Getting the message across

How do you prefer to contact (1 DISTANCE) friends? Mobile phone, instant messenger, email perhaps? Well, take your pick, A______– It’s never been easier! But how did people get messages to one11)___ in the past? Well, they didn’t have modern technology, but they (2 CERTAIN) had creativity! Did you know that a pigeon will return to its loft, no matter how far or long it is separated 12)___ its home? Or that until the 19th century the pigeon B_____was the fastest means of communication? Since the ancient Greeks used pigeons to announce the (3 WIN) of the Olympic games to the Athenians, pigeons have been used throughout history to deliver news 13)___ wars, battles and even the latest stock prices! In fact, probably the world's 14)___ regular air mail service was Mr Howie's Pigeon Post Service C______. Later on, 15)___ World War I, one particularly heroic pigeon was even awarded a medal for (4 DELIVER) twelve important messages, 16)___ being shot once! North American Indians used smoke signals to send messages. After (5 LIGHT) a fire on a hill, they would cover it 17)___ a blanket and then remove it, (6 CAUSE) a puff of smoke D______. They managed to change the number, size, shape and colour of the puffs and also the time between them in order 18)___ convey different messages 19)___ as 'Attention!', 'All's well!' or 'Danger!'. The messages could be seen from up to fifty miles away! The Indians, however, are not the only ones E ______. The Greeks learnt that the 20)___ of Troy had fallen in the 12th century ВС, by using fires to signal from mountain peak to mountain peak and from island to island, 21)___ the message was carried nearly four hundred miles! The ancient (7 EGYPT), Romans and Greeks 22)___ used a (8 HIGH) efficient system F_____or riding to a 'station' with a message and then shouting or passing it on to another waiting messenger and so 23)___, until the message reached its destination. A variation on this system was a network of people shouting their message from field to field and from farm to farm! Or how about whistling to get your message across? On the island of La Gomera in 24)___ Canary Islands, Spain, G_____, the (9 ISLAND) discovered that whistles carried much further than shouting - up to 2.5 miles, in fact! This system became so 25)___ that it developed into a whole language. Astudyin 1940 identifiedmorethan 3,000 (10 DIFFER)words!

1)Раскройте скобки 1-10 так, чтобы слова грамматически и лексически соответствовали тексту.

2)Заполните пропуски A-G частями предложений, обозначенных цифрами 1-8. Одна из частей в списке 1-8 лишняя. Занесите цифры, обозначающие соответствующие части предложений, в таблицу.

1. to rise up into the air

2. involving a messenger running

3. because one thing is for sure

4. before the arrival of roads or telephones

5. to have used fires to send messages

6. until the message reached its destination

7. which can travel up to 60 miles an hour

8. which started in New Zealand in 1896

3) Прочитайте текст с пропусками, обозначенными номерами 11-24. Запишите в поле ответа, цифру 1,2,3 или 4, соответствующую выбранному Вами варианту ответа.

4) Переведите

26)цены на акции

27)намного дальше, чем крик

28)творческий потенциал

29)место нахождения

30)накрыть одеялом

31)сделать выбор

32)на протяжении истории

33) пейджер

34)голубиная почта

35)клубы дыма

36)особенно

37) средство связи

Keys

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2)

3)

4)

26)цены на акции -stockprices

27)намногодальше,чемкрик- much further than shouting

28)творческий потенциал - creativity

29)место нахождения - destination

30)накрытьодеялом – cover with a blanket

31)сделать выбор – takeapick

32)на протяжении истории – throughouthistory

33)пейджер – instant messenger

34)голубиная почта – pigeonpost

35)клубы дыма – thepuffs

36)особенно - particularly

37)средствосвязи – means of communication

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