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This is John Smith. Hes Colombian but he lives in Brazil. He is a prisoner. Mr. Smith is 33 years old. He doesnt work or study. Mr. Smith cannot read or write but he can play the guitar very well. He plays the guitar every day at 6:30 p.m. after dinner. The other prisoners all like his music. Mr. Smith likes POP ROCK but he doesnt like SAMBA. Mr. Smith likes Brazilian food and drinksHe loves brown chocolate but he doesnt like white chocolate. His room number in the prison is 333 on the 3rd floor. People call Mr. Smith "The Music Man". Mr. Smith is a happy prisoner. He wakes up at 5:15 a.m. and has breakfast; he eats very much!!! He has black coffee and bread in the morning but he doesnt eat fruit or drink milk. He smokes very much!!! Text 2

This is Juan Uribe. Hes from Madrid in Spain but he lives in Argentina. He is an actor. Mr Uribe is 23 years old. He works for TV ARGENTINA. He also studies; he studies Journalism at the Federal University of Argentina. Mr. Uribe cannot sing or dance but he can play the violin very well. He loves classical music and he listens to it every day from 5:10 am to 8:45 a.m. every morning. After this he has fruit juice for breakfast and goes to university. Mr. Uribe is a very good student. He speaks Spanish, Portuguese, and English. Mr. Uribe lives in a flat. His flat number is 133, on the 1st floor. Mr. Uribe loves Spanish food but he doesnt like Argentine food. He loves milk caramels but he doesnt like chocolate. He doesnt smoke. Text 3

This is YOYO. Hes from Mexico but he lives in the U.S.A. He is an actor in a circus. YOYO is 33 years old. He works for THE WORLD CIRCUS. He doesnt study but he works very much. YOYO can sing, juggle, and dance but he cannot play any instruments. He loves the circus and he works every day from 4:40 p.m. to 22:00 p.m. every evening. Before this he has fruit juice and bread for dinner and prepares his show. YOYO is a very good actor. He speaks Spanish, Portuguese, and English. YOYO lives in the circus. He lives in a circus van with other actors. His van number is 33 and he sleeps on the 1st bed. YOYO loves Mexican food but he doesnt like American fast food. He loves sweets and chocolate. He doesnt smoke. Text 4

This is Boney. Boney is an African elephant. It is an actor in the circus. It works for THE WORLD CIRCUS. Boney works very much. Boney can ride a bike, juggle, and dance but it cannot play any instruments. It loves the circus and it works every day from 4:40 p.m. to 22:00 p.m. every evening. Before the shows it has fruit, bread, and water for dinner. Boney is a very good actor. Boney lives in the circus. He lives in a circus cage with other elephants. Its cage number is 33 and it sleeps on the 1st part of the cage. Boney loves apples but it doesnt like bananas. It loves sweets and chocolate.

Indian drummers
Shillong 1) __________ north east India 2) __________ the world record yesterday for the largest number of people 3) __________ the drums together. People travelled 4) __________ long way, many 5) __________foot, from villages in the state in order 6) __________ in. A total of 7,951 people played the drums at 7) __________ same time, over seven hundred more than the old record. The state now 8) __________ two world records - it is the wettest place in the world as well.

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Intelligence pills
Some scientists have predicted that healthy adults and children may one day take drugs to improve their intelligence and intellectual performance. A research group has suggested that such drugs might become as common as coffee or tea within the next couple of decades. To counter this, students taking exams might have to take drugs tests like athletes. There are already drugs that are known to improve mental performance, like Ritalin, which is given to children with problems concentrating. A drug given to people with trouble sleeping also helps people remember numbers. These drugs raise serious legal and moral questions, but people already take vitamins to help them remember things better, so it will not be a simple problem to solve. It will probably be very difficult to decide at what point a food supplement becomes an unfair drug in an examination.

Questions Q1 - Only children will take pills to improve their intellectual performance. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q2 - Intelligence pills are already as common as coffee or tea. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q3 - Coffee is as common as tea. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q4 - Students could have to take intelligence drugs tests. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q5 - A sleeping pill helps people remember numbers. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q6 - Vitamins to help people study are illegal. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q7 - Food supplements are unfair. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Japan's most famous dog

In front of the enormous Shibuya train station in Tokyo, there is a life-size bronze statue of a dog. Even though the statue is very small when compared to the huge neon signs flashing, it isn't difficult to find. It has been used as a meeting point since 1934 and today you will find hundreds of people waiting there for their friends to arrive. Hachiko, an Akita dog,was born in 1923 and brought to Tokyo in 1924. His owner, Professor Eisaburo Uyeno and he were inseparable friends right from the start. Each day Hachiko would accompany his owner, a professor at the Imperial University, to Shibuya train station when he left for work. When he came back, the professor would always find the dog patiently waiting for him. Sadly, the professor died suddenly at work in 1925 before he could return home. Although Hachiko was still a young dog, the bond between him and his owner was very strong and he continued to wait at the station every day. Sometimes, he would stay there for days at a time, though some believe that he kept returning because of the food he was given by street

vendors. He became a familiar sight to commuters over time. In 1934, a statue of him was put outside the station. In 1935, Hachiko died at the place he last saw his friend alive.

