The Famous Monster of the lake

Words in Use (Lesson 11)

• evidence
• solitary
• vision
• frequent
• glimpse
• recent
• decade
• hesitate
• absurd
• conflict
• minority
• fiction

Read the following passage to see how the new words are used in it.

The Famous Monster of the lake
There seems to be more and more evidence that the enormous* monster in Loch Ness, a solitary lake in Scotland, is more than a vision. Each year there are numerous* glimpses of the monster by visitors and neighborhood people; also recent films, not easy to ignore,* are making even scientists hesitate. The story of frequent visits by a monster once seemed absurd to them, but now they are not so sure. Yet the conflict is far from over. Those who believe the monster exists are still in the minority, and they are constantly competing* for more information to prove that the Loch Ness monster is not a fiction. Even now they are trying to get more and clearer moving pictures of what has become the famous inhabitant* of the lake. Perhaps the question of whether the monster exists or not will be answered in this coming decade.