1 Text completion Read the text below. Use the words in capitals in the correct form so that they fit the text. Complete the gaps with those new words. Every gap corresponds to a different task (1-9). What a coincidence! THEY BE SEND HAPPEN All of us have experienced some strange coincidences in our lives. Maybe we once bumped into a work colleague in a foreign country or a friend called us just as we were thinking about 1) .....! But this story 2) - really incredible. In 1979, a German magazine asked readers 3) in unusual true stories. The winner was a man called Walter Kellner who wrote about an incident that 4) ..... while he was flying a Cessna 421 plane between Sardinia and Sicily. He experienced engine trouble, landed in the sea and then 5) .. from a dinghy. Little did he know that the story would 6) ..... by an Austrian whose name was also Walter Kellner! Not only this, but Walter said that the Austrian Kellner 7). his story. He too flew a Cessna 421 over the same sea and also had engine trouble before 8) ..... land in Sardinia. The magazine decided 9) the facts of the stories and found out that they were both, in fact, true! Amazing! RESCUE SPOT STEAL HAVE TO CHECK
In a family at us four persons. The father - it main in a family. It works as the carpenter. It strong, clever, brave. He likes to photograph, walk in the fresh air. Mother works at Ambulance. She is a doctor. She likes to cook, to go shopping, and in free time to walk, spend time with me and my brother Anton. It very beautiful, clever, bright, polite. Anton is fifteen years old. He to study in the ninth grade. We very well get on with it. It very kind, clever, sports, polite. In the summer, we every year, go to the wood, on picnic on the fifteenth of July.
My favourite film is "The Fate of a Man". This film is excellent. It is difficult to find other words to describe it. It has enormous vigour and delicacy; it is full of purity and hope.
...A man is caught in the storm of war and loses everything. Black clouds surround him and yet he finds strength to bear up with it all; he finds strength to adopt a child, a destitute, helpless creature..." All the great events and the feelings aroused are depicted with taste, tact and restraint. I wish to draw attention particularly to the extraordinary performance of the boy. Even if the film has no other merits the child scenes, so subtle, profound and lifelike, so full of tragic vigour - these scenes alone would win Bondarchuk the reputation of a great director.
...A man is caught in the storm of war and loses everything. Black clouds surround him and yet he finds strength to bear up with it all; he finds strength to adopt a child, a destitute, helpless creature..." All the great events and the feelings aroused are depicted with taste, tact and restraint. I wish to draw attention particularly to the extraordinary performance of the boy. Even if the film has no other merits the child scenes, so subtle, profound and lifelike, so full of tragic vigour - these scenes alone would win Bondarchuk the reputation of a great director.