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IS NESSIE AN ELEPHANT?
1) _____ huge animal is rumoured to 2) _____ living in Loch Ness, in Scotland.
Loch 3) _____ a Scottish word meaning lake. The water in Loch Ness is deep,
cloudy, and extremely cold 4) _____ makes it hard to explore. The Lochs mystery
inhabitant, Nessie, is said 5) _____ have a huge body, a long neck and flippers.
Some people think Nessie 6) _____ be an ancient species of reptile, called a
plesiosaur. But experts disagree, for two main reasons. First, plesiosaurs 7) _____
believed to be extinct; they probably died out millions of years 8) _____ . Second,
plesiosaurs were cold-blooded animals, so they could never 9) _____ survived in the
freezing waters of Loch Ness, Recently, it has been suggested that Nessie could 10)
_____ an elephant! One expert pointed out that in the past, Nessie 11) _____ often
seen when a famous circus came to Scotland. The circus often stopped at the Loch
12) _____ that the animals could cool down. The elephants often swam in the Loch.
When an elephant is swimming, only 13) _____ long neck and two small humps (part
of the head and back) can be seen. Might eyewitnesses have mistaken this for a
monster?