Unit 1: A day in the life of - Reading

Choose the one option - a, b, c or d - that best fits each of the num­bered blank. David Evans is a farmer. He does farming on his own land in Wales. The farm has (1)..............  his family for generations. The soil is poor. David (2)................ sheep on his land. He does not employ (3)................ fulltime workers. His sons help him when they are not (4)........... school. His wife adds to the family income by (5) ...............  eggs which her hens produce. In summer she often (6) ...............  paying guests into the farmhouse. The guests from the city enjoy their quiet holiday in the clean country (7)............... and Mrs. Evans enjoys having some (8)..............  money to spend on clothes for her children and herself. However, it is a lonely life for the Evans family when the guests have gone. The question is that if his children want to (9) ............... the farm when Mr. Evans gives up working. Country life is quiet and (10) ............... to them. It is quite likely that they will leave the farm for the city some day.

Read the passage, then choose the correct completion. Last year I went to Nepal for three months to York in a hospital. When the hospital let me have a few days' holiday, I decided to go into the jungle and I asked a Nepalese guide, Kamal Rai, to go with me. In the jungle there was a lot of wildlife, but we were trying to find big cats, especially tigers. We climbed onto the elephants' backs to get better view, but it is unusual to find tigers in the afternoon because they sleep in the heat o the day. Then, in the distance, we saw a tiger, and Kamal told me to be very quiet. We crept nearer and found a dead deer still bleeding. This was the tiger's lunch! Suddenly. I started to feel very frightened. We heard the tiger a second before we saw it. It jumped out like a flash of lightning, five hundred kilos plus and four meters long. I looked into its eyes and face, and saw right down the animal's throat. It grabbed Kornal's between its teeth, but I managed to pull Kamal away. One of our elephants ran at the tiger and made it go back into the grass, so we quickly escaped to let the tiger eat its lunch. That night it was impossible to sleep!