Стр.GV8 Grammar & Vocabulary ГДЗ Starlight Баранова 9 класс
Text completion A salt desert It was unlike any place on Earth. As I looked out over the incredible landscape, it was almost impossible 1) to tell where the clouds ended and the ground began.
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A salt desert
It was unlike any place on Earth. As I looked out over the incredible landscape, it was almost impossible 1) to tell where the clouds ended and the ground began. As I took a few steps forward, I felt as if I 2) was stepping out onto an alien landscape. Everywhere I looked, tourists 3) were reflected in the glistening salt flats, which are over 3,000 metres above sea level in the Andes mountains of Bolivia.
I had gone there, like thousands of other tourists before me, to see the worldtasks largest salt desert, or the Salar de Uyuni, which cover around 11,000 km2. For the duration of my trip, I was going to stay with locals in a simple home without running water or electricity. Before my arrival. I 4) wondered how difficult this would be, but I needntaskt have worried. My host family were incredibly hospitable and friendly and I even 5) got the chance to accompany them on a trip 6) to deliver salt blocks on llamas to remote villages in exchange for food and other goods! The 7) most amazing part of my trip was seeing the salt flats at sunset. As the sun 8) sank below the horizon, the salt appeared blue in colour. If you ever get the chance to go to Bolivia, dontaskt miss this unbelievable experience. You 9) will remember it for the rest of your life!
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16 Read the text below. Form derivatives from the words in brackets so that they fit the text. Complete the gaps with those new words. Every gap corresponds to a different task (1-6).
ROBOT DOCTOR
There is no limit to where modern science can take us. Scientists are 1) currently developing a tiny robot that will be able to taskswimtask through the human body in order to detect diseases. Its design is based on the sea lamprey, a jawless fish. Scientists say that nothing matches the ability of a living 2) creature to collect information on whattasks going on around it. The robot will probably be less than 1 mm long or could even be built on a nanoscale, and so tiny that it will be 3) impossible to see. It will have its own electronic 4) nervous system, taskeyetask and tasknosetask sensors, artificial muscles and a taskbraintask with microchips. The taskbraintask will send electronic messages to the muscles telling them how to contract and relax, allowing the robot to taskswimtask its way 5) safely through the body. As it swims, it will collect data on its 6) surroundings and store it for doctors to retrieve later.