(Upstream text booklet,page 3)

(advanced vocabulary and idioms by Thomas)

Now/almost/provided/mine/bay/triple/reminders/them
Personal/reliable/state-of-art/inbuilt/incoming/outlay/maintenance/representative
Done well, the tango is perhaps one of the most exciting dances to watch and to perform, and today it
seems to be more popular than ever. Yet when it began, and for a long time x/afterwards, the dance
was shunned by the upper circles of Argentine society. At a time when all fashionable dances were
performed in linear or circular arrangements by groups of dancers, the mere/very idea of a man and a
woman in such physically close/close physical proximity was considered vulgar and immoral. European
society was ambivalent even about the waltz (in which partners actually had to touch each other) which
was only just beginning to catch on there. Yet, despite the attached stigma/stigma attached to it, the
tango soon became the dance to know.
Today there are many different versions of tire tango, and different ideas about where and when the
dance originated from/x. One story tells of how the tango began in the lower class districts of Buenos
Aires towards the end of the nineteenth century. The gauchos, after a long day riding horses, should/
would arrive to dance with the women in the bars. Legend has it that the woman would dance at arm’s
length from him, with her head throwing/thrown far back, trying to distance herself from his working
day odour, while he would walk with his knees flexed because of his stiff clothes. Together they would
bend their bodies to manoeuvre in the space available among/between the tables. Thus the tango was
born.
(IELTS 9,OFFICIAL, page 98)
(advanced trainer six practice tests, page 178)