Grammar, Vocabulary and All That. Плужникова Ю.А. - 102 стр.

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Text One
You are going to read a newspaper article about a schoolboy race walker. Eight
sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A – I the
one which fits each gap (1 – 7). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to
use. There is an example at the beginning (0).
A schoolboy with the world at his feet
STUART MONK`S mates hate
walking to school with him . It`s only
10 minutes from the 16-year-old`s
home, even for those going slowly
because they can`t face a maths
lesson. Others, happy that they have
done their homework, will probably
take half that time. [ 0 | I ]
‘Everybody keeps telling me to slow
down when I`m walking with them,’
he admits. [ 1 | ] He happens
to be Britain`s brightest star in the
un-glamorous sport of race walking.
At the national junior
championships in two weeks` time,
he will be trying for a sub-45minute
time in the 10km walk to qualify for
the European Championships.
[ 2 | ] ‘But his times have been
58, 54, 50 and 46 minutes,’ says his
trainer, Pauline Wilson proudly. ‘And
in the last race he had an injury
which slowed him up a bit.
Race walking is a strange sport.
People laugh at it because the number
of walkers who are disqualified during
races. With no technology to help
them, judges have to decide whether
the rules are being broken because a
walker has failed to keep contact with
the ground. Since walkers are going so
fast, it`s hard for them to do so
accurately. Every top walker has been
disqualified from a race at one time or
another.
[ 3 | ] It`s so common that under
the rules you are warned twice before
being thrown out of a race.
Race walking hasn`t been very good
at responding to bad publicity, even
though it`s got a very strong argument
purely on health grounds. It is the
perfect form of exercise, using all the
large muscles, and it causes very few
injuries, even if you`re moving along as
fast as the average cyclist. It`s also a
wonderfully cheap sport. [ 4 | ]

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