Test Level Final

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ESCAPE FROM THE JUNGLE (A TRUE STORY) be break call fall find hit leave lie look On Christmas Eve 1971 Juliana Koepke, a seventeen-year-old German girl, ... (1)... Lima with her mother .They... (2)... on their way to Pucallpa, another town in Peru, to spend Christmas with Juliana’s father. Forty-five minutes later the plane... (3)... up in a storm and Juliana... (4)...3000 metres, strapped in her seat. She was not killed when the seat... (5)...the ground (perhaps because trees broke her fall), but she... (6)... all night unconscious. The next morning Juliana... (7)...for pieces of the plane, and... (8)... for her mother. Nobody answered, and she.... (9)...nothing except a small plastic bag of sweets. find find get hear know see see start Juliana’s collar bone was broken, one knee was badly hurt and she had deep cuts on her arms and legs. She had no shoes; her glasses were broken (so she could not ...(10)...snakes or spiders, for example); and she was wearing only a very short dress, which was badly torn. But she decided to try to... (11)...out of the jungle, because she ...(12)... that if she stayed there she would die. So Juliana … (13)… to walk. She did not … (14)… anything to eat, and as the days went by she got weaker and weaker. She was also in bad trouble from insect bites. She …(15)…helicopters, but could not see them above the trees, and of course they could not see her. One day she …(16)… three seats and …(17)…that they had dead bodies in them, but she did not recognise the people. come come get know learn swim take After four days she … (18)... to a river. She saw caimans and piranhas, but she … (19)…that they do not usually attack people. So Juliana walked and … (20)… down the river for another five days. At last she … (21)… to a hut. Nobody was there, but the next afternoon, four men arrived. They … (22)...her to a doctor in the next village. Juliana …(23)… afterwards that there were at least three other people who were not killed in the crash. But she was the only one who …(24)…out of the jungle. It took her ten days.

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The Symptoms of Internet Addiction. Last week, in a private rehabilitation clinic outside Edinburgh, Leo Edwards, a sixteenyear-old schoolboy, was going through severe withdrawal symptoms. His body often shook violently and uncontrollably, and at mealtimes he regularly threw cups and plates around the dining room. The boy's addiction had nothing to do with alcohol, drugs, gambling or food. His problem was 'Net obsession' - an over-dependency on the Internet. An international group of psychologists has recently suggested that anyone who surfs the Internet for long periods is clinically ill and needs medical treatment. According to their report, Internet addicts should be treated in the same way as alcoholics, drug addicts, compulsive gamblers and people with eating disorders. Leo Edwards is not an isolated case. Russell Hopkins, aged fifteen, from Gateshead in north-east England, is a typical online addict. Every day after school, and after dinner until three or four in the morning, he will be found in his room surfing the Net or playing computer games. By the end of the day he will have spent more than six hours online. Understandably, his parents are extremely worried. Not only has his school work suffered, but Russell's addiction has also destroyed his social life and his spare-time interests. For instance, he has just dropped out of his school's basketball team in order to spend more time at his computer. Instead of spending next weekend having a good time out with friends, he'll be spending it indoors surfing the Internet. Russell has recently joined an Internet online support group. It may seem ironic that many of the support groups for Internet addicts are online but at least Russell has sought help. Not everyone does. Dr Ann Hoffman, who runs an online support group, says 'People don't realise that being online for more than four hours a day amounts to addiction and that they have a serious problem. I predict that the number of people who join online support groups will have risen dramatically within three years. Private rehabilitation clinic - частная реабилитационная клиника; withdrawal symptoms - симптомы отвыкания от алкоголя /наркотиков; addiction - зависимость, пристрастие; net obsession - сетевая зависимость; overdependency on - сверхзависимость от; recently - недавно; to surf the Internet - просматривать интернет-страницы; medical treatment - медицинское лечение; according to - согласно чему-то; to destroy - уничтожать; indoors - в помещении; support - поддержка; to predict - предсказывать; to rise dramatically - значительно вырасти; to join - присоединиться /вступить в ряды.

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