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In Barnstaple Leisure Center there are facilities that all kinds of people are interests: you can go to the Center if you want to keep fit or want to watch sports.

Of course, the main purpose is to provide sports facilities. You can play different sports and there are facilities for swimming. Afterwards you can have something to eat or meet your friends in one of the cafes. And if you don’t want to do any sports, you can just relax with your friends.

   … caters for One Tennis Court, Seven Badminton Courts with excellent facilities for basketball, volleyball, netball etc., as well as gymnastics, trampoline, archery and fencing. Five-a-side Soccer is also very popular. Many of these facilities, including fencing and badminton are up to National Standard. Special spectator seating is available in this hall.

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  … is equipped with the very latest equipment to suit all ages and abilities. The normal weights, bars, and discs etc., have all been excluded and modern machinery has taken its place.

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  … There are four courts and ample viewing gallery is provided.

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 …These are equipped for boxing, judo, table tennis, karate, keep fit, fencing, golf practice, etc. These same rooms can also be used for large small meetings and social functions.

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  … provides for bowling indoors all the year round, in an attractive setting, with four rinks. Booking can be made by any individual through reception, for a pleasant game with friends. It is possible to enter many leagues and competition by joining the North Devon Indoor Bowling Club.

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 … is available with guaranteed privacy. Set in an attractive room, a fast way to a healthy tan.

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   … which overlooks the swimming pool provides a good Snack Bar service in an open and attractive setting.

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 … overlooks the Sports Hall and has extensive views of Barnstaple and the River Taw. An ideal place to relax with friends. Bar snacks are available. 

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Annaleise Carr, 14, Youngest Person to Swim Lake Ontario

Last fall, a young Ontario girl named Annaleise Carr visited Camp Trillium for children with cancer and was so moved that she asked to volunteer — but at 13 she was too young to help. Instead, the toothy girl from Norfolk County decided to raise money for the camp by becoming the youngest person to swim across Lake Ontario.

As sunset faded into Sunday evening, the 14-year-old girl approached Marilyn Bell Park, on Lakeshore Drive in Toronto. She touched the wall just before 9 p.m., then turned around and hugged her swim coach, Lisa Anderson, who accompanied her on a Zodiac boat. While dozens cheered and applauded, she climbed up the pier, was wrapped in a towel and hugged by her family. A few minutes later, she sat on a lawn chair and was checked by Mark Ghesquiere, a doctor who had followed her by boat with a support team. She was then taken to hospital for a more thorough checkup. Her support team said she was exhausted but otherwise fine. It had taken her nearly 27 hours fighting high waves, cold current, and leg cramps.

Her parents, Jeff and Debbie Carr, recalled in an interview that they had first opposed to her project but now smiled with pride as they described Annaleise as a determined, altruistic youth.

Before her big swim, she swallowed a thermometer pill, a device first developed by NASA to monitor body temperature on astronauts. The pill’s wireless transmission enabled Annaleise’s support team to make sure her core temperature remained stable. She also had a light on her swimming cap to remain visible.

After a one-day delay because of high winds, she set off on Saturday, at 6:17:10 p.m, from Queen’s Royal Park in Niagara-on-the-Lake. She was initially helped by the push from the Niagara River’s current but soon was slowed by the wind. Waves began getting higher and higher, reaching 1.5 metres. For hours, she also faced a 10-knot headwind and the water temperature cooled to 13 degrees. The weather was better through Sunday but she began cramping in the afternoon and a physiotherapist on the boat prescribed stretching exercises.

Why did Annaleise swim across Lake Ontario?

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What is said about Annaleise in paragraph 2?

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Which of the following is TRUE about Annaleise’s parents?

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How did the support team know Annaleise was not too cold?

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Which of the following factors DID NOT make Annaleise’s swim more difficult?