READING AND WRITING SECTION PRACTICE 1
1 The words below appear in the text in Exercise 2. Find the words and guess their meanings. Use a dictionary to check your guesses. 1.uninhabited ……………………
4. uncover ……………………
2.challenge ……………………
5. heights ……………………
3.pattern ……………………
2 Read the text and copy and complete the chart. Alone Against Nature Ed Stafford enjoys
taking risks and has done many daring things in his life. He has even
broken a record – he was the first man to walk the length of the Amazon River. It took
him more than two years and he received the European Explorer of the Year award in
2011. In 2012, Stafford went to an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean for 60 days.
He had no food, no water and no clothes! All he had were some basic medical supplies,
an emergency satellite phone and a camera. During his experiences, Stafford has also
done some very unusual things, like eating spider monkeys and wearing a grass skirt!
Now, Stafford is back with a new TV series. It begins next week at 8.00 pm on the
Discovery Channel and it will amaze you.
The series is called
Into the Unknown . It is a “mission to explain the unexplained” and in
it, Stafford will be travelling to some of the world’s most isolated spots. In the series,
Stafford is going to choose each destination after seeing a satellite image of it and trying
to decipher strange markings and patterns in the image. He will only have hours to
prepare for each journey, and then he’ll set off to uncover the truth behind the markings
and patterns.
In the first episode, we will be following Ed as he tries to find the cause of some
mysterious white lines covering an uninhabited swamp on Kimaam Island in West Papua.
This could be dangerous, because the region is known for cannibalism and black magic.
A group of travelling missionaries will accompany Stafford, but he is going to enter the
swamp alone. The mystery and suspense will reach new heights as we find out that the
swamp actually isn’t uninhabited. What will Ed discover and how will he survive this
new adventure? Don’t forget to turn on your TV at 8.00 this Thursday and you’ll find out!
Name:
Holds record for:
Award:
Another survival
experience:
Channel showing the
new series:
Name of the new
series:
Theme of series: