Name____________________________________ 09.10.2014 Big Ben School Cloze #1 The mystery of Franklin’s Expedition Dr. Owen Beattie was a ________________ at a university in Canada. He wanted to ____________ why so many men died in the Franklin Expedition. Dr. Beattie began to _________ ________the first men who died on the expedition. They were all young and they died after only six months ____ _______. Twenty _________ men died the next year. There was something very strange about this and there was only one way to ____________ what it was. _____1984, Dr. Beattie went to Baffin __________ with a team of scientists. There, they opened the ______________ of the three Franklin ____________. Because of the extreme __________ and ___________, the bodies were in perfect ___________________. Beaettie ___________ small samples of hair and skin and then ____________ the bodies back into the graves. Back at the university, Beattie made an _______________ discovery. From the hair and skin, he found that the three men died from ________ ______________. They had nearly 100 _______ more lead in their bodies _________ normal. But where did the___________ come ________? Beattie looked __________________at some of Franklin’s food tins and __________ the answer. In those days, tins were closed with lead. Usually, this was not a big problem, but these tins were not made ___________________. Lead was _____________ the tins. It was not the ice and cold that ____________ the men. It was the 8,000 _________ of food that they were eating. Lead also ____________ the brain. It makes it difficult to _______ _______. Up in the Arctic, we can now ___________________ why John

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Name____________________________________ 09.10.2014 Big Ben School

Cloze #1 The mystery of Franklin’s Expedition

Dr. Owen Beattie was a ________________ at a university in Canada. He wanted to ____________ why so many men died in the Franklin Expedition.

Dr. Beattie began to _________ ________the first men who died on the expedition. They were all

young and they died after only six months ____ _______. Twenty _________ men died the next year.

There was something very strange about this and there was only one way to ____________ what it was.

_____1984, Dr. Beattie went to Baffin __________ with a team of scientists. There, they opened the ______________ of the three Franklin ____________. Because of the extreme __________ and ___________, the bodies were in perfect ___________________. Beaettie ___________ small samples of hair and skin and then ____________ the bodies back into the graves.

Back at the university, Beattie made an _______________ discovery. From the hair and skin, he found that the three men died from ________ ______________. They had nearly 100 _______ more lead in their bodies _________ normal.

But where did the___________ come ________? Beattie looked __________________at some of Franklin’s food tins and __________ the answer. In those days, tins were closed with lead. Usually, this was not a big problem, but these tins were not made ___________________. Lead was _____________ the tins. It was not the ice and cold that ____________ the men. It was the 8,000 _________ of food that they were eating.

Lead also ____________ the brain. It makes it difficult to _______ _______. Up in the Arctic, we can now ___________________ why John Franklin ________________ so many wrong _______________________.

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