Test Your Vocabulary Skills. Иванова Ю.В - 20 стр.

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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
– 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.