EGE 19-24 , 25-29, 30-36 Test 3/28

Task 1. Michelle’s big night. Michelle was quite nervous about her performance in the school play. She thought she would feel (a)   (GOOD), though, if her brother Frank came to see to the show.

She asked him, even begged him to be there, (a)   (THINK) he might just say yes but then not turn up. T promise you, Michelle. I'll be sitting in the front row from the beginning to the end of the play.’

On the night of the show, Michelle did wonderfully. As a show of support, her brother clapped the (a)   (LOUD) of everyone in the theatre.

Trans-Siberian RailwayRussia’s Trans-Siberian Railway is a source of great pride for the country. No railway in the world goes (a)   (FAR) than this one, stretching 9,289 kilometres to connect Moscow with the Russian Far East.

Construction on the line began in 1891 and ended in 1916, at which point Moscow and Vladivostok, a Russian city that lies on the Sea of Japan, (a)   (JOIN) by a single railway track.

Linking the two sides of the continent meant that development could accelerate in Siberia. Before the railway, rivers were the main form of transport, and in the winter, people rode horse-drawn carriages over (a)   (THEY) after they had frozen.

Nowadays, the Trans-Siberian Railway gives Russians and foreign travellers the chance to see an enormous part of the Russian countryside. More than that, however, agricultural goods and manufactured products (a)   (TRANSPORT) across the country on the railway.

Task 2. Getting back to nature. City life has caused people to lose touch with nature. This is (a)   (SPECIAL) true for children who grow up in cities and never have much of a chance to experience nature aside from public parks.

It’s quite different from how many of their parents grew up, when 71% of children regularly played outside. Ask today’s children if they like climbing trees, and it’s (a)   (PROBABLE) that they will ever have tried it.

The resulting loss of our children’s (a)   (RELATION) with nature means they’re missing out on opportunities to make discoveries about plants and wildlife, and to build a love and respect for the natural world.