1 Read the article about Reuters News Agency and complete the gaps with the correct sentences a-f. There is one extra sentence that you don’t need. Reuters

4 Complete the mini-dialogues with phrases from the box. There is one phrase that you don’t need.
according to this article around 50
I can’t remember exactly something or other
the sad thing is
what was impressive about it was
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Fiona Do you know how many people are coming to Tom’s party?
Gayle He did tell me, but ______________________ how many he said. I know it’s mainly his university friends.
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Husband Well, ______________________, the suspects were arrested as they were crossing the border.
Wife Which paper is that in?
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Charlie How was the show last night?
Anya I’ve ever seen anything like it! ______________________ the energy those guys had. They played for two hours!
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Man Do you know what this first thing on the menu is?
Woman Erm, it’s a chocolate ___________________, but I’m not sure exactly what.
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Irina It says here that most young people leave school not knowing how to manage money or look after themselves.
Kazumi ______________________, I think that’s probably true.

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5 Read the article about the author Ian Fleming and answer the questions. Write no more than three words for each answer.
Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming was the writer ¹ who invented James Bond. Casino Royale, published in 1953, was the first novel in which this character appeared. Fleming went on to write ² eleven more James Bond novels before his death in 1964.
As a young man, Fleming’s ambition was to join the British Foreign Office, but he failed to get a job there, which represented³ a great disappointment to him. Although he ⁴ had never intended to be a writer, he got a job as a journalist for Reuters News Agency. Then, due to world events in the late 1930s, Fleming became
⁵ a secret information officer in the navy.
⁶ Leaving the navy in 1945, Fleming took the decision to become a writer. But it was his work for the navy, which included several secret expeditions, that gave him the ideas for his James Bond novels.
The first James Bond novel to be made into a film was ⁷ Dr. No, in 1962. The film, starring Sean Connery, was a huge success.
Nobody really knows what makes the James Bond stories so successful, but now, half a century after Fleming’s death, they are as popular as ever.
1 In which novel did the character of James Bond originally feature?
2 Who did Ian Fleming work for before becoming a secret information officer?
3 Which organization inspired Ian Fleming to write the James Bond stories?

2 points for each correct answer

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