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B: ‘It was just bad luck really; so near and yet so far.’
18 
C: ‘after about six months of arm-twisting, decided to make
the leap’.
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B: ‘to put up with what I call the “full-on suffer”.’
20 
C: ‘You don’t have a lot of protection if you come off and hit the 
ground. So I run and row as cross-training as much as I can.’

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C: ‘looking at two drawings that were given to me as gifts.’
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D: ‘I can warm up with them, and they’ve taught me loads of 
stretches and things … really makes you more supple and able
to cope.’
23 
F: ‘I’ll usually pop into dressing rooms putting little notes or candy 
on people’s tables.’
24 
H: ‘I still find myself walking up to have a look (at the props) prior 
to curtain going up.’
25 
A: ‘I go in the courtyard where I can just catch the breeze.’
26 
A: ‘On my last one, I came down with a sore throat.’
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H: ‘so I came out with a line I was supposed to say later.’
28 
C: ‘the press … what they wrote initially wasn’t that 
complimentary.’
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E: ‘I missed a step and stumbled on the way down.’
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F: ‘The actor looked around and saw a pigeon standing right
behind him.’
Test 6, Paper 1, Reading 
(Page 135)
Part 1
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C: The writer contrasts people who are frightened by UFOs (they 
feel ‘creeping unease’, think UFOs are ‘sinister’ and feel ‘fear’ 
of them, all in the first paragraph) with Ufologists, who are 
enthusiasts and ‘true believers’ and who feel great excitement 
about UFOs (second paragraph). 
2 
D: ‘for many years, UFOs were a much bigger deal than we 
suspected’; ‘RAF jets were scrambled to investigate UFO reports 
no fewer than 200 times a year’ (‘no fewer than’ = a surprisingly 
high number of).