MID-TERM TEST- LEVEL A1 I. READING Read the text. Are the sentences TRUE or FALSE? Sarah and Colin live in an old house in an English village. Sarah is a secretary. She drives five miles to work every day. Colin works at home. The village post office is one room in their house and Colin works there. The people in the village buy their stamps in Colin and Sarah's house! The post box is here, too. It's a lovely house. The living room is yellow and brown. There are two big blue sofas. There
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word “sibling” as “each of two or more children or offspring having one or both parents in common; a brother or sister.” From this definition, the people that meet this criteria are my siblings Samuel and Grace. In many households, children have siblings older or younger than them, but in my case, I have people who have accompanied me through most of the events of my life as I am a part of as set of triplets. The times we have shared laughing, playing
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Lucille Ball was born in Jamestown, New York, on 6 August 1911, and she will be remembered as the lovable, crazy, and accident-susceptible Lucy Rigardo, as presented in her television show. Lucille’s father died in 1915, when she was barely four years old, after he contracted typhoid fever (Peter). Henceforth, her mother took several jobs and was always busy, and Lucille and her brother had to be brought up by their grandparents. Lucille joined a drama school in New York and later found a modelling
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Bike Trail Have you ever tried to be the good sibling? The one that tries to cover for their brother and sister, even when you know they are up to no good? Yup, that’s me. However, on this forsaken day it came to bite me in the butt. I never knew it would get this far, I just assumed they were being weird and stupid, like they always were. I thought they would leave, go have some fun, and then return, like they always did and that would be the end of it. Boy was I wrong. It was a simple lie, or
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Despite knowing how painful it is to be stereotyped negatively, I have done it before myself to other people. Often times in my experiences, you hear about how Mexican teens are in to drugs and are violent as well. Growing up, our family went on a lot of vacations to where the majority of the population was Mexican. Whenever we visited these places, my parents would tell me to stay away from these people, as they would steal from me or try to pressure me into taking drugs. Therefore, up until I was
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"You may not always end up where you thought you were going, But you will always end up where you were meant to be." This is a story of a boy that was expected to die but instead, is born with disabilities. Over the course of the story, he learns to do things like how to walk and play because of his older brother’s help. One day his older brother pushed him too far and caused the boy to die. James Hurst uses symbolism to make “The Scarlet Ibis” more interesting. In the short story “The Scarlet
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My favorite parts were when they little boy had a nickel and wanted to play the pinball game. His dad was going to the coffee shop and the boy went to the pinball machine. The little boy didn’t go to the bathroom before he started playing the machine and he should have. When he went inside the building from the cold air in to the warm air he had to use the bathroom and never went. He was holding his number one for awhile and got to the point where it started to go down his leg. He ran to the bathroom
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By age five, most girls wanted to be a princess when they grew up. By the time I was five, I wanted to be a physical therapist. I always told people that I wanted to be a princess because I didn’t want to stand out and also, I kind of believed I could be one; but a physical therapist was much more magical to me than any princess could ever be. Physical therapy engulfed my entire life starting at a very young age. My older brother, Jeremy, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at birth. It was a very
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The Most Unwanted Blessing A sibling relationship is hard to describe in a single word other than the word confusing. They are the few individuals in life that you classify as the walking devil. The one that eats the food you had in the fridge with your name on it, the one that steals your charger in the middle of the night leaving you with no phone battery for the next day; they are the only ones in life with the single most goal — to irritate you beyond words. On the flip side, their presence
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As Megan’s older sister I have witnessed her grow and change throughout her lifetime. She has changed from the shy, little girl she once was into the insightful, caring women she became. As her older sister we have had our share of fights and arguments but always worked them out. As Megan became ill she asked me to give the eulogy at her funeral because she knows I do not like to give speeches in front of large crowds. She has always been there to push me to do my best, and this was her last way
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