1-Warren Buffett

Choose the correct word: Part Three

1-Warren Buffett


American billionaire Warren Buffett (showed) a talent for money and business from a very early age. When he was only six years old he (…) six bottles of coca Cola from his grandfather's shop for twenty five cents each. He then sold them to his friends for thirty cents, which (…) a total profit of thirty cents. While other children (…) were the same age were playing games, Warren was making money. By the (…) he left school at the age of 17 he had already earned $5,000 from a part time job delivering newspapers. Many years (…) he met the president of Coca cola and invested in the company. On this (…) Warren Buffett made a profit of more than a billion dollars. Soon afterwards, he (…) the richest man in America.

(started) (moment) (gave) (bought) (who) (time) (later) (opened) (became) (occasion)

2-Charles 1


Charles 1 was born in 1600 and became (king) of England, Scotland and Ireland when he was 25. He loved art and (…) a lot of money on paintings by famous European artists. Like many European monarchs of the (…), Charles believed God gave him the right to rule, and therefore to tax people as he wished. But after a few years he was having arguments with parliament, where many members had a (…) opinion to him. For eleven years Charles ruled (…) parliament. However, in 1642 he ran out of money, and soon afterwards a civil war (…) between the king's supporters and parliament forces. Charles had (…) the war. By 1649, was put on trial and killed later that year. The country (…) a republic and remained one for 11 years.
Example: king
(lost) (spent) (became) (without) (married) (different) (time) (same) (led) (started)
3-Michael Caine


Born in 1933, the famous British actor Michael Caine (…) up in south London. He came from a working class background and (…) in his early acting career. However, in 1964, he realized his luck had begun to (…). He played a British officer in the film about a (…) between the Zulu people and the British army. That is when he was first marked for stardom. Later, he was (…) to American audiences in the film "Alfie". To this day, it (…) on of Caine's most popular films. After his success in the USA, he (…) making films more regularly and was in turn (…) several, top films awards. To date he has starred in over 150 films.

(introduced) (started) (struggled) (believes) (conflict) (completed) (taken) (change) (remains) (given)

4-Maria Grillo


Maria Grillo was (…) in a small town in Italy1900s. She was not sent to school (…) of her family poverty. And at the age of 16, her parents sent her to the USA hoping she would have a better life there. Upon her arrival, she spoke almost no English and had very little (…). She rented a small place next to a factory and-though she tried- was not able to find (…) there. Maria did not give up, (…), taking her remaining money and buying everything necessary to make a pot of (…). At lunch time she went to the factory and (…) her food to the workers. After working hard and saving money. Five years later, Maria opened her own (…) which she managed until she was 85.
Example: (born)
(soup) (restaurant) (but) (because) (sold) (money) (work) (however) (due)
5-Henry Stanley


Henry Stanley is famous for being one of the first Europeans to travel (…) Africa. His parents were very poor and (…) a child he had to work. Aged eighteen, he left the UK and (…) to America. There he first (…) the army and later became a journalist for a newspaper in New York. One of his assignments was to go to Africa to find the missing explorer David Livingstone. He eventually found Livingstone, who was in poor health and who (…) a couple of years later, Stanley (…) to explore the region himself. He travelled along two major rivers and went to places (…) visited by a European before. Later, he worked for king Leopold of Belgium to open and (…) parts of Africa for trade with Europe.

(never) (develop) (when) (work) (as) (sailed) (joined) (for) (died) (continued)

6-The Boys on a Boat


Three boys - two aged 15 and one 14 (…) old-were found (…) on their boat in the South Pacific after being lost for fifty days. Their (…), friends and the authorities (…) that they were dead. The youngsters went (…) after a sporting event off the coast of their home island. All they had on the boat were a few coconuts. They were able to (…) on the coconuts and by catching rain water at night. They also caught and ate a seabird. Almost two months after they disappeared, a fishing boat which was in the area saw the boys' boat and (…) them. The boys were tired, hungry but happy to be alive. After being taken to hospital for a (…) check, they went home to their very relieved and thankful families.

(lonely) (survive) (thought) (testing) (health) (relatives) (ocean) (missing) (saved) (alive)

7-Writing From Around the World
In 1864, when Elisabeth Cochrane was born, not (…) women worked or travelled. Yet she not only (…) a way to do both these things, but also became a (…) female reporter, using the false name of Nellie Bly. Nellie Bly got her first job at the Pittsburg Dispatch newspaper (…) she wrote a letter to the editor. As a journalist for the paper, she became well known because of her reports on terrible working (…) in Pittsburg and about the poor who lived in the city. In 1886 and 1887 she (…) around Mexico for six months, writing about problems in the government and the lives of the people in the country. Nellie (…) famous for going around the world in only 72 days when she worked at New York's World newspaper. Nellie Bly died in 1922, but even today her name (…) to be linked to good journalism.
(life) (conditions) (turned) (respected) (continues) (became) (travelled) (after) (know) (found)

8- The Bicycle
These days, bicycles are (…) in every corner of the world. But the first chain-driven bicycles didn't (…)until around 130 years ago, and that was after more than 50 years of development. At first, they (…) very rare, of course, but they soon gained in popularity. Now, with more than a thousand million of them in existence, there are twice as many bicycles as other vehicles. Cycling (…) you consider it a leisure activity or a sport-is an ideal way to (…) fit and stay fit. If you're contemplating taking up cycling to (…) a few pounds, here are a couple of tips. Begin gently and (…) gradually. Don't do too much too soon. And (…) cycling can be dangerous, so wear bright colours or reflectors and a helmet.
(seem) (move) (whether) (were) (progress) (get) (lose) (remember) (think) (appear)

9-Galileo Galilei
Often (…) to as 'the father of modern physics, Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy, in 1564, the son of a mathematician and musician. He attended university in Pisa but had to leave due to a (…) of funds, and later taught sciences at the University of Padua. It was (…) his time there that Galileo did a large number of (…), the most famous involving dropping balls of different sizes from (…) heights to determine the law of acceleration of falling bodies. Indeed, he is credited with several important scientific (…) and is still considered a great genius. Unfortunately, however, he died in prison in 1642, whilst (…) a life sentence for publishing works suggesting that the earth moved (…)the sun-something that went against accepted thinking at the time.
(various) (discoveries) (taking) (lot) (around) (during) (lack) (at) (serving) (experiments)