A n s w e r k e y test 1, Paper 1, Reading

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news
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flexibility
Part 3
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C: ‘It was pure chance that a friend asked me to design a set for a 
student musical he was directing’.
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D: ‘What you need to do is to put all the training in the background 
and get some hands-on experience – an apprenticeship’s great 
for doing that, and I spent three years doing one.’
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C: ‘Having an affinity with a play is pretty vital. If you don’t care 
about it, there’s no point in doing it because you’ll never come 
up with good ideas.’
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A: ‘Actually, it helps me to keep coming up with new ideas if I’m 
constantly changing my focus from one show to another.’
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D: ‘That’s a bigger question that’ll take years to answer. But we may 
have moved a step nearer answering that.’
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A: ‘On stage, … requires the type of thinking I love best … I don’t 
get that buzz working on a movie, I’m afraid.’
Part 4
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E: ‘My wife said I’d never make it, which only made me more 
determined actually.’
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D: ‘As a graduation gift, it was a lovely way of marking
the achievement.’
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B: ‘My girlfriend wanted to go … I went along with the idea for
her sake.’
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G: ‘Like me, they’d mostly seen that chap on TV at the site and 
decided to go too.’
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C: ‘I was looking to do a bit of serious walking to see what I was 
capable of.’
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C: ‘For me the highpoint was how friendly the others were.’
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A: ‘What made it for me … was the actual design of the place.’
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B: ‘What blew me away … was looking out from the low walls of 
the site over the mountains.’
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E: ‘I hadn’t expected the actual walk up to the site to be
so impressive.’