ČTENÍ A JAZYKOVÁ KOMPETENCE - 9. ČÁST - ÚLOHY 50–64
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> Přečtěte si článek o ostrově Tangier. Na základě textu vyberte k úlohám 50–64 vždy jednu správnou odpověď A–C.

> **Tangier Island – The Disappearing World**
> Tangier is a special place. People who come to the island say they didn’t (**50**) _________ a place 
> like this still existed in the USA. Tangier is a tiny island with 460 inhabitants. It (**51**) _________ 
> ninety miles south-east of Washington, DC, in the middle of Chesapeake Bay. It is a peaceful 
> island where there are almost (**52**) _________ cars. People don’t lock their doors, mobile 
> phones don’t work there, (**53**) _________ you won’t find alcohol for sale in the island’s grocery 
> store. If visitors bring their own alcohol, they (**54**) _________ asked not to drink it in public. 
> (**55**) _________ the past few hundred years, the only way to get on and off the island has been 
> by boat. This is why the island is one of the last places in the USA (**56**) _________ people still 
> speak the language of their colonial past.
> 
> When you (**57**) _________ people from the island, you immediately notice they do not 
> speak the same way as the rest of the people in the USA. Many words (**58**) _________ by 
> the inhabitants of Tangier are similar to the language of the first English settlers[^1]. Some people 
> have even described the Tangier way of speaking as ‘Elizabethan’ English. (**59**) _________ to 
> the strange accent, there are more than 300 expressions that don’t exist anywhere else. 
> 
> The inhabitants also use (**60**) _________ words that are from the 17th century – the time when 
> people sailed over from England.
> 
> People living on the island (**61**) _________ about the future of their language. With limited jobs 
> on the island, many people (**62**) _________ to leave Tangier to find work on the mainland USA. 
> Modern technologies are also a great danger to the language. According (**63**) _________ many 
> experts, the special way of speaking on the island is disappearing.
> 
> It is not only the language that is disappearing. At (**64**) _________ highest point, the island 
> is only 1.2 metres high, and as sea waters rise due to climate change, more than 35,000 m^2^ of 
> Tangier disappear each year. Scientists fear the island may be completely underwater by 2050.
> 
> (*www.tangier-island.com, upraveno*)
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> [^1]:settler: osadník

# 53 
- [A] so 
- [B] and 
- [C] but
