The Loch Ness Monster

The first ...... story of the Loch Ness monster is in a text from the year 565 AD by a Celtic biographer

• spoken

• written

• told

This writer describes how a man was attacked by a monster while he ............ in the river Ness

• was swimming

• swam

• had been swimming

Perhaps the legend already existed in those days: it has certainly existed for many centuries in ....... folklore

• Irish

• English

• Scottish

However, the story of the monster was not very well-known in England ......... one simple reason: Loch Ness is a very long way from the rest of Britain

• on

• for

• in

Until the age of the .........., very few people ever went to the Highlands of Scotland

• railway

• iron

• gold

No-one else had any reason to go there: the North of Scotland was wild and desolate, wet, and generally cold, and inhabited more by ....... than by .......

• English men; Scottish men

• sheep; people

• people; sheep

The myth became big news in 1930; three men, out in a boat on the lake, said that they had seen a monster. Immediately, several other people said that they .......... one too.

• see

• have seen

• had seen

"Nessie" - ...... the photo is real - looks something like a dinosaur.

• of course

• if

• whether

In 1987, some people used sonar equipment to try to discover Nessie, but they found ..........

• nothing

• anything

• everything

A lot of other photos have been taken ...... then, but none of them have been clear.

• since

• before

• during