Engleski A - 2010./11. jesen - reading 5.

Task 5
Questions 33-40
Read and complete the text below.
Fill each space (33-40) with one word. Write your answer only here in this exam booklet.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
Mysterious Britain
Melted Stones
Britain is a land (0) rich in prehistoric monuments. Scotland has 60 ruins whose stones have been melted intense heat. How this happened is not certain. Are they the result of alien guns or prehistoric nuclear explosion?
It's more likely that the ancient peoples knew how to melt rock. By fire to a sophisticated design of wood, bricks and stones, they succeeded fusing rocks together.
Stonehenge
The purpose of stone circles is a mystery as . A favourite explanation is that they were used as observatories to regulate the ancient calendar. Stonehenge is, for example, an amazingly accurate one. There are many other stone rings astronomical purpose is much harder to explain. What we do know is that you didn't need a large civilization to build these places. With clever techniques, 200 people 15 and 25 years of age could have built Stonehenge in 30 years. Nobody has thought about these techniques because nobody has ever had We have cranes to do the work for us today. All the same, people will continue to have ideas on why, how and by ancient monuments were built.
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