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42.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | ZOOS
People began to keep animals in zoos over 3,000 years ago, when the rulers of China opened an enormous zoo called the Gardens of Intelligence. In many of the early zoos, animals were taught to perform for the visitors. This no longer happens and it is accepted that the purpose of zoos is for people to see animal... |
43.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | The Albuquerque Balloon Festival
Every autumn, the sky above the desert city of Albuquerque in the south-western United States turns into a mass of bright colours. This is the Albuquerque Balloon festival, an annual nine-day event.
The first festival was held in 1972 to celebrate the 50th birthday of the local radio s... |
44.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | The Young Achiever of the Year
Kal Kaur Rai has always been interested in fashion and has just won the title of Young Achiever of the Year at the Asian Business Awards. Ever since she was a child, she has drawn clothes and designed patterns. She never told her hard-working parents, who own a supermarket, that she want... |
45.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Sweden's Ice Hotel
The village of Jukkasjarvi is in Swedish Lapland, and winter temperatures there can reach -40deg C. But 6,000 holidaymakers still go there annually, to visit what is probably Europe's most unusual accommodation.
In this hotel you eat, drink, and sleep in rooms made of ice. If you want, you can eve... |
46.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Write a winning story!
You could win PS1,000 in this year's Fiction Prize and have your story printed in Keep Writing magazine. Ten other lucky people will win a cheque forPS100.
Once again, we need people who can write good stories. The judges, who include Mary Littlejohn, the novelist, Michael Brown, the television ... |
47.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Being an older student
At 32, I have just finished my first year at university. As well as attending lectures regularly, I have had to learn to read books quickly and write long essays.
I decided to go to university after fourteen years away from the classroom. As a secretary, although I was earning a reasonable amoun... |
48.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Henry Ford
Henry Ford was born on a farm in Michigan in 1863 but he did not like farming. When he was fifteen he began work as a mechanic and in 1893 he built his first car. After he had driven it 1,500 kilometres, he sold it and built two bigger cars. Then, in 1903, he started the Ford Motor Company. By using strong... |
49.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | The Ghan Train
Mark Ottaway travelled by train from Darwin, in the north of Australia, to Adelaide, in the south.
The Ghan train crosses the Australian continent, from the warm northern coast through seemingly endless desert to the colder Southern Ocean. It is often called the 'famous Ghan', which is perhaps unfort... |
5.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Winter Driving
Winter is dangerous because it's so difficult to know what is going to happen and accidents take place so easily. Fog can be waiting to meet you over the top of a hill. Ice might be hiding beneath the melting snow, waiting to send you off the road. The car coming towards you may suddenly slide across th... |
50.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Shopping for furniture
A report by Dave Worthington
Homestyle, a new furniture shop, was forced to close shortly after its opening at midnight last Thursday. Up to 6,000 people hurried to the shop. There were lots of special offers, including a leather sofa on sale for PS45 (but only until 3 am) and a bed for PS30 ... |
51.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | The Eden Project
Since it opened, the Eden Project in the south-west of England has become one of the UK's most popular tourist attractions. At first sight, the huge 'biospheres' on this former industrial site look like a scene from a science-fiction movie.
Each biosphere contains a different climate zone, showing ... |
52.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Eight-eighteen News
Eight-eighteen News is a news agency for young people
The members of our agency are aged 8-18. We collect news and write news reports, stories and articles. We send these to leading national and local newspapers, magazines, television, radio and websites to be published. The news stories and art... |
53.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Joining the Kirov Ballet
I'm Nathalie. Last year I was one of the youngest foreign students ever to join the Kirov's ballet school in St Petersburg, Russia. At my first ballet class, I was nervous as I didn't know anyone. Everyone gathered round, asking me questions, all in Russian. I tried to say something in Russia... |
54.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Watering the Desert
It can rain at any time between November and March in Marrakesh, Morocco. It doesn't happen frequently and when it does, the city's water pipes can't manage the sudden floods, which turn the streets into rivers. But, as many winters have remained dry in recent times, when the rain does come, it is ... |
55.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | THE ICEHOTEL
For many years the Arctic was a popular destination in the summer season to see the land of the midnight sun but in winter the few inhabitants had the snow and ice to themselves. By the end of the 1980s it was decided that the dark and cold winter should be seen as an advantage. In the winter of 1990 the... |
56.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Moonshine
The band Moonshine released their third CD last week. 'Here again' is a followup to 'The Waves'. There have been a few changes since the last CD, with Tom Wilcott on bass guitar replacing Simon McVee who left the band last year, and the arrival of Tom Simpson on drums.
