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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 the focus of today’s programme differ ranking points, a position which made it impossible for
from other programmes in the series? him to live off playing tennis professionally, so he had to
_________________________________________________ find employment as hospital cleaner. His luck changed,
2 Where does information about the game however, when Tennis Australia announced that they
come from? did not have enough players for the Tasmanian Open.
_________________________________________________ Mark entered the tournament and won, which allowed
3 What does Mark think about the actual number of him to enter the Australian Open as one of the lowest-
players in the original game? ranked players. Ten days later, he defeated the favourite,
_________________________________________________ John Newcombe, in the final but, instead of celebrating,
immediately caught the tram back to his house in the
4 How popular was the game in the past?
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 In the Tokyo Olympics, Bikila Abebe should have been
INCREDIBLE SPORTS VICTORIES the favourite, but _______________________ an
A Olympic gold in the marathon twice in a row before.
Until the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, an athlete from 2 Not only did he come first in the marathon in
Ethiopia, Bikila Abebe, had been a nobody in the world the 1964 Olympics, Bikila Adebe also broke
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
favourites. But nothing could have been further from the 3 In the 1980 Olympics, the chances of the US team
winning the gold medal _____________________ .
truth, as all the odds were against him. Firstly, nobody
had ever successfully defended the Olympic marathon 4 The Americans took the lead
title before. Worse, he had undergone an emergency ___________________________ of the game.
operation several weeks before the competition, so when Text C
he arrived in Tokyo, he wasn’t expected to compete at all 5 Since 1976, no __________________________ to win
as he was still walking with a limp. Moreover, between the Australian Open.
his surgery and the race, he hadn’t had a single training 6 Edmonson believed that the fact that he knew
session. Amazingly, not only did he win the race, leaving ____________________________ helped him win
his opponents far behind, but he also managed to break the Australian Open.
his own Olympic record by nearly three minutes.
B __ / 6
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 6  Choose the correct option.

3  Complete the sentences with the missing words. 1 What an amazing finish! Both of the runners are
1 I think the same as you do about it. So, we’re in neck and neck / head and head heading towards
____________ about the issue. the finish line.
2 To ____________ up, I do recommend this fitness 2 After the drug affair, he was stripped / suspended
activity to anyone who wants to get in shape quickly. from competing in any official contests for half
a year.
3 He started jogging regularly. Soon ____________,
he was able to run several kilometres a day. 3 It’s a new sport, but it’s getting / catching on quickly.
It’s becoming more and more popular each year.
4 A I was thinking of making Mary responsible for
preparing invitations, what do you think? 4 Tina is bound to win the race. She’s been in the
lead / front since the beginning.
B Well, it might ____________ as she’s well-
organised and talented.
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5 He has decided to enter the sailing race in June.
7  Complete the sentences with the missing words.
____________ then, he should have renovated and
refitted his boat. The first letters have been given.

__ / 5 1 Some athletes might t____________ to performance-

enhancing drugs because they want to win at all
costs.
Vocabulary 2 Miriam wasn’t able to continue the race, so she
decided to d____________ out of it.
4  Complete the sentences with the missing words. 3 The medical tests gave a clear answer, so he had to
1 There was something wrong with his bike so a____________ to taking some illegal substances to
he started to ____________ behind the leading group boost his performance.
of cyclists. 4 Our team has been u____________ since the season
2 Unfortunately, Thomas McMannus, our top tennis started. We haven’t lost a single game yet.
player, has been on a ____________ streak for a few __ / 4
months. He hasn’t won any important tournaments
recently. Grammar
3 Peter can beat me at table tennis any time. I’m no
____________ match for him. 8  Complete the sentences with the correct past tense
forms of the verbs in brackets.
4 Although we won the game 4:1, the ____________
didn’t come easily. The other team put up a good During our cycling trip in the forest yesterday, Mike
fight in the first half. badly 1________________________ (damage) his new
__ / 4 bike which he 2________________________ (buy) only
a few days earlier. We 3________________________
(ride) for only about half an hour when an accident
5  Complete the sentences with appropriate 4
________________________ (happen). Just as Mike
prepositions. 5
________________________ (turn) right into a forest
1 I first got ____________ judo during our PE classes path, another cyclist 6________________________
at school. It’s been my passion ever since. (crash) into him. Fortunately, neither of them was badly
injured.
2 Neither of the teams scored, so the game ended
____________ a draw. __ / 6
3 The organisers are going to run a series of checks
____________ the equipment used by the
participants.
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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.
Czasopismo młodzieżowe ogłosiło konkurs na artykuł,
1 It isn’t Helen’s routine to work out every morning. w którym czytelnicy mogą opisać dyscyplinę
Helen ______________________________ every sportową będącą ich pasją. Napisz do gazety artykuł
morning.  WORK (200–250 słów), w którym opiszesz, w jaki sposób
2 Now I play tennis much more often than I did zainteresowałeś/ zainteresowałaś się swoją ulubioną
in the past. dyscypliną sportową, oraz wyjaśnisz, jakie korzyści
I ______________________________ tennis as often przynosi uprawianie tej konkretnej dyscypliny.
as I do now.  USE
3 I find it annoying when my brother criticises my ________________________________________________
football skills.
My brother ______________________________ ________________________________________________
my football skills. IS
4 My parents went hiking in the mountains quite often ________________________________________________
when they were younger.
My parents ______________________________ ________________________________________________
hiking in the mountains quite often
when they were younger.  WOULD ________________________________________________

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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.
go mature demand do stand high try ________________________________________________

When a few months ago Betty suggested that I could ________________________________________________

go climbing in the mountains with her, I just laughed __ / 10
at the idea. It is a pretty 1____________ sport, and
I don’t like pushing my body to the limit. What is more,
although I’m not terrified of 2____________, they still
make me feel rather uncomfortable. But, somehow, she
managed to convince me that it was safe, so I eventually
agreed to go.
A week later, I was 3____________ at the foot of a high
wall of rock, thinking that I must have gone crazy. It was
the first time I had 4____________ to do anything so
daring! Anyway, one careful step after another, with
the help from my friend, I managed to climb all the
way up to the top.
I felt incredibly with my achievement!
No wonder since then I have been 5____________
climbing regularly, and I’m planning to spend next
summer in the Dolomites.
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