I was coming home at about three o’clock on a black winter night, when suddenly I saw two people. The 1________________ was a short man who

 ONE

2________________ along the street,

WALK

and the 3________________ was a little girl who

TWO

4________________ as fast as she could.

RUN

Well, the two crashed into each other and the child 5________________ down.

FALL

But the man calmly walked on and left the 6________________ child on the ground.

CRY

I ran after the man and brought 7________________ back. There was already a small crowd around the child.

HE

The man was perfectly cool, but he gave me a very cruel look, which 8________________ me feel sick.The child’s family then arrived, and also the doctor. I had taken a violent dislike to the short man. So had the child’s family – that was only natural.

 MAKE

Mr Utterson, the lawyer, was a quiet, serious man. He was shy with strangers and afraid of 1________________ his feelings. 

 SHOW

Among friends, however, his eyes 2________________ with kindness and goodness.

SHINE

And, although this goodness never found 3________________ way into his conversation, it showed itself in his way of life.

 IT

He 4________________ himself many enjoyable things in life.

NOT ALLOW

He ate and drank simply and, although he 5________________ the theatre,

ENJOY

he 6________________ a play for twenty years.

NOT SEE

However, he was gentler towards other 7________________ weaknesses, and was always ready to help people rather than criticize them.

 MEN

 

As a lawyer, he was often the last good person that criminals 8________________ on their way to prison. These people often carried memories of his politeness and fairness with them.

 

MEET

I knew that my 1________________ best friend

COUSIN

was a man 2________________ Richard, who was well-known as a fun-loving person.

CALL

Nobody could understand why they were friends, as they 3________________ from each other in every way.

 DIFFER

They often went for long walks together, 4________________ through the streets of London.

MARCH

One of these walks 5________________ them down a narrow side-street in a busy part of London.

TAKE

A dark, mysterious, windowless building 6________________ near the end of this street. Dirty children played on the doorstep, and nobody ever opened the door to drive them away.

 STAND

As the two friends passed the building, Richard 7________________ to it.

 POINT

 “Have you ever noticed that place?” he asked. “It is connected with a strange story.”

“Really?” said my friend. “Tell 8________________ about it”. And Richard began his story.

   I

Paul Samuelson was born on May 15, 1915, in Gary, Indiana. He 1________________ at the University of Chicago in Illinois and at Harvard University.

 EDUCATE

 

In 1947, Samuelson 2________________ “Foundations of Economic Analysis” in which he used the language of mathematics to explain the world of economics.

WRITE

In 1948 he published “Economics” which is considered to be the 3________________ economics text of our time.

IMPORTANT

 “Economics” 4________________ in new editions today.

PUBLISH

Samuelson 5________________ the 1970 Nobel Prize in Economics for doing "more than any other contemporary economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in economic theory."

GIVE

Samuelson says that he finds the 6________________ pleasure in solving problems of economics and it is the mathematical work.

GREAT

But while he 7________________ it, he thinks about the real-world problems.

DO

Samuelson's life work has been to use economics in the service of humanity. He 8________________ more than anyone of his time to influence government policy at the highest level.

 DO

Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany. His interest in science 1________________ when he was only five years old.

 BEGIN 

His father gave him a magnetic compass. Looking at it, the young Albert wanted to know why the needle 2________________.

 MOVE

In 1902, after graduating from the university, Einstein took a job in the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. In 1909, at the age of thirty, Einstein 3________________ his job at the Patent Office and began his lifelong career in the academic world.

 LEAVE

His genius was recognized, and in 1921 he 4________________ the Nobel Prize in physics.

 GIVE

In 1933, when Adolf Hitler came into power, Einstein and his 5________________ wife moved to the USA.

 TWO

He 6________________ a professor at Princeton University where he remained until his death in 1955.

BECOME

Shortly before his death he wrote and signed the
Russell-Einstein Manifesto, 7________________ the people of the world about the danger of nuclear catastrophe. Albert Einstein is remembered as the scientist in the world. His theories have changed science forever.

 WARN

 

It is generally thought that Albert Einstein is the greatest theoretical physicist who ever 8________________.

 LIVE

Albert Schweitzer is known throughout the world for his missionary work in Africa. He was born on January 14, 1875 in Alsace, which was part of Germany and 1________________ Part of France after World War I.

 LATE

He was a talented person and by the age of thirty, 2________________ as an author, a lecturer, and a musician.