It is clear from the first song on the... |
57.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | The Skywalk
The Grand Canyon in the United States was created by the River Colorado. People visit the Grand Canyon Park to go walking and running but mainly to look at the view. It is a wonderful view made even better by the Skywalk. The distance from the Skywalk to the bottom of the Grand Canyon is 1219 metres. It i... |
58.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Anna's new school
It's been a very exciting week, as we've just moved into our new school building! It's an amazing place, as the builders have used wood for the whole thing, just like in our old school, but it's also one of the first in my country designed to be really environmentally friendly.
The school took mont... |
59.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | JAZZ
By Katie Atkins, aged 14
I play the trumpet in my school jazz band. Last month we held a jazz competition with bands from local high schools - and our band won!
Each band had their own costumes, ranging from black school uniforms like my band wore, to brightly-coloured T-shirts. We didn't look much like adult... |
6.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | SAMUEL PEPYS
The most famous diary in English was written by Samuel Pepys. It gives a detailed and interesting description of everyday life in England between 1660 and 1669. Pepys writes about important news stories of the time, like disease, an enemy navy sailing up the River Thames and the Great Fire of London.
He... |
60.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Sharks
Sharks are some of the most frightening creatures in our oceans. They are well prepared for feeding under water because they can see very well, and they can also feel movement through special lines on the sides of their bodies. These make sharks very dangerous for smaller sea creatures that become their food.
... |
7.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Norwich
Norwich, the capital of the part of Britain known as East Anglia, has existed as a place to live for more than two thousand years. It began as a small village beside the River Wensum. At the time of the Norman invasion in 1066 it had grown to become one of the largest towns in England.
With two cathedrals and ... |
8.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | No Title
When I opened the first 'Body Shop' in 1976 my only object was to earn enough to feed my children. Today 'The Body Shop' is an international company rapidly growing all around the world. In the years since we began I have learned a lot. Much of what I have learned will be found in this book, for I believe tha... |
9.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | THE ROCKIES
The Rocky Mountains run almost the length of North America.
They start in the North-west, but lie only a few hundred miles from the
centre in more southern areas. Although the Rockies are smaller than the Alps, they are no less wonderful.
There are many roads across the Rockies, but the best way to see ... |
1.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Meet the Amazing Watkins Family
The sons are composers and prize-winning musicians, while Dad makes the instruments. Matthew Rye reports.
Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.
Whe... |
10.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | No Title
We always went to Ireland in June. Ever since the four of us began to go on holidays together we had spent the first fortnight of the month at Glencorn Lodge in County Antrim. It's a large house by the sea, not far from the village of Ardbeag. The English couple who bought the house, the Malseeds, have had to... |
11.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | IN THEIR NATURAL HABITAT
What keeps film-makers Amanda Barrett and Owen Newman away from their home comforts for months on end? The search for the perfect shot.
Of all the creatures to be found in the jungles and plains of East Africa, two of the hardest to track down must surely be producer Amanda Barrett and cameram... |
12.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Changing lives with a Stranger
Mandie Currie, a zoo-keeper, spent the day in the offices of the magazine Marie Claire.
'Choosing what to wear for my day at Marie Claire was tricky because normally I wear a uniform at work. First I went to a still-life photo studio, then to press previews, all before lunch. The zoo is ... |
13.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | No Title
Many trees in the Brackham area were brought down in the terrible storms that March. The town itself lost two great lime trees from the former market square. The disappearance of such prominent features had altered the appearance of the town centre entirely, to the annoyance of its more conservative inhabitan... |
14.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | The Netball Captain
In our series on women in sport, Suzie Ellis went to meet England's netball captain.
