10. Language use Task 4 (2013.g.)

Task 4 (8 points)
Fill each of the numbered gaps in the following passage. Use only one word in each gap. The task begins with an example (0).

 

Set high in a remote Himalayan mountain range stands a Buddhist monastery. During heavy snowstorms,

(0)_it__ can be found only by travellers (1)  listen for the monks` ceremonial horns. The walls are lined with traditional Nepalese paintings. And among them are pictures of (2)  legendary ape-like creature we refer (3)  as the Yeti.

This (4)  seem unreal until you learn that, for many years, a shrivelled hand (about the size of (5)  adult human’s) was also on display in the monastery.

I would know nothing about this story, if it (6)  not for the fact that I came on a withered finger labelled `a Yeti finger` at the Royal College in London.

According to myth, the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, is a vast creature which (7)  the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet, where tales about Yetis have (8)  passed down through generations.