wearing ___ beautiful ring today. It is made of ___ gold.

4. ___ beef is a kind of ___ meat.

5. I have ___ idea. Let's go on ___ picnic on ___ Saturday.

6. We went to ___ South of ___ Russia ____last year.

7. ____ St. Paul’s Cathedral was designed by Sir Christopher Wren.

8. I’d like to have ___ hamburger for ___ breakfast.

9. Can you play ___ piano?

10. Will you play ___ chess with me?

11. At ___ night I had ___ terrible headache after I had drunk ___ lot of coffee in ___ evening.

12. Thomas Nixon is ___ last person I want to see.

13. My favourite subject at school was ___ History.

14. He knows ___ history of ___ French Revolution well.

15. Could you phone later, please? Ann is having ___ shower.