Kendra Slawinski is captain of England's netball team. When I met her, she'd had a typical day for the weeks leading up to next month's World Championships: a day's teaching at a local school followed by a trainin... |
15.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Style Merchants
Style informs every part of our lives today from clothes to interior decoration and accessories. Jo Foley provides a taste of the trends for this year's followers of fashion.
Ned Ingham: Dress Designer
Ned Ingham makes dreamy, romantic wedding dresses. 'People would do well to avoid the traditional, ra... |
16.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Living in the valley
We had been living in our valley for sixteen months when we first realised the dangers that could exist in the surrounding hills and threaten our very survival.
It was the year when the storms came early, before the calendar even hinted at winter, even before November was out. Until that time, we ... |
17.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Confident people what's their secret?
Confident people may look as though they were born that way, but most will tell you that it's a skill they've learned because they had to. Nina Hathway asks five people how they did it.
A Jenny
When I left school I was very shy and I always thought I'd stay that way. I was about... |
18.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | THE SHELL ARTIST
At the age of 83 Peter Cooke has become a master of his art.
There are still many things that Peter Cooke would like to try his hand at - paper-making and feather-work are on his list. For the moment though, he will stick to the skill that he has been delighted to perfect over the past ten years: mak... |
19.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Five-star luxury meets up-to-date technology
The five-star Merrion Hotel, which has just opened, is the result of considerable research into customer requirements and nearly two years' work converting four large eighteenth-century houses in Dublin. Creating a new hotel in this way has allowed the latest technology to b... |
2.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | The kingfisher
Wildlife photographer Charlie James is an expert on the kingfisher: a beautiful blue-green bird that lives near streams and rivers,feeding on fish.
Old trees overhang the stream, half shading shallow water. Soft greens, mud browns and the many different yellows of sunlight are the main colours, as soft ... |
20.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Five-star luxury meets up-to-date technology
The five-star Merrion Hotel, which has just opened, is the result of considerable research into customer requirements and nearly two years' work converting four large eighteenth-century houses in Dublin. Creating a new hotel in this way has allowed the latest technology to ... |
21.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Film Critic
Mark Adams looks back over the last ten years of his work as a film critic for a newspaper called The Front Page.
Writing articles about films for The Front Page was my first proper job. Before then I had done bits of reviewing - novels for other newspapers, films for a magazine and anything I was asked to... |
22.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Fun at the Dentist's?
If you walk into W. Lloyd Jerome's dental surgery in the centre of Glasgow, you'll see bright modern paintings on the wall and a fashionable blue couch which patients sit on while he checks their teeth. Jerome says, 'Fifty per cent of the population only go to the dentist when they're in pain rat... |
23.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Variations on a Theme
If you're thinking of taking children to a theme park, there are dozens to choose from in Britain. We asked five families to test the best.
Fun Island - The Burns family
Last year we went to a huge theme park in the US and we thought that Fun Island might seem dull by comparison. In fact, we were... |
24.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | An eye for detail
Artist Susan Shepherd is best known for her flower paintings, and the large garden that surrounds her house is the source of many of her subjects. It is full of her favourite flowers, most especially varieties of tulips and poppies. Some of the plants are unruly and seed themselves all over the garden... |
25.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | An eye for detail
Artist Susan Shepherd is best known for her flower paintings, and the large garden that surrounds her house is the source of many of her subjects. It is full of her favourite flowers, most especially varieties of tulips and poppies. Some of the plants are unruly and seed themselves all over the garde... |
26.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | On the rails
Five celebrities tell Andrew Morgan their favourite memories of railway journeys.
