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      5. to seek a doctor’s aid;                                                                        TEXT VI
      6. to put religious principles ahead;
      7. to be at issue;                                                        Read the text and do all the tasks given below.
      8. to deny medical care for religious reasons;
      9. to suffer the legal consequenses;                                                   IN SEARCH OF THE GODS
      10. to regard prayer as a better treatment;                                        The Kon-Tiki trip was kid stuff.
                                                                              Thor Heyerdahl is off to find King Odin’s legendary home
      11. to rely on spiritual healing;
      12. considerable debate;                                                                         by Eve Conant
      13. to take priority;                                                      Azov is hardly the kind of place where most people would look for
      14. to make own religious decision.                                 adventure. Life is slow in this postcard-pretty Russian town on the delta
                                                                          of the muddy river Don. No one has bothered to tear down the statue of
       3. Look through the text again and give the English equivalents    Lenin in the main square. Azov used to be a busy port. But that was be-
to the following phrases:                                                 fore the river’s channel shifted, leaving the town in sleepy solitude.
       1. запавшие глаза;                                                        Until Thor Heyerdahl showed up. Half a world and more than
       2. иметь право на защиту;                                          half a century away from the route of his famous Kon-Tiki expedition,
       3. нарушать конституционное право свободы вероисповеда-            the Norwegian explorer is pursuing the most wildly ambitious quest of
ния;                                                                      his life. Conquering the Pacific on a balsa raft was kid stuff. This time
       4. проверенные методы лечения;                                     his goal is nothing less than to find Asgard, the fabled home of the Vi-
       5. традиционная медицина;                                          kings» gods. Its remains, he believes, are here in Azov, buried eight
       6. по своему опыту;                                                meters or more underground. Most experts on Norse history stop just
       7. заслуживать уголовного наказания.                               short of calling the whole idea insane. But Heyerdahl, 86, is so confi-
                                                                          dent, he has put up $100,000 of his own money in search of Asgard.
       4. Answer the questions below. While answering try to use the             His dream began when he was a schoolboy. Like all Norwegian
words and the word-combinations studied above.                            youngsters, Heyerdahl had to read «Heimskringla» («The Orb of the
       1. What were your first emotions after reading the text?           World»), an epic history of Norway by Snorri Sturluson, a 13th-century
       2. Can we guess the author’s attitude to the parents of the dead   Icelandic poet and chieftain. The chronicle opens with a careful descrip-
child? If so, find the phrases or words through which we can guess it.    tion of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea and Russia, a land of giants,
       3. How can you explain Emmy’s parents behavior?                    dwarfs, «blue men» and many kinds of stranger creatures. East of the
       4. What will be the decision of the court, to your mind?           Tanais (an ancient name for Don), in the lost city of Asgard, lived a
       5. Tell everything you know about Christian Science movement.      great conqueror named Odin. When the Romans invaded his land, he
       6. What the most important rights are discussed in this text?      led a band of followers across Russia and Germany to the Baltic Sea,
       7. Were any of those rights violated in that case?                 where he finally died, promising his warriors they would someday re-
                                                                          join him in Asgard. «Then began [or rose anew] the belief in Odin, and
       8. What is your personal attitude to prayer as a treatment?
                                                                          the calling upon him,» said Sturluson, who traced the lineage of Nor-
       9. In your view, could school teachers have helped Emmy in her
                                                                          way’s kings directly from him. Heyerdahl’s critics say the 13th-century
situation? If yes, what should they have done?                            text proves nothing. «It’s mythology, not confirmed by archeology,»
       10. How must this problem be solved to avoid child’s death?        scoffs Even Hovdhaugen, a professor at the University of Oslo. His col-
                                                                          league Prof. Gro Steinsland, an expert on early Norse religions, agrees:

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