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Gina D. B. Clemen
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Possible answer: c. wrote d. thought e. cut f. used

Great Mysteries
Nostradamus is one of the most g. have done h. were i. came
popular prophets of the modern j. watched k. have carried l. have
world even though he lived more than used m. have examined n. discovered
400 years ago. His famous book, the o. have done p. have built
‘Centuries’, contains predictions
of Our World about the future from the mid-1500s
to the end of the world. He predicted
page 42 – exercise 3
Open answers
many important events of his own page 43 – Internet Project
time, but also many events of more
All of these sites have been verified at
KEY TO THE EXERCISES recent history like the rise of Hitler
AND EXIT TEST time of going to press for first
and the assassinations of American
publication. The publishers cannot be
presidents. However, many people do
held responsible for any changes that
not believe that he really predicted
page 18 – exercise 3 may have occurred consequently.
PART ONE these things. They say that his
Open answers Teachers are strongly recommended to
predictions can apply to almost any
The Ghost Ship Mary Celeste situation. Nobody can know for
check these before using them in class.
page 19 - Internet Project
page 6 – exercise 1 certain, but his predictions seem very
All of these sites have been verified at general, and I do not think that he PART FOUR
1. C 2. A 3. C 4. C 5. B 6. A 7. A
time of going to press for first really predicted these famous
page 17 – exercise 1 publication. The publishers cannot be historical events. The Bermuda Triangle
1. A 2. A 3. A 4. B 5. A 6. B 7. A held responsible for any changes that page 43 – exercise 1
may have occurred consequently. page 30 – exercise 3
8. B 9. B a. happened b. for c. disappeared
Teachers are strongly recommended to 1. C 2. E 3. A
page 17 – exercise 2 d. why e. used f. in g. called
check these before using them in class.
page 32 – exercise 4 h. because i. during j. that
Navigation: 1. ship 2. captain
3. crew 4. route 5. sailors 6. cargo 1. good at 2. he died 3. stopped page 51 – exercise 1
7. log 8. lifeboat 9. compass
PART TWO Nostradamus referring 4. will be dead
c. Who was Vincent Gaddis?
10. mutiny page 20 – exercise 1 page 32 – Internet Project d. What was Flight 19?
Geography: 1. north 2. sea 3. coast Open answers e. Who was Charles C. Taylor?
All of these sites have been verified at
4. harbour 5. strait 6. island f. What was Invisible Horizons: True
page 20 – exercise 2 time of going to press for first
E S E M R J S E A I H H publication. The publishers cannot be Mysteries of the Sea?
Open answers g. Who was Martin Caidin?
C A P T A I N O R J L A held responsible for any changes that
S P A C R C O A S T C R page 20 – exercise 3 may have occurred consequently. h. Who was Lawrence Kusche?
C S A I L O R S C X A B 1. war and death 2. almost five Teachers are strongly recommended to page 51 – exercise 2
A R N I A T U A C G R O hundred years 3. France 4. 14 check these before using them in class.
a. What…? The Devil’s Triangle, the
R I E N H A R T E R G U December 5. mathematics and Triangle of Death and the
G S S W O W A M E C O R astrology 6. medicine PART THREE Graveyard of the Atlantic.
A L A S L R M U T I N Y
page 29 – exercise 1 b. What…? His compass stopped
N A C H O S T R A I T I King Tutankhamun’s Tomb working and he saw strange red
O N J I P E S H I O Z R 1. f 2. d 3. b 4. g 5. e 6. h 7. a
page 40 – exercise 1 lights in the sky.
M D D P L I F E B O A T 8. c
1. A 2. D 3. C 4. B 5. D 6. A c. When…? On December 5, 1945.
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d. How…? The irregular magnetic
field stopped the instruments of
the plane from working. Bad
weather caused the planes to
crash.
e. How…? More than 1000.
page 52 – exercise 3
4 A
6 V O Y A G
11 C
13
A 14
16 B U B B L
19 20 O 21
B B U T
24 P I R A T E
Z D X D
A A
R S
R aren’t experienced sailors. Also, the
E weather in this part of the Atlantic is
page 53 – exercise 4
Listening activity tapescript
Voiceover: Good evening, Ladies and
Gentleman, it’s time for the Mr
Sceptical Show!
