Test 4 Part 2 For questions 13-27, read the article below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0), Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. LLTTTTT TTT example: [2] sq [fee The toughest runners There are a few runners who have completed every London Marathon (0) .... the first race in 1981. They are the toughest runners of (13) ..... These athletes, (14) .... honour of both their mental and physical strength, have been given a permanent entry in the event for the rest of their lives, provided that they do not miss a year. Other people have run the race faster or under greater handicaps, (16)... these are athletes with a mission. For (16) ..., the annual event is a way of life, not just a worthy fund-raising exercise (17)... single challenge. Bill O'Connor is fone of these runners. In (18) ..... case, running is @ daily ritual which began in New Zealand (19)... a8 a youngster, he pounded along the wet sand on the edge of the Tasman Sea. Now aged fifty, (20) .... working as a mathematics teacher at a school in London, he retains his fascination (21) .... the London Marathon and the activity of running, He says, ‘When the first London Marathon was held, | thought (22)... myself that here was a challenge. | thought that if there was only going to be one race, | wanted to have run in (28)... .” But the London Marathon went (24) .... to become the most impressive success story in British sport and Bill O'Connor has been a constant part of it, (26) ... he ever felt that he would fail to finish? ‘In 1986. It was a beautiful day and | started running much (26) .... fast for the first mile and got worried. So | slowed down for the next mile, Yet (27) ....| expected I would take at least four hours, | finished in two hours thirty-four minutes and twenty-nine seconds.’ Itis his best time so far. 98