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) ______ where the clouds ended and the ground began. As I took a few steps forward, I felt as if I 2) ______ onto an alien landscape. Everywhere I looked, tourists 3) ______ 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 world’s 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) ______ how difficult this would be, but I needn’t have worried. My host family were incredibly hospitable and friendly and I even 5) ______ the chance to accompany them on a trip 6) ______ salt blocks on llamas to remote villages in exchange for food and other goods! The 7) ______ part of my trip was seeing the salt flats at sunset. As the sun 8) ______ below the horizon, the salt appeared blue in colour. If you ever get the chance to go to Bolivia, don’t miss this unbelievable experience. You 9) ______ it for the rest of your life!

16. Word formation

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) ______ developing a tiny robot that will be able to ‘swim’ 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) ______ to collect information on what’s 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) ______ to see. It will have its own electronic 4) ______ system, ‘eye’ and ‘nose’ sensors, artificial muscles and a ‘brain’ with microchips. The ‘brain’ will send electronic messages to the muscles telling them how to contract and relax, allowing the robot to ‘swim’ its way 5) ______ through the body. As it swims, it will collect data on its 6) ______ and store it for doctors to retrieve later.