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Five sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from the sentences A-F the one which best fits each gap (1-5). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

Can you believe it?  

Ripley’s Believe it or Not! is an entertainment franchise started in 1918 by Robert Ripley. The line ‘believe it or not’ comes from the doubt that people had when they fi rst saw Ripley’s strange collections. 1. ⊏________________ ⊐. He loved travelling all over the world and finding strange things. He took a lot of photos and made many notes and drawings to remember the strange things he saw. Common topics in Ripley’s! were amazing sports records, little known facts about far away destinations and other items that readers of the comic had sent in to Ripley to read about. 2.___ . Typically, it might be something like an odd looking vegetable, a strange trick a person could do, or an animal with odd markings on its fur. Ripley even managed to fi nd strange and unbelievable creatures, like a ‘mermaid’ or a farm animal with an extra leg or two heads.

Ripley took these descriptions and pictures and drew his own images and printed them in his comic. 3. _____ . After that, he also started a cartoon for children and several TV programmes that had famous hosts who presented a variety of the strange material that Ripley loved to talk about so much. He even was the fi rst person to publish a very early drawing of the dog that inspired the comic character ‘Snoopy’ created by the cartoonist, Charles Schulz, who wrote the Peanuts Comics. 4. _______ .

Today, the Ripley’s company owns 35 museums in cities all over the world, called ‘odditoriums’. 5. _______ . One of the most impressive is the museum in Panama City Beach, Florida, which is shaped like a giant boat that’s sinking into the water! Ripley’s also owns cinemas, and many other entertainment venues. They even own several aquariums, and, in fact, the Ripley’s aquarium in Gatlinburg, Tennessee has the longest underwater tunnel in the world.

Five sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from the sentences A-F the one which best fits each gap (1-5). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

Can you believe it? 

Ripley’s Believe it or Not! is an entertainment franchise started in 1918 by Robert Ripley. The line ‘believe it or not’ comes from the doubt that people had when they fi rst saw Ripley’s strange collections. 1. ________ . He loved travelling all over the world and finding strange things. He took a lot of photos and made many notes and drawings to remember the strange things he saw. Common topics in Ripley’s! were amazing sports records, little known facts about far away destinations and other items that readers of the comic had sent in to Ripley to read about. 2.⊏_______________⊐ . Typically, it might be something like an odd looking vegetable, a strange trick a person could do, or an animal with odd markings on its fur. Ripley even managed to fi nd strange and unbelievable creatures, like a ‘mermaid’ or a farm animal with an extra leg or two heads.

Ripley took these descriptions and pictures and drew his own images and printed them in his comic. 3. _____ . After that, he also started a cartoon for children and several TV programmes that had famous hosts who presented a variety of the strange material that Ripley loved to talk about so much. He even was the fi rst person to publish a very early drawing of the dog that inspired the comic character ‘Snoopy’ created by the cartoonist, Charles Schulz, who wrote the Peanuts Comics. 4. _______ .

Today, the Ripley’s company owns 35 museums in cities all over the world, called ‘odditoriums’. 5. _______ . One of the most impressive is the museum in Panama City Beach, Florida, which is shaped like a giant boat that’s sinking into the water! Ripley’s also owns cinemas, and many other entertainment venues. They even own several aquariums, and, in fact, the Ripley’s aquarium in Gatlinburg, Tennessee has the longest underwater tunnel in the world.

Five sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from the sentences A-F the one which best fits each gap (1-5). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

Can you believe it? 

Ripley’s Believe it or Not! is an entertainment franchise started in 1918 by Robert Ripley. The line ‘believe it or not’ comes from the doubt that people had when they fi rst saw Ripley’s strange collections. 1. ________ . He loved travelling all over the world and finding strange things. He took a lot of photos and made many notes and drawings to remember the strange things he saw. Common topics in Ripley’s! were amazing sports records, little known facts about far away destinations and other items that readers of the comic had sent in to Ripley to read about. 2.____ . Typically, it might be something like an odd looking vegetable, a strange trick a person could do, or an animal with odd markings on its fur. Ripley even managed to fi nd strange and unbelievable creatures, like a ‘mermaid’ or a farm animal with an extra leg or two heads.

