5.
.. (1) the coast of Scotland ..... (2) thirty two kilometres
.... (3) the Outer
Hebrides ..... (4) a group of seven small ..... (5) called the Flannan Isles. Only ..... (6) of
the islands is inhabited, Eilean Mhor, where a lighthouse was ..... (7) in 1899. Three
lighthouse keepers ... (8) there and they are the ..... (9) inhabitants save ... (10) rabbits
and the thousands of seabirds that make the islands their ..… (11). These islands are .…
(12)
by tearing west winds, and Atlantic rollers break in clouds of ..... (13) against their
cliffs.
For the lighthouse keepers ..... (14) there is often a test of ..... (15).
.... (16) two
months at a time they ..... (17) on the island to keep the warning lamp .
(18) and then
a relief keeper comes ..... (19) the mainland to take each man's place in .... (20).