ccc Part 3 You are going to read an extract from an article about a famous historical figure. Seven paragraphs have bbeen removed from the extract. Choose from the paragraphs A-H the one which fits each gap (27-33), There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use Divers in America have found the wreck of the Queen Anne's Revenge, the flagship of the infamous pirate, Captain Blackbeard, It lies on the sea bed, in just six | metres of water, 3 mere one hundred and eighty | metres offshore in Beaufort inlet, North Carolina ‘Around it, half-buried in the yellow sand, ie cannon; a blunderbuss and cannonball have been brought to the surface. So has the ship's bell. I is marked: 1709. 27 Blackbeard, or Captain Edward Teach, valued his fearsome reputation and enhanced it He had a powerful physique and would plait his beard into pigtails, tie them with coloured ribbon and twist some braids behind his ears. Before battle he would light several slow-burning matches and tuck them in his hat, 0 wisps of smoke curled around his scarred face. He wore pistols, daggers and a cutlass in a belt and across his chest he wore a sling that held three more pairs of pistols, all primed, cocked and ready to fire. | Ba Bo] one] In the infamous trade where the slaves were picked up off Senegal, speed was the most important requirement before the valuable ‘cargo’ chained below decks all died, and she undenwent rigging refinements to speed her. When Blackbeard captured her she had twenty cannon. He almost doubled the number and then added more guns on the rails and fixed brass blunderbusses. He then increased his pirate crew to around three hundred. El But with Blackbeard, nothing was exaggerated. He ‘marooned men for real. After one infamous raid, he hhad a large fleet, much booty ~ but too many men, all wanting a share of it His solution was simple, and brutal 2] The Queen Anne's Revenge sank in the summer of 1718, She may have foundered on a sandbank in one Of the hurricanes ofthat year. Backbeard transferred to the Adventure, a sloop of ten guns, and it was on the Adventure that he fought his last batle. Blackbeard’s final stand is recorded in the logbooks of the Royal Navy and the Battle of Ocracoke Creek Extraordinarly, the Navy had to hire the ships to fight it ~ their own. were too deep to enter the sandy shallows where Blackbeard was hiding 29) Ee He set to sea in a sloop, and soon had a fltila of four vessels. He intercepted the large French ship Concorde sailing towards Martinique. He found her well provisioned ~ food, water and sailing gear were the biggest needs that pirates faced; other ships and navies were trifle to be sacrificed compared to supplying a ship when all ports were barred to you. Blackbeard was beheaded and his head was stuck on the bowsprit of the Adventure and sailed back to Virginia. So Blackbeard passed his last voyage, the dead, staring eyes gazing at the sea. But the Queen ‘Anne's Revenge stil lay where she had foundered three | ‘months before. And there she has lain, a playground for the fishes; undisturbed, her grim secrets safe. Unt now (om xe 1 Chapin in Te Day MatA He ran two of his ships aground off the coast of Carolina with their crew, to be rid of them: then forced seventeen men from the Queen Anne's Revenge to disembark upon a small sandy island offshore. ‘It was several miles from the main, where there was neither bird, beast nor herb for their subsistence, reported the General History of the Pirates, published in 1724. They must have died in extreme agony of thirst and exposure, some days later. B The ships they hired had no eannon so they had to come alongside, board the pirate ship and fight hand-to-hand with pistols and swords. By the end of the battle, twenty bodies, naval and pirate, lay in blood on the decks or rolling among the shallows and sandbanks, C He fought on as other bullets hit him from all around, cursing furiously, seemingly unstoppable, His hand was cocking the pistol even as he fell dead, Five bullets and twenty sword-euts were found in Blackbeard’s corpse. D Her size made her ideal as his flagship. He took her over and gave her the new name, the Queen Anne's Revenge. She was British, built of best white oak in 1710, She had een acquired by a Frenchman and modified to a Go hundred tonner operating as a slav ship out of Nantes, France. E They would be brutally tortured, as a deterrent to others. Teach was born Edward Drummond in Bristol in 1680. He left a wife and children behind in London when he departed for his eareer on the high seas. The first we hear of him is as a privateer — an officially sanctioned pirate, attacking enemy ships for the British during the War of the Spanish Succession. In 1713, peace was declared but Teach saw no reason to stop taking ships ~ any ships. F Pirates today are for children’s tales. But Blackbeard was no fairy tale, He was the most notorious pirate of all, and the most terrifying. In his time, he held a whole British colony to ransom. He outlought a Royal Navy ship and sent it running to harbour and safety. And his death, when it happened, was as grisly as they come. Keep in mind then, that this is not legend, but blood-soaked history. G Contemporary accounts said of Blackbeard that he was a “frightfal meteor who frightens America more than any comet which has appeared there’. The appearance of his pirates was almost as fierce. Their language ‘was coarse, their manners barbaric. Their faces and arms were burned by the sun and sea. Many had scars and missing limbs due to battles at sea H They were a tough, brutal mixture of seasoned seamen from ports around the world. They slept in hammocks in shifts 10 maintain constant watch on deck for merchantmen laden with riches heading for ports in Europe and the Americas. Of eourse it is part of the pirate legend that they ‘marooned their enemies on desert islands.Er Part 4 You are going to read an extract from a book about science, For questions 34~40, choose the answer (A,B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.34 Ir seems from the text that in the 1970s A. scientists discovered the cause of unexplained death B physicists were unaware of the irregular side of nature. scientists began to see a way to solve the mysteries of disorder. D only scientists working in the natural world understood chaos theory 35 According to the text A few of the first scientists to work on chaos theory knew about each other. B those who first worked in the chaos field were based in similar locations. C the scientists who first worked on chaos theory met with unquestioning support D Mitchell Feigenbaum was the first scientist to investigate chaos. 36 ‘The writer states that A. every scientist now puts chaos theory before their nominal speciality B universities finance all scientists working on chaos theory © The Los Alamos Center will be entirely responsible for projects involving chaos theory. D chaos theory has taken the scientific cstablishment by storm. noo 37 It appears from the text that A physicists are agreed that chaos is a science Of process rather than state. B chaos has created an impenetrable new vocabulary. © a new jai D the traditional language of physics has had to be discarded, rgon has arisen from the new 38 The text states that A. evidence of chaos theory is all around us. B there is a greater degree of chaos now than in the past G the stress caused by chaos theory may lead to conflict D discoveries about chaos have thrown scientists into confusion 39 Scientists working on chaos theory A face financial problems. B cannot use accepted ways of working, are heading for a crisis, D have had to give up their former methods, 40 Chaos theory has made science A. more disciplined, B less specialised. © more fragmented. D less speculative,