A Andrea Thompson - Newsreader
I fell in love with the south of France a long time ago and try to get back there as often as I can. There's a local train from Cannes along the coast which crosses the border with Italy. It ta... |
27.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Miss Rita Cohen, a tiny, pale-skinned girl who looked half the age of Seymour's daughter, Marie, but claimed to be some six years older, came to his facto1y one day. She was dressed in overalls and ugly big shoes, and a bush of wiry hair framed her pretty face. She was so tiny, so young that he could barely believe tha... |
28.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | It's true - we're all getting too big for our boots
Chris Greener was fourteen when he told his careers teacher he wanted to join the navy when he left school. 'What do you want to be?' asked the teacher. 'The flagpole on a ship?' The teacher had a point - because Chris, though still only fourteen, was already almost t... |
29.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | It's true - we're all getting too big for our boots
Chris Greener was fourteen when he told his careers teacher he wanted to join the navy when he left school. 'What do you want to be?' asked the teacher. 'The flagpole on a ship?' The teacher had a point - because Chris, though still only fourteen, was already almost ... |
3.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | My line of work
Four people talk about their jobs.
Lisa - Exhibition Programmes Organiser, Science Museum
I'm responsible for putting temporary exhibitions together. This includes planning and designing the exhibition and promoting it. I have to read up about the subject of the exhibition beforehand and then talk to i... |
30.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Gary and Me
The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef.
I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance was to run a restaurant. When I heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. I... |
31.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | IN HOT WATER
Rachel Mills is a scientist who spends as much time as she can at the bottom of the
Atlantic Ocean.
Rachel Mills teaches and does research into marine geochemistry, which means she studies the chemical processes happening in the sea. She is a lecturer at the Oceanography Centre at Southampton University. ... |
32.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Young Shoppers
Supermarket shopping with children, one mother says, is absolute murder: 'They want everything they see. If it's not the latest sugar- coated breakfast cereal, it's a Disney video or a comic. Usually all three. I can't afford all this stuff and, anyway, if I agree to their demands I feel I've been persua... |
33.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Young Shoppers
Supermarket shopping with children, one mother says, is absolute murder: 'They want everything they see. If it's not the latest sugar- coated breakfast cereal, it's a Disney video or a comic. Usually all three. I can't afford all this stuff and, anyway, if I agree to their demands I feel I've been persu... |
34.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Keeping the holiday-makers happy
A chalet girl's work is never done, Sarah Sutherland-Pilch tells Veronica Lee - in between making beds and delicious dinners.
This is the second year as a chalet girl for Sarah Sutherland-Pilch, a 24-year-old from West Sussex. Known by her nickname, Pilch, Sarah works for a company in ... |
35.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | A NEW LIFE
The Farmer
Matt Froggatt used to be an insurance agent in the City of London but now runs a sheep farm.
'After 14 years in business, I found that the City had gone from a place which was exciting to work in to a grind - no one was having fun any more. But I hadn't planned to leave for another five or ten yea... |
36.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | A NEW LIFE
The Farmer
Matt Froggatt used to be an insurance agent in the City of London but now runs a sheep farm.
'After 14 years in business, I found that the City had gone from a place which was exciting to work in to a grind - no one was having fun any more. But I hadn't planned to leave for another five or ten ye... |
37.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | There is nothing more disappointing than arriving at an airport overseas to discover that your baggage has been left behind. At best you will have to put up with wearing the clothes you stand up in for hours or days, until the airline reunites you with your luggage. At worst, you may be in a different climate zone, tho... |
38.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | A lot of advice is available for college leavers heading for their first job. In this article we consider the move to a second job. We are not concerned with those looking for a second temporary position while hunting for a permanent job. Nor are we concerned with those leaving an unsatisfactory job within the first fe... |
39.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Bitter water hits the big time
Chocolate, which has its origins in South America, is now part of a multi-million pound worldwide business.
At Easter, British people spend over PS230 million on chocolate. A massive eight per cent of all chocolate is bought at this time.
Only at Christmas do people eat more of the co... |
4.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | No Title
On the very last day of a bad year, I was leaning against a pillar in the Baltimore railway station, waiting to catch the 10.10 to Philadelphia. There were a lot more people waiting than I had expected. That airy, light, clean, polished feeling I generally got in the station had been lost. Elderly couples wi... |
40.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Where I get my energy
Emma Marsden asked six women who live life to the full to tell us how they do it.
