PART A) Complete the text with the words in the box.

become – crime – guilty – history – minutes – sell – sentence – stolen – thieves – trial -
arrested

Stephen Blumberg and His Stolen Books

In any unusual case, Stephen C. Blumberg was today given a

six-year prison 1) __________ for the theft of rare books

from the libraries and universities. At his 2) ____________,

he was found 3)___________ of stealing more than 20.000 books from 327
different places. In total, the books were worth about 20 million, making this
the largest 4) ___________ of its kind in American 5) ___________.

Like many book 6) ___________, Blumberg was also a book lover.According

to a friend, he didn’t go to bed at night but instead read boks until morning,
falling asleep in his chair for a few 7) ___________ at a time,then waking up to
continue reading. He did not 8) ____________ any of the books that he had 9)
___________, but stored them tidily in his 17-room home in Ottumwa, Iowa.
His ambition, according to his friend, was to 10) __________ the greatest rae-
book thief of the century.

PART B) Use the past perfect to complete the sentences.

1. Last summer Pam said, “ I’ve always wanted to fly in a helicopter.”

Pam said that she _________________________________________.

2. Fred said, “Jack has just gone out.”

Fred told us that Jack ______________________________________.

3. Robert said to Jill, “I have never been to Cambridge.”

Robert said to Jill that ______________________________________.

4. “ I know your cousin,” said Tom. “ I met her in Amsterdam.”

Tom said he knew my cousin because ____________________________.

5. Bob was talking to Jean, and he said, “ Japan is the most interesting country
I’ve ever visited. “

Bob told Jean that __________________________________________.

PART C) Seven sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from
sentences a-h the one that best fits each gap.There is one extra sentence
that you don’t need.

a) The three men dissappeared one night and were never seen again.

b) Most men could extend their arms and touch the wall on either side.

c) Thirty-six men tried to escape, including two who tried to escape twice.

d) It is hard to get to and it is even harder to escape from.

e) However, the prison was finally closed in 1963.

f) The other five are stil listed as “missing”.

g) Most people think they drowned trying to swim over to the shore.

h) So they started building a prison, and from the 1930s to the 1960s, Alcatraz
was America’s top security prison.
 Every year over one million tourists board the ferry from San Francisco
and visit Alcatraz, which was once the toughest prison in the USA.

Alcatraz is a small, rocky island in the San Francisco Bay. 1) It is

isolated and surrounded by icy cold waters with dangerous currents. It was first
a military fortress, but by the end of the 1860s the army realised it was an ideal
place for putting dangerous prisoners. 2)

The cells were very small. Each cell measured just 1.5 metres by 2.7
metres. 3) Each cell had a small sink and toilet, and a narrow bed. Prisoners
weren’t allowed to talk to each other much, and there were very strict rules
with harsh punishments for those who broket hem. Each prisoner was allowed
one visitor per month.

In spite of the difficulty of getting from the island to the mainland, there
were many attempts by prisoners to escape. 4) Twenty-three men were
recaptured, six others were shot and killed during their escape, and two
drowned trying to swim across the bay. 5) The Hollywood film Escape
from Alcatraz tells the story of three of those men. Clint Eastwood played the
part of real-life prisoner Frank Morris, who, along with two friends planned a
very clever escape over seven months. 6) The police looked fort hem for
years but nobody knows what happened to them

7) After all, if someone had managed to escape from Alcatraz, they

would want to reappear and tell the world about it somehow!