SELF-ASSESSMENT TEST
UPPER INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED: LEVELS 6 to 7
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Late (1).................... evening in 1973, on the Palamino River in Arkansas, Kelvin Parker and Chuck Hickson were quietly fishing. Then they saw (2)..................... What they saw was a spaceship. Oblong. Egg-shaped. Kind of shaped (3).................... a fish. It came over the water and landed on the bank behind them. It had a pulsating blue light. Two creatures got out, buzzing, (4).................... pointed ears, crab claws. eye slits, holes in the middle of the face, one-legged. Parker fainted.
The creatures dragged the two men (5).................... board the spaceship, examined them, and returned them unharmed to the river (6).................... .
The men then went to the sheriff's office. Sheriff Fred Diamond of Palamino City was at (7).................... sceptical. He locked them in a bugged (8)..................... Parker fell to his (9).................... and started to pray. The sheriff was convinced. "If these two men are lying, they (10)..................... be in Hollywood," he said.
The same night, UFO (11).................... were reported from several places near Palamino. A service station attendant reported to police a flashing blue light he had seen in the sky. A radio station weather-caster reported his radar was blacked (12)....................
Investigators flew (13)..................... from the Universities of Chicago and California. They were soon convinced that this was a non-terrestrial occurrence. The scientists hypnotised both men and made them live (14)....................the experience again.
Soon, Palamino City, (15).. ....................... 30,000, was the focal (16).................... of national attention. Sheriff Diamond was receiving 2,000 telephone calls a day. The mayor was interviewed (17).................... national network television. The town's hotels and bars were full of newspapermen. One reporter asked (18).................... if he believed the story. He got the answer, "Hell, I don't know. But I can tell you this one sells. It's selling us (19).................... down here, and it'll sell your newspaper for you (20)...................., shouldn't wonder."
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