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The greatest in the world
Edson Arantes do Nascimento was born in Brazil in 1940. At school he was called \Pele soon became world famous. Many people believe that Pele was the greatest footballer of all time.
He started playing for the local club when he was only 10 years old. Aged 15, he moved to Santos, a big city club. At 16, he was playing for his country. In 1958, still only 17, he was in the winning
World Cup team (the youngest
ever player). In 1970, he was in the team that won the World Cup for Brazil again. He finally stopped playing in 1977. In 1994, he was made Brazilian Minister for Sport. Pele was certainly an excellent player. He had wonderful control over the ball. Brave, clever, and able to run very quickly, he could kick with the same amount of skill with either foot. Not only that, when you watched him play, you could always see how much he enjoyed playing.
Pele became very rich by the time he was 22, but he was shy and modest. He was always polite, and he was loved by both his teammates and the players in other teams. He worked hard to develop the game and to encourage young and often poor boys to work hard and do well. There is no better example for sportsmen and women today to copy.
1 Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
1 Edson Arantes do Nascimento knew why he was called \2
Pele was the youngest World Cup winner in 1958.
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When Pele began to play football, he was the member of a big city club. Pele was made Brazilian Minister for Sport as soon as he stopped playing. As an excellent player, Pele was able to use his right foot to kick the ball only. Pele was a good example for people who do sports.
2 Answer the following questions according to the passage.
1
What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us about?
2 How many years did Pele play football?
3 Who loved Pele? Why?
4 Did Pele often encourage poor boys to work hard?
Euro star
One of the fastest and most modern passenger trains in the world is the Eurostar, which covers the distance between London and Paris in just over two and a half hours - a journey which used to take five or six hours and always involved a slow boat crossing. If you take the Eurostar, you can leave London Waterloo at 4 o'clock on a Friday afternoon and be in the centre of Paris at 635, in time for dinner. The train also goes to other places, such as Calais, Lille, Disneyworld Paris, and Brussels.
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One of the most exciting things about the Eurostar is that it goes through a tunnel under the sea. This is called the Channel Tunnel, and goes between Folkestone in England and Sangatte in France. The tunnel is 31 miles long, and cost $21 billion to build. This part of the journey takes about 20 minutes and you don't really notice what is happening, but some people choose not to travel by the Eurostar because the idea of it worries them. The tunnel has been made as safe as possible, however, and there are two other tunnels that people can get out of quickly if there is a fire or an accident.
It is also possible to drive through the tunnel, but this takes much longer than the high-speed train. The trains have a top speed of 180 mph, and run on special tracks. These tracks allow the train to go much faster. The trains are very comfortable
and there is plenty
of food and drink in the
restaurant car. There is just one thing that some people might be a little unhappy about though
- the train travels so fast, especially
on the French side where it
speeds up quite a lot, that you can't really see anything out of the window.
Choose the best answer according to the passage.
1
It takes exactly____________ to travel from London to Paris by Eurostar.
A two and a half hours
B two hours and thirty-five minutes C four hours
D six hours and thirty-five minutes 2
It is an exciting thing to travel by Eurostar, because____________.
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A it goes through 3 Channel Tunnels B it goes through the Channel Tunnel C people can see nice views on it
D people can visit Folkestone during the journey 3
It takes Eurostar ___________to travel under the sea.
B four hours D half an hour
A two hours and a half C twenty minutes 4
If there is an emergency in the tunnel, people _________.
A will have no way to run out
B can leave the tunnel quickly through other two tunnels C had better not keep calm D ought to jump out of windows 5
Some passengers will feel a little unhappy because ____________.
A the speed is too slow
B there is not enough food on the train C they cannot see anything out of the window D the train is too crowded 6
__________ people really like travelling on the Eurostar.
B None of the
C Most of the
D Some of the
A All the
Salisbury Plain
Britain is a land of unexplained mysteries. Everywhere you go you hear stories of
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strange southern
happenings in unusual places. Take Wiltshire,
is found.
for example, an area in
England, where Stonehenge Stonehenge is a huge circle of
stones thousands of years old in the middle of a large flat area of land called
Salisbury Plain. The stone circle is older than the Egyptian pyramids, but no one knows how or why the stones got there.
Salisbury Plain is also famous for hundreds of strange crop circles. Crop circles are very large circles which appear in the middle of fields during the night. There are similar circles
in the nearby county of Hampshire, as
well as in North and South
America and Australia. Some experts believe that people make crop circles for a joke, but no one is quite sure.
However, what happened one cloudy October morning in 1987 over Salisbury Plain was far from a joke. A fighter plane was flying over the plain near Boscombe Down, an important
airfield
used by the army. The pilot
of the plane was in radio
communication with the airfield. Suddenly,' while the pilot was giving information about his height and speed, the airfield lost all communication with the plane. The airfield sent another plane to look for it, while they tried to get back into radio communication with the fighter plane. When the second plane found the first one, it was flying over the Atlantic Ocean. But when the pilot got closer to it he had a terrible shock. There was nobody in the plane - it was flying by itself. A few days later they found the body of the pilot
at Winterbourne
Stoke on
Salisbury Plain in a field full of crop circles, not far from where they last spoke to him by radio communication.
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