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Windsurfing Enthusiasts' Journey

The document discusses the author's experience learning to windsurf over six years ago. It details how they fell in love with the sport after first trying it by accident on vacation and have since made it their profession by opening a windsurfing school and shop. The author explains that windsurfing is a very stimulating sport as long as common sense is used.

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Windsurfing Enthusiasts' Journey

The document discusses the author's experience learning to windsurf over six years ago. It details how they fell in love with the sport after first trying it by accident on vacation and have since made it their profession by opening a windsurfing school and shop. The author explains that windsurfing is a very stimulating sport as long as common sense is used.

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Windsurfing

Read the text below and decide which answer A, B or C best fits each space. Only one answer is
correct.

I .................................. ( 1 ) windsurfing now for six years, and teaching others to do it for most of
the time. I run a windsurfer school and shop with my wife Jane.
I don’t think I chose windsurfing ................................. ( 2 ) a hobby or profession:windsurfing
chose me. Strangely enough, I had never even seen anyone ............................ ( 3 ) before I went to
sailing school on a Caribbean island in the summer of 1975. ........................... ( 4 ) a school there, but
no one was very proficient. After all, they had only had their boats a month when I arrived. However,
.............................. ( 5 ) I saw people enjoying the sport, I decided ........................... ( 6 ) it up. I had
been sailing for at least ten years, and in some ways it seemed .............................. ( 7 ) another sailing
boat: at least it had a sail. And I saw it as ............................. ( 8 ) challenge.
Probably because I have done so much windsurfing since then, I can’t remember every .........
........................... ( 9 ) of my first experience. ............................. ( 10 ) I do remember is that I couldn’t
even stand up on the thing at first, but after I had fallen off quite ................................ ( 11 ) times, I
soon caught on, and by the end of that first day, was doing quite well.
For me windsurfing is ................................. ( 12 ) sport. And it’s not dangerous as long as you
use your common sense and follow what you .................................. (13 ). I’ve certainly never broken
any bones: I’ve never even injured myself.
It wasn’t until after I ............................... ( 14 ) back to Britain that I came across proper courses
for people who want to take up windsurfing. If I’d gone to a proper school at the start, life ..............
........................ ( 15 ) much easier.

1.) A ‘d been B ‘ve been C am


2.) A as B like C than
3.) A windsurfed B to windsurf C windsurfing
4.) A There is B There was C It was
5.) A as soon as B quickly C early
6.) A take B to take C taking
7.) A as B like C so
8.) A - B the Ca
9.) A detail B details C of the details
10.) A That B Which C What
11.) A a little B few C a few
12.) A very stimulating B the most stimulated C the most stimulating
13.) A are taught B have taught C had taught
14.) A had come B have come C came
15.) A will be B would have been C will have been

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