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A. The long-distance teacher E. Train crash

B. Injured in a mountain F. Miracle escape

C. International influences G. Teenage genius

D. Survival at sea H. Channel champion

1. Four-year-old Mark Harris from Bristol fell 60 feet from a bridge into the river Avon when he was running after his dog. The river carried him towards a waterfall and threw him onto some rocks. Fortunately, three older boys who were fishing saw Mark. They quickly pulled him out and rang the police.

2. In March this year, Garry Smith was climbing Ben Nevis, Britain’s highest mountain, when he lost his way and spent three days in sub-zero temperatures. He was in trouble. He fell off a rock and hurt his knees. He could not move. Mountain rescue teams went out to look for Garry, and found him at 1.00 in the morning. A helicopter took him to hospital, where he needed several operations.

3. Twenty-one days after Bill and Simone Butler left Panama in their yacht, they met some whales. They started to hit the side of the boat and suddenly Bill and Simone heard water. Two minutes later the yacht was sinking. They jumped into the life raft and watched the boat go under the water. For twenty days they had tins of food, and bottles of water. After fifty days at sea their life raft was beginning to break up. Suddenly a fishing boat saw them and picked them up.

4. Twelve-year-old Thomas Gregory from London is the youngest person to swim the English Channel. He swam 31 miles in just 11 hours 55 minutes. He drank hot tomato soup because he felt so cold in the water. Often he could not see anything because the sun was shining in his eyes, and that was the worst thing. He was very pleased when he finally arrived on the beach in France, where his parents were waiting for him.

5. Pop music in Britain is influenced by music from all over the world. Many teenagers in our survey liked reggae, which comes from Jamaica. Boys also enjoyed dancing and listening to Black-American rap. Some music in Britain is a mixture of styles. Pop music is also influencing traditional music. Recently some young musicians of Asian origin have started to mix bhanga (traditional music from the Punjab region) with Western pop.

6. Jaya Rajah is fourteen, but he doesn’t go to school. He studies medicine at New York University in a class of twenty-year-olds. Jaya was born in Madras in India but now lives in a house in New York with his parents. Jaya was different from a very young age. He could count before he could say “Mummy” or “Daddy”. He could do algebra when he was eight. Jaya never goes out in the evenings, but he sometimes watches TV. He says, “I live for one thing – I want to be a doctor before I am seventeen”.

7. Mr Frank Garret is a schoolteacher. He is English. He lives in France, but he works in England. Every Monday he leaves home at 2.30 in the morning and drives 101 miles from his village to Boulogne, where he lives his car and catches the ferry to Folkestone. Then he catches the train to Maidstone and he arrives at Manor School at 8.25. he teaches French from 9.00 in the morning to 3.30 in the afternoon, and then leaves school. He arrives home at 9.30 in the evening.

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