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Listening INCREDIBLE SPORTS VICTORIES

1 02 Listen to an interview with a sports historian and A

answer the questions. Until the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, an athlete from
1 How does today’s programme differ from previous ones Ethiopia, Bikila Abebe, had been a nobody in the world of
in the series? marathon running. However, after winning a gold medal there,
_________________________________________________ running barefoot on cobblestone streets, four years later in
Tokyo, he should have been one of the favourites. But nothing
2 Why do the historical re-enactment groups often rely on
could have been further from the truth, as all the odds were
their imagination when playing the game?
against him. Firstly, nobody had ever successfully defended
_________________________________________________ the Olympic marathon title before. Worse, he had undergone
3 What equipment is used to play the game? an emergency operation several weeks before the competition,
_________________________________________________ so when he arrived in Tokyo, he wasn’t expected to compete
4 According to Mark, what is the most surprising fact about at all as he was still walking with a limp. Moreover, between
the game? his surgery and the race, he hadn’t had a single training
_________________________________________________ session. Amazingly, not only did he win the race, leaving his
opponents far behind, but he also managed to break his own
__ / 4 Olympic record by nearly three minutes.

B
Reading
At the Winter Olympics, held at Lake Placid in 1980, the US
2 Read the texts and complete the sentences. 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.

C
The 1976 Australian Open was the last time the competition
was won by an Australian. At the time Mark Edmonson was a
low ranking player with just 11 ranking points, a position
which made it impossible for him to live off playing tennis
professionally, so he had to find employment as hospital
cleaner. His luck changed, however, when Tennis Australia
announced that they did not have enough players for the
Tasmanian Open. Mark entered the tournament and won,
which allowed 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, immediately caught the tram back to his house in
the 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 had no idea what he was
capable of. Clearly, he knew nothing about his own potential,
either!

Text A
1 Before the 1960 Olympic Games, Bikila Abebe hadn’t
been __________________________ .
2 When Bikila Abebe arrived in Tokyo, it was assumed he
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wouldn’t _________________________ because of

a recent operation.
Text B
3 The US hockey team wasn’t made up of
____________________________ .
4 American ice-hockey fans were not able to
____________________________ .
Text C
5 In 1970s, Mark Edmonson
____________________________ as a tennis player, so
he also worked as a cleaner.
6 After ___________________________ , Edmonson went
straight back to his suburban house.

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Language functions 7 Complete the sentences with the missing words.

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

10 Complete the text with the correct form of the words in 11 Read the instructions and do the writing task.
the box. There are two extra words.
Czasopismo młodzieżowe ogłosiło konkurs na artykuł na
arrive satisfy attend believe support temat roli szkoły w rozwijaniu zamiłowania do uprawiania
devote mature sportu. Napisz do gazety artykuł (200–250 słów),
w którym opiszesz przypadek osoby, która dzięki zajęciom
Last year, I went to London to visit my friend, who’s a great szkolnym rozwinęła pasję do sportu, oraz wyjaśnisz, w jaki
fan of Tottenham Hotspur, and he invited me to go to sposób szkoła może propagować uprawianie sportu przez
a football match with him. I didn’t want to disappoint him, dzieci i młodzież.
so I agreed to go, although I’d always 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, __ / 10
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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