Ripley took these descriptions and pictures and drew his own images and printed them in his comic. 3.⊏ _______________⊐ . After that, he also started a cartoon for children and several TV programmes that had famous hosts who presented a variety of the strange material that Ripley loved to talk about so much. He even was the fi rst person to publish a very early drawing of the dog that inspired the comic character ‘Snoopy’ created by the cartoonist, Charles Schulz, who wrote the Peanuts Comics. 4. _______ .

Today, the Ripley’s company owns 35 museums in cities all over the world, called ‘odditoriums’. 5. _______ . One of the most impressive is the museum in Panama City Beach, Florida, which is shaped like a giant boat that’s sinking into the water! Ripley’s also owns cinemas, and many other entertainment venues. They even own several aquariums, and, in fact, the Ripley’s aquarium in Gatlinburg, Tennessee has the longest underwater tunnel in the world.

Can you believe it? 

Ripley’s Believe it or Not! is an entertainment franchise started in 1918 by Robert Ripley. The line ‘believe it or not’ comes from the doubt that people had when they fi rst saw Ripley’s strange collections. 1. ________ . He loved travelling all over the world and finding strange things. He took a lot of photos and made many notes and drawings to remember the strange things he saw. Common topics in Ripley’s! were amazing sports records, little known facts about far away destinations and other items that readers of the comic had sent in to Ripley to read about. 2.____ . Typically, it might be something like an odd looking vegetable, a strange trick a person could do, or an animal with odd markings on its fur. Ripley even managed to fi nd strange and unbelievable creatures, like a ‘mermaid’ or a farm animal with an extra leg or two heads.

Ripley took these descriptions and pictures and drew his own images and printed them in his comic. 3.____ . After that, he also started a cartoon for children and several TV programmes that had famous hosts who presented a variety of the strange material that Ripley loved to talk about so much. He even was the fi rst person to publish a very early drawing of the dog that inspired the comic character ‘Snoopy’ created by the cartoonist, Charles Schulz, who wrote the Peanuts Comics. 4. ⊏_____________⊐ .

Today, the Ripley’s company owns 35 museums in cities all over the world, called ‘odditoriums’. 5. _______ . One of the most impressive is the museum in Panama City Beach, Florida, which is shaped like a giant boat that’s sinking into the water! Ripley’s also owns cinemas, and many other entertainment venues. They even own several aquariums, and, in fact, the Ripley’s aquarium in Gatlinburg, Tennessee has the longest underwater tunnel in the world.

Can you believe it? 

Ripley’s Believe it or Not! is an entertainment franchise started in 1918 by Robert Ripley. The line ‘believe it or not’ comes from the doubt that people had when they fi rst saw Ripley’s strange collections. 1. ________ . He loved travelling all over the world and finding strange things. He took a lot of photos and made many notes and drawings to remember the strange things he saw. Common topics in Ripley’s! were amazing sports records, little known facts about far away destinations and other items that readers of the comic had sent in to Ripley to read about. 2.____ . Typically, it might be something like an odd looking vegetable, a strange trick a person could do, or an animal with odd markings on its fur. Ripley even managed to fi nd strange and unbelievable creatures, like a ‘mermaid’ or a farm animal with an extra leg or two heads.

Ripley took these descriptions and pictures and drew his own images and printed them in his comic. 3.____ . After that, he also started a cartoon for children and several TV programmes that had famous hosts who presented a variety of the strange material that Ripley loved to talk about so much. He even was the fi rst person to publish a very early drawing of the dog that inspired the comic character ‘Snoopy’ created by the cartoonist, Charles Schulz, who wrote the Peanuts Comics. 4. _____.

Today, the Ripley’s company owns 35 museums in cities all over the world, called ‘odditoriums’. 5. ⊏_______________⊐ . One of the most impressive is the museum in Panama City Beach, Florida, which is shaped like a giant boat that’s sinking into the water! Ripley’s also owns cinemas, and many other entertainment venues. They even own several aquariums, and, in fact, the Ripley’s aquarium in Gatlinburg, Tennessee has the longest underwater tunnel in the world.