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The Spanish Language

 Part 1

     The Spanish language is one of the Romance languages that came from the Latin language. It is  the 1.____(commonly) spoken Romance language in the world. In November 2015 over 360 million people in the world spoke Spanish as their   2. ____(one) language.

     The Spanish language is used by many people in the world today. This is partly because the people of Spain   3.___ (travel) and colonized many different parts of the world. They created many new countries, and also new governments, in some   countries for example, Turkey. The countries that have Spanish as  4. ___ (they) official language are called the Hispanic countries. Most of them are in the Americas, which make up Latin America.

 Part 2

     The Spanish language was   5. ___ (original) the language of Castile. When the Western Roman Empire fell apart, the Latin language began to develop in  6.  ___ (differ) ways in various provinces. The Latin spoken in the Iberian peninsula developed first into the Ibero-Romance language in the 6th century. Castilian and Portuguese became separate languages in the 12th century.  The Catalan language is not a dialect of Spanish. It is more closely related to   7. ___ (France) than to Spanish. In parts of Northern Spain and  8. ___ (south) France, people speak the Basque language. It differs greatly from Spanish.

 

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I am your mother

 

Joyce is 24 years old. She has a baby daughter, but she can ’t take A)____ of her baby. The government takes Joyce’s baby and gives her to B)____ family. Joyce never forgets her daughter. For 20 years Joyce looks C)____ her. She can ’t find her. She doesn’t know her daughter’s new name. She doesn’t know her daughter’s D)____ . When Joyce is 44 years old, she gets a E)____ at a small store.

A young woman works with Joyce at the store. The young woman’s name is Tammy. Tammy and Joyce are friends. One day at work Tammy begins to cry. “What’s the matter?” Joyce asks Tammy. “I’m looking for my birthmother and I can’t find her. I have only this photo. See? This is me when I was a baby.” Tammy shows Joyce the photo. Joyce looks at the photo for a long time. “Tammy,” Joyce says. “I think I'm your birth mother.”

 

 

A 1) love 2) care 3) kindness 4) attention

B 1) other 2) another 3) others 4) through

C 1) for 2) forward 3) after 4) his

D 1) school 2) country 3) address 4) character

E 1) place 2) work 3) department 4) job

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A Lawn Chair Pilot

Larry Walters wants to be a pilot. He wants to A)____ an airplane. But Larry is not a B)____ man. He doesn’t have an airplane. He has only a lawn chair.

Larty ties 45 big balloons to his lawn chair and then sits C)____ the chair. The lawn chair goes up. For a few minutes everything is fine. The view from the lawn chair is beautiful. Larry can D)____ houses and trees below him.

He is happy. He is flying! The lawn chair goes up very E)____ . Larry is afraid. “I don’t want to go very high,” Larry thinks. “I want to go down a little.” With a small gun Larry shoots 10 balloons. Unfortunately, Larry drops the gun, and it falls to the ground. The chair goes up and up. “I’m flying in a lawn chair and I want to come down!”

Larry flies in the lawn chair for 45 minutes. Then the balloons begin to lose air. Slowly the lawn chair comes down, and Larry is back on the ground. Larry says, “For 45 minutes I was a pilot — the pilot of a lawn chair.”

 

A 1) drive 2) ride 3) fly 4) lead

B 1) rich 2) famous 3) misery 4) popular

C 1) down 2) on 3) into 4) in

D 1) watch 2) see 3) notice 4) look

E 1) far 2) high 3) slow 4) tall