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TOVÁBB Középszintű angol érettségi 2012. május - 3. olvasott szöveg értése feladat.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF SOCIAL NETWORKING
Bottles with messages from Harold Hackett, 58, from Newfoundland, have made it to France, the United States and even Africa
It all started when Harold Hackett threw a glass Pepsi bottle with a note inside overboard while he was bored to death fishing for tuna in 1996. Since starting his message-in-a-bottle hobby, Hackett has thrown 4,871 bottles into the Atlantic. The note inside asks finders to write back to him, saying when and where they found his bottle. So far he has received over 3,100 letters, a 73.6% response rate.
"I got one note back with five different people finding it. They found it, put the message back and let it go. It started in Cape Breton and went to Nova Scotia. Then, it went to Massachusetts, North Carolina and Florida, and then the guy there wrote back to me," he says. "There were five letters in the envelope when I got it."
"I used to write all of those letters out by hand in the first four or five years," he remembers. He later had to start getting his notes photocopied. Then he entered the send-off date with a pen.
"I still have a lot of writing," he says, explaining that he writes back to everyone who contacts him with information on a found bottle.
Local fishermen often see his bottles with neon paper bobbing in the water. "The minute they see it, they don't even have to look at it. They just say, 'that's Harold Hackett,' and they throw it back in," he says smiling.
With all the bottles he's received news about, there's one bottle that still escapes him – bottle number 1 from 1996. "I've got a feeling this year will be the one," he says.
(www.theguardian.pe.ca)
0) At least one of Mr Hackett’s bottles C
1) Harold’s hobby started...
2) When someone picks a bottle from the ocean, Harold...
3) The statistics show that more than two thirds of the messages...
4) One of the bottles was found by several people, while...
5) As his hobby grew, Harold...
6) If someone informs him about a find, s/he...
7) By now the fishermen in Harold’s village...
8) Harold really hopes that someone...
A DIFFERENT KIND OF SOCIAL NETWORKING
Bottles with messages from Harold Hackett, 58, from Newfoundland, have made it to France, the United States and even Africa
It all started when Harold Hackett threw a glass Pepsi bottle with a note inside overboard while he was bored to death fishing for tuna in 1996. Since starting his message-in-a-bottle hobby, Hackett has thrown 4,871 bottles into the Atlantic. The note inside asks finders to write back to him, saying when and where they found his bottle. So far he has received over 3,100 letters, a 73.6% response rate.
"I got one note back with five different people finding it. They found it, put the message back and let it go. It started in Cape Breton and went to Nova Scotia. Then, it went to Massachusetts, North Carolina and Florida, and then the guy there wrote back to me," he says. "There were five letters in the envelope when I got it."
"I used to write all of those letters out by hand in the first four or five years," he remembers. He later had to start getting his notes photocopied. Then he entered the send-off date with a pen.
"I still have a lot of writing," he says, explaining that he writes back to everyone who contacts him with information on a found bottle.
Local fishermen often see his bottles with neon paper bobbing in the water. "The minute they see it, they don't even have to look at it. They just say, 'that's Harold Hackett,' and they throw it back in," he says smiling.
With all the bottles he's received news about, there's one bottle that still escapes him – bottle number 1 from 1996. "I've got a feeling this year will be the one," he says.
(www.theguardian.pe.ca)
Írd be a hiányzó szövegrészek betűjeleit!
0) At least one of Mr Hackett’s bottles C
1) Harold’s hobby started...
2) When someone picks a bottle from the ocean, Harold...
3) The statistics show that more than two thirds of the messages...
4) One of the bottles was found by several people, while...
5) As his hobby grew, Harold...
6) If someone informs him about a find, s/he...
7) By now the fishermen in Harold’s village...
8) Harold really hopes that someone...
| A) | wants to know about the time and place of the find. |
| B) | have actually been found by people. |
| C) | travelled as far as Africa. |
| D) | it contained a photo of Mr Hackett. |
| E) | know well that he has this message-in-the-bottle hobby. |
| F) | while he was sitting in a boat and had nothing interesting to do. |
| G) | will get an answering letter from Harold. |
| H) | it travelled to different parts of the ocean. |
| I) | found that he couldn’t write so many notes any more |
| K) | will inform him about his very first bottle this year. |