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Looking back, we can see how (11)______sports photography has changed.
(12)______sports photographers were as interested in the stories behind the
sport as in the sport itself. Contemporzưy sports photography (1 3 )______the
glamour of sport, the colour and the action. But the best sports photographers
today still do more than (14) ______ tell the story of the event. They (15)
in a single dramatic moment the real emotions of the participants.
1. A. exhibit B.show c. demonstrate D. íeature
2. A. extended B. enlarged c. prolonged D.spread
3. A. splash B. drip c. dash D. drop
4. A. put B.leave c. lay D. keep
5 A. assisted B. aided c. beneílted D. improved
6. A. choose B. value c. praise D. cheer
7. A. high B. wide c. vast D. main
8. A. attend B. visit c. follow D. meet
9 A. preservation B. store c . record D. mark
10. A. identify B. share c. unite D.join
11. A. highly B. radically c. extremely D. severely
12. A. Early B. Pirst c. Initial D. Primary
13. A. outlines B. signals c. emphasises D. forms
14. A. alone B. simply c. singly D. only
15 A. seize B. grasp c. capture D. secure

38. KNIFE-THROW ING AT THE CIRCUS
Knife-throwing is a thrilling circus act, which is stressíul for both the
thrower and the assistant. Obviously, assistants need to be especially
courageous, since they are (1) ______to stand in front of a board as knives
land next to them at (2) ______ speed. If a thrower’s aim is not accurate,
there is a (3) ______ possibility that an accident might (4) ______ . Such
people need to feel (5) ______ about the circus and enjoy the excitement of
perĩorming in front of hundreds of people. Not everyone is (8 )______ for the
work, particularly not nervous people!
Knife-throwers, on the other hand, need to be extremely (7) ______
people. They can’t (8) ______ up for a períormance teeling tired or having
had an argument with their assistant because they have to be períectly at (9)
______with what they are doing in order to be able to (1 0 )_______the work
their full concentration.
The knife-throwing tradition (11) ___ partly because children follow
their parents into the job. One (12)__ _ well-known throvver, for example,
has an assistant whose father was also a knife-thrower. She íírst had knives
thrown at her when she was only 12 and has (1 3 )______doing the same job
ever since. (14) ______ , over the last 15 years she (15) _______that she has
had about 300,000 knives thrown at her!

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