CHOOSE YOUR SPORT

FILMING EVEREST

Everyone knows that exercise is good (0) _B_ the body and the mind. We
all want to (1) ____ fit and look good, but too many of us take (2) ____
the wrong sport and quickly lose interest. So now fitness experts are
advising people to choose an activity (3) ____ matches their character.
For instance, those (4) ____ like to be with other people often enjoy golf
or squash, or playing for a basketball, football or hockey (5) _____. If,
though, you're happier on your own, you may prefer to (6) _____ jogging
or swimming.
Do you like competition? Then try something like running, or a (7) _____
sport such as tennis. If, on the other hand, (8) ____ isn't important to
you, then activities like dancing can be an enjoyable (9) _____ without the
need to show you're better than everyone else.
Finally, think about whether you find it easy to make yourself do exercise.
If so, sports like weight training at home and cycling are fine. If not, book
a skiing holiday, Taekwondo lessons, or a tennis (10) ____. You're much
more likely to do something you've already paid for!

Film-maker David Breashears (0) __A__ already climbed Mount Everest three
times when he (26) _____ to make a film, so that audiences could share his
(27) _____.
He set off on this nine-week adventure the following spring, with his
photographic equipment and with six climbers from (28) _____ the world. (29)
_____ the conditions were hard and dangerous, with temperatures of -40'C,
the climbers made good (30) _____. Then, when they were just one thousand
metres from their goal, there was a terrible (31) _____. The team didn't give
(32) _____, however. They hid in a tent on the mountainside until it passed.
Thirteen days later they (33) _____ the top.
'I was so tired that it was (34) _____ to enjoy our success at first,' said
David. 'Climbing Everest is difficult enough but filming made it (35) _____
harder. I am really proud we did it in the end!'

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JAMES COOK

CHOCOLATE

James Cook sailed around the world in the late 18th century
and (0) __A__ famous as an explorer. He first went to sea in
1746. Eleven years later, he (26) _____ the navy. He was a very
good sailor and (27) _____ was not long before he was given
his own ship.
In 1768, the Royal Society (28) _____ a scientific voyage to
Tahiti. Cook was asked to command the ship, Endeavour, and
to take a group of scientists (29) _____ board. The voyage
lasted three years. Cook made (30) _____ that his sailors ate
fresh fruit. In this way, he was able to (31) _____ them from the
terrible illnesses (32) _____ by a bad diet.
Cook was the first European to draw maps of New Zealand and
to (33) _____ eastern Australia. He also sailed to Antarctica and
drew maps of the Pacific and its (34) _____ Islands. In 1779, he
died (35) _____ a fight in Hawaii.

When the Spanish explorer Cortez (0) __A__ Mexico in the

sixteenth century, he found the people there using a drink they
(26) _____ chocolate. It tasted quite strong (27) _____ it had
pepper in it. To (28) _____ it taste better, the Spanish added sugar
to it. When chocolate first came to Europe in the seventeenth
century, people started to drink it with milk, (29) _____ of water.
Nowadays, tonnes of chocolate and cocoa are (30) _____ to
factories, where they are turned (31) _____ many popular sweets
and cakes.
(32) _____ chocolate and cocoa come from the fruit of the cacao
tree. Cacao trees (33) _____ only be grown in hot countries, as
they need a warm climate. Cacao is an American plant, (34) _____
still grows wild in the northern part of South America. Countries in
Central and South America were the first to grow it, but today
Africa (35) _____ the world with the most chocolate.

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MY GRANDMOTHER

THE STORY OF ICEHOTEL

My grandmother (0) _A _ very special to me. I can (1) _____ her

all my problems, and I love (2) _____ to stories of her life. She
was born in a small village in the north of England. When she
(3) _____ 16, the Second World War began and an army
training camp opened near the village. The soldiers used to
come to dances in the village hall (4) _____ weekend. One
Saturday a very handsome soldier asked my grandmother to
dance. She (5) _____ in love with him, but only six weeks (6)
_____ the soldier was sent to Egypt. He was away for five years
but they carried (7) _____ writing to one another, and she
didn't go out with (8) _____ else. And when the war (9) _____,
he came straight back to her village and asked her to marry
him. That was nearly 60 years (10) _____ and they have been
together ever since.

Icehotel, in northern Sweden, (0) ....... the world's first, largest and
perhaps (4) _____ hotel made completely of ice and show. It has
60 rooms (2) _____ a hotel reception, an ice bar, a cinema with
ice-screen, an ice-art exhibition, and even an ice church (3) _____
weddings can take place. And as (4) _____ as the building itself,
(5) _____ inside it - the windows, doors, desks, heels, chairs, tables
and lamps - is made of ice. The hotel has to be built again every
year.
It (6) _____ two months to build; work starts in October and the
first guests arrive in December. (7) _____, in late April the ice
begins to (8) _____ and then the last guests (9) _____ out and the
hotel turns to water. It is rebuilt the following winter, and (10)
_____ snowflakes, one year's hotel is never exactly the same as
another's!