A. Jeanette Kupfermann
Journalist and author: 'I think it's excitement. I've got to be doing something that's a challenge. If I'm absorbing something new and learning, I get tremendous energy. Anything to do with... |
41.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | WELCOME TO THE MODEL VILLAGE
When you first enter the Model Village it is hard to imagine that a few short years ago this was a piece of waste ground, flat and completely overgrown with brambles. For years it had been considered a worthless piece of land. The careful planning and hard work of one man, supported unfai... |
42.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | HAPPY HUNTING GROUND
We're 'animal people' who enjoy the company of all kinds of creatures. Consider this typical chain of events, leading to total confusion, which began one afternoon. My daughter telephoned me at work with the news that she had found a wonderful pine snake.
'Can we keep him?' she cried. I said 'Ye... |
43.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Behind the dolphin's smile
People love dolphins. We rush to look at them in seaside marinas, films and TV programmes. Yet according to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society their plight is desperate. Mark Simmonds reports on the decline of the species.
Dolphins hold a special place in our affections. They are a... |
44.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Careers Advice
You're not happy in your job at the moment, but you don't know how to change? Kitty Doherty gives some good advice.
The answer for more and more people who want to change their job is to turn to a careers adviser. You will be asked to write a brief history of yourself and then sit through a number ... |
45.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | ICE SKATING
Ice skating has a history of thousands of years. Archaeologists have discovered skates made from animal bone. It seems that bone skates were used until the introduction of iron into Scandinavia about the year 200 AD. Among the Scandinavian upper classes, skating was seen as an essential skill.
In the ear... |
46.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Why would a schoolgirl want to swim 1500m, cycle 40km and then run 1Okm? Because 'it's fun'.
Teenager with a taste for endurance
WANTED: Sports-mad training partner for triathlete, preferably female. Chance to work with potential Olympic champion. Should be extremely keen on distance running (regular 15km sessions)... |
47.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Visit to Malaysia
Paul Forster goes to a kite-flying festival, and spends a nervous night in the forest.
Adnan Ali smiled broadly as I presented him with his torn kite. 'You have to keep it,' he said, 'it's traditional - if the line breaks, finders are keepers ... and anyway, I've plenty more.' He indicated a pile o... |
48.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | What sort of shopper are you?
Love it or hate it, we all go shopping. But there are different types of shopper. Do you know which kind you are? Abby Edwards asked around ...
A. Melanie, 22, dancer
I'm an addict - I can't spend enough money! When I have the cash I'm out there and then I don't get miserable. I defin... |
49.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Father and son start Gold Rush
Terence and Chris Madden have travelled from Canada's frozen north to the heat of Africa in their search for nature's most desired metals. The father and son team - one an explorer, the other a mineral expert - believe their mine on the side of a Welsh mountain could contain up to 10,00... |
5.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Onto a winner
Two brothers are finding that their childhood game is very good for business.
Dave and Norm Lagasse, two bushy-bearded brothers in their forties, are sitting in their modest home in Santa Fe in New Mexico, USA, and reliving their childhood. In front of them lies a wooden board covered in round plastic pi... |
50.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | SPECIALIST MUSIC SCHOOLS
How to cope with a child who shows outstanding musical ability? It's not always clear how best to develop and encourage their gift. Many parents may even fail to recognise and respond to their child's need until frustration explodes into difficult or uncooperative behaviour. And while most sc... |
51.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | GETTING FIT
Exercise is essential for mind, body and spirit. It's one of the best ways to maintain a perfect balance when all around you everything seems more and more unbalanced and the world becomes ever more fast and furious.
Don't groan because this is yet another article about fitness. The reason why there are ... |
52.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Food for all
We proudly present our own hand-picked special selection of the very best cookbook titles now on offer.
A.
