A He was horrified to find the same sickness. What had been an aquatic paradise, pulsating with life and ablaze with colour, was neay lifeless. Appalled and angered, Cousteau the diver and film-maker became Cousteau the environmentalist B ‘Atright | had often had visions of flying by extending my arms es wings; Cousteau wrote in his dlary. ’Now | flew without wings, On that first Aqua-Lung dive, | experimented with loops and somersaults. I stood upside down on one finger. Delivered from gravity and buoyancy, | flew around asif_in space.’ His divers were having problems with their bulbs {or flash photographs: in the high pressure of deep water they tended to leak around their base, causing them to misfire. Cousteau's solution was inspired. The ship's engineer drilled two small holes in the bases, the cook melted wax for them, and the surgeon injected the liquid wax into them using 2 syringe. When it solidified, underwater lighting, was assured. D_ Cousteau wished to be able to swim horizontally Ike a fish, weightless, and manoeuvering easily in three dimensions, He would have nothing to do with the divers in the standard diving dress of the time, whom the French called ‘heavy feet’, with their copper helmet and lead-soled boots, making their ponderous way across the seabed. Tips * Read the main text first, jgnoring the gaps, to get a general understanding ofits subject matter and organisation, ‘+ Read the text around each gap carefully, ‘* Read paragraohs A-G. Check for topic and language links with the paragraphs in the base text, ‘+ Highlight words that refer to people and places in both the main text and paragraphs. ‘+ Highlight time references —this will help you to follow the. ‘sequence of events, * Highlight linking words in both the main text and paragraphs ~this will help you to follow the development ofthe argument. * Re-read the completed text tobe sure it makes sense. E Unlike many brillant technical men, Cousteau was supremely articulate and conveyed his compelling ideas with eloquence. He lectured equally well in French or English, often without notes, with a vivid imagery in both tongues that a poet would have been proud of F Cousteau took his idea to an engineer called Emile Gagnan, He was astonished when Gagnan picked something up from his work surface and said “You mean like this?’ It was the valve for the ‘gazogere’ 42 gadget designed to enable motor cars to run on domestic gas in times of petrol shortage. G Inmany places fish were growing scarce, and once richly-carpeted seabeds now lay bare. Alarmed, he began a survey, testing water quality and analysing seabed sediments. Everywhere the message was the same: overfishing, pollution, and unrestrained ‘development’ of the shores had reduced its marine life by 30 to 40 percent, Cousteau estimated ‘Question 29: The fist tine of text after the gap talks about ‘the device’. Which option describes a device, gives ita ame and also uses another word with a similar meaning? Question 20: The second line after the gap talks about ‘further joyful pursuits’. In which option dees Cousteau describe an enjoyable experience? Question 22: Before the gap, we read about Cousteau returning to Assumption Ieland. Which option describes ‘what he found when he got there? After the gap, we read ‘about Cousteau's ‘new passfor’. What does this refer to in the missing paragraph?