Mr Sceptical: Hello everyone! Tonight
we’re going to talk about the
Bermuda Triangle and its mysteries.
But don’t be afraid, friends, there’s
no mystery at all – just a lot of bad
information and media hype. Many
people say that ships and planes
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H E E X E R C I S E S K E Y T O T H E E X E R C I S E S
f. Why…? Because it does not First Caller: Yes, of course. Well, Mr Third Caller: Flight 19, Flight 19, Flight
explain why ships and yachts have Sceptical, certainly an unusual 19! Those planes just disappeared and
been found in perfect condition number of ships and planes have you know it! And you know it’s a
but without their crews. disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. terrible mystery!
g. How…? Bad weather conditions, You can’t say that isn’t true… Mr Sceptical: Well, yes, it is a
human error or poor equipment. Mr Sceptical: Yes, I can. In fact, mystery. But I don’t think it’s very
considering the large area and the strange. It was a training flight and
large traffic of boats and planes, it’s the commander, Lieutenant Taylor,
1 2 perfectly normal that some of them was the only experienced pilot. The
P M 3 disappear. other four pilots were all students.
L E 5 K First Caller: Well, you’re just too It’s clear that after his compass
T L A N T I C I sceptical for me! stopped working, he simply got lost!
Mr Sceptical: Well, they don’t call me And then the planes finished their
N 8 E A D
Mr Sceptical for nothing. Next caller… fuel and fell into the ocean.
E 7 R U M O U R N are you there? Third Caller: Well, I don’t believe that
9 E R G A Second Caller: Yes, here I am, and I’m explanation, but what about the
G A 10 C O M P A S S sure of it. search plane that disappeared?
R A S H 12 P Mr Sceptical: Very funny. What’s your Mr Sceptical: That was a special kind
A O 15 W E question, then? of plane that could fly for 24 hours,
Second Caller: Well, just how do you and so it had lots and lots of fuel on
V A N I S H E D D
explain the disappearance of all those board. These planes were very
E I A 18 planes and boats? Because some dangerous and the pilots themselves
Y 23 N 17 T A K E N really do disappear, and that’s a fact, called them ‘flying bombs’. So, that
A 22 F L I G H T Mr Sceptical! plane probably exploded.
R L S E Mr Sceptical: Yes, some do disappear Third Caller: Perhaps, Mr Sceptical.
but not that many! The Coast Guard Anyway, I’m a very experienced
E T R
says it receives around 8,000 calls captain and next week my friends
25 W H E N for help in that area each year. Many and I are sailing from Florida to the
R of these calls come from people who Bahamas. Do you want to come with
us to see the area for yourself?
Mr Sceptical: From Florida to the
very difficult to predict. You can Bahamas, that’s in the… the… Ber…
leave the port with a calm sea and Ber… Bermuda Triangle! The Triangle
often mysteriously disappear here,
sunny skies, and then suddenly you’re of Death! The Devil’s Triangle! The
but is that really true? I say it isn’t.
in a tornado or a small hurricane. Graveyard of the Atlantic! I may be
What do you say? Here’s our first
They’re very common. sceptical, but I’m not mad! Sceptical
caller.
Second Caller: Perhaps you’re right, yes, but mad, no… sceptical yes, but
First Caller: Hi, I’m Karen Osgood
but I prefer the stories about UFOs mad, no. Well, this is Mr Sceptical
and…
and aliens from outer space! saying goodbye for now, and don’t
Mr Sceptical: I don’t believe that’s
Goodbye! believe anything you hear!
your real name.
Mr Sceptical: We have time for one 1. B 2. A 3. C 4. C 5. A
First Caller: What?
more caller. Good evening, you’re on
Mr Sceptical: Mr Sceptical doesn’t
the air.
believe anything… I’m only joking!
