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Spectators at the Ancient Olympic Games

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A CHINESE
VASE

When I was a child I loved
visiting my grandmother. I thought her house was as beautiful as a
palace. As I grew older the house and garden seemed smaller, but I still
loved visiting the old lady. There were so many lovely things to
look   1   _____ in the house.

I loved her paintings and the
old clock, but   2   _____ all I
loved a big Chinese vase which stood in the hall. It
was   3   _____ than me, and I
couldn’t see   4   _____ it. I
walked round and round it looking at the beautiful ladies and the birds
and flowers and trees, and Grandmother often   5  
_____ me stories about these ladies. She said that her
grandfather had brought the vase with him when he returned from a
long   6   _____ to China.

We live in a modern house,
and I’m afraid my husband and I often nag at the children. “Don’t make
the new carpet dirty, Paul!” “Be careful with the new table, Philip!”

Before
she died, Grandmother gave me the vase I loved so much.
It   7   _____ beautiful in our
modern hall.
One day I came home from the shop. The boys met me at the door. “I’m as
strong as George Bes, Mummy,” said Paul. “I got a goal and I broke the
vase.” Philip tried to be more diplomatic than Paul, “It doesn’t really
matter, does it? You told us it wasn’t new. You aren’t cross, are you?”

1. А) out Б) at В) into Г) about

2. А) mostly Б) great of В) greatly Г) most of

3. А) higher Б) larger В) taller Г) greater

4. А) about Б) around В) inside Г) outside

5. А) said Б) spoke В) talked Г) told

6. А) voyage Б) tour В) hike Г) excursion

7. А) looked Б) viewed В) appeared Г) seemed

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 1 _______ nearer, he decided to
go somewhere and read by himself.

He did not want the
amusements of the seaside, or the beauties of the countryside. He decided
to find a quiet, little town and work there undisturbed. He 2 ______ his
suitcase with clothes and books. Then he looked in a railway timetable
for a town that he did not know. He found one, and bought a ticket to go
there. He did not tell anyone where he was going. After all, he did not
want to be 3 ______.

That is how Moore arrived at
Benchurch. It was a market town, and once a week it was quite busy for a
few hours. The rest of the time it was a very quiet and sleepy place.
Moore spent his first night at the only hotel in the town. The landlady
was very kind and helpful, but the hotel was not really quiet enough for
him. The second day he started 4 ______ for a house
to rent.

There was only one place that
he liked. It was more than quiet – it was deserted and very lonely. It
was a big, old seventeenth-century house. It had barred windows like a
prison, and a high brick wall all around it. It would be hard to 5 ______ a
more unwelcoming place. But it suited Moore perfectly. He went to find
the local lawyer, who was responsible for the house.

Mr. Carnford, the lawyer, was
very happy to rent the house to him. “I’d be glad to let you have it
free,” he said, “. It’s been empty so long that people have started
to 6 ______ a lot of foolish stories about it.
You’ll be able to prove that the stories are wrong.

Moore didn’t think it was necessary
to ask the lawyer for more details of the foolish stories. He paid his
rent, and Mr. Carnford gave him the name of an old servant to 7 ______ him.
He came away from the lawyer with the keys of the house in his pocket.

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Looking for
a job

My new home was a long way
from the center of London but it was becoming essential to find a job,
so 1 ______ I spent a whole morning getting to town
and applying to London Transport for a job on the tube. It turned out
that they were looking for guards, not drivers. This 2 ______ me.
I couldn’t drive a car but I could probably guard a train and perhaps
continue to write poems between stations. “Yes, I would be a tube guard,”
I thought. I could see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a
crisis.

The next day I sat down, with
almost a hundred other 3 ______, for the intelligence
test. I must have done all right because after half an hour’s wait I was
sent into another room for a psychological test. The examiner sat at a
desk. You were signaled forward to occupy the seat opposite him when the
previous occupant had been 4 ______. Sometimes the
person was rejected quickly and sometimes after quite a while. Obviously
the longer interviews were the most successful ones. Mine was the only
one that lasted a minute and a half. I can remember the questions now:
“Why did you leave your last job, “Why did you leave your job before
that? “And the one before?” I can’t 5 ______ my
answers, except they were short at first and grew shorter as we
continued. His closing statement 6 ______ a lack of
sensitivity, which helped to explain why as a psychologist he had risen
no higher than the underground railway. “You have failed this test and we
are unable to offer you a position.” Failing to get that job was my low
point. Or so I thought, believing that the work was easy. Actually, such
a job 7 ______ exactly this sort of elementary
responsibility a dreamer like me is unlikely to have. But, I was still
far short of self-understanding as well as short of cash.

