EUROPE'S LAST UTOPIA
Everybody knows that Santa Claus lives somewhere near the North Pole where
a carpet of snow covers the mountains and the amazing Northern Lights shine
brightly in the Arctic night. It has generally been assumed that he settled there
because of all that snow for his reindeer and sleigh, but the real reason he put his
roots down on the edge of the Arctic Circle in Finnish Lapland, Europe's last
wilderness, must surely be that he simply loved the beauty and solitude of this last
Utopia, Santa Claus Land. Sandwiched between Norwegian Lapland and the former
USSR, Finnish Lapland lies almost entirely above the Arctic Circle in Northern
Finland. The capital is the winter-sport center of Rovaniemi. It's a modern town in
the middle of nowhere. Concorde used to land there and many daily Finnair flights
arrive from all over Finland.
E X E R C I S E 1: Find words or phrases in the passage which mean the same as:
COLUMN A COLUMN B
a) person who is believed, by children, to deliver
presents at Christmas
b) vehicle used for travelling on snow, often pulled
by horses
c) settle; establish oneself (in a place)
(phrase)
d) state of being without other people - usually
calm and peaceful
e) imaginary place which is perfect and where
everyone is happy
f) put between two other things with little space
left over; squashed
g) a long way from anywhere; isolated
(phrase)
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