Questions Q1 - The statue of Hachiko is small. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q2 - The statue is difficult to find because there are so many people there. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q3 - The professor worked in a school. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q4 - The professor died at work. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q5 - The dog waited every day at the station. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q6 - Nobody gave the dog any food. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q7 - The dog died before the statue was put outside the station. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Japanese tsunami dog and owner reunited

A dog that was rescued after spending three weeks floating at sea after a huge earthquake and tsunami has been reunited with its owner, who recognised the dog when she saw a TV news report on the rescue on Friday. The dog was found by a Japan Coast Guard crew on a roof drifting some 1.8km off the coast of one of the worst-hit areas along Japan's north-east coast. The roof that the dog was found on is believed to have broken off the house and been washed out to sea by the retreating waters of the devastating tsunami.

The two-year-old dog called Ban had an emotional reunion with its owner at an animal care centre where it had been taken to be looked after. Local media reported that Ban immediately jumped up and was very excited when the owner appeared. "We'll never let go of her," said the owner, who wished to remain anonymous.

Questions Q1 - The dog was rescued by helicopter. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q2 - The dog spent three weeks at sea. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q3 - The dog was rescued by the owner. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q4 - The dog was found by soldiers from the army. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q5 - The dog was found floating on a roof. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q6 - The dog showed no emotion when the owner arrived. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q7 - The owner told people her name. Right Wrong Doesn't say

John Snow
John Snow 1) __________ born in 1813 in York, England and was the eldest of nine children. When he 2) __________ fourteen, he started working for a surgeon and went on to study medicine. In 1855, a lot of people started dying in an area of London of the illness cholera and John Snow went there to study what was 3) __________. He discovered that the people who had died were drinking 4) __________ same water.

Before this study, no one 5) __________ how people got the illness. The results of his study 6) __________ important because they 7) __________ how the illness spread and also 8) __________ to start the science of public health.

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Jungle girl found

A girl 1) __________ disappeared 2) __________ she was eight 3) __________ old has been found 4) __________ Cambodia, according to 5) __________ father. Eighteen years after she disappeared, a woman was 6) __________ in a village in the Ratanakkiri province trying to steal food. The woman who was found looks 7) __________ other members of the family. She can't speak 8) __________ language that has been identified and is very frightened, but her family hope that she will adjust and settle down.

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Kenyan Fish
Researchers in Kenya have found 1) __________ a fish could be an effective weapon in the fight to reduce the spread of malaria. A fish that is 2) __________ eaten was introduced to several places 3) __________ the west of the country. The fish eats mosquito larvae, 4) __________ are young mosquitoes before they have wings. People have known 5) __________ a long time that this fish eats mosquitoes, but this was 6) __________ first time that researchers had looked at how the fish could be used 7) __________ control malaria, which 8) __________ 300 million people ill and causes a million deaths worldwide every year.

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Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson was born in New Jersey 1) __________ 1898. After school, he went to Rutgers University, then took a law degree and worked as 2) __________ lawyer for a few years. He then became a famous actor and singer, starring 3) __________ a number of British films after he went to live there. 4) __________ he returned to the United States, he spoke against the conditions African Americans faced.

After he 5) __________ to communist Russia, 6) __________ passport was taken away and he could not leave the country. He got 7) __________ back, but it was hard to see his films or 8) __________ his recordings for many years.

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Robot Birds
Liverpool city council want to clear the city of fat pigeons. They say that that people are feeding the birds, which makes them fat. The pigeons get bigger because their normal diet would consist of seeds and insects, not high-fat junk food they are eating in the city centre. The council want people to know that everyone who feeds the pigeons is responsible for the streets being so crowded with these birds. They hope to encourage the birds to move away from the city centre and into parks and open spaces. Ten robotic birds have been brought into the city centre to scare the pigeons away and visitors are asked not to give the pigeons any food. The mechanical birds - known as 'robops' - will sit on the roofs of buildings. They can be moved around to different locations. They look like a peregrine falcon, which is a bird that kills pigeons. They even make noises and flap their wings to scare the pigeons. They hope that the pigeons will go away before the city becomes the European Capital of Culture in two years.

Questions Q1 - Pigeons are fatter in Liverpool than in other cities. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q2 - Pigeons get fat because they eat seeds and insects. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q3 - According to the council, everyone is to blame for the numbers of pigeons. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q4 - They want the pigeons to move out of the city centre. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q5 - Visitors shouldn't feed the pigeons. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q6 - The robotic birds can move around the city centre. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Q7 - Liverpool is the European Capital of Culture. Right Wrong Doesn't say

Selling human eggs

A twenty-five-year-old English woman has advertised 1) __________ own eggs for sale 2) __________ the internet to pay off her credit card debt. She 3) __________ that she has three jobs - a day job and two part-time jobs in pubs 4) __________ the evening, but thinks selling her eggs would be a better way to 5) __________ out her money problems. Last year, the law changed and children 6) __________ from donated eggs can be told 7) __________ their biological mother is. Since then, fewer women have been donating eggs. Critics 8) __________ that it is dangerous to donate eggs and also say that people should do it for free and not for money. Despite the critics, it is likely that paying for eggs will become more common in the future.

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Star Wars
The plain, brown cloak that Sir Alec Guinness 1) __________ when he played the character Obi-Wan Kenobi 2) __________ the Star Wars films is part 3) __________ a collection of film and television costumes that will be sold. Alec Guiness died 4) __________ 2000. 5) __________ cloak disappeared thirty years ago and was then used in 6) __________ films. It was even used by people going 7) __________ fancy dress parties. Experts think it will 8) __________ for 40,000.

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