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- 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. There are (7)_____ five million people in Scotland, and Edinburgh is (8)_____ most famous city.
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)_____.
- 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 19907 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.
- UFO is a 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 has 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 pilot and filmed the UFOs. Scientists studying this phenomenon later discovered that in this case they were simply lights on boats out fishing.
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