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Scotland

Scotland is the north part of the island of Great Britain. The Atlantic Ocean is on the west and the North Sea on the east. Some people (6)________ Scotland speak a different language called Gaelic.

Scotland has many mountains; the highest one is called 'Ben Nevis'. In the south of Scotland, there are a lot of sheep. A long time ago, there (9)______ many forests, but now there are only a (10)______.

Scotland is only a small country, but it is quite beautiful.

Alice Guy Blache

Alice Guy Blache was the first female film director. She first became involved in cinema whilst working for the Gaumont Film Company in the late 1890s. This was a period of great change in the cinema and Alice was the first to use many new inventions, (11)_________ sound and colour.

In 1907 Alice (12)___________ to New York where she started her own film company. She was (13)_____________ successful, but, when Hollywood became the centre of the film world, the best days of the independent New York film companies were (14)___________ . When Alice died in 1968, hardly anybody (15)__________ her name.

UFOs - do they exist?

UFO is short for 'unidentified flying object'. UFOs are popularly known as flying saucers, (16)__________ that is often the (17)__________ they are reported to be. The (18)_____________ "flying saucers" were seen in 1947 by an American pilot, but experts who studied his claim decided it had been a trick of the light.

Even people experienced at watching the sky, (19)___________ as pilots, report seeing UFOs.

In 1978 a pilot reported a collection of UFOs off the coast of New Zealand. A television (20)_____________ went up with the pilot and filmed the UFOs. Scientists studying this phenomenon later discovered that in this case they were simply lights on boats out fishing.

The tallest buildings - SKYSCRAPERS

Nowadays, skyscrapers can be found in most major cities of the world. A building which was many (41)_______ high was first called a skyscraper in the United States at the end of the 19th century, and New York has perhaps the (42) ________ skyscraper of them all, the Empire State Building. The (43) ________ beneath the streets of New York is rock, (44) ________ enough to take the heaviest load without sinking, and is therefore well-suited to bearing the (45) _______ of tall buildings.

SCRABBLE

Scrabble is the world's most popular word game. For its origins, we have to go back to the 1930s in the USA, when Alfred Butts, an architect, found himself out of (46) _______ He decided that there was a (47)________ for a board game based on words and (48) _______ to design one. Eventually he made a (49) _______ from it, in spite of the fact that his original (50)_________ was only three cents a game.