Question

Reading
1 You are going to read a newspaper article about a
man who went diving in an ice-covered lake.
Six sentences have been removed from the article.
Choose from the sentences A-G the one which fits
each gap (1-6). There is one extra sentence which you
do not need to use.
Ice Diving
Nicholas Roe has a ge at ice diving in the French Pyrenees.
Right up to the mcment when I plunge through the
ice into the freezing waters of a mountain lake high in
the French Pyrenees my day has been quite normal. I
enjoyed breakfast at my hotel in the little ski resort of
Saint-Lary. Then came a fine walk in the snow. What
exactly made me bock an ice-dive?
Driving to nearby Piau-Engaly along winding roads, I
struggle for an answer, climbing eventually onto a snow-
mobile for the final five-minute bounce across the ski
slopes to the meeting place. 1 Except for my
guide, Nicolas Chapelle, who asks me if I really want to
do this. Against my better judgement, I say, 'Yes'.
I pick up a big iron bar and help him make a hole in
the ice. 2 Deep in my stomach a bitter cold
expands at the sight of that growing two-metre hole.
Chapelle asks me to take off all my clothes, except for
my underwear, and put on a big rabber suit. I feel a bit
concerned. In theory, anyone can do this - divers, non-
divers, even non-swimmers. Yet standing by that ice hole,
it seems suddenly less easy.
I squeeze into the rubber gear like meat into a thick
skinned sausage, then put on the air tank, glancing
over at ski runs full of bright figures rushing past. It's
minus five out here, the water only seven degrees more.
A The lake surface slowly breaks up into chunks big
enough to fill a world-beating cold drink, the rim of
black water growing with each smash.
B I find myself now sitting on the ice, staring in disbelief
at my flippered feet hanging in the lake water.
C This turns out to be my own breath collecting in
mobile puddles, trapped, as I am trapped.
D I pause occasionally on the way to watch the skiers
go past the lake.
HA
Oh heavens. 3
Chapelle says: 'Relax, but stay
strong. You'll be fine. Yes, but... oh, he's gone in.
Masked up and ready, his goggled-eyed face looking out
above the lake surface, he signals me to follow. 4
Water cold enough to kill if not for my suit. And it feels
... ah, this curious sensation. I am not cold, not warm.
I hover in the water, staring at the blue sunlight shining
through the ice, lighting up the water.
Above me, the unbelievable roof of ice, marked now
with a strange black fluid. 5 But I feel free;
ice in a clear space with fish swimming - I see them,
amazed, too. I am contained by water, covered by thick
they're right here - while in the distance a mountain
stream runs into the farthest end of the lake. I feel as
if I'm in space; as if I'm swimming in a huge building.
Chapelle won't let go of my air tank. 6 However,
it leaves me with a sense of annoyance because I want to
twist and turn and enjoy this strange environment. Perhaps
it's as well, then, that he steers me gently here, where I follow
the fish for minutes; and here, where I stare back up at
our escape hole and wonder at the blueness of the world.
Now we are heading back towards the light, breaking
the surface where someone pulls me out. I am standing
on ice, starir g back into the water, barely able to believe
that this is where I have been. And I can think about this
for years. Which is, I now realise, why I came.
E There I find a fenced lake, a metal hut and nothing
else.
F This is irritating but possibly safer.
G I'm afraic of looking afraid, so I plunge head-first,
almost bashing Chape le in the face, and together we
sink, the water taking us down, down.

Answer 1

Răspuns:

Chape îs face and together.

Talking the chape almost basing Hut.