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    TEST 7. READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW:
    It's 75 years since Nessie was first captured on film. What a pity for Loch Ness, says PAUL MANSFIELD

    Hugh Gray’s grainy black-and-white picture of a "monster” of Loch Ness, which appeared in the Inverness Courier on December 6, 1933, kickstarted a tourist industry. A year later, the iconic picture above set the seal on our mental image of the legendary creature. Everyone from tartan-clad Americans to Scots keen to witness part of their heritage have flocked to the lake shores ever since. And the debate has raged over Nessie’s existence, even in the face if the evidence, that the monster is no more than a myth. Where would Loch Ness be without Nessie? Better off, possibly. The roads around this lovely lake are filled tobursting each summer with cars and coachloads of monster-seekers. So if you really want to see it at its best, go out of season, as we did. We took the Caledonian Sleeper up from London, a wondrous experience that has you nodding off in your berth around Watford and waking up in the middle of the Highlands. Outside, in a landscape of gorse, rushing streams and misty mountains, two stags stood under a low grey sky. We picked up our hire car in Fort William and headed north. Need to know: the Caledonian Sleeper has returns (two sharings) from &189pp. Car hire from Slipway Autos, at Fort William from &30 a day. The Lovat Arms Hotel, FortAugustus has doubles from&85, B&B. Fort Augustus is an attractive little town at the foot of Loch Ness and it has one of the best hotels I’ve stumbled across in a while, the Lovat Arms. Bright, cosy rooms have flatscreen TV’s and look across the canal to the loch. There’s an excellent brasserie, and the piblic rooms have been allowed to keep their Victorian charm, with wood panelling, comfy sofas androaring log fires. With walking maps from the town’s tourist office we headed east along the quiet side of Loch Ness, where a B-road snakes through tiny villages and up into the mountains. At Suidhe viewpoint the trail looked down over the Great Glen, whioch slashes through the Highlands from coast to coast. Trails led off through the pines and across bog land to craggy wind-blasted peaks. In the pale winter sunshine Loch Ness seems by turns as delicate as a Renaissance landscape and as elemental as a Norwegeian fiord. We took a tour boat from Fort Augustus. The 16th-century Urquhart Castle loomed over the loch like a ghost in the mist. The loch’s size — big enough to drain all the water in the UK; long enough to show the curvature of the earth — inspires awe. The captain’s commentary, thankfully, had scarcely a mention of Nessie. That came, in spades, at Drumnadrochit, the village on the western bank of Loch Ness that’s at the centre of the monster industry. At the Loch Ness Centre, a walk-through exhibit describes how early photographs created a myth that the loch’s tourist industry was happy to go alongwith. But there’s no longer any real argument: "sightings” and photograps of the monster aer all either hoaxes or natural phenomena. To get Nessie out of our heads we headed for Glen Affric. The eastern end of this nature reserve is a dense landscape of tiny valleys, hedgerows and stone villages. Walking along the Affric river we followed the smell of woodsmoke to the village of Tomich, where a Victorian hunting lodge is now a snug hotle. The walls were hung with old photographs; the bar had a selection of malt whiskies. Then it was back along Loch Ness in the gloaming, casting — — despite ourselves — a quick eye over the water.

    ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

    1. The purpose of this text is to:
    a) shatter the muth about Loch Ness monster;
    b) educate about Irish country;
    c) advertise the tour around the lochs;
    d) describe the beautiful nature of Ireland;

    2. The myth of Nessy began:
    a) due to her apearance in the loch;
    b) after monster-seekers photoed nessie swimming on the surface;
    c) when lovat arms hotel invented the story to attract customers;
    d) after a fake photo was published in press;

    3. The author thinks that (choose 2 options):
    a) Loch Ness would benefit if the myth about Nessie is forgotten;
    b) Nessie is a blessing for Loch Ness;
    c) It is better to enjoy Loch Ness when there are not many tourists around;
    d) people feel too sleepy in the Caledonian Sleeper;

    4. According to the author, Loch Ness has
    a) flat and smooth banks;
    b) awe-inspiring monsters
    c) Victorian charm
    d) rocky and mountainous sides

    5. Which of the following information about Lovat Arms is NOT true:
    a) it is supplied with fire-places;
    b) it has one of the best bra stores in Loch Ness area;
    c) it was built in the Victorian age;
    d) it is situated at the foot of Loch Ness;

    6. Western bank of the Loch is NOT:
    a) unusually curved;
    b) the main attraction of tourism based on the myth about Nessy;
    c) offers museums of artefacts connected with Nessie;
    d) the home to village Drumnadrochit;
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