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Reading

1 Road thc tcxt.

2 Are the sentences tme or false?

1    People have never cheated In the Ołympic

Games._

2    Some people dldn’t compete because of the

weather. _

3    Fred lor* only ran 11 miles. _

4    Thomas Hkks was III during the race.

5    Felu Caryajar bought some fruK during Ihe

race._

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Vocabulary

3    Complele the sentences with thc correct ans wers.

1    l*venever ____golf.

A gone B played C done

2    A lot of schoolchildren In the UK rugby.

A go 6 płay C do

3    A lot of people at my gym weightlifting.

A go B play C do <t They    karate when they were

very young.

A went B played C dld

5 Mybestfriend_surfing in

Califomia next month.

A isgotng B isptaytng C isdolng

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4    Complete the sentences wlth the words in the box.

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1    The crowd dtdn‘t    at the end of

the gamę.

2    The_only took two minutes!

3    Did hts boal    In the Atlantic

during the competition?

4    The    watched the match In the

rain.

5    Cars sometimes_In Formula 1

raclng.

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