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Learning to learn Exam skills 4

More multiple choice practice

1 1 Read the text and circle the correct answer.

Extreme Sports
Extreme Sports

When we think about sports, most of us think about football,
basketball or athletics. But for some people sport means 1 What other word is used to
something much more dangerous! More and more people describe ’extreme’
practise ’dangerous’ or ’extreme’ sports. Why? Because sports?
they love the excitement they get from the danger. How A dangerous
many of these sports would you try? B boring
C safe

BUNGEE JUMPING 2 Who famously bungee jumped
This is when you jump off a high structure like a building off the Eiffel Tower?
or a bridge with a long piece of strong elastic tied to your A B.J.Rackett
ankles. Bungee Jumping became popular after A.J.Hackett B A.J.Hackett
jumped off the Eiffel Tower in Paris! However, on Pentecost C Sherman Poppen
Island bungee jumping is something young men still do to 3 Why do men jump off a 25 metre
show they are adults. They jump off a 25 metre tower with tower on Pentecost Island?
a kind of stiff rope or vine from the liana plant tied around A to show they are strong
their feet. Ouch! B to show they are brave
C to show they are adult
SNOWBOARDING
The fi rst snowboards were made of wood. In 1965 Sherman 4 What were early snowboards
Poppen tied two skiis together to make a toy for his made of?
daughter and called it a ’snurfer’. These became popular A plastic
and led to various developments of the idea until the B elastic
modern, offi cial version of the snowboard appeared around C wood
1980. Snowboarders often take huge risks, trying virtually 5 What are the two big dangers
impossible jumps and tricks, and going down vertical, faced by snowboarders?
rocky mountain sides despite dangers such as injury and A flood and falls

avalanches. B death and cold

C injury and avalanches

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