Кто чем сможет! 1. fill in the gaps with one of the four options below. dugongs: mermaids or danger? long ago, sailors returning home from their sea voyages (1) tales of wild monsters and beautiful mermaids – creatures who were half women, half fish. today most scientists believe the myth of mermaids was inspired by a marine mammal (2) the dugong. the name of the scientific order to which they belong – sirenia – was taken from the word “siren”. a siren is an imaginary sea creature that (3) a woman. sailors believed a siren’s song (4) anyone hearing it to jump overboard and possibly drown. in reality, dugongs are far from dangerous. dugongs eat sea grass that grows in shallow water along coastlines in (5) pacific and indian oceans. their feeding style gives dugongs their more common nickname: sea cow. 1. a) said b) spoke c) talked d) told 2. a) called b) call c) calls d) was called 3. is looking like b) looks c) looks like d) looks at 4. a) would cause b) caused c) cause d) will cause 5 a) a b)- c) the d) an 2. read the text below and look carefully at each line. three of the lines are correct, and the others have a word which should not be there. put a tick () if the line is correct or write down the odd word. • the first is done for you. it just happened on one day. we woke up and everything was purple: 1. the people, the animals, everything you could see, even the sea and the sky. 2. we looked in the amazement. were we dreaming? was everything really 3. purple? at first it seemed strange, then it seemed funny, even the king 4. and queen were purple, but no one could explain what had happened. although 5. the scientists did tests and argued about the results for months, they couldn’t 6. find the answer to the mystery. as time went by it was got boring in our purple 7. world. we had sat down to eat our purple food, looking at the purple faces 8. across the table. at the school, our purple teacher taught a class of purple 9. children, who has came to school on their purple bikes. one day we saw a 10. strange bird – it was yellow, so yellow it hurt our eyes. we were all so been used to violet. 11. the bird flew down to rest on a tree and the tree turned back on to its old 12. colour with the green leaves. slowly the grass under the tree became green again.