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Listening C
1  02 Listen to an interview with a sports historian The 1976 Australian Open was the last time the
and answer the questions. competition was won by an Australian. At the time
Mark Edmonson was a low ranking player with just 11
1 How does today’s programme differ from previous ranking points, a position which made it impossible for
ones in the series? him to live off playing tennis professionally, so he had to
_________________________________________________ find employment as hospital cleaner. His luck changed,
2 Why do the historical re-enactment groups often rely however, when Tennis Australia announced that they
on their imagination when playing the game? did not have enough players for the Tasmanian Open.
_________________________________________________ Mark entered the tournament and won, which allowed
3 What equipment is used to play the game? him to enter the Australian Open as one of the lowest-
ranked players. Ten days later, he defeated the favourite,
_________________________________________________
John Newcombe, in the final but, instead of celebrating,
4 According to Mark, what is the most surprising fact immediately caught the tram back to his house in the
about the game?
Melbourne suburbs. In later interviews, he put his
_________________________________________________ amazing success down to the fact that he was perfectly
familiar with the way the favourites played, while they
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had no idea what he was capable of. Clearly, he knew
nothing about his own potential, either!
Reading
2  Read the texts and complete the sentences. Text A
1 Before the 1960 Olympic Games, Bikila Abebe hadn’t
INCREDIBLE SPORTS VICTORIES been __________________________ .
A 2 When Bikila Abebe arrived in Tokyo, it was assumed
Until the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, an athlete from he wouldn’t _________________________ because of
Ethiopia, Bikila Abebe, had been a nobody in the world a recent operation.
of marathon running. However, after winning a  gold
medal there, running barefoot on cobblestone streets, Text B
four years later in Tokyo, he should have been one of the 3 The US hockey team wasn’t made up of
favourites. But nothing could have been further from the ____________________________ .
truth, as all the odds were against him. Firstly, nobody 4 American ice-hockey fans were not able to
had ever successfully defended the Olympic marathon ____________________________ .
title before. Worse, he had undergone an emergency Text C
operation several weeks before the competition, so when 5 In 1970s, Mark Edmonson
he arrived in Tokyo, he wasn’t expected to compete at all ____________________________ as a tennis player,
as he was still walking with a limp. Moreover, between so he also worked as a cleaner.
his surgery and the race, he hadn’t had a single training 6 After ___________________________ , Edmonson
session. Amazingly, not only did he win the race, leaving went straight back to his suburban house.
his opponents far behind, but he also managed to break
his own Olympic record by nearly three minutes. __ / 6
B
At the Winter Olympics, held at Lake Placid in 1980, the
US ice-hockey team made it to the finals, along with
the team from the USSR. No one had much hope that
the Americans would win a gold medal, however. Why
was that? Well, the USSR team had won gold medals
at six of the previous seven Olympics, and they were all
pros. The US team, on the other hand, was made up of
amateur and college players. Once the game had started,
the USSR team took the lead three times, with the US team
just managing to equalise each time. Then, in the third
period, the US scored a goal that gave them a one-point
lead and, despite some furious attacking from the other
side, managed to hang on to it. In the last moments of the
game, the crowd was counting down the final seconds. The
‘Miracle on Ice’ became one of the Olympics biggest
surprises. Disappointingly for American ice-hockey fans,
the game was not actually broadcast live, but was shown
at a later time on prime-time TV.

