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Now, I am going to tell you a story and I swear every word of it it is true. Three years ago I started to feel very sick. I had terrible headaches, I felt tired all the time, and all my body ached. In the end I went to hospital and had some tests. Well, when they told me the news…I couldn’t believe it. They said I had a rare bone disease, and there was nothing they could do. They said that within just a few months I would be in a wheelchair – for the rest of my life.

Well, I decided I wouldn’t give up without the fight. I’ve always been interested in alternative medicine, so when a friend told me about stories he’d heard of a kind of witchdoctor in Indonesia who could work miracles – I decided to take a chance. I sold my house, said goodbye to my friends and flew to Indonesia.

When I got to Jakarta I took a train and then two buses up into the mountains to this tiny village in the middle of nowhere. When I arrived I asked people, “Yayang? Yayang?”

That’s the name of the witchdoctor my friend told me about. Then a small boy –he must have been seven or eight – took my hand and led me out of the village and further up into the mountains. For two days we walked. I was in terrible pain the whole time……but I was determined to go on. Eventually we reached a small hut and I could see a strange man standing outside. He was short, and covered in mud or something like that. He smiled and took me into his hut. I didn’t say anything – he just seems to know why I was there.

Well……..in the hut it was really dark but I could see lots of bowls all around, each full of some kind of herb or plant or something. He told me to lie down and he put his hands on my head and started to sing. All of a sudden I felt a great energy come into me. He did this for maybe half an hour and then he gave me something to drink. I don’t know what it was. It was a thick brown liquid and it smelled awful, But I still drank it.

Well, to cut the long story short, I stayed there for a week. Every day the witchdoctor did the same thing, and I drank the same liquid. After a week the boy came back. I felt so good I almost ran back to Jakarta. When I got home I went back to the same hospital and had the same tests, and guess what? The disease had completely gone. There was no sign of anything. They couldn’t believe it. Like I say, that was three years ago and here I am, still strong and healthy. Amazing.
Listening Comprehension Test for 9^th Form Students

1. 
   You will hear the text. On your answer sheet put T if the statement is true, F if it is false.
   

2. The doctors said I had a rare head disease, and there was nothing they could do.

3. I decided I wouldn’t give up without the fight.

4. The doctor advised me use alternative medicine.

5. The witchdoctor lived in a tiny village.

6. When I reached the hut I saw a witchdoctor and told him about my disease.

7. The witchdoctor was a tall man and covered in mud or something like that.

8. Every day the witchdoctor gave me the same liquid.

9. I spent a week with a witchdoctor.

10. When I got home I went back to the same hospital and had no tests because I was healthy.

2. 
   Choose the right ending to the sentences.
   

1. The doctors said that within just a few months I would be in a wheelchair –

A) for the rest of my life B) for several months

C) for several years D) for an uncertain period of time

A) went to Indonesia B) flew to Indonesia

C) drove to Indonesia D) sailed to Indonesia
3. When I got to Jakarta I took ................

1. 
   a train and then two buses B) a train and then a bus
   

A) nervous the whole time B) happy all the whole time

C) exhausted the whole time D) in terrible pain the whole time
5. In the hut it was really dark..............

A) and I couldn’t' see anything B) but I could see lots of bowls all around

C) but I could see lots of stones all around D) but I could see the witchdoctor
6. The witchdoctor told me to lie down and he put his hands on my head and ................................

A) started to sing B) started to talk

C) started to ask me D) started to message

7. The witchdoctor gave me ..................to drink..

A) a clear liquid B) a thick brown liquid

C) a thick dark liquid D) a thick clear liquid

A) I drank different liquids B) I drank the same liquid

C) I took different medicines D) I took the same medicine


Reading Comprehension Test for 9^th Form Students 41 tasks

Directions:

For Nigel Portman, a love of travelling began with what’s (0) …….. a ‘gap year’. In common with many other British teenagers, he chose to take a year out before (1) …….. to study for his degree. After doing various jobs to (2) …….. some money, he left home to gain some experience of life in different cultures, visiting America and Asia. The more adventurous the young person, the (3) …….. the challenge they are likely to (4) …….. themselves for the gap year, and for some, like Nigel, it can (5) …….. in a thirst for adventure.

Now that his university course has (6) …….. to an end, Nigel is just about to leave on a three-year trip that will take him (7) …….. around the world. What’s more, he plans to make the whole journey using only means of transport which are (8) …….. by natural energy. In other words, he’ll be (9) …….. mostly on bicycles and his own legs; and when there’s an ocean to cross, he won’t be taking a (10) …….. cut by climbing aboard a plane, he’ll be joining the crew of a sailing ship (11) …….. .

