Reading. Form 6. Term 2

Read the text and think if the sentences are true or false.

Crooked Forest, Poland

With its J-shaped tree trunks, the aptly named Crooked Forest is as baffling as it is beautiful. Located near the Polish city of Gryfino, it’s home to more than 400 pine trees believed to have been planted in the 1930s and each displaying a curved trunk. Stranger still, the vast majority of them bend in a northward direction. Arboriculturists (tree scientists) have debated how this otherworldly landscape came to be but so far no one has been able to explain it. One of the more outlandish theories was that this area has a unique gravitational pull which caused the trees to bend – an idea that was quickly dismissed. Another, slightly more believable, hypothesis is that the trees buckled under the weight of heavy snowfall, but a patch of straight-trunked trees nearby seems to disprove this. It has also been suggested that there could be a genetic reason, although the smoothness and similarity of the curves makes this unlikely. For now, the fairy-tale forest remains a total mystery.

1. The mysterious forest is situated near the capital of Poland.       [True, False]

2. Arboriculturists are scientists who study trees.       [True, False]

3. The specialists are sure that the trees were planted in 1930.       [True, False]

4. Somebody thinks that the trees became crooked because of a lot of snow.       [True, False]

5. All the trees in that area are strange.       [True, False]

6. The scientists know now that the trunks were changed because of the genetic reason.       [True, False]

Read the text and answer the question.

Crooked Forest, Poland

With its J-shaped tree trunks, the aptly named Crooked Forest is as baffling as it is beautiful. Located near the Polish city of Gryfino, it’s home to more than 400 pine trees believed to have been planted in the 1930s and each displaying a curved trunk. Stranger still, the vast majority of them bend in a northward direction. Arboriculturists (tree scientists) have debated how this otherworldly landscape came to be but so far no one has been able to explain it. One of the more outlandish theories was that this area has a unique gravitational pull which caused the trees to bend – an idea that was quickly dismissed. Another, slightly more believable, hypothesis is that the trees buckled under the weight of heavy snowfall, but a patch of straight-trunked trees nearby seems to disprove this. It has also been suggested that there could be a genetic reason, although the smoothness and similarity of the curves makes this unlikely. For now, the fairy-tale forest remains a total mystery.

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Read the text and think which sentences are true.

Crooked Forest, Poland

With its J-shaped tree trunks, the aptly named Crooked Forest is as baffling as it is beautiful. Located near the Polish city of Gryfino, it’s home to more than 400 pine trees believed to have been planted in the 1930s and each displaying a curved trunk. Stranger still, the vast majority of them bend in a northward direction. Arboriculturists (tree scientists) have debated how this otherworldly landscape came to be but so far no one has been able to explain it. One of the more outlandish theories was that this area has a unique gravitational pull which caused the trees to bend – an idea that was quickly dismissed. Another, slightly more believable, hypothesis is that the trees buckled under the weight of heavy snowfall, but a patch of straight-trunked trees nearby seems to disprove this. It has also been suggested that there could be a genetic reason, although the smoothness and similarity of the curves makes this unlikely. For now, the fairy-tale forest remains a total mystery.