 KNOW

It was at this time that he learned of the great need of medical doctors in Africa. He decided to become a doctor of medicine. In 1913, Doctor Schweitzer and his wife 3________________ for Africa.

 LEAVE

The morning after the Schweitzers arrived, they started to treat their patients in an old farmhouse. However, a new hospital building 4________________ with the help and the trust of the African people.

 BUILD

Their work was interrupted by World War I. Only in 1924, Dr. Schweitzer was finally able to return to Lambarene to rebuild the hospital. When Mrs. Schweitzer came back to Africa in 1929, the hospital was much 5________________.

  LARGE

There was a 6________________ staff of doctors and nurses.

GROW

In 1953 Dr. Schweitzer 7________________ the Nobel Peace Prize.

GIVE

He was grateful, but said, “No man has the right to pretend that he 8________________ enough for the cause of peace or declare himself satisfied.”

 WORK

Nicole Kidman is a true Hollywood star. She is also one of the 1________________ Australian actresses of her time.

 FAMOUS

Nicole was born in Hawaii, where her father  2________________.

 STUDY

Five years 3________________ the family moved to Sydney.

LATE

Her 4________________ stage performance was in her school’s Christmas show when she was six.

ONE 

Nicole 5________________ appearing on Australian television during her teens and at the age of 17 she was voted the ‘Actress of the Year’ by the Australian Film Institute.

BEGIN

 

She 6________________ to Hollywood to make her first American film in 1989.

INVITE

Tom Cruise was her partner in the next film and during  7________________ the couple fell deeply in love.

 FILM

It was a whirlwind courtship and they 8________________ on Christmas Eve in 1990.

MARRY

That morning, the ‘Swinging Four’ group had set out from Derby, full of hope for the evening. They were on their way to Sheffield where they hoped 1________________ at a dance in the Three Kings Pub that night.

 PLAY

The shopkeeper where they had bought their guitars and drums was getting very angry with them. Mick, the leader of the group, 2________________ a letter last Monday from the shop. They still had fifty pounds left to pay for their instruments. If they didn’t pay within two weeks, they would have to give the instruments back.

RECEIVE

Now they 3________________ at the side of the road just outside Sheffield

STAND

4________________ unhappily at the steaming bonnet of the old car that had just exploded.

LOOK

Mick looked at the car again and turned to Peter who 5________________ all about cars.

 KNOW

‘Come on, Peter. What’s the matter with it?’ Peter lifted the bonnet and examined the engine. ‘I’ve no idea,’ he said. ‘It 6________________ only a month ago. I think it’s time we bought another car.

  REPAIR

I’ll try and get a lift to the 7________________ garage and ask them to come and look at the car. We must get to Sheffield in time.’They all looked at the road.

NEAR

He hated the way his wife woke him up in the morning. It showed that she was angry with him and it 1________________ like that every day.

 DO

But it was really dangerous 2________________ an artist like that! It made him feel bad for hours – simply hours.

WAKE

She came into the room in her working clothes, with a handkerchief over her head, just to show him that she 3________________ up much earlier

 GET

and now she 4________________ about the house.

WORK

She called in her low warning voice: ‘Jerry!’

‘What! What’s the matter?’

‘It’s time to get up. It’s half-past eight.’ And then she left the room, 5________________ the door quietly behind her.

 CLOSE

He supposed that she 6________________ very pleased with herself.

FEEL

What was the matter with her? What did she want? He earned lots of money. She didn’t have any money, but he never said that to her. His heart was heavy. She seemed to enjoy making life 7________________ for him than it was already. She made an artist’s life impossible. She wanted to make him like herself.

 DIFFICULT

Everybody knows that Christopher Columbus discovered America. However, America 1________________ after Amerigo Vespucci who explored the eastern coast of South America.

 NAME

Was he really the first to reach the continent? The great Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdal 2________________ it wasn’t true.

 THINK

He believed that ancient people were able to build boats that 3________________ cross oceans.

 CAN

To test his ideas, Heyerdal decided to build a copy of the reed boats, which 4________________ in ancient Egyptian paintings and sail across the Atlantic.

 PICTURE

On May 25, 1969 the boat called Ra left a port in Morocco and headed across the 5________________ part of the Atlantic.

 WIDE

Before reaching Barbados, Ra 6________________ but all the members of the expedition survived and wanted to try again.

BREAK

So, on May 17, 1970 Ra II successfully crossed the Atlantic, 7________________ that ancient civilizations had enough skill to reach America long before Columbus.

 PROVE