Please continue…
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PART FIVE – Cursed Objects page 65 – exercise 2 page 78 – exercise 3 10 4

1. B 2. A 3. B 4. B 5. A 6. A 8 G A
page 54 – exercise 1
page 65 – exercise 3 P I U
1. many centuries 2. French jeweller
I felt a strange sensation when I saw 7 E A T 1
3. special occasions 4. The Blue
Diamond 5. to pay some of James Dean’s new racing car. He was P 2 F O U N D H I
6. London banker very excited and happy about it, but I 9 R P T 2 E 3 M Y T H
said to him, ‘Listen! If you drive this 5 A B O M I N A B L E D N A
page 64 – exercise 1 car, I’m sure you’re going to die in it I M E 5 D I S G U S T I N G
a. He went bankrupt and lost his leg by this time next week.’ James just
in an accident. G I S I E
laughed, and I apologised. Still, as
b. She said that objects which were everybody now knows, James Dean F T C C
considered bad luck always did die in that car. I was right, O I O
brought her good luck. unfortunately. Since then I have O 4 V V 6
c. $154,000. never had a similar feeling, but I will 1 P I C T U R E 7 E 8 B
d. Her son was killed by car. Her never forget that day, and I think I
daughter killed herself. He E 3 9 10 P R E H I S T O R I C
really did see the future. Who knows,
husband became mentally ill. The perhaps there are some people who A 11 L S H E U G
family fortune disappeared. can always see the future. After my 6 L A R G E 11 A R O U N D M
e. It was sold to Harry Winston, who experience, I cannot say that it is B G S G A
then donated the diamond to the impossible or just nonsense. O E Q E N
Smithsonian Institution in
pages 65-66 – exercises 4-5 U N U S
Washington D.C.
f. He says that the Hope Diamond Open answers T D A
has brought the Smithsonian T
nothing but good luck: after its C
PART SIX
arrival, the Smithsonian’s gem H
collection grew greatly. The Abominable Snowman
page 64 – Internet Project page 66 – exercise 1 page 79 – exercise 4
All of these sites have been verified at 1. A 2. B 3. B 4. B 5. A 6. B Open answers
time of going to press for first page 76 – exercise 1
publication. The publishers cannot be
1. g 2. c 3. h 4. d 5. f 6. a. 7. i.
PART SEVEN – Stonehenge
held responsible for any changes that
may have occurred consequently. 8. b 9. e page 80 – exercise 1
Teachers are strongly recommended to page 77 – exercise 2 1. 50 2. 9 3. pyramids 4. 3 5. circle 6. 56 7. wood 8. cemetery
check these before using them in class.
1. B 2. A 3. A 4. D 5. A 6. B 7. A page 89 – exercise 1
8. D 9. B 10. B a. How much do the largest stones weigh?
b. How long are the largest stones?
c. Where is Stonehenge?
d. How old is Stonehenge?
e. Where do the bluestones come from?
f. How far are the mountains from Stonehenge?
g. How much of Stonehenge survives?

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page 89 – exercise 2
1 Say whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F), and then
What? When?
correct the false ones.
Phase I They dug a large hole and made a small hill Around 3000 BC
in the middle of it. They also probably
a. The Mary Celeste was originally called the Amazon.
placed 56 wooden posts around this hill.
Phase II They rebuilt Stonehenge using about 80 Around 2100-2000 BC b. The Mary Celeste arrived in the port of Genoa without a captain
blocks of stone or crew.
Phase III They rearranged the blocks of stone to Around 2000 BC c. Captain Morehouse of the Dei Gratia thought that pirates had
form the structure that survives today.
attacked the Mary Celeste.
They also added the trilithons.
d. Nostradamus has become famous very recently.
page 89 – exercise 3 Stonehenge. I had asked myself: How e. Nostradamus called a monk ‘Your Holiness’ and 45 years later that
b. ‘rafts’. The others concern religion. did those people bring those huge
monk become a cardinal.
c. ‘legend’. The others refer to stones from Wales? Was Stonehenge
periods of time. really a spiritual centre for the f. King Tutankhamun was not buried in a pyramid.
d. ‘experts’. The others are all Druids? What wonderful things to
think about! Then I saw amazing g. Lord Carnarvon died of a cobra bite.
legendary creatures or beings.
e. ‘journey’. The others are all units pictures of Stonehenge. I had to see h. Christopher Columbus saw strange lights in the sky when he was in
of measure. it! I drove, of course, but the road the Bermuda Triangle.

