Post-reading questions 1. What characteristics is she displaying that are helping her face the challenges before
her?
2. What characteristics does she think help people to overcome difficult situations?
3. How much of a person's recovery from serious injury or illness is due to medicine,
and how much is due to mental attitude?
4. Do you know anyone who has recovered from injury or illness despite the poor
predictions of the doctor? It could be a personal friend, acquaintance, or famous
person.
1. He at the Academy for ages. b. hasn’t been seen
2. a. There is a book and two pens on the table.
3. The rest-homes ___ in picturesque places. b. are situated
4. The question which at the seminar now is very important. a. is being discussed
5. The text was difficult. It the whole day yesterday. b. was being translated
6. When she was young, she two foreign languages. a. was taught
7. A film about London in Room 5 now. b. is being shown
8. We hope that the bridge by the time of our arrival. b. will have been built
9. d. Pesticides pollute rivers and poison fish.
10. b. I don’t know when the Statue of Liberty was put up