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Gerald Durrell: The Friend of All Animals
Imagine spending all your life in the company of  wild animals and insects!
That’s what Gerald Durrell’s life was like. Gerald Durrell was born in India in 1925. His mother often joked that his first word was ‘zoo’.
When he was three years old his family 1 _____ to England, then to the Greek island of Corfu – to get away from the terrible English weather. With his mother, his sister and his brothers, Gerald spent five years on the island. That was the start of his long 2 _____ as an animal expert.
In 1939, the Durrels moved back to London 3 ____ the war. At the end of the war Gerald got a job in Whipsnade Zoo where he started 4 _____ the lions and other animals.
On his 21st birthday, Gerald 5 _____ a 3000 pound inheritance* – a fortune in those days. He decided to go on expeditions 6 _____ wild animals for British zoos.
On one trip to Africa Gerald was given a pet monkey 7 _____ Chumley. Chumley was very naughty. One day it got drunk on beer and did cartwheels* 8 ___ the African villagers. It took three 9 _____ to catch the naughty animal!
In 1958, Durrell decided to start collecting animals not for other British zoos, but for his own zoo. Eventually, after much searching, he found a proper home for animals in Jersey, the Channel Islands. There, he set up a zoo which is now 10 ___ all over the world as a sanctuary for endangered species.
* inheritance – наследство
* to do cartwheels – катиться кувырком

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Gerald Durrell: The Friend of All Animals
Imagine spending all your life in the company of  wild animals and insects! That’s what Gerald Durrell’s life was like. Gerald Durrell was born in India in 1925. His mother often joked that his first word was ‘zoo’.
When he was three years old his family 1 _____ to England, then to the Greek island of Corfu – to get away from the terrible English weather. With his mother, his sister and his brothers, Gerald spent five years on the island. That was the start of his long 2 _____ as an animal expert.
In 1939, the Durrels moved back to London 3 ____ the war. At the end of the war Gerald got a job in Whipsnade Zoo where he started 4 _____ the lions and other animals.
On his 21st birthday, Gerald 5 _____ a 3000 pound inheritance* – a fortune in those days. He decided to go on expeditions 6 _____ wild animals for British zoos.
On one trip to Africa Gerald was given a pet monkey 7 _____ Chumley. Chumley was very naughty. One day it got drunk on beer and did cartwheels* 8 ___ the African villagers. It took three 9 _____ to catch the naughty animal!
In 1958, Durrell decided to start collecting animals not for other British zoos, but for his own zoo. Eventually, after much searching, he found a proper home for animals in Jersey, the Channel Islands. There, he set up a zoo which is now 10 ___ all over the world as a sanctuary for endangered species.
* inheritance – наследство
* to do cartwheels – катиться кувырком

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Why Are the British Mad about Harry?
Who has the most recognized face in Britain at the moment? No, it’s not the Queen, nor the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, it’s not even Robbie Williams! The most recognized face 1 _____ to a young man called Daniel Redcliffe. Although he is not generally known to the public 2 ____. Daniel Redcliffe. In fact, some people know his face as being that of. Harry Potter. Daniel Redcliffe is the actor who plays Harry Potter on film and whose face 3 _____ out from a thousand posters across the nation. The image of Harry Potter is so familiar that even people who haven’t read of the books or seen 4 ____of the films know exactly 5 ____ he is and exactly what he looks like.
The phenomenal success of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books has been one of the most talked about. The big surprise has been how many children have been drawn to the books. The subsequent success of the films and merchandise that goes with them is far less 6 ____, but the fact 7 ____ thousands of children have actually read the original books has been seen as almost incredible. It 8 ____ to be said that many parents and teachers also have been impressed by the books of the Harry Potter series.
Since the 1960s Britain has seen a steady decline* in the 9 ____ of reading amongst school-age children and this has been blamed on television, films, computer games and excitingly presented magazines. The popularity of the Harry Potter series was seen so unusual that many newspaper and magazine articles were written about it to try 10 ______ its success.
*decline – спад, падение

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Martin Luther King: A man of peace
Martin Luther King, Jr, was the son of a black Baptist pastor. His mother was a schoolteacher. Young Martin spent a fairly 1 _____ childhood in Atlanta, Georgia. After high school, he 2 _____ to college and studied to be a pastor, like his father. 3 _____ could have guessed, in those days, the place in history that Martin Luther King, Jr, was to have. It all started in Montgomery. The buses in Montgomery were segregated. Black people had to sit in the back of the bus. One day, a black woman, Rosa Parks, was returning home 4 _____ a hard day's work. She sat in the front of the bus, and then 5 ______ to give up her seat to a white passenger. Rosa Parks was arrested, and the black community of Montgomery was outraged.
Martin Luther King persuaded the black citizens to protest 6 ____. He organized a boycott of the bus service. For 381 days, the buses rolled virtually empty.  The blacks supported the boycott. They walked, hitch-hiked — and the buses stayed empty. At last, the bus company gave in. The law was 7 _____. Martin Luther King, Jr, had won his first protest against 8 _____. He believed that the blacks could win their struggle for equal 9 _____ without violence.
In 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize. He was only thirty-four years old — the youngest man who had ever 10 _____ this high honour.

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THE PERFECT PRINCE
The eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince William is second in line to the throne after his father, Prince Charles. On the 21st of June 2003 Prince William 1 _____ his 21st birthday. Being a prince is not as easy as it may seem. Being a future king is even more difficult.
Now, there are a lot of people in Britain who 2 _____ that Britain should get rid of the royal family. Why? One of the main reasons is that having a monarchy is very 3 _____.
Many people think that Prince William is the only person who could save the situation and he seems the only 4 _____ candidate. It is already clear that William knows his own mind. For example, he insisted on 5 ____ to St. Andrews University in Scotland rather than to 6 ____ Oxford or Cambridge. This is why William is often 7 _____ ‘the perfect prince’ by the media. However, William faces a lot of challenges in his life. To start with, all his life, William has been avoiding media 8 ______. Therefore, it is not 9 _____ that there have been rumours that William does not want to be King. This does not seem to be true. In his 10 _____ birthday interview to Hello magazine, William said that the stories about him not wanting to be King were wrong, as it was something he was “born into” and his “duty”.

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ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
 I was born in a little Austrian town, outside Graz. When I was ten years old, I had the dream of being the best in the world in something. When I was fifteen, I had a dream that I wanted to be the best body 1 _____ in the world and the most muscular man. It took me some time of hard work. Five years later, I became Mr. Universe, the best-built man in the world.  I hold the record as Mr. Olympia, the top professional body-building championship. I 2 _____ it six times. That's why I retired. There was 3 ____ even close to me. Everybody gave up competing against me. When I was a small boy, my dream was not to be big physically, but big in way that everybody 4 ____ to me when I talk, that I’m a very 5 ____ person, that people recognize me and see me as something special.
I have emotions. But what you do, you keep them cold or you store them away for a time. Sport is one of those 6 ____ where you really have to concentrate. You have to 7 _____ at a very early date what you want: a normal life or to achieve things you want to achieve. I never wanted to win a popularity contest in doing things the way people want me to do it. I went the road I thought was best for me.
I believed very strongly in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay 8 ____ with it too long. 9 ____ a new dream and hunt after that one and 10 _____ it into reality. When you have that dream achieved, make up a new dream.