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Reading exercises


EX1 . fill in each numbered blank of the following passage with a suitable word.
I have to get up everyday about seven because work really begins about an hour before surgery(1)............... the phones calls start to come in. My wife helps me with that because she usually (2).............. the phone and that gives me time to have breakfast and(3).................. the paper. We open waiting room about 8.30, and there are often a dozen people there when I (4).............. surgery at night.
On an average day, I can finish surgery by 10.30 or so, and start my rounds. My wife (5)..................a list of the visits I have to make from the phone calls during the morning and often helps me by working out the best route (6).................... one patient`s house to another.
I usaully try to get (7)................. for lunch by 1.30, though I sometimes have to continue my visits in the afternoon. On a good day, I have a couple of hours(8).........................surgery begins again at six when I can catch up (9)...............the paper work, completing forms for the health authorities, and sometimes read an article in one of the medical journals to (10)................... up with the latest development.
Evening surgery usually (11)................. till about eight, but often goes on much longer. I belong to a group of five doctors in the area (12)..................... share night duty between us. That means that we are on call once a week (13)................. Monday and Friday and every fifth weekend. As a (14)......................., my wife and I normally have dinner about nine, I have toime to talk to the children, and we sometimes (15)........................ TV before going to bed around eleven.
EX2 . Read the following passage and then fill in each blank with a suitable word from the box. Do not use the same word more than once.
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Chantal`s parents didn`t have much money, so they sent her to a state (1)................. school when she was five. She enjoyed her reading and writing (2)..................., but there were so many pupils in the (3)................ that the teacher found it difficult to control them. When Chantal was eleven, her father got a better job, and decided to spend some money on her( 4)..................... . He sent her to an expensive (5)................... school, where the girls wore dark green (6)................... and did two hours` (7)...................... every evening. Chantal liked her new school, and did well. Because she studied hard, she(8).................... all her exams, and went to university at eighteen. She chose a history (9)................. and was an excellent student. In the end she decided to become a(10)........................, and returned to her old primary school to teach.
EX3 . fill in each numbered blank of the following passage with a suitable word
Maria Skodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland, on 7th November, 1876. Her (1)................ was not happy. Her old sister died when she was nine and her mother died when she was eleven. Fours years later the (2) ................. of her mother, she left school. That was a difficult time, too. She couldn`t go to university (3) ................... universities in Poland were not open to women, so she taught her self.
In 1891 Maria went to Paris to study Physics. She (4).................. very well and got her degree in 1893. A year later she got a degree in Physics she got a degree in Maths, too. This was only a (5) .................. weeks before she met a clever young man called Pierre Curie. They got (6).................... in 1895 and Maria became Marie Curie. The Curies had two daughters: Irene, born in 1897, and Eve, born in 1904. Before the (7) ...................... of Irene, Marie started working with Pierre. Together they (8)....................... radium in 1898.
In 1903 Marie and Pierre (9).......................... the Nobel Prize for Physics and they became very famous. Then, three years (10) .................. , Pierre died and Marie`s world changed forever.
EX4 .Use the words given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.
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Emma Harte, in Barbara Taylor Bradford`s novel, was a poor (0)............... ( lone) girl who became the (1)................. (wealth) owner of an international chain of stores. Like the woman she writes about, Ms Bradford is beautiful and(2)................ ( ambition). She left school at sixteen and became a (3)....................(journal). After 23 years of this work, she made the(4).................. (decide) to start writing novels. She is now one of the most(5)................... (high) - paid novelists in the world. Was Emma Harte`s story based on Ms Bradford`s own (6) ................... (credible) successful life? " I`m afraid not," she