Read the passages and do the tasks Passage 1

Read the passages and do the tasks Passage 1 - ID. [201011]

Philip Pullman (1) the author of the award-winning and best-selling. His Dark Material triology, an adventure story. Pullman himself spent a great deal of his childhood travelling abroad because both his father and stepfather were pilots in Royal Air Force. As a child, he went on several long ocean voyages, and he (2) Africa and in Australia. "Before I was 11, I had been to eight different schools."

"In Australia, I made a great discovery. TV (3) Australia yet, but everyone listened to the radio. I remember listening to gangster serials, and cowboy serials, and best of all - Superman! When I first saw a Superman comic, it (4) my life. I had read books for a long time, but I'd never known comics before. Soon afterward, I discovered Batman, too, whom I loved even more."

Pullman started writing his first novel the day (5) he had finished his exams at Oxford University. "I discovered after about an hour that it was much more difficult than I'd expected. It still is! I found the amount I could write comfortably every day was three pages, so that's what I've done ever since."

Before he became a full-time writer, Pullman had been teaching for many years. "What I enjoyed most in that difficult and valuable (6) was telling stories, telling folk tales and ghost stories and Greek myths, over and over, until I knew them as well as my own life." He had always loved telling stories - as a schoolboy he had (7) friends by reading ghost stories to them, or by making up his own.

One day he was delighted to get a letter that had arrived at his door even though the writer didn't know his (8). The envelop said, "Philip Pullman, the storyteller Oxford.” “I couldn't ask for anything better," he said.

Task 1: Read passage 1 and choose the best option to fill in the blanks Question 1 [514614]: A. is                                  B. was           C. were           D. are Question 2 [514615]: A. went                           B. moved       C. Lived         D. Immigrated Question 3 [514616]:  A. hadn't appeared            B. hadn't reached

C. hadn't been                       D. hadn't caught

Question 4 [514617]:

A. had changed

B. change

C. changed    D.

changes

Question 5 [514618]:

A. before

B. when

C. while

D. after

Question 6 [514619]:

A. profession

B. thing

C. talk

D. speech

Question 7: [514621]:

A. talked

B. entertained

C. spoke

D. asked

Question 8 [514621]: A. address               B. name                      C. university D. parents