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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
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Can you say me if they are correct please?

Seven sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap. There is one extra sentence which you don't need to use.

'Keep looking at that yacht on the horizon and start running when I say.'Veteran paragliding instructor Zabdi Keen's voice is calm but my heart still pounds furiously as I stand on top of a small mountain on the Isle of Arran, off the west coast of Scotland. The rectangular parachute attached behind us rises as it catches the wind.

'OK, run!' shouts Zabdi-she is strapped behind me in tandem. .......E......... . Suddenly my focus disappears as Zabdi lifts from the sloping ground. In an instant we're carried skywards as the paraglider catches a warm air current in the summer sun. The sweeping green valley and sparkling ocean is a spectacular sight beneath my dangling feet.

..........D........... . That same sense of exhilarating joy c has never left Zabdi, a paraglider of 20 years and chief instructor of Arran's paragliding school Flying Fever. (The island's mountain peaks provide 30 take-off sites which catch the wind from all directions, making it the ideal location for the school.)

Today's students were of varying backgrounds but all of relatively advanced ability: a local waiter on a working holiday from south Africa, a cattle farmer from the north, and 'Little Stew', a Scottish lorry driver who'd been the target of some good-humoured teasing on account of his muninous bright green coat. 'At least I'll be seen if I land in the mud,' he joked back. ........G.......... Safety is the priority at Flying Fever.

Throughout the day Zabdi has given concise instructions over the radio, safely guiding my fellow paraglider pilots through the air by talking them through various manoeuvres and the all-important landing in a field. .......F......... 'When I was a child I used to jump off a chair in the front garden, flapping bin bags full of air,' she says.

'I saw my first paragliders when I was rock climbing in my early twenties, and I decided to save up to buy a paraglider with a friend. Unfortunately, he needed a large machine, while I needed a small one. So we bought a medium one to share. This meant I was always getting pushed off course by the air currents and he was always dropping like a stone. ....H......'

From those disastrous beginnings Zabdi has mastered the sport, and has even gone on to compete internationally. ......A....... . Despite this, she still competing and was the leading woman in the preliminary stages of the paragliding Word Cup in Brazil, a competition that teasted her skills - and nerve- to the limit. 'Some of the course took us over marshland infested by crocodiles, snakes and piranha fish!'

But there are no such risks at Flying Fever. On the way to today's mountains, for example, Zabdi had double-checked wind speed and direction from passing yacht sails. The best flying conditions are a breeze of between eiught and twenty kph with small fluffy clouds and sun. ........C.......... . One way of gauging the strength of the air currents is to watch how the seagulls and other birds spiral effortlessly up the mountainside, a fitting test because paragliding is the closest humans can get to natural flight.

A She is currently in charge of women's training development for British paragliders.

B The area was so notorious for turbulent winds that nobody ever flew there.

C Too windy, and you might get blown backwards .

D For me, that first moment of leaping off a hill was like bursting into a dream.

E Adrenalin fuels my dash across the grass, my eyes fixed on the distant white boat.

F All this thinking for other people is hard, but it's all become routine for Zabdi, who reckons she was born to fly.

G Luckily, the thick heather growing on the mountainside provided a cuchion.

H But that's something Zabdi strives to ensure never happens.

  

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Sara ImbagliazzoSeven sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap. There is one extra sentence which you don't need to use.

I'd exactly choose those sentences and put them in the same places as you did it. The "B" sentence is the extra one, i.e., out of the context.

(I'm a non-native.)

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Sara Imbagliazzo Can you say tell me if they are correct please?

If you use 'say', you have to leave out 'me'.
If you use 'tell' you have to include 'me'.

Can you say if ...?
Can you tell me if ...?

CJ

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