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The íírst leg of the journey is now over and it has lived up to expectations
in many ways. 5.............. Next, the train sped them to the ferry port of
Portsmouth: journey time 1 hour 50 minutes. So far, so good. At
Portsmouth, however, they hit the íírst setback of the trip, perhaps the íĩrst
of many. The ferry to Bilbao, they were intormed, was delayed hy three
hours due to bad weather at sea.
Eventually, they boarded the ferry and as the ship pulled out into the
open sea, they quickly discovered that the pleasant cruise advertised in the
brochures was about to turn into a lurching, rolling, seasickness-inducing
ordeal. 6............... Was this really any worse than being stuck in an
overcrowded airport lounge for 24 hours while air traffic controllers take a
day off to press for higher wages?
Ultimately, Ed and Eiona arrived safely in Spain, where they jumped on a
train and are currently heading east across P]urope. Next stop Singapore. 7.
..........Erom Singapore, they will travel hy Container ship to Australia, a yacht
will speed them on to New Zealand and a cargo ship will take them to Los
Angeles. Then it’s on to Costa Rica, where a banana boat should be waiting to
take them home to England. It will have been a wonderful adventure for Ed
and Eiona, but above all they hope it will show the world that it is possible to
travel widely without doing major damage to the environment.
A. Not a great start perhaps, but then any type of travel has its diữĩculties.
B, The total cost of this little adventure will be about £5,000 per person.

c . So these days he does most of his holiday travel the slow way; hy boat or train.
D. We don’t have to do ever3 dhing at the speed that modern technology allows.
E. One advantage, according to p]d and í ’iona is the greater ílexibility of routes.
F. Well, probably a bit of both
G. The journey time is expected to be about four months.
H. F 'rom their flat in Brixton, London, they caught a bus to Waterloo
station: journey time 15 minutes.

15
You are going to read an aiticle about the povver of nature. Eight sentences have
been removed from the aiticle. Choose from the sentences A-H the one vvhich
fĩts each gap (1-7). There is one extra sentence vvhich you do not need to use.

GONE WITH THE WIND
As hurricane-force vvỉnds hit Brĩtaĩn's coasts, John Leavey takes a look at the
amazing povver of nature.

Now that the human race has madc great technological and scientific
progress and is about to clone whatever or vvhoever it wants, it is very easy

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