Английский ЕГЭ - банк заданий - страница 146

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Mysterious places in Russia

Russia has a lot of mysterious places. One of them is Karandash, which means a pencil in Russian. It is a small mountain in the southern Urals. Despite being only 610 metres tall, it is very important for scientists because it holds the title of being the __________________ mountain in the world. (OLD)

It __________________ to be about 4.2 billion years old whereas our planet is about 4.75 billion years old. (BELIEVE)

So far, scientists __________________ some interesting minerals in Karandash which prove that this mountain used to be a part of the supercontinent that existed 2 billion years ago. Another place is Manpupunyor. It may be hard to pronounce the name of this mysterious plateau, but this place is one of the top attractions of Russia for curious tourists. (FIND)

The name of the plateau is translated from a local language as The Small Mountain of Idols. Six rock formations from 30 to 42 meters tall stand in a row, while the __________________ one stands alone. (SEVEN)

According to a legend, __________________ seven rocks were giant men who wanted to conquer the locals. (THIS)

However, they __________________ into stones by a shaman ages ago. (TURN)

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From the history of libraries

The first libraries appeared in around 2600 BC in Sumer. There were no paper books at that time – people used clay tablets. They were stored in __________________ in special rooms. (CONTAIN)

Such rooms were __________________ located in temples. (USUAL)

However, more and more information needed to be stored, that is why people decided they needed separate __________________ for the clay tablets and later for manuscripts. (BUILD)

Around 500 BC libraries stored not only __________________ orders and records, but also works on mathematics, history, astronomy, philosophy and medicine. (GOVERN)