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f. ‘eclipse’. The others are all
buildings.
g. ‘wheel’. The others are all
materials.
h. ‘enormous’. It is the only one of
these adjectives that refers
specifically to size.
i. ‘Romans’. The others are experts
in specific fields.
j. ‘river’. All refer to geographic
formations, but ‘river’ is the only
one concerning a body of water.
k. ‘Salisbury’. The others are all
countries.
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Possible answer
I have never been so disappointed in
all my life. I had read about
went very close to the monument and
I saw that I was not the only one i. Christopher Columbus was the first person to use the term ‘the
interested in Stonehenge. Then there Bermuda Triangle’.
were people selling souvenirs. Well,
that was not the worst part. I could j. Legend says that the Hope Diamond originally came from China.
not even walk near the monument k. The Hope Diamond brought Evalyn McLean good luck.
and see it close up. What a sad day
for me. l. James Dean felt that he was going to die in his new racing car.
page 91 – Internet Project m. Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to find the skin of an
Abominable Snowman.
All of these sites have been verified at
time of going to press for first n. Bigfoot lives in the remote mountains of Australia.
publication. The publishers cannot be
held responsible for any changes that o. Stonehenge is older than the Pyramids of Egypt.
may have occurred consequently.
p. Stonehenge was built in three different phases or periods.
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1 a. T
2 Answer the questions below.
b. F. It was found without a
captain or crew near the
a. Why was it difficult to find a crew for the Mary Celeste?
Azores.
b. How far did the Mary Celeste sail without a captain or crew? c. F. He thought that the captain
c. How did Nostradamus’s wife and children die? and crew had abandoned it
during a storm.
d. What events do people believe that Nostradamus predicted? d. F. He has been famous for
e. Who was Lord Carnarvon? nearly 500 hundred years.
e. F. That monk became the
f. How did Howard Carter die? Pope.
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g. Where is the Bermuda Triangle? f. T
g. F. He died of an infected
h. What did the leader of Flight 19 say was wrong with his planes?
mosquito bite.
i. How did Lawrence Kusche explain all the disappearing planes and boats h. T
in the Bermuda Triangle? i. F. The first person to use the
term was an American writer
j. What finally happened to the Hope Diamond? named Vincent Gaddis.
k. Who was James Dean? j. F. Legend says that it came
from India.
l. What is the other name for the Abominable Snowman?
k. F. Both her children died, and
m. Where do people think the Abominable Snowman lives? her husband became mentally
n. Where do the bluestones of Stonehenge come from? ill and lost his business.
l. F. It was his friend Alec
o. What did the British astronomer Sir Norman Lockyer say about Guinness, a British actor, who
Stonehenge? felt that Dean was going to die
in his new racing car.
m. F. He found some skins that he
thought were the skins of an
Abominable Snowman, but
they were the skins of a
mountain goat.
n. F. People think that it lives in
the mountains of the western
US and Canada.
o. T
p. T
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2 a. It was difficult because sailors
thought that it was unlucky to
change the name of a ship, and
the Mary Celeste was originally
called the Amazon.
b. 370 nautical miles.
c. They died of the plague.
d. The Great Fire of London, the
French Revolution, the rise of
Hitler and the assassination of
American presidents.
e. He was the man who
sponsored the search for the
tomb of King Tutankhamun.
f. He died of natural causes at
the age of 65.
g. It is an area of the Atlantic
Ocean in the shape of a
triangle. The Bermudas, the
east coast of Florida and
Puerto Rico form the points of
this triangle.
h. He said that the compass had
stopped working.
i. He said that mostly bad
equipment, human error and
bad weather were the causes.
j. It was sold to an American
jeweller, who then donated it
to the Smithsonian Institution.
k. He was a legendary American
film star.
l. Yeti.
m. In the Himalayas.
n. Wales.
o. He said that it was a kind of
ancient calendar or
observatory that could predict
the solstices and eclipses.