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How did he do it? “You have to be (10) ______, and you have to really
want to get to the top. Believe in yourself, and tell yourself you’re the
best.”
Text B
generosity, tidied, gardens, family, horses
, village, Perhaps, problems, to
fight, old
$3 MILLION FOR A VET
Vet Peter Pocock has been left a fortune by a spinster whose (1) horses
and
dogs he looked after.
The 90-year-old spinster, Miss Marguerite de Beaumont, was helped in
many ways by Mr Pocock. He cleaned and (2) _____ her 11-room Elizabethan
mansion when she became too (3) _____ and ill to care for it. When she died
she left him everything in her will: her money, the house and (4) _____, her
stables – all of which is worth $3 million.
Miss de Beaumont’s (5) ______ are furious. Her niece, Mrs Charmian
Pickford said “We are very upset. We are going (6) _____ the will. My aunt
didn’t know what she was doing – she was senile in her last years.”
Mr Pocock lives in the next (7) ______ with his wife and baby daughter.
They were shocked by Miss de Beaumont’s (8) _______. “We can’t believe
it,” said Mrs Pocock, “So much money is wonderful, but will it make us
happier? Money can bring (9) ______. Our hope is that the mansion will be
made beautiful again. (10) _____ we can do it now with the money.”
Text C
sharks, a life
-raft, to hit, a machine, Costa Rica, raw, the water, hands,
Then, condition
COUPLE WHO SURVIVED AN AMAZING 66 DAYS AT SEA
A couple from Miami, Bill and Simone Butler, spent 66 days in (1) a life-
raft in the seas of Central America after their yacht sank. They survived in
very good (2) ________.
21 days after they left Panama in their yacht they met some whales. “They
started (3) ______ the side of the boat,” said Bill, “and then suddenly we heard
water.” Two minutes later, the yacht was sinking. They jumped into the life-
raft and watched the boat go under (4) _____.

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