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THE HISTORY OF FOOTBALL

THE IMPORTANCE OF GAMES

There (0) __A__ records of early forms of football in China at

least two thousand years ago. But it was in 14th century
England (1) _____ the game first became generally popular. (2)
_____, it was not like the game we now know as football. The
ball was an animal skin filled with wool, the football game took
(31) _____ all over the town, sometimes with as many as 500
players, and the game went (4) _____ all day long. Many
games were no (5) _____ than street battles, with the players
trying to get (6) _____ of the ball in any way they (7) _____ .
There were no teams and no (8) _____. Buildings were
damaged and windows (9) _____ and people were badly injured
and sometimes even killed. It was not until 1863, when the
Football Association was formed, that the game as we know it
(10) _____ to be played.

Most young animals (0) _A_ a lot of time playing. But they're not
just (1) ______ fun. They're learning rules to help them grow up
safely (2) _____ a difficult and dangerous world.
In the (3) _____ way, children learn a lot through playing games.
By playing with toys like balls and building-bricks, young children
learn about shapes and colours, sound and (4) _____. Once they
can talk, children's games are often more social and are (5) _____
with their day-to-day lives. They may act the parts of parents,
teachers, shopkeepers or doctors any of the (6) _____ they come
into contact with. This (7) _____ of play is important (8) _____ it
helps them to understand the adult world (9) _____. And playing is
not just for children. Games of skill and chance such as card
games and board games can be played at (10) _____ age.

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THE USE OF A GOOD THICK SKIRT

THE WEATHER

Mary Kingsley was born (0) ____ 1862 and lived a very quiet (1) ____ with
her parents in London (2) ____ she was 31. Then she suddenly and
unexpectedly
(3) _____ to become an explorer. She went to West Africa, (4) _____ on
foot and by boat through thick forests and along dangerous (5) _____.
She always wore a long wool skirt and carried an umbrella. One day she
was walking along a path when she fell into a deep hole that people had (6)
______ to catch wild animals. She (7) _____ on sharp sticks at the
bottom of the hole. This could have (8) _____ her badly, but her clothes
saved her. She said, 'It is at these times that you (9) ____ the use of a
good thick skirt.'
She made several more journeys, and wrote best-selling books about her
(10) _____ and the land and customs of the West African people.

Rain, clouds, sunshine, wind - what (0) ____ them? And why are they
important to us? The weather influences farming, fishing and every part of
our daily life, and so we (1) _____ to know in advance (2) _____ it will be like.
Weather forecasters try to (3) _____ us with details of weather conditions
for at (4) _____ 24 hours ahead, and often for up to a week. To do this they
depend (5) _____ thousands of separate (6) _____ of information about the
weather, which are (7) _____ from all over the world. But the weather not
only changes what people do every day, it can (8) _____ change the way they
feel. (9) _____ example, the warm, dusty wind of the Mediterranean is
famous for (10) _____ people feel annoyed. And it's true that we all feel
better when it's sunny rather than when it's raining!

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CHARLOTTE CHURCH

HOUDINI

Charlotte Church (0) ___ born in a small town in Wales in 1986

and has loved music all her life. At nine years old, she started to
(1) _____ singing lessons. Soon afterwards she sang on a
television programme for children, and was an immediate
success.
(2) _____ then her records have sold more than 7 million (3)
____. She has sung for the Queen and for Prince Charles, and
has (4) ____ the President of the USA and the Pope.
In (5) ____ of being famous, she still wants to live the life (6)
_____ a typical teenager. Like (7) _____ other girl she enjoys
shopping and playing computer (8) _____. When she is not
travelling round the world, she (9) _____ a local all-girls school.
'My friends are all really great,' she says. 'There's (10) _____
jealousy at all.'

Harry Houdini was born in 1874 in Budapest, (0) ____ when he was
four his family moved to America. They were very poor, and so he
left school (1) ____ the age of twelve and got a job selling
newspaper.
When he was a teenager he began (2) ____ card tricks, and soon
he was giving performances of magic in (3) ____. In 1894 he met
his wife, a dancer, and they got married after only two weeks.
Soon (4) ____ Houdini started the escape acts which made him
famous. He would ask people to lock him up in diferent (5) _____,
and he always (6) _____ to escape.
He escaped from strong chains, locked boxes (2) _____ of water,
and even a big paper bag (without tearing the paper).
(8) ____ of his
last performances (9) ____ to escape after
being buried (10) ____. No one ever found out how he did it.

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