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Tracy

Tracy was as excited as a
child about her first trip abroad. Early in the morning, she stopped at
a 1 ______ agency and reserved a suite on the
Signal Deck of the Queen Elizabeth II. The next three days
she spent buying clothes and luggage.

On the morning of the
sailing, Tracy hired a limousine to drive her to the pier. When she 2 ______ at
Pier 90, where the Queen Elizabeth II was docked, it was
crowded with photographers and television reporters, and for a moment
Tracy was panic stricken. Then she realized they were interviewing the
two men posturing at the foot of the gangplank. The members of the crew
were helping the passengers with their luggage. On deck, a steward looked
at Tracy’s ticket and 3 ______ her to her
stateroom. It was a lovely suite with a private terrace. It had been
ridiculously expensive but Tracy 4 ______ it was worth
it.

She unpacked and then
wandered along the corridor. In almost every cabin there were farewell
parties going on, with laughter and champagne and conversation. She felt
a sudden ache of loneliness. There was no one to see her 5 ______,
no one for her to care about, and no one who cared about her. She was
sailing into a completely unknown future.

Suddenly she felt the huge
ship shudder as the tugs started to pull it out of the harbor, and she
stood 6 ______ the passengers on the boat deck, watching
the Statue of Liberty slide out of 7 ______, and then
she went exploring.

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Busy Day

Let me tell you what happened once when my dear
Uncle Podger decided to hang a picture on the wall. He told us not
to   1 ______ and just watch him do it.
He said he would do it by himself. Well, he came up to the picture which
was waiting to be put up in the dining room and took it. But suddenly it
fell down and the glass   2 ______ into
pieces and he cut his finger. He started to   3 ______ his
handkerchief but couldn’t find it because he had put it in his coat and
none of us knew where his coat was.
“Six of you!” Uncle Podger exclaimed, “and you cannot find the coat that
I put down only five minutes ago!” But then he got up from his chair and
found that he had been sitting on his coat the whole time. “Oh, you can
stop your   4 ______. I’ve found it myself!”
Then after an hour was spent in tying up his finger Uncle Podger wondered
where the hammer had disappeared to. And while everybody was trying to
get the hammer he was standing on the chair saying: “Well, I want to know
if you are going to   5 ______ me here all
evening!”
Finally the hammer was found, but we noticed that the nail which he had
prepared was lost. And, of course, Uncle Podger didn’t
keep   6 ______ while he was waiting for
another nail to be brought. We heard all he had to say about our habit of
losing all the things he needed.
When the picture was hanging on the wall at last, everybody looked
very   7 ______, all except Uncle Podger, who
was lively as ever. Aunt Maria remarked that if Uncle Podger wanted to do
a job like that again, she would spend a week with her mother until it
was over.

1. A) scare 
B) disturb  C) worry  D) fear

2. A) failed B)
broke C) ruined D) fell

3. A) look at B) look to
C) look after D) look for

4. A) search B)
investigation  C) exploration  D) study

5. A) stay B)
keep C) put D) take

6. A) dumb B)
cool C) still D) silent

7. A) dull B)
tired C) fresh D) boring

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A
Storyteller

In my early 20s, after a year and a half in
England, and four months in France, I returned to the United States and
got a job at a camp in northern Virginia. My   1 ______ that
summer was Dan from Mississippi, and I am from Rhode Island. We worked
together with a group of boys from 12 to 14 years old. I’ve always been a
bit untidy, but Dan was   2 ______ and
clean, even after a night in the woods with our campers. We could not
have been more different, but we got on because we shared the
same   3 ______ of humor.
At the end of the summer, a few of us went to   4 ______ a
cave in West Virginia and got stuck in the cave for the night. It wasn’t
as dramatic as it sounds. The park rangers had told us to stay there if
anything happened. They knew where we were going, and when we should have
been back. Dan hurt his right foot badly. So we had to   5
______ the night in the cave. Food and water were not a problem,
but we turned off our lights to save power. In the distance, we could
hear the sound of running water.
To   6 ______ the time, we told stories. That
night in the cave we moved from one family story to another. As the night
wore on, I remembered more and more. I was not alone–the cave, the blue
light and the flowing water released stories and memories that we had
never revealed to anyone. It was as if a river of stories had started
flowing in each of us.
When the rangers came the next morning, we didn’t want
to   7 ______. «Can’t we just tell a few
more stories?» In the cave, that night, I became a storyteller.

