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CEFR READING PART PRACTICE – MULTIPLE CHOICE
Read the text and answer the questions 1-7. 
 
TASK 18 
Lucky Break 
 
For the first ten years of my life my father was in the RAF (Royal Air Force). This meant that he was frequently 
posted to different air bases around the UK and I, as frequently, changed schools. One year we moved no fewer than 
three times and each time I tried, in vain, to settle and make friends. For a young child this frequency of change can 
only have a detrimental effect and I still have school reports stating that I was “lazy” and a “dreamer”. 
When I reached ten, my worried parents decided I needed a personal tutor. She turned out to be a kindly and patient 
old lady who presented me with a large, black book of tests. She made me complete it as a home task and I scored 
about 20 out of 100. At out next meeting, on a Saturday morning, she went through it with me item by item, until I 
completely understood each task. She then made me retake the test and of course I got almost every question 
correct. Then we again moved house! 
In our new town I took and failed the 11 plus exam (my excuse was that I was still only ten!) and my prospects 
looked dim. I was destined to go to the local comprehensive which had a reputation for being quite rough. But also 
nearby was an ancient public school, set in a castle. This was a place for rich kids only — apart from every year 
they gave 2 free places to the highest performing local boys (it was a boy’s only school) in their entrance exam. My 
crazy parents decided I should enter the exam. I had as much chance of succeeding as going to the moon - or so I 
thought. But when I sat down to take the test, a rather familiar black book of 100 tests was placed on the desk! 
I did the test and kept quiet and the next term, as a terror struck 11-year-old in an ill-fitting suit, I arrived for my 
first day at “the castle”. Clearly I was going to have problems in this new, intensely academic environment and I 
did. 
There were 31 boys in my class and in every subject, despite my best efforts, I finished in the bottom 5 in every test, 
exam and report. We were then streamed into “sets” for each subject and I ended up being taught with boys closer to 
my own ability. I worked really hard and at the end of my third year there, I won my first form prize. I was top of 
the bottom class! But I was really motivated and in time got “promoted” to higher “sets”. I worked really hard and 
won prizes every year until I left after A Levels. My grades were all A ’s — the highest you can get — and I was 
offered a place to study at a prestigious university. 
So when a certain old Lady presented me with a large black book full of tests, you could say it was my lucky break. 
Although I would argue that if you work really hard and keep your wits about you — then you begin to make your 
own luck.