5. a) Read the text. Mark the statements 1–7 True (T), False (F), Not Stated (NS). The walls of the palace are of snow. The doors and windows are of ice. There are more than a hundred rooms in it – halls, sitting rooms, bedrooms, a dining room and a great ball room. The largest hall is several miles long. All of the rooms are icy cold and empty. There are no lamps or candles, only northern lights. In the centre of the palace there is a frozen lake broken into a thousand ice pieces. It looks like a broken mirror. In the centre of this lake sits the Snow Queen when she is at home. She calls the lake "The Mirror of Reason" and says it is the best and the only one in the world. 1. The palace is of wood and stone. 2. The floor is very thin. 3. There are a hundred rooms in the palace. 4. The rooms are warm and nice. 5. The largest room is a hall. 6. There are a lot of mirrors on the walls. 7. There is a frozen lake in the centre of the palace. 8. The palace looks like a broken window. 9. The Snow Queen's favourite place in the palace is her bedroom.