1. A) friend 
B) teammate  C) partner  D) opponent

2. A) clear  B)
neat C) exact D) careful

3. A) feeling B)
emotion C) reason D) sense

4. A) explore B)
analyze C) teach D) learn

5. A) lead B)
spend C) hold D) waste

6. A) keep B)
waste C) spare D) pass

7. A) escape B) leave C)
remain D) retire

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New
York City: Nostalgia for the Old Neighbourhood

Life
is made up of little things: some unimportant memories from childhood
that, in fact, shaped your character. I   1 ______ on
Third Avenue in midtown Manhattan during the 1950s-60s where family life
was centred around old   2 ______ of
flats and small stores. Third Avenue was my old neighbourhood and it had
character. It was   3 ______ with working
families of Italian, German and Irish origin. We shopped together with
all those people and their kids played together. Third Avenue influenced
the way our family lived. I absorbed the street life. It gave me
an   4 ______ that I could not have
received in any other place. To me, it was home.
In a recent walk around Third Avenue my eyes   5 ______ signs
of the old neighbourhood but couldn’t find any. If I hadn’t been born
here and someone described the area, it would be   6 ______ to
believe. It wasn’t because a few buildings had changed – everything had
changed. The transformation began in the late 1950s and 60s when
corporations replaced the old neighbourhood. In the early 1960s, the
houses were pulled down. Families were forced to   7
______, the small stores went out of business and the old
neighbourhood was changed forever. And now there is a lack of character
in the transformed neighbourhood.

1. A) 
brought up B)  grew up C)  went up D) got up

2. A) blocks B)
houses C) groups D) sets

3. A) covered B)
held C) loaded D) filled

4. A) knowledge B)
information C) education D) training

5. A) looked after B)
looked for C) looked through D) looked at

6. A) hard B)
easy C) strange D) heavy

7. A) stay out B) take out
C) move out D) go out

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To Hear A Child

I
believe in patience. I
live as a volunteer residential counselor in a small group home. These
boys have brought joy and happiness into my life; they have made me laugh
and made me proud. However, they have also challenged me, made me angry
and tested my patience.
Each day we start anew, going about a   1 ______ routine.
I drive them to school, pick them up, cook for them and help with
homework. We spend the evenings   2 ______ about
what happened during the day. I meet their teachers and study for tests
with them. They are the last people I see each night and the first ones I
hear in the morning. They have become a   3 ______ of
my life. I am twenty-two and am beginning to understand the love of a
parent.
I could not have come this far without patience. They do not think like
miniature adults and it is not fair to expect them to.   4 ______ my
expectations of them are high, I must remember that so much of what they
see and understand is for the first time. First loves, first failed test,
first time feeling the need to break away from the nest. I must have
patience with them, because there is still a child within that comes out
when I least expect it.
This world is a fast-paced, fast food, fast-internet
place.   5 ______, no matter how fast things
move, children will be children. I believe they will mature quicker and
with more tools if I am patient. I see it in their eyes. Over time, sad
eyes can glisten again, but only if I am   6 ______ of
the fact that it takes them longer to get somewhere.
I see around them a world that expects too much of them. They
come   7 ______ too many things that give
them too much sadness. They listen to me, respect me and understand
reason but not always when I want them to. This opportunity has given me
wisdom but only when I was patient enough to hear a child.

1. A)  daily  B)
common  C)  average  D) traditional

2. A) discussing  B) debating 
C) talking  D) saying

3. A) bit  B)
part  C) parcel  D) piece

4. A) also  B)
altogether  C) although  D) thus

5. A) nevertheless 
B) nevermore  C) although  D) therefore

6. A) common  B)
familiar  C) aware  D) acquainted

7. A) through  B)
along  C) upon  D) across