As well as doing some mountain climbing and other outdoor pursuits along the way, Nigel hopes to (12) …….. on to the people he meets the environmental message that lies behind the whole idea.

Computers have had the (0) ability to play chess for many ABLE

years now, and their (56) ...............in games against the best PERFORM

players in the world has shown steady (57)..............However, IMPROVE

it will be years before the designers of computer games

machines can beat their (58)… challenge yet – the ancient BIG

board game called Go.

The playing area is (59) ...............larger than in CONSIDERABLE

chess and there are far more pieces, so that the (60)...........of COMBINE

moves is almost (61).............The game involves planning so END

many moves ahead that even the (62) ........calculations of the IMPRESS

fastest modern computers are (63) ...........to deal with the SUFFICIENT

problems of the game. In a recent (64) .........for computer Go COMPETE

machines, the best machine beat all its computer rivals, but

lost (65) ........to three young schoolchildren, so there is HEAVY

obviously still a lot of work to do!

The last summer before we returned to England was particularly enchanted. For one thing, I was in love for the first time. No one will ever convince me that one cannot be in love at fifteen. I loved then as never since, with all my heart and without doubts or reservations or pretence.

My boyfriend Don worked in Saskatoon, but the lake was ''his place'' – the strange and beautiful wilderness drew him with an obsessive urgency, so I suspected it was not to see me that he got on his motor-cycle as many Fridays as he possibly could, and drove three hundred-odd miles along the pitted prairie roads to spend the weekends at our place.

Sometimes he couldn't come, and the joy would go out of everything until Monday, when I could start looking forward to Friday again. He could never let us know in advance, as we were too far from civilization to have a phone or even a telegraph service. Three hundred miles in those conditions is quite a journey. Besides, Don was hard up, and sometimes worked overtime at weekends.

One Friday night a storm broke out. I lay in bed and listened to the thunder and the rain beating on the roof. Once I got up and stood looking out over the treetops, shivering. I tried not to expect Don that night hoping he would have enough sense to wait until the storm ended. Yet in my frightened thoughts I couldn't help imagining Don fighting the storm. His motorbike, which had always looked to me so heavy and solid, seemed in my thoughts
frail enough to be blown onto its side by the first gust that struck it. I thought of Don pinned under it, skidding, his face pressed into the mud.

I crawled back into bed, trying to close my throat against the tears. But when my mother, prompted by the deep sympathy and understanding between us, came in to me, she kissed my cheek and found it wet.

"Don't get upset, Jane,'' she said softly. ''He may still come.''

When she had tucked me in and gone, I lay thinking about Don, about the danger of the roads … you couldn't ride or walk along them safely after heavy rain; your feet would slip from under you. The roads in Northern Canada are not like the friendly well-populated English ones, where there are always farmhouses within walking distance and cars driving along them day and night.

It was hours later, that I suddenly realized the sound of the roaring engine was real. The storm was dying. I lay absolutely still, relief and pain fighting for ascendancy within me, each in itself overwhelming enough to freeze the breath in my lungs as I heard Don's heavy tired footsteps on the wooden stairs.

A8

The last summer was particularly fascinating for Jane because she

Jane believes that love at fifteen is

Don travelled three hundred-odd miles every weekend because he was

Sometimes Don didn't come to see Jane and her mother on Friday because he

Mother came into Jane's room during the storm because she

According to the author the roads in Northern Canada were

“… relief and pain fighting for ascendancy within me…” means that the author felt

Six feet tall Foster had crawled into the 18 inch wide shaft, armed with screw drivers, pliers, a hammer, and chisel - believing it would lead him straight to where cash was kept. He managed to wriggle down 12 feet of aluminium piping, before he became lodged in a bend.

Greengrocer Thomas Fuller heard noises when he arrived at the King’s Head pub in Newcastle, to deliver fruit on Tuesday morning.

Foster claimed he got stuck after trying to rescue a cat just after midnight. It eventually took five fire-fighters to free him. The crew used extending ladders to clamber onto the roof and managed to lower a rope to the trapped man.

Foster was handed straight into the arms of two police officers who were waiting to arrest him.

Fire station officer Dave Cotton told the court: “The man was stuck 12 feet down the narrow shaft and was out of sight. He was wedged down the bend.

“We lowered a rope down and told him to put his foot in the loop and managed to slowly winch him up,” added the fire officer. “He was shouting and swearing as he was being brought up as his skin was scraping off his knuckles and other parts of his body. It took about 40 minutes to get him out.”

Foster made a full admission when he was questioned by police officers.

Judge Edward Luck told him: “You made a silly attempt at a crime. You risked your life getting out of that chimney and the lives of firemen.”