Test ( Reading) B1
Read the text and fill in the blanks with the parts of the sentences (a-g). One part you don’t have to use.
''Ai laurie lantar lassi surinen'’, which means '‘Ah! Like gold fall the leaves in the wind’' in the Quenyan language, is from a poem in the famous novel The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. For those of you who haven’t heard of Quenyan, it is the language of an amazing place called Middle Earth which is in an imaginary world called Arda. The Lord of the Rings, which is actually three novels, tells the wonderful magical story of Middle Earth ____________________
The writer of this best-selling trilogy, ___________. He was born on January 3, 1892 in the Free State Province of South Africa to British parents, Arthur and Mabel Tolkien.
J. R. R. Tolkien, who his family called Ronald, moved back to England with his mother and younger brother in 1895 ______________.
Tolkien was always an excellent student. His mother taught him at home, and he loved his studies. He spent his childhood in the countryside and he enjoyed learning about botany, __________.
Tolkien learned to read and write English at a very early age, but his favourite lessons were those___________. Tolkien kept this love of languages all his life.
J. R. R. Tolkien was a man ____________. Publishers have translated his books into Russian, Dutch, Japanese and many other languages. He was a writer, a poet, a university professor and a linguist. When he died in 1973 he could speak and write more than a dozen languages, of course, among those languages was the one he created for The Lord of the Rings, Quenyan.
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