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2 Complete the text with sentences A F. There is
Reading
one sentence you do not need.
1 Read the text.
A Less than two hours later the enormous boat
is alongside you, having altered course to
A SUPRISE AT SEA
come to your rescue.
Picture this: You re in a boat, a small one, easily 4,000 B This happens from time to time when small
boats run into difficulties in heavy weather.
miles away from home. You re being tossed from one
wave to another in appalling conditions. Your mast
C But there is a twist to this tale.
has been damaged in a fierce storm and you haven t
D He was stunned by the coincidence.
eaten for two days whilst trying to fix your craft and
E The cruise liner that came to his assistance
remain afloat. [1 ] You wait, hoping beyond
was the Crown Princess.
hope that someone has heard you and can reach you
F Finally you admit defeat and put out an SOS call.
before conditions worsen still further.
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You re lucky. The message gets relayed to a cruise
liner that is carrying thousands of passengers on the
holiday of a lifetime and just happens to be in your
Vocabulary
vicinity. [2 ] You are very grateful. You are
taken on board where you re given food and medical
3 Complete the sentences with the words in the box.
assistance and start to feel human again. You travel
argumentative grumpy tolerant naive
with the liner safely to land. Your small boat has
reserved flexible stubborn hot-headed
unfortunately had to be abandoned in the ocean but
courteous level-headed
you are safe thanks to the cruise liner.
So far, a straightforward sea rescue. [3 ]
1 I was very when I went to
It s certainly not unheard of for large vessels to come
university but I m much more experienced
to the aid of smaller ones, particularly in
now.
the big oceans where you can drift for days without
2 The staff at the airport were all very
seeing another boat. [4 ] The yachtsman
to us. It was a pleasant
whose boat got into trouble was John Fielder, a thirty-
surprise.
two-year-old man from a tiny village on the south
coast of England called Warsash. Last year John was
3 My cousin is quite and
sailing a trimaran called (appropriately)  Dangerous
doesn t say much.
When Wet from the Caribbean island Antigua to
4 In today s society people need to be
Rhode Island, north of New York, when he got into
and listen to others points
trouble. [5 ] She was the latest addition
of view.
to the fleet of the US based Princess Cruises and
5 My dad was very when he
it was captained by Captain Clark. Captain Clark
was young and got into a lot of trouble.
and John Fielder had never met before, which is not
surprising. What is surprising is that it turned out
6 Don t be so
! You can
the two men live round the corner from each other in
always find something to smile about.
that tiny village of Warsash on the south coast! In all
7 My sister is so you ll never
probability they buy their newspapers from the same
persuade her to apologise to him.
shop but didn t meet until their paths crossed 4,000
miles away in the middle of the ocean!
8 You re being very today!
You ve disagreed with everything I ve said!
An amazing coincidence! If you can beat that write
in to  What a coincidence!, People Today Magazines,

Bristol. We re waiting for your story.
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9 We re lucky to have Jill as an employee. She s 7 Katy and I (know)
and can change her hours each other since we were at primary school
if we need her to. together.
10 I don t think winning a lot of money will 8 What (you do) to your
change Sam. He s very hair? It looks great!
.
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6 Rewrite the sentences beginning with the words
Grammar
in bold.
4 Choose the correct answers.
1 We not only went out for a meal but we went
dancing too.
1 Jake phoned me just after he was leaving /
had left the party.
2 Did you see Jan at the concert? She wore /
was wearing a red coat.
2 I had never before seen such a beautiful sunset.
3 Peter wouldn t lend me his dictionary because
he didn t finish / hadn t finished his
homework yet.
4 I saw your sister in town yesterday. She 3 There has rarely been such a high wind.
talked / was talking to a couple of friends.
5 While I was walking to the shops, it suddenly
started / was starting to get very windy.
4 They had no sooner started the exercise than
6 They had waited / had been waiting for half
the lesson bell rang.
an hour by the time David arrived.
7 When I got to the classroom, the teacher already
started / had already started the lesson.
8 When the exam results came through we all
were celebrating / celebrated!
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Listening
5 Complete the sentences with the present perfect
simple or continuous form of the verbs in brackets.
7 4.01 Listen to the people talking about
d"
being lucky. Complete the sentences with the
1 Where (you stay)
correct speakers A E.
for the last few days?
2 I (have) this cold 1 Speaker didn t expect to achieve what
since I went swimming last Friday. he/she did so quickly.
3 How often (you be) 2 Speaker doesn t plan ahead.
to the USA?
3 Speaker was successful because he/she
4 I (often wonder) if was relaxed.
learning another language would be difficult.
4 Speaker saved some money.
5 How long (you
5 Speaker had a surprising exam result.
go out) with Freddy?
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6 What (you eat)?
There are red marks on your shirt.
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8 Imagine you witness a large fire and see fire-
fighters save a young child from the building.
Write the story of the rescue for a magazine. Use
the writing guide to help you.
Paragraph 1: Say what you were doing when the
fire started.
Paragraph 2: Say what happened and describe
the scene.
Paragraph 3: Describe how the fire-fighters
saved the child.
Paragraph 4: Comment on the bravery of the fire-
fighters and what happened to the other people
involved.
Mark /10
Total /60
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