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    Kevin Adams has loved trains since he was four years old. He visits different railway stations each week and records the engine number of every train he sees. By age 15, he had collected over 10,000 engine numbers from various counties. One day at a station in Cheshire, he saw an unusual old steam train pass through that had not stopped at the station. When he asked the station guard about it, the guard became pale, saying that steam train had crashed years ago, killing all passengers onboard. Ever since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1997, scientists, politicians and theologians have discussed whether human cloning should be allowed. If cloning became a reality, it would raise many questions. While many scientists want

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    Kevin Adams has loved trains since he was four years old. He visits different railway stations each week and records the engine number of every train he sees. By age 15, he had collected over 10,000 engine numbers from various counties. One day at a station in Cheshire, he saw an unusual old steam train pass through that had not stopped at the station. When he asked the station guard about it, the guard became pale, saying that steam train had crashed years ago, killing all passengers onboard. Ever since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1997, scientists, politicians and theologians have discussed whether human cloning should be allowed. If cloning became a reality, it would raise many questions. While many scientists want

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    Kevin Adams has loved trains since he was four years old. He visits different railway stations each week and records the engine number of every train he sees. By age 15, he had collected over 10,000 engine numbers from various counties. One day at a station in Cheshire, he saw an unusual old steam train pass through that had not stopped at the station. When he asked the station guard about it, the guard became pale, saying that steam train had crashed years ago, killing all passengers onboard. Ever since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1997, scientists, politicians and theologians have discussed whether human cloning should be allowed. If cloning became a reality, it would raise many questions. While many scientists want

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    Kevin Adams has loved trains since he was four years old. He visits different railway stations each week and records the engine number of every train he sees. By age 15, he had collected over 10,000 engine numbers from various counties. One day at a station in Cheshire, he saw an unusual old steam train pass through that had not stopped at the station. When he asked the station guard about it, the guard became pale, saying that steam train had crashed years ago, killing all passengers onboard. Ever since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1997, scientists, politicians and theologians have discussed whether human cloning should be allowed. If cloning became a reality, it would raise many questions. While many scientists want

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    4.

    Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense:

    Kevin Adams 1)....................(love) trains. He first 2)........................(see) one


    when he was four years old and he 3) ..............................(think) it was great. He
    4).........................(go) to a different railway station every week and
    5).........................(write down) the engine number of every train he sees. He
    6)............................(do) this since he was eight. By the time he was fifteen he
    7).............................(collect) over 10.000 different engine numbers in various
    counties. Once, while he 8).............................(stand) in a station in Cheshire he
    saw something very unusual. He 9)............................(wait) for over an hour for a
    train to go by when suddenly he 10)..............................(see) a very old steam train
    coming down the track. It 11).............................(not/stop) at the station and, as it
    was passing, Kevin noticed that all the passengers 12)..............................(wear)
    old-fashioned clothes. When he told the station guard about this, the poor man
    turned pale. He said that no steam train 13)...........................(pass) through that
    station for years, and that the last one 14)...........................(crash), killing everyone
    on board.

    5. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense:

    Ever since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1997, scientists, politicians and theologians
    1) .......................................... (discuss) the question of whether or not the cloning of human
    beings
    2) ..........................................(should/allow). If cloning does become a reality one day, it
    3) ..................................(raise) many questions. Many scientists want cloning
    4)............................(be) legalised. They believe that if it 5) .....................................(be) legal to
    clone human beings, it
    6) ....................................(be) possible to create a superior race. Many childless couples also
    wish the goverment 7).......................................(allow) cloning. If this 8)
    ...............................(be) the only way for you to have a child, you might agree with them too.

    6. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense:


    Sammy Milton 1) .... is not.... (not/be) very clever. He 2) ………….(walk) along
    the beach one daywhen he 3) …………………………. (trip) over something and
    4) …………………… (fall) on the sand. He 5)………………….. (not/look) where
    he was going. “What 6) …………………. (be) this?” he said, picking up the object
    he 7) ……………….(trip) over. “I 8) …………………………. (never/see) anything
    like it before.” It was, in fact, a very old oil lamp, and as he 9) …………………..
    (rub) it, a genie suddenly 10) ………………… (fly) out of it. “You 11) …...............
    (just/release) me from the lamp!”, said the genie. “Now you may have three
    wishes.” “Great said Sammy who12) …………………….. (feel) very thirsty. “I 13)
    ……………………(want) a bottle of lemonade that never 14) ……………(run out).”
    “No problem,” said the genie, and 15) …………………………….(produce) one
    instantly. Sammy picked up the bottle and16) ………………………….(drink) all the
    lemonade in one go. Magically, the bottle 17) …………………………… (fill) itself up
    again. Sammy drank all that, and exactly the same thing 18)
    …………………………………..(happen) again. “That’s amazing!” he said. “Thanks
    very much!” “You still 19) ................................ (have) two more wishes young
    man.” “That’s easy, “said Sammy. “I 20) .....................................(have) two more of
    these bottles of lemonade!”.

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