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Rod, who is a well-off businessman, lives in a
big
three storey detached
house
beside a river. He occupies the ground floor and
lets
the rooms on the other floors to students. His
cellar
is full of expensive French wines. Christine, Rod's
girlfriend
lives in a bedsit. The
building
in which she lives is a modern high-rise block on the
edge
of town. She used to
rent
a basement flat and, as you can
imagine
there wasn't much of a
view
from her window.

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Last summer Christine visited some penfriends in Poland. On a
journey
by train from the
city
of Gda¤sk to the
town
of Radom, she met some farmers' wives who
invited
her to stay at their
village
named Jaszczur˘wka, in Zakopane, near the Czech
border
. The highlight of her holiday was her
visit
to Krak˘w. She told her friends what a
great
centre of culture it was: the museums,
churches
and historical monuments were fascinating.



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Rod and Maureen are planning a quiet
holiday
in East Anglia, where they'll be travelling on
canals
by barge. Having worked hard all
year
Rod and Christine are looking forward to a bit of
relaxation
All those green fields and quiet waterways will be a pleasant
sight
for them. Originally, they had intended to
go
on a windsurfing holiday, but when they went to the local
store
they were told by the shop assistant that there were
no
windsurf boards in stock and nobody knew when the next
delivery
would be because there was a strike at the
factory
.

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Driving along a dark, icy country
road
at 80mph on his way home from a Christmas Eve
party
Rick felt confident that he could handle his
car
while under the influence of
alcohol
. Suddenly he braked thinking he had seen an animal in the
middle
of the road. The car skidded, swerved and hit a
tree
. Rick lost consciousness for a couple of
minutes
and when he came to he felt a sharp
pain
in his leg. It must be
broken
, he thought. As well as this, he felt a dull
ache
in his head. He was lucky to be alive.

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Rick's car hit a tree. Rick managed to
get
out of the car, but as he did so he
slipped
and fell over. Holding on to the door
handle
he pulled himself up. He saw that the front of his
car
was badly
damaged
. After a minute or so considering what to do, he
decided
to make his way to the nearest village. He
closed
the car door, without bothering to
lock
it. Nobody could steal it in that condition. Slowly
he
limped along the road, sliding on his bottom whenever the
surface
sloped or was too icy.

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I remember a film, I forget what it was
called
, in which four people were interrogated about the
character
and life style of a woman who had been
murdered
. All of them had
known
her well, but to
each
of them she presented a different picture. The
man
who loved her knew her as amusing and intelligent. The
girl
who had been at
school
with her said she was reserved and slow to make friends. Her
boss
, for whom she worked as a secretary, found her hardworking but
boring
, the last person to inspire passion, let alone murder.

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Customs
officers
at London Airport yesterday found $100,000 worth of
drugs
which were being smuggled into Britain in
boxes
labelled "Urgent Medical Supplies". The authorities have
suspected
for some time that drugs were being brought into the
country
in this way. The operation is believed to be the work of a
well
organized international gang. Four men were
arrested
at the airport and held for questioning, but it is
unlikely
that they are the organisers. In fact they said that they were
unaware
of what the boxes contained and had acted in good
faith
in bringing them into Britain.

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For a
number
of reasons my images of Italy
seem
to be dominated by
thousands
of roads and the journeys I have made along them. The wide
motorways
sweep majestically across the landscape as
if
to demonstrate that the Italians of today know as much
about
road building as their ancestors. I am not the
only
enthusiast for the Italian highway system. Charles Dickens
wrote
: "There is nowhere in Italy more beautiful to me
than
the coast road between Genoa and Spezia". It is easy to
understand
why he was so attracted to that pleasant stretch of coastline.

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In 1935 Amelia Earhart, the first
woman
to fly from America to Europe, began a round-the-world
flight
, starting in California and going west, but she crashed
on
take-off in Honolulu and had to
give
up the attempt. However, in 1937 she decided to
try
again, this
time
in the opposite direction. A month after leaving
California
she was in New Guinea where she was
preparing
for the flight to Howland island, a small Pacific island
where
no aircraft had ever landed. The
distance
between these two points was over 4000 kilometres.

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Students who come
to
England to learn English usually want to
live
with a family. More
often
than not, life in the average British nuclear
family
doesn't differ very much
from
life in the average family at home. The British family may be
made
up of fewer members; there may be only two
children
, but family life itself follows the well-known daily
pattern
. Take the Browns for example. They live in a small
semi
-detached house outside London with a small
garden
and front yard, not to mention a garage.

