Reading test (II term)

Read the texts below. Match choices. There are three  choices you do not  need  to use. 

Match the questions and answers in the interview with Kilian Jornet,a person who runs up mountains.

Do you think your ability is down to nature or nurture, then?      [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, none]

What is it that draws you to the mountains?      [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, none]

What‘s the hardest challenge you have completed?      [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, none]

Where‘s your favourite place to run?      [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, none]

What‘s your first memoryof the mountains?      [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, none]

What conditions do you like?      [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, none]

1 ……. I don‘t know. I just think when you try to understand when you  love a thing, it‘s not possible - it‘s not love any more. It‘s the place where I have been living for all my life, where I have been growing, where I can feel more confident and more at home. So it‘s probably that. It gives me freedom and it gives me the possibility to be free and to move and explore. I think exploration is important.

2 ……. I was born in the mountains, in the  Pyrenees.  It was my  garden  - we lived there all year round. So, when we came back from school, me and my sister were running around in the forest and climbing rocks. It was pretty natural to be outside. Both of my parents were very enthusiastic about mountaineering and sport and nature, so in the holidays we would do some crossings or summits.

3 ……. I‘m  sure  there  are  some  genetic  things.  The  morphology of  everyone is  different, and they can be adapted to one sport or another. But a two-metre tall person will be better for basketball than for running, and a small person can be better for mountain running. So I probably have the morphology that is good for doing the sport - but then it‘s also about what you learn as a kid.

4 ……. I  personally  much  prefer  the  cold  than  the  warm.  In  the  warm  it‘s   the   body  that suffers - you have morecramps,  and it‘s  more  debilitating.

5 ……. A different one every day. I don‘t like to repeat.  I think  the beauty  of this sport is that every day is different - you have  different views and  different  summits.The same mountain, it can change every day with snow, with rain and with different conditions.So it‘s a big thing in this sport.

Read and match the correct answer:

At a pub in February of the year after Bob left, Jacqui met Kevin, a former  professional soccer player. Five months later, they married. Because Kevin came into their life while Francis was young, the family blended easily. In 1990, Jacqui gave birth to a second son, and the four formed a close unit. Jacqui rarely mentioned Bob outside of the family, for the sake of discretion and because, after a while, it simply seemed easier not to; she was happy to let people assume that Kevin, who worked as an engineer for British Gas, was the father of both her children. But, despite Bob‘s abrupt departure,  Jacqui  never  questioned his loyalty. ―Apparently there were rumors that he had been a spy, when he disappeared just after the Debenhams bombing, she recalled. ―But  by  then  I  was  living  in  suburbia  with  my husband,  so  I  didn‘t  hear them.

Jacqui and Kevin got on well as a family …

Read and match the correct answer:

At a pub in February of the year after Bob left, Jacqui met Kevin, a former  professional soccer player. Five months later, they married. Because Kevin came into their life while Francis was young, the family blended easily. In 1990, Jacqui gave birth to a second son, and the four formed a close unit. Jacqui rarely mentioned Bob outside of the family, for the sake of discretion and because, after a while, it simply seemed easier not to; she was happy to let people assume that Kevin, who worked as an engineer for British Gas, was the father of both her children. But, despite Bob‘s abrupt departure,  Jacqui  never  questioned his loyalty. ―Apparently there were rumors that he had been a spy, when he disappeared just after the Debenhams bombing, she recalled. ―But  by  then  I  was  living  in  suburbia  with  my husband,  so  I  didn‘t  hear them.

Why didn‘t Jacqui know anythingabout her first husband?