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Francis Lee has always dreamed of being an astronaut ever since he saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon as a boy. Currently, he works as a night watchman at a meat factory and has been saving money in hopes that one day he can buy a ticket to fly to the moon as he has heard they will be selling tickets in the 21st century. Tom Wilson is an explorer who has traveled to nearly every country. The most exciting time was exploring the Congo jungle where he got separated from his guides and encountered a group of natives. He learned from an old woman in the group that she had actually met the famous explorer he was retracing the route of and she knew how he had died. Tom has

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Francis Lee has always dreamed of being an astronaut ever since he saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon as a boy. Currently, he works as a night watchman at a meat factory and has been saving money in hopes that one day he can buy a ticket to fly to the moon as he has heard they will be selling tickets in the 21st century. Tom Wilson is an explorer who has traveled to nearly every country. The most exciting time was exploring the Congo jungle where he got separated from his guides and encountered a group of natives. He learned from an old woman in the group that she had actually met the famous explorer he was retracing the route of and she knew how he had died. Tom has

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Complete the texts with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

A) When Francis Lee was a boy he 1)__________wanted_________(want) to be an astronaut. He


2) __________was _________(watch) TV one day in 1969 when he 3)_________saw__________(see) Neil
Armstrong walk on the mstaesoon. Since then he has always dreamt of doing the same. Every night when there is a
full moon, he 4) _____________stares______(stare) up at it for hours and
5)________imagines___________(imagine) himself walking around on it. At the moment, however, he
6)________is working___________(work) as a night-watchman at a meat factory. He has been doing the same job
since he left school fifteen years ago, but he still hopes that one day his dream 7)
________will come ___________(come) true. He 8)________has heard___________(hear) that in the 21st century
they 9) ________wil be selling___________(sell) tickets to fly to the moon. For this reason
he 10)_________has been saving__________(save) half of his wages every month for the past 2 years.

B) Tom Wilson is an explorer. He (1)__________has been _________(be) to nearly every country in the world,
but the most exciting time he (2)_________has ever had_______________(ever/have) was when he
(3)______went______________(go) to the Congo jungle. A magazine (4)___________asked_______(ask) him to
retrace the route of a famous explorer who (5)_________has disappeared_________(disappear) in the 1920's. As he
(6)______was following ____________(follow) a small river he got separated from his guides. He went on alone,
hoping he (7)________will would find__________(find) them, but instead he
(8)_______encountered___________(encounter) a group of natives. He stayed with them for several days and
(9)__________found out___________(find out) that a very old woman (10)_________had
actually_________(actually/meet) the famous explorer. She (11)__________knew_________(know) how he
(12)________had died__________(die). Tom (13)
_________became_________(become) very friendly with the natives and now he (14)_________is
planning__________(plan) to go back and see them again. He is sure they (15)_________will
become_________(welcome) him back.

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