Учебное пособие по развитию навыков устной речи и чтения для студентов 1 курса технических специальностей

Text C. “A Cold Place for a Holiday”
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10 000	1990	- 5^o	half	- 40^o	88%	4 000	200
1989	5000 m2

Existing each year between December and April, the Icehotel in the village of Jukkasjärvi, Sweden was the world's first ice hotel. In ____1____, Japanese ice artists visited the area and created an exhibition of ice art. In Spring ___2___, French artist Jannot Derid held an exhibition in a cylinder-shaped igloo in the area. One night there were no rooms available in the town, so some of the visitors asked for permission to spend the night in the exhibition hall. They slept in sleeping bags on top of reindeer skin - the first guests of the "hotel."

The entire hotel is made out of snow and ice blocks taken from the Torne River - even the glasses in the bar are made of ice. The Icehotel is open for less than ____3_____ of the year. Every May it melts and every November it is rebuilt. It now measures ____4_____ and it needs______5________ tons of ice and 30 000 tons of snow to build it. This actually means that it is more than ___6___ snow. The ice is used for creating Icebar designs and ice glasses, for ice sculpting classes, events and product launches all over the world while the snow is used for building a strong structure for the building.
The temperature inside the hotel is usually about ____7______. Outside in Jukkasjärvi itself the temperature can be much lower even as low as ___8____!
Last year more than ____9____ visitors travelled ____10_____ km north of the Arctic Circle to sleep in thermal sleeping bags. They got a cool reception!