Ask anyone to think of a famous TV cook and writer, and it's frequently Delia Smith's name that comes to mind. Her recipes come from all over the world each marked by her enthusiasm for exciting fo... |
53.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Looking after the countryside
THE NATIONAL TRUST
The National Trust is an organisation whose aim is to conserve the British countryside. Gill Page visits the Lleyn Peninsula in North Wales and talks to one of the wardens employed by the Trust to look after the beautiful areas it owns.
Common sense. That's what a ... |
54.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Careless tourists scar ancient alpine rock art
Tens of thousands of ancient pictures carved into the rocks at one of France's most important tourist sites are being gradually destroyed. Scientists and researchers fear that the 36,000 drawings on rocks in Mont Bego in the French Alps are being damaged so [line 6: begi... |
55.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | The Netball Captain
In our series on women in sport, Suzie Ellis went to meet England's netball captain.
Kendra Slowinski is captain of England's netball team. When I met her, she'd had a typical day for the weeks leading up to next month's World Championships: a day's teaching at a local school followed by a traini... |
56.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Interview Tips
First impressions are often lasting ones. Studies show that people form impressions about us within the first few minutes of meeting. They observe how we dress, our eye contact, our body movement and how fast or slowly we talk, our volume and tone of voice as well as our our actual words.
Mary Pearce st... |
57.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Studio Audiences
What's it like to be in the audience when a television programme is being made? Cosmo Landesman found out.
Like technical difficulties,studio audiences are just another common feature of television life,and yet to many of us they remain a mystery. Watching them getting excited on game shows, for ex... |
58.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | I was dirty, smelly, hungry and somewhere beneath all that, suntanned. It was the end Inter-Rail holiday. My body couldn't take any more punishment. My mind couldn't deal with any more foreign timetables, currencies or languages.
'Never again,' I said, as I stepped onto home ground. I said exactly the same thing the f... |
59.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Drop me a line!
In our fast world of phones, fax machines and computers, the old-fashioned art of letter writing is at risk of disappearing altogether. Yet, to me, there is something about receiving a letter that cannot be matched by any other form of communication. There is the excitement of its arrival, the pleasur... |
6.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Dedicated to their sports
Four young sports stars talk about their lives.
A Darius (runner)
I've always been sporty. I played a bit of everything at one time, but I was best at football and athletics. When I was 14, I had a trial for a professional football club, but eventually I opted to go down the athletics route i... |
60.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Running a business in the countryside
Five women talk about their experiences setting up a business in the countryside.
A.
'My customers are friends,' says CHRISTINE HOGAN, who runs a computer-aided design business with a turnover of over PS200,000 a year and four full-time employees. 'My husband and I moved out of... |
61.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | So you want to be an actor
If you tell someone that you want to make a career as an actor, you can be sure that within two minutes the word 'risky' will come up. And, of course, acting is a very risky career - let there be no mistake about that. The supply of actors is far greater than the demand for them.
Once you c... |
62.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | The Schoolgirl Model
When 15-year-old Kira Langer is not flying off to wonderful locations and appearing on the covers of magazines, you'll probably find her revising for her school exams. Jane Laidlaw finds out more.
'I'm afraid Kira will be a little late,' the receptionist at the agency told me. 'Oh, fine,' I said... |
63.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | In hot water
Rachel Mills is a scientist who spends as much time as she can at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Rachel Mills teaches and does research into marine geochemistry, which means she studies the chemical processes happening in the sea. She is a lecturer at the Oceanography Centre at Southampton Universit... |
64.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Trills and bills
If there's one thing guaranteed to send tears running down your cheeks, it's the sight of a brilliant child collecting a medal. Julia Gregson asked three young stars, and their mothers, to describe some of the pleasures and pains of their lives.
A.
Annika Reeder, 15, won a gold medal for gymnastic... |
65.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Going up the wall
Once climbers went to the mountains. Now a challenging climb can be had anywhere, indoors or out.
