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ffiffi Can you thinl< of anyone who is realty tucl<y?
ln what way are they lucky?

2 6b :.f a Read the text, ignoring the gaps. Why does Frano fu**
Selal< think that he is the world's luckiest man? Choose the
correct answer.
a Because he is now very rich, having narrowly escaped death Frano Selak is
on a number of occasions. !ighty-one-year-old
Lknown as the world's luckiest man.
b Because he has survived seven serious accidents and then
Throughout his long life, he has survived seven
won the lottery. ,
disasters, all of which could have killed him.
c Because he has finally found happiness with his fifth wife.
Then, at the age ol 76, he got married for the
fifth time. 1E
When completing a gapped text, look for words in the
missing sentences that tink with words that come before Selak was bonn in a small town in Croatia. He
and after each gap (e.g. nouns, verb tenses, pronouns, was involved in his first accident in 1962. He was
time expressions, etc.). travelling by train fnom Sarajevo to Dubnovnik,
when the tnain jumped fnom the nails and fell
3 Read the exam strategy. Then do the tasks below. into a freezing riven. 2E He managed to get
1 Look at the sentence before gap 2 in the text. Th,en read to the niverbank with a broken arm, suffening
sentences a-h betow and find two sentences that have words from hypothermia. The following year Selak took
which tink with 'freezing river'. Underline the key words in a flight for^ the first - and last - time" The door" _
each sentence. opened and the passengers were thrown out of
2 Onty one of the sentences fits the gap. Which one? How do the plane. 3n lf that haystack hadn't been in the
you know? field, he would have died.

a Four people drowned, but - again - Setak swam to safety. A few years laten, he was travelling by bus this
b Nineteen people were kilted, but Setak fell clear of the crash time, when - again - it fell into a river". 4E
and landed in a haystack.
This time he only had cuts and bruises"'He was
c He turned sharply to avoid a cottision, and went straight off
getting used to it. His next accident happened in
the road.
197O, but with a different method of tnansport.
d He never travetted by public transport again.
He was driving along the motorway, when
e He celebrated by buying his very first lottery ticl<et - and he
won the jackpot! suddenly his can caught fire. 5E Three yeans
f He had his hip replaced in hospital. later, his next car caught fire at a garage. The
g Seventeen peopte drowned in the icy waters, but Selak fine swept thnough the car. Again, he escaped
su rvived. from the vehicle, but he lost most of his hain.
h He managed to escape from it just before it exploded.
4 wtatch the sentences (a-h) in exercise 3 with the gaps (r-z) in
the text. There is one sentence that you do not need.
6 !!!flf,tn[f, Complete the preposition + noun phrases.
They are al[ in the text.
5 Are the sentences true or false? Correct the false ones.
1 the (first) time
1 Selal< got married after winning the lottery.
2 travel train
2 The third accident happened when Selak was travetling by bus.
3 be foot
3 Two ofthe accidents happened in the 1960s. 4 first ptace
4 Selak was badty injured in the bus accident. -
5 the end
6 fact
5 At the time of atl seven accidents, Selal< was travelling in a -
vehicte. -
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6 ,On three occasions Selak escaped from a burning car.
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7 Selal< feets that before he met his wife he had more bad luck
than good [ucl<.
8 Selal< believes that money doesn't mal<e him happier.
88 i unit 9 ., Money, money, money!