I’ve been on twenty-five roller coasters in eight differentcountries. Why am I so enthusiastic about them? That’s easy -they’re fast and exciting! I’ve never found a ride which I’m frightened of. I think the scariest roller coaster that I’ve tried is Oblivion at Alton Towers in the UK. You get into a special car and it climbs up to the top of the roller coaster. You stop for three
seconds, and then you go down nearly sixty metres. You get a real feeling that you’re going to die. I’ve taken about fifty photos of Oblivion. My sister’s been on it once, but she refused to go again – she was terrified of it. And my mum won’t try the rides at
all. She says they feel really unpleasant – I think she’s a bit phobic about them. So I normally go on the roller coasters with my friends. The roller coaster that I’ve visited the most is Furius
Baco in Port Aventura, Spain. I’ve had three family
holidays near Port Aventura, and we’ve been there many times. You travel from 0 to 135 kilometres an hour in 3.5 seconds, and your body feels really weird. You go upside
down and look up at the sky – you can lose your money if you aren’t careful. The biggest and fastest roller coasters in the world are in the USA and Japan. I’ve asked my mum and dad about taking holidays there, but they think my love of roller coasters is ridiculous!
Read the text again. Choose the correct answers.
1 At the top of Oblivion you for a few seconds.
a fall b stop c climb
2 Clara’s sister thought Oblivion was very .
a fast b exciting c scary
3 Clara’s mum is roller coasters.
a good at b keen on c frightened of
4 On Furius Baco your feels very strange.
a hair b neck c body
5 Your speed on Furius Baco .
a changes very fast
b is always 135 kilometres an hour
c is very weird
6 Clara’s parents think that .
a roller coasters are dangerous
b Clara is a bit crazy to like roller coasters
c the USA and Japan are ridiculous
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