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Language functions
3  Complete the sentences with the missing words.
1 I’m afraid I can’t go ____________ with that
proposal.
I’d suggest a different solution.
2 To begin ____________, I want to say that doing
professional sport has a number of disadvantages.
3 She started practising several hours a day, and
it wasn’t long ____________ her skills improved
dramatically.
4 A I think we could promote the event by putting up
some posters in the city centre.
B That strategy might ____________ for some
citizens, but let’s also set it up as an event on
social media.
5 Doing extreme sports might result in serious injury.
____________ this, most of these sports are rather
expensive to try out.
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Vocabulary
4  Complete the sentences with the missing words.
1 Neither of the teams managed to score, so the game
ended in a ____________.
2 With six victories in a row, our local basketball team
have been on a winning ____________ since the
season started.
3 During the last lap, he got absolutely exhausted and
started falling ____________ the other runners.
4 Both of the boxers are determined to win, so this is
going to be a fight to the ____________!
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5  Complete the sentences with appropriate
prepositions.
1 He’s been ____________ the lead since the very start
of the race.
2 Unable to face the pressures of professional sport,
some athletes turn ____________ performance-
enhancing drugs.
3 After the scandal, Valerie was stripped ____________
all the medals she’d won before.
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6  Choose the correct option.
1 Frank is much better than me at tennis, so I’m no
equal match / contest for him.
2 When we heard about the competition, we quickly
made / put together a team to enter it.
3 Several sailing teams decided to fall / drop out of the
race due to the bad weather conditions.
4 I first got / took into scuba diving on holiday in
Egypt. I tried it and it was fascinating!
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7  Complete the sentences with the missing words.
The first letters have been given.
1 If they s____________ another loss, they won’t get
promoted to the top league.
2 The organisers decided to r____________ checks on
the equipment used by the competitors.
3 After his brutal foul during the game last week,
the player has been s____________ for the next five
matches, so we’ll only see him on the pitch again
in a few weeks.
4 Several football officials admitted to b____________
during the investigation. They’d illegally accepted
large sums of money from various sources.
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Grammar
8  Complete the sentences with the correct past tense
forms of the verbs in brackets.
Unfortunately, our football match in the amateur
league yesterday 1_________________ (not go) well.
We 2_________________ (play) for only about a quarter
of an hour when our striker 3_________________
(injure) his knee badly while he 4_________________
(take) a shot at goal. He 5_________________ (have)
problems with that knee earlier and was obviously
unable to continue playing. Not surprisingly, we
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_________________ (lose) the game 3:0.
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9  Complete the second sentence so that it means the Writing

same as the first using the words given. Write no more
11  Read the instruction and do the writing task.
than five words. Do not change the words given.
1 As a little girl, Sarah spent a lot of time drawing
and painting.
As a little girl, Sarah __________________________
a lot of time drawing and painting. WOULD
2 Recently, Tom has become terribly stubborn!
Tom __________________________
so stubborn!  BE
3 My granddad once kept a few horses on his farm.
My granddad __________________________
a few horses on his farm. TO
4 My ex-boyfriend had an annoying habit of talking
about car racing all the time!
My ex-boyfriend __________________________
about car racing! ALWAYS
Czasopismo młodzieżowe ogłosiło konkurs na
artykuł na temat roli szkoły w rozwijaniu zamiłowania
do uprawiania sportu. Napisz do gazety artykuł
(200–250 słów), w którym opiszesz przypadek osoby,
która dzięki zajęciom szkolnym rozwinęła pasję do
sportu, oraz wyjaśnisz, w jaki sposób szkoła może
propagować uprawianie sportu przez dzieci i młodzież.
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English in use ________________________________________________

10 Complete the text with the correct form of the words ________________________________________________
in the box. There are two extra words.
arrive satisfy attend believe support ________________________________________________
devote mature
________________________________________________
Last year, I went to London to visit my friend, who’s
a great fan of Tottenham Hotspur, and he invited me ________________________________________________
to go to a football match with him. I didn’t want to
disappoint him, so I agreed to go, although I’d always __ / 10
considered it a bit 1____________ to wear a football
scarf and shout and scream at a football stadium.
Anyway, on Saturday afternoon we 2____________ at
the stadium and sat in our seats. It was
the first time I 3____________ a football match, so
I watched the crowds of noisy fans in 4____________.
But I soon found the atmosphere intoxicating, and
halfway through the game, I was yelling my head off
along with the thousands of fans. So, one of the first
things I did after getting home was to buy a ticket for
the whole season, and since then, I 5____________ my
hometown club.
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