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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) -oninat Scotland speak a different language called Gaelic. There are (7) -aboutbetweenamong five million people in Scotland, and Edinburgh is (8) -hisyourits 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) -iswerewas many forests, but now there are only a (10) -fewlittlelot. Scotland is only a small country, but it is quite beautiful.

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) -bringingincludingcontainingsupporting sound and colour. In the 1907 Alice (12) -movedranenteredtransported to New York where she started her own film company. She was (13) -nextonceimmediatelyrecently successful, but, when Hollywood became the centre of the film world, the best days of the independent New York film companies were (14) -afterdownbehindover . When Alice died in 1968, hardly anybody (15) -rememberedrealisedremindedrepeated her name.

UFO is short for 'unidentified flying object'. UFOs are popularly known as flying saucers, (16) -becausethereforealthoughso that is often the (17) -lookshapesizetype they are reported to be. The (18) -lastnextfirstoldest '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) -likethatsosuch as pilots, report seeing UFOs. In 1978 a pilot reported a collection of UFOs off the coast of New Zealand. A television (20) -cameramandirectoractorannouncer went up with the pilot and filmed the UFOs. Scientists studying this phenomenon later discovered that in this case they were simply lights on boats out fishing.

Nowadays, skyscrapers can be found in most major cities of the world. A building which was many (41) -stagesstepsstoreyslevels high was first called a skyscraper in the United States at the end of the 19th century, and New York has perhaps the (42) -first-ratetop-classwell-builtbest-known skyscraper of them all, the Empire State Building. The (43) -dirtfieldgroundsoil beneath the streets of New York is rock, (44) -hardstiffforcefulpowerful enough to take the heaviest load without sinking, and is therefore well-suited to bearing the (45) -weightheightsizescale of tall 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) -earningworkincomejob He decided that there was a (47) -marketpurchasecommercesale for a board game based on words and (48) -took upset outmade forgot round to design one. Eventually he made a (49) -wealthfundcashfortune from it, in spite of the fact that his original (50) -receiptbenefitprofitallowance was only three cents a game.