Scotland is the north part of the island of Great Britain. The Atlantic Ocean is on the west and the North Sea on the east.
Some people (6) ______ Scotland speak a different language called Gaelic.
There are (7) ______ five million people in Scotland, and Edinburgh is (8) ______ most famous city.
Scotland has many mountains; the highest one is called ‘Ben Nevis’.
In the south of Scotland, there are a lot of sheep.
A long time ago, there (9) ______ many forests, but now there are only a (10) ______.

Alice Guy Blaché was the first female film director. She first became involved in cinema whilst working for the Gaumont Film Company in the late 1890s.
This was a period of great change in the cinema and Alice was the first to use many new inventions, (11) ______ sound and colour.
In 1907 Alice (12) ______ to New York where she started her own film company.
She was (13) ______ successful, but when Hollywood became the centre of the film world, the best days of the independent New York film companies were (14) ______.
When Alice died in 1968, hardly anybody (15) ______ her name.

UFO is short for “unidentified flying object”. UFOs are popularly known as flying saucers, (16) ______ that is often the (17) ______ they are reported to be.
The (18) ______ “flying saucers” were seen in 1947 by an American pilot, but experts who studied his claim decided it had been a trick of the light.
Even people experienced at watching the sky, (19) ______ as pilots, report seeing UFOs.
In 1978, a pilot reported a collection of UFOs off the coast of New Zealand.
A television (20) ______ went up with the pilot and filmed the UFOs.

The world’s first skyscraper was built in the United States in the 1880s. A building which was many (41) ______ high was first called a skyscraper in the United States.
Some of the world’s (42) ______ skyscrapers are now found in cities like Chicago and New York.
In fact, New York was the city that made (43) ______ available for tall buildings, because one very important feature lies under its streets: solid rock.
One of the reasons why skyscrapers could be built in New York is that engineers found solid (44) ______ beneath the city.
This rock is ideal for (45) ______ the weight of such massive buildings.

Scrabble is the world’s most popular word game. For its origins, we have to go back to the 1930s in the USA, when Alfred Butts, an architect, found himself out of (46) ______.
He decided that there was a (47) ______ for a board game based on words, and (48) ______ to design one.
Eventually, he made a small amount of money from it, in spite of the fact that his original (49) ______ was only three cents a game.
Today, Scrabble has earned a great (50) ______ for its makers.