Test 4
FCE for. Schools Part 2 est 4
questions 9-18
near pat of documentary on Tony Blair. For questions 9-18, complete the sentences with
ord ‘or short phrase.
Tony Blair
ithony Ché les Lynton Blair led his party to unparalleled victories in the
‘ — | 8 ] general elections.
is poltical career started 1983, when a [othe Bish
parliament as a member of the Labour Party.
uargaret Thatcher wasthe| [between 1978 and 1990,
Labour leaders believed that Blair's moderate positions would make the Labour Party
Cc 12 with the public.
British voters had been [13] from Labour and its traditional
policies.
[14]
Blair was promoted to | in the Departments of Trade and
Industry, Energy and Employment.
This event is significant because these were thefirst; | 15]
elections to the post.
From the start, Blair workedto[ —SS~«* 18 more mainstream by playing
down the party's connections to trade unions
By 1997 the ‘New Labour’ party, as Blair called it, had become
17]
This was not very _ | 18] for Thatcher's successor, John Major.
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