KEY - A2 - Review Unit 7

I've worked ​ (a)   a full-time artist for five years. ​ (b)   leaving art college, I worked part-time as a waiter and washed dishes in a restaurant. But then I started to sell some paintings so I gave ​ (c)   my other jobs. Most of my paintings are of city street scenes. They are full of people just living their lives. People buy my paintings ​ (d)   they can see places they know in them.

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I'm still very early on in my career as an artist. I trained ​ (a)   a doctor and my art is slowly changing ​ (b)   a hobby to a job. I work with wood and metal. I'm interested ​ (c)   showing my feelings through my work. It's very personal to me. Maybe that's why I don't sell very much. I still work as a doctor two days a week. My parents are very proud ​ (d)   me, especially my mother, who draws a lot.

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My parents wanted me ​ (a)   a doctor, like them, but I had no ​ (b)   in studying medicine. I first became interested in art when I was at school. I came first in a ​ (c)   and I was given a painting set. and I have never looked back! I was lucky enough ​ (d)   a place at university on a course which helped me improve my painting skills. They're actually quite good now. I've managed to earn enough money from my art for the past two years, so I don't need to do other work.

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Frances Brown become the most famous person in town because ...

• she is starting school next year.

• she called 999 when her mother fell down the stairs.

• she sent an ambulance to her house.

When her mother fell down the stairs, she called her father for help.

• True

• False

• Not given

Lisa was kept in the hospital for a day before going home the next morning.

• True

• False

• Not given

Lisa's husband was angry because Lisa wasn't careful around the house.

• True

• False

• Not given

Lisa fell down the stairs because she couldn't see the stairs.

• True

• False

• Not given

Reorder the following

• American jazz singer,

• in 1917.

• in Virginia

• was born

• Ella Fitzgerald, the great

Reorder the following

• when she

• to New York

• She moved
  

• was a

• young child.