What do you know about salt? Today we 1 salt for granted, but
many years ago salt was scarce, it was used as money. African traders
2 it for twice its weight in gold. The soldiers in Julius Caesar’s
army received salt, called salarium, as part of their 3 . From this
came the word ‘salary’. In Great Britain four or five hundred years ago,
at the great feasts of the ruling families, the saler, or salt container, was
4 in the middle of the long dining tables. Those who were
seated above the saler, closest to the host, were the honoured guests.
Those who sat below the saler were the common people. Our name for
a salt container, “salt cellar”, comes from the word “saler.” When salt
was scarce, it was 5 bad luck to spill any of it. Many people still
6 this.
Вот слова которые надо вставить. Но тут 2 слова лишние:
A. believe
B. considered
C. exchanged
D. hold
E. pay
F. placed
G. take
H. wealth
Peacocks belong to the pheasant family, the order – galliformes. These creatures are painted with fan-shaped tail are also the largest representatives of his party.At length peacock is 125 centimeters and its beautiful tail is, on average, 120 to 150 centimeters. While peacocks weigh about 4.5 kilograms.Of course, the most attractive feature of these birds is their plumage. Especially the variety of body figure male peacocks: the head with the neck painted in a saturated blue hue, the dorsal part is Golden with a greenish tint, and the feathers of the wings bright orange. Well, just a real rainbow! Females are more scarce On the head of the bird has a graceful tuft, from the side it looks like a bird someone put a crown with bells. The tail part of the animal's body is divided into tail feathers and uppertail. That they stop the eye of others, because they give elegant, truly Royal, a view of this bird. the color of the feathers, often dark – brown.
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