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The Browns live in a small semi-detached
house
outside London with a small garden and front
yard
not to mention a garage. Their two children attend a local
school
and leave home about eight every morning. Mr Brown goes to
work
a little earlier, and Mrs Brown, who was a teacher before her
marriage
, has recently got a job in a local
primary
school. Their house is not new, in fact it was built in Victorian
times
, at least a hundred years ago. Mrs Brown, who is very
keen
on gardening, says she feels the garden is the only
part
of the place that hasn't really changed
since
the nineteenth century.

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As a boy I would play
football
every weekend, usually on
Saturday
. I never used to mind the cold. I was always coming
back
home covered in bruises. Recently, I talked to some
friends
about the old days. We realised that our interest in sport had
changed
. Now we stay at home and
watch
football and tennis matches on television. Our wives complain
that
they have been made "football widows". Some of us have
hobbies
, such as woodwork or drawing and others learn foreign
languages
. Almost all of us do some gardening at the weekend or even a
bit
of jogging, which has become very popular.

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Like many cities in Europe, ours is
made
up of numerous small villages. The
city
began spilling over and pushing out in the nineteenth
century
after the railway had ruined the look of the place anyway.
The
earliest traces of permanent building go
back
to the Romans. First they put up a camp beside a bend in the
river
after forcing the local tribe to move out. The camp was then
destroyed
by the tribe who unfortunately were felled like
trees
during the attack. A hundred
years
later Romans had walled the area in, pulled down the old
buildings
, and made a town.

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There are several plans of action to quit smoking. The first
plan
is to decide a few weeks in
advance
that you are going to give it up. Then cut down slowly
during
the weeks ahead. And then give it up
for
good. The second plan works better when you're
on
holiday. The change in your day
habits
helps you to give it up. Or try walking to
work
for a change. Also develop an interest
in
a different newspaper, or even listen
to
programmes on the radio instead of always watching TV. The third
way
is changing your eating pattern. Try to cut down on snacks.

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A true
journalist
will deny himself every comfort to get a
story
for his paper. He will sit out all night in pouring
rain
, will subject himself to below zero
temperatures
, will put up with floods and never complain. Many
people
feel they have little to thank journalists for except a constant
flow
of bad news. But the journalist works like a dog in conditions
that
would give almost anybody else bad dreams for life. Not
to
mention shattered nerves and bitten 
nails
. All the time the journalist has to compete 
with
other newsmen for stories that are becoming harder to get.

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If you were to go into your local supermarket on a weekday
morning
about eleven o'clock, you
would
almost certainly find more than half of the cash points
not
working. You would have to stand in a
queue
for as long as it had earlier taken you to choose your
goods
from the shelves. You should not be surprised. The managers can't get
enough
people to work for them. If you asked what was the
solution
to the problem, the manager would probably
tell
you that the new laser-scanning system is the answer. It
gives
you a bill more quickly than a human
cashier
can and it can provide a list of the items on your receipt.

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Some people have opinions about everything and are ready to
give
you their opinion at the drop of a hat. You can't
stop
some people from
telling
you what they think about doctors the moment you happen to
mention
visiting a sick friend in
hospital
. You just can't avoid hearing all about it. Another friend tells
you
what needs putting right in the
world
if you merely say you heard the government is thinking
about
putting the price of petrol up again. Only a brave
person
or an idiot would ever argue
with
anyone like that.

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Coventry is an old
town
. It is a great engineering
centre
, producing motorcars and bicycles. During the Second
World
War Coventry was one of the most heavily
bombed
British towns. Shortly after the war a large
part
of the town was completely
rebuilt
. Now it looks very modern. The new shopping centre
is
particularly interesting because there is no road
traffic
in it at all. It is a large square with
buildings
on two sides. There are shops on the ground
floor
and the first floor and flats above.

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In the old days before photography was
invented
, kings often had court painters to their courts. The main
job
of a court painter was to make portraits of the
king
, his family, his courtiers and his friends. Hans Holbein, the
court
painter of King Henry VIII, was
born
in Bavaria in 1515. He became court
painter
in 1535. He made several portraits for the king. Many of
them
were destroyed by fire, but there are some fine examples
of
Holbein's art to be seen at the National
Gallery
, at Windsor Castle and at other
famous
galleries.

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On April 14th, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln went
to
Ford's Theatre in Washington to
see
a performance of a play called "Our American Cousin". The
president
, his wife and some friends arrived at the
theatre
at about nine o'clock. At ten o'clock John Wilkes Booth, a well
known
actor and a Confederate fanatic, entered the theatre
and
went straight towards Lincoln's box. He had no
difficulty
in entering the theatre because
everyone
there knew him well. He waited
until
the president's guard left his place outside the box and
went
away. Booth entered the box and fired his gun at Lincoln's head.