I wish I ... in touch with him, but I don't have his email address.

Please, do not hesitate to contact me, ... you require further information.

Many people discourage their children .... actors.

The singer denies ... the tune from an old Beatles song.

William was suspected .... instruments from the theatre.

It was such a long time ago that I can hardly remember ... Paris.

The play received very good ... in the press

I will wait for you until you ... back.

The government wants to .... football hooligans from travelling abroad.

I was so tired that I ... down and closed my eyes.

The novel is really worth ...

These birds make an incredible 10.000 kilometre .... to Africa every winter.

I had no difficulty ... a place to live. In fact it was surprisingly easy.

Some of the most famous people in Marbella will have to face trial on money ... charges.

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The last family ... took place on aunt Sarah's 100th birthday.

He was accused of corruption, so he ... from his post.

She ... her living as a magician at children's parties.

I've always ... Bill for his courage and determination.

The ... of war in Iraq took us all by surprise.

The drug has powerful side effects. ... , it can be addictive.

I'll draw a map for you ... you can't find our house.

This is a private letter addressed to me. I'd rather you ... it.

After ten years, I got ... a uniform at school.

If I didn't have to look after my sick child, I ... to that trip.

She ... committed that crime. She was at home with me at the time it took place.

I only had time to ... at the newspapers, but I couldn't read them carefully.

She's not in her office right now but if you ... on for a minute, I'll try and find her.

PARTE 2: Comprensión Escrita: THE LONG-DISTANCE CYCLIST
As 33-year-old Londoner Luke Bream pedalled past the finishing post of the Tour de France last year, he felt a surge of excitement that made the pain of the past three weeks worthwhile. Unlike the professional team cyclists with their state-of-the-art bikes and convoys of support vehicles, Luke ― an amateur who had only recently taken up cycling ―, had decided to have a go at the Tour de France on a last-minute whim. "Looking back, it was a bit mad," he admits, laughing. "I had no fitness, no biking experience and I'd never been up a mountain. The other cyclists thought I was out of my mind!"
As an amateur, Luke couldn't ride alongside the professional cyclists but instead rode each of the 21 stages one day in advance of them. Whereas they were hooked up to food drips at night, Luke had his mum in a white transit van supplying him with Coca-Cola, Mars Bars and jam butties throughout the day.
Having never even seen the route on TV, Luke was in shock. "The mountains are 15 miles long and there might be four or five of them in a day. It just killed me. But I never got off the bike to walk." Day after day he battled on, setting out early to compensate for cycling at about half the speed of the professionals and finishing each stage by nightfall.
Only three weeks previously he had been sitting drinking coffee, contemplating how to fill his time. His sandwich business had recently gone bust and he was left with no money and a 40-cigarette-a-day habit. So he gave up smoking and bought himself a bike, the first he'd had since he was eight. "There I was in Starbucks, reading in the paper about the first leg of the Tour de France setting off from England. So I phone my mother and say: 'I'm thinking about doing the Tour de France. Will you come?' "
His mum, 68-year-old Carolyn, a former primary school teacher, immediately agreed, but she turned out to be almost as badly prepared as her son: she suffers from chronic vertigo, so had to drive on the wrong side of the road through the Pyrenees and Alps hugging the cliffs. She was also claustrophobic, so she wasn't able to sleep in the back of the van with the bike like Luke, sleeping across the front seat instead.
On the fifth day Luke got food poisoning and was up all night being sick. But with some tough love from Mum he managed to finish the stage. This year he plans to do it again on his own, pitching a tent at the end of each stage. "Losing all my money was the best thing that could have happened to me," he says now. Setting himself near-impossible challenges and completing them gives him a sense of pride he never felt through work. Separated from his wife and with two small boys, he has set up a new business selling food supplements to cyclists, but limits himself to part-time hours.
His next project is to do the Race Across America, where amateur cyclists cover 3,000 miles in 12 days ― cycling up to 23 hours a day. Only a handful of "nutters", as Luke puts it, are willing to try it. His father jokes that if Luke is "scared senseless" by something, he will want to do it. As Luke says: "Endurance sports are like life ― it's long and it can be painful, but what matters is how you respond when things get difficult."
The Reader´s Digest, (adapted)
R.C- According to the text, ...

R.C. - Bream was very surprised when he saw the mountains because ...

R.C.- Through the Pyrenees and Alps, Bream's mother ...

R.C. - Bream feels proud of ...

R.C. - Bream wants to do the Race Across America ...

LC- She chose King's Cross Station for her book because ...

L.C- The story of platform 9 and 3/4 is reality with a twist because...

L.C- There is a lot of material that she never used in her books because ...

L.C- In the room among all the papers on can see

L.C- She shows a Portuguese diary ...