The UK test

Once upon a time there lived a King who ___________ to have an experiment. He put a huge stone on a roadway so that it blocked the movement. Then he hid himself behind a nearby tree and wanted to see if anyone would take it away from the road.

There were lots of different people who _______ by the stone, some of them were wealthy and important but most of them just walked around it. Many loudly criticised the King for not keeping the roads clear, but none did anything about getting the stone out of the way.

When the King was about to come out of his shelter, he saw a peasant who came along he ____ a load of vegetables

When the peasant ____ nearer to the huge stone, he laid down

his burden and tried to move the stone to the side of the road. It took much time and efforts to remove the stone to the side of the road.

After the peas­ant ____ his load of vegetables, he noticed a purse lying

on the road where the rock had been. The purse contained many gold coins and a note from the King saying that the gold was for the person who re­moved the stone from the roadway.

Shavarsh Karapetyan is an 11-time world record holder, 17-time world champion, 13-time European champion. This story happened on September 16th? 1976 when he ____ his usual morning jogging along the embank­ment in the city of Yerevan in Armenia.

A large trolleybus with 92 passen­gers ______ control and fell into the freezing water. The trolleybus sank about 10 metres deep and most of the passengers couldn't get out.

The

trolleybus sank about 10 metres deep and most of the passengers couldn't get out. Without a second of hesitation, Shavarsh _________ into the freezing water to rescue people.

One by one, he saved 20 people's lives. After he____ nearly 20 minutes in the freezing water and after his 30^th dive, Shavarsh lost consciousness.

This courageous act _________him dearly: with a high temperature he stayed in hospital for 45 days. He finally recovered, but was never able to compete again. Today's experts agree that no one but Sha­varsh could have done what he has done.