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Reading and Use of English Part 7
Remember that each of the 10
You are going to read an article in which four people talk questions will only relate to one of
about how they were famous for a short time. For questions the diff erent sections of the text.
1–10, choose from the people (A–D). The people may be
chosen more than once.
Which person
wanted fame from the beginning? 1 thought their reaction was natural? 6

was shocked to be ofered an opportunity? 2 became famous through their own bad fortune? 7
knew that fame would be temporary? 3 regrets a missed opportunity? 8

blamed others for a failure? 4 beneited from someone else’s absence? 9
didn’t mind seeming foolish? 5 refused to comment on the situation at the time? 10

A Anna Simpson, 21 B Mitchell Rice, 26 C Theo Whitman, 31 D Maisie Broadwood, 24
When I was 16, we lived on a I often used to work as an extra on When I was younger, I auditioned I was a bit of a lazy teenager,
busy road. One day I was standing a soap opera fi lmed near my house. for a boy band in the hope of so sometimes I took the dog for
at the garden gate when a car An extra is an actor who doesn’t becoming the next big star, a walk by holding onto his lead
suddenly ran off the road and into have a speaking role – I would and amazingly I was one of the while I rode my bike at the same
a tree a few metres away from just play a person on the street or four people chosen. The whole time. It was dangerous, but
me. The car engine had caught someone in a café. It was quite good selection process was made into the dog loved it. One day I was
fi re and the woman at the wheel money for a student – I certainly a TV series, so I was in it right to cycling through the park and I
inside was unconscious. Without earned a lot more than my mates. the end and had become quite noticed someone fi lming me on
thinking, I raced around to the One day I turned up on the set and well-known even at that stage. their phone. I turned and waved
driver’s door, but it was locked. was handed a script. There was a After the selection process was to them, but at the exact same PDF from sachtienganhhanoi.com
I picked up a rock and smashed new speaking role for a character over, the four of us went into the moment the dog saw a squirrel
the window so I could open the to be fi lmed that day and the actor studio and recorded an album. crossing our path.
door from the inside and pulled hadn’t shown up. I never thought for The fi rst song we released went Well, you can imagine what
the woman out and away from the a minute they’d ask me! It wasn’t straight to number one, even happened … The dog chased
car. The media went crazy about a big part, and they killed off my before we had time to shoot a after the squirrel and pulled me
what I’d done, but I didn’t feel character after a few months, but video. That summer we went off the bike. A few days later the
especially brave. Anyone would the exposure I got meant people on tour around the country and video of the accident went viral
have done the same thing in my started to recognise me. I must performed to thousands of fans. all over the world. I contacted the
position. Journalists were trying admit I quite enjoyed the attention, But the record company chose person who had posted it and we
to interview me, but I turned them but I didn’t expect it to last, so I really bad songs for us, so our agreed that I would get part of the
all down. I really didn’t want to wasn’t surprised when it all stopped album didn’t sell all that well. income, so I did well out of it. It’s
have my face all over the news. I after a few months. Of course, it They dropped us soon after. I still on the internet, and people
was just happy to hear the woman meant that I could no longer be an wish they had given us more of still watch it, but I’m not bothered
was recovering well in hospital. extra in the show, but I soon found a chance. about anyone laughing at me – it’s
another job, in a restaurant this time.
another job, in a restaurant this time. paid for my university education.

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