1. This text is about Jane Turner, who began her chocolate making business in a village near the seaside resort three years ago. Its also about the development of her business and a range of difficulties connected with production of chocolates.
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3. She began with making cakes and she supplied hotels and restaurants with cakes. Then she began trying to make her own chocolates and clients ordered more. That is how the chocolate making grew.
4. She sold her cakes and chocolate over the internet. It was expensive to get a professionally designed website set up. It was also very expensive to deliver them to faraway places.
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1. Arthur Conan Doyle stopped writing about Sherlock Holmes because it took up too much of his time. 2. It was exciting for Anthony Horowitz to deal with the character because he didnt want to disappoint people who loved books about Sherlock Holmes.
3. He found it fairly easy to write because he had always loved those books.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE()
1. This text is about Agatha Christie, the famous crime writer in England. It is said about her life, about her unhappy marriage with her husband Archie Christie.
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3. The detectives immediately organized a big search of the area, where Agatha Christies car was found. Policemen came from different parts of the country.
4. According to the article Agatha was going through an unhappy time with her husband.
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1. The boy wants to go and see a football match with his friends on Sunday.
2. His mum wants to drive to the country, take a long walk in the wood and have a picnic by the lake.
3. They cant make a decision because they have to talk to dad first.
PABLO PICASSO()
1. This text is about one of the greatest artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso. He experimented in many different styles and changed the world of art during his time. His career had some periods. Some facts of his life had a great influence on those periods.
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3. Picasso learned to paint from his father and then in Barcelona in art academy.
4. ne of his styles was his Blue Period, then his Rose Period and cubism. In his Blue Period he painted in gray and blue tones, in his Rose Period he painted in rose, pink and brown, in the period which was called cubism he didnt show nature as it really was.
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1. Carry usually gets up at about 10 a.m. She goes to the gym or to a jazz class. She meets friends, then they go to the theatre where they work.
2. Kerry doesnt follow a diet or go to the gym because she doesnt need to do it.
3. Kerry advises the beginners to be confident and to keep practising.
9.GOOD NEWS FOR CHOCOLATE LOVERS! ()
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1. This text is about chocolate. Studies carried out in the United States show that chocolate is very useful for our health. But we should eat reasonable amounts of chocolate.
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3. People often believe that chocolate causes a number of health problems including bad teeth, obesity and skin problems such as acne.
4. Chocolate contains protein, vitamins and minerals. Scientists believe chocolate may reduce the risk of heart disease. Even the smell of chocolate can have a positive effect on our immune system.
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1. Alex is thinking about the gifts he should bring back home from England for everyone.
2. He wants to bring soldiers as a gift for his parents because they are not only very colourful, they represent English traditions too.
3. Alex will buy a DVD for his brother.
10.DO VERY CLEVER CHILDREN NEED HELP? ()
1. This text is about especially gifted children. They feel different to other children of their age. They have to study with people who are older than them. But they must be allowed to stay children.
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3. They can become lonely, lazy & behave badly because they are bored.
4. Parents have to help their children develop but they cant push their child too hard. Parents & teachers should motivate them & allow them to be children.
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1. His favourite time is riding on horseback on a hot sunny day with a little breeze.
2. Making different things relaxes him (her). Besides, he (she) gets satisfaction from having made something useful.
3. The third speaker doesnt move enough watching TV all the time, so he (she) has put on a lot of weight.
FAMILY HISTORY()
1. This text is about the importance of researching our familys past. We can learn a lot of interesting things about our family. In the future our children and their children may be very grateful to us.
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3. They want to know more about their ancestors.
4. We should interview all our members, make a basic family tree of our close family & step by step make it bigger. We should check everything what our relatives say.
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1. At the moment they have 150 applicants, but they expect there will be 200 by the race itself.
2. They would like to organize the starting line somewhere that has a place to warm up, the Town Hall, for example.
3. They need to have first aid points in case the runners have problems.
12.BULLYING AGAIN? ()
1. This text is about bullying in high school. Some students suffer from their classmates. We should know how to behave in such situations.
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3. At first, she tried to keep it in and not tell anyone except for her friends. But then she told everything to her mum. She thinks that its very important to bring it to the attention of adults.
4. She is sure that its very important to ignore bullying and have confidence in yourself. We need to focus on what we want to achieve and not let people get in our way or upset us. We should tell a trusted adult, tell all our friends. If we keep it inside, its just going to eat us.
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1. Maggys favourite places in London are Buckingham Palace, St. Jamess Park, St. Jamess Palace and Piccadilly Circus.
2. In the evening they are going to visit an entertainment area of Piccadilly Circus with lots of pubs and cafes.
3. Alex wants to go to a cafe because he is starving and wouldnt mind having a bite.
13.SHAKESPEARE'S PORTRAIT? ()
1. This text is about the portrait of a man who can be the most famous author of English literature William Shakespeare. After the series of investigation the owner of the portrait is 90 % sure it is of William Shakespeare.
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3. The Shakespeare expert and the owner of the newly-discovered painting dated and X-rayed his painting. They now believe it was painted in 1610, when Shakespeare was 46 years old six years before he died. Mr Cobbe thinks he could prove the portrait was originally owned by the Earl of Southampton, who supported Shakespeare when he was writing his plays.
4. Because there is no proof the Janssen portrait is actually a picture of Shakespeare.
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1. According to the first speaker, a lot of people today travel not in order to learn, but to have a good time and usually on their terms.
2. The second speaker describes people who never travel as narrow-minded and ignorant.
3. According to the third speaker, when you travel you can see, feel and touch other ways of living. You appreciate your own life then and see things in a different way.
