Английский ЕГЭ - банк заданий - страница 388
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The largest island ______ to as the Mainland, though the Vikings knew it as Hrossey. Orkney is full of Norse names, and every map is a poem: Bay of Skaill, Water of the Wicks, Candle of the Sneuk. (REFER)
The Vikings, settling in the late eighth century, ______ the islands covered in prehistoric sites. (FIND)
The Orkneyinga Saga, an Icelandic text, tells the story of a raiding party, ______ out by a snowstorm. They took shelter in what they called Orkahaugr, a Neolithic burial mound and there, in the dark of the dead-house, two of the warriors lost their minds. (CATCH)
Orkahaugr is famous ______ days as a popular visitor attraction. You can go inside the stone chamber and see Viking graffiti carved on the ancient walls — a dragon, a serpent, a forest of runes. (THIS)
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Where Santa lives
Rovaniemi — the administrative and commercial capital of Lapland, Finland’s province — wasn’t much of a tourist destination before Santa Claus came to town. Lapland ________ as a sort of home base for Santa Claus in the European tradition ever since 1927, when a Finnish journalist proclaimed to know the secret of Santa’s hometown. (SERVE)
Santa used the ear-like mountains, he explained, to eavesdrop on the ________ of the world and decide if they were being naughty or nice. (CHILD)
Santa’s home later moved over 225 miles south to Rovaniemi, thanks to an American visitor. During World War II, Germans burned Rovaniemi to the ground, ________ Lapland’s capital city in ruins. (LEAVE)