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    1) Over 110 years ago, Sofia Nielsen wrote a message in a bottle and threw it into the North Sea while walking along the seaside. 2) Last week, a Danish fisherman discovered Nielsen's bottle, the oldest message in a bottle ever found. 3) Historians at a museum where the fisherman brought the bottle discovered Nielsen's grandson is still alive today, though he never met his grandmother who wrote the message over a century ago.

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    1) Over 110 years ago, Sofia Nielsen wrote a message in a bottle and threw it into the North Sea while walking along the seaside. 2) Last week, a Danish fisherman discovered Nielsen's bottle, the oldest message in a bottle ever found. 3) Historians at a museum where the fisherman brought the bottle discovered Nielsen's grandson is still alive today, though he never met his grandmother who wrote the message over a century ago.

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    3 - KET Reading and Writing Part 5

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    1) Over 110 years ago, Sofia Nielsen wrote a message in a bottle and threw it into the North Sea while walking along the seaside. 2) Last week, a Danish fisherman discovered Nielsen's bottle, the oldest message in a bottle ever found. 3) Historians at a museum where the fisherman brought the bottle discovered Nielsen's grandson is still alive today, though he never met his grandmother who wrote the message over a century ago.

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    KET Reading and Writing Part 5

    Read the article about “Sofia Nielsen”


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    Choose the best word (A, B or C) for each space.

    Message in the Bottle


    More than 110 years ago a young woman named Sofia Nielsen was walking _______at_ (1) the seaside
    of the North Sea. ____during_____ (2) the trip she got a crazy idea. She wrote a message, put it in a
    green bottle and threw the bottle into the North Sea. What she didn't know is that the bottle would
    survive __so_____ (3) long. Last week, a Danish fisherman found Nielsen's bottle when he was on his
    every day fishing trip. He carried it to a museum.
    The historians there discovered that it's the _oldest________ (4) message in the bottle in the world!
    They also found Nielsen's grandson, Malthe, __who_______ (5) is now 72 years old. He lives in
    Copenhagen and never __met______ (6) his grandmother who died in 1940. What did the bottle
    contain? Well, there was a letter inside. Nielsen asked the finder to return _____it____ (7) to his home
    address in Copenhagen. They couldn't read the rest of the message ___some____ (8) water got inside
    and damaged the ink. But it didn't stop the specialists. They're trying to figure out the entire message
    and hope it'll be possible to read it soon.

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