The crowd holds its breath. High above them on the climbing wall, hanging upside down by the tips of two fingers, is the French climber Francois Lombard. He is competing in the World Cup Climbing Champ... |
66.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | In the lumberyard by the lake, where trees from the woods were turned into boards for construction work, there was an old brick building two floors high, and all around the outside walls were heaped great piles of soft sawdust. There were many of these golden mountains of dust covering that part of the yard right down ... |
67.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Keeping the holiday-makers happy
A chalet girl's work is never done, Sarah Sutherland-Pilch tells Veronica Lee - in between making beds and delicious dinners.
This is the second year as a chalet girl for Sarah Sutherland-Pilch, a 24-year-old from West Sussex. Known by her nickname, Pilch, Sarah works for a company i... |
68.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Conduct becoming
Giving directions to an orchestra is never easy. Anne Inglis talks to five new conductors about their work.
A. ANNE MANSON
When Anne Manson, 30, asked if she could attend conductor Claudio Abbado's practice sessions in Vienna, she found herself standing in for an absent assistant. She was then as... |
69.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Week after week, British tabloid newspapers carry pictures which intrude into people's privacy and break the newspaper editors' code of practice. Although pop stars do pose for paparazzi on occasion, this is not typical. More usually, great damage is done to [line 6: beginning] individuals in the public eye when they s... |
7.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | No Title
Finding a good flat in Dublin at a price you could afford was like finding gold in the gold rush. The best way was by personal contact: if you knew someone who knew someone who was leaving a place, that often worked. But if, like Jo, you had only just arrived in Dublin, there was no chance of any personal con... |
70.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | The Collectors
Amanda Roy writes about the things she collects and the reasons why so many people enjoy the same hobby.
I have always loved collecting and collectors and one in three adults indulges in this hobby. It is a world of passion, envy and enthusiasm and delight. However, if you enter this world, remember ... |
71.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | It's a tough job?
Chris Arnot asks four people with dream jobs if they're as wonderful as they seem.
A. Raquel Graham
Raquel Graham rings from the taxi taking her to the airport. She can't make our appointment tomorrow because her boss wants her to be in Los Angeles instead. When you're personal assistant to a po... |
8.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Trying to get published?
If you are wondering where to send your story our expert Margaret Stubbs is here with the advice you need.
Readers of this magazine often write in saying, 'I have written this story / book. Can you please tell me who to send it to?' One of the first things they need to know is that they should... |
9.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | B2 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Favourite places
Bruce
I don't like landscapes which are completely untamed. It's the human element which is important to me. It's the same when I travel abroad. Lovely villages with old temples attract me, not empty deserts. When I was eight, I went away to school in England and on Saturdays I would cycle to the vill... |
1.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | C1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | A.
'I actually look rather good in jeans. So I rarely wear them. I don't want to get mixed up with the wrong sort of person.' So runs the logic of Isabel, 'our heroine' in this refreshingly zany novel. An art student of 31, devotee of historical romances, she seeks Mr Right but is concerned lest her knobbly knees ruin ... |
10.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | C1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | BRINGING UP BADGERS
'What now?' was my immediate thought, as one of my helpers canned a cardboard box towards me. Since my husband Derek and I turned our dairy farm in Somerset into an 'open farm' six years ago, we've established a reputation for looking after orphaned animals. But the noise coming from die box -- a c... |
11.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | C1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Blacksmiths
THROUGHOUT the ages, iron has exerted a powerful pull on the human imagination, and the men who work it have often been regarded as much more than skilled craftsmen. Before the Industrial Revolution, blacksmiths enjoyed the same status as doctors and astrologers, because they were the sole providers of wea... |
12.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | C1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Talking shop
Ever entered a store and come away with more than you intended to buy? We reveal the selling devices shops use that are designed to make you spend, spend, spend.
A. The image of freshness
Supermarkets know from their market research that shoppers place a premium on fresh produce being in stores. They m... |
13.txt | en | cambridge-exams | document-level | reference | C1 | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | From here to paternity
A. The theatre director
Because of my bizarre personal life, which I cannot be proud of, I have been blessed with 35 years of small children and I can honestly say I have loved every minute. I had the pleasure of feeding the baby this morning and that for me is what being a father is all about.... |
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