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Bruce was an Australian and worked for a newspaper in Sydney. Then he thought, "I want to see Europe, so I'll go to England and work for a newspaper there for a few years".

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When Alan was young, he played a lot of football, and he was very good at it, but then he went and worked in a town, and there was no team for him there, so he stopped playing.

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When Jimmy was a boy, he always liked watches and clocks very much. When he was eighteen years old, he went into the army, and after a year, he began to teach himself to watches. A lot of his friends brought him broken watches, and he mended them for them.

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Mr Miller had a shop in a big town. He sold ladies' clothes and he always had two or three shop girl to help him. They were always young, because they were cheaper than older women, but none of them worked for him for very long, because they were young, and they did not meet many boys in a women's shop.

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Harry and Bob were neighbours, and they worket in the same bank. They were young and they often went out together, then the bank sent both of them to a new town. They did not know any other people there, so on the first Saturday, Bob said to Harry, "There's a dance at the Bridge Hotel this evening. Let's go there. Perhaps we'll meet some nice girls"

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Nat lived in a small town in England. He always stayed in England for his holidays, but then last year he thought, "I've never been outside this country. All my friends go to Spain, and they like it very much, so this year I'm going to go there too".

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Ted worked in a factory in a big town. He liked fishing very much, and was very good at it. Whenever he was free, he went down to the small river behind the factory and tried to catch some fishes, but there were very few there, because the water was dirty. then one summer he went to the seaside during his holidays and stayed at a smal, cheap hotel.

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Mrs Peters had two children. Sammy was seven years old, and his sister Annie was four. Sammy went to school, but Annie did not. When Sammy was at home, he often played with Annie while their mother was cooking or washing or cleaning, and he was usually very nice to his small sisster, and Mrs Peters was free to do her work quietly.

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Mr and Mrs Smith married thirty years ago, and they have lived in the same house since then. Mr Smith goes to work at eight o'clock every morning, and he gets home at half past seven every evening, from Monday to Friday.

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It was winter, and Mrs Hermann wanted to do a lot of shopping, so she waited until it was Saturday, when her husband was free, and she took him to the shops with her to pay for everything and to carry her parcels. They went to a lot of shops, and Mrs Hermann bought a lot of things. She often stoped and said, "Look, Joe! Isn't that beautiful!"

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Mick lived in the country, and he had some nice, fat chickens too. He sold the eggs and the meat, and got quite a lot of money for them.

His neighbour had a big garden too, and he also had vegetables and nice, fat chickens in it. There was a wire fence between the gardens, but it was very old, and the chickens often found holes in it and went through.

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A few years ago, there were a lot of hijackings or aeroplanes, so now people always search passengers and their luggage at airports before they let them get into an aeroplane because they do not want them to take guns or bombs or other dangerous things on to the plane with them.

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Mrs Robinson was a teacher in a big schoool in a city America. She had boys and girls in her class, and she always enjoyed teaching them, because they were quick, and because they thought about everything carefully. One day she said to the children, "People in a lot of countries in Asia wear white clothes at funerals, but people in America and in Europe wear which clothes when they,re happy. What colour does a woman wear in this country when she marries, Mary?

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Len was thirty years old, and he had very long hair. He lived in a big city, but one year he did not find any work there, so he went to a small town and began looking for work there. He went to a lot of places, but nobody wanted him.

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There were men soldiers and women soldiers in an army camp, and every Sunday morning they all went to church, but a lot of the soldiers did not like it much. There was a choir of men soldiers, and Captain Jones was trying to find women soldiers to sing in it too, but none of the ones in the camp offered to do this.

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When Billy was very small, he loved pictures. His mother often drew some for him on old pieces of paper. She was very bad at drawing, but Billy enjoyed her pictures and always wanted more.

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Jack worked in an office in a small town. One day his boss said to him. "Jack, I want you to go to Manchester, to an office there, to see Mr Brown. Here,s the address"

Jack went to Manchester by train. He left the station, and thought, " The Office isn,t far from the station. I,ll find it easily"

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General Pershing was a famous American officer. He was in the American army, and fought in Europe in the First World War.

After he died, some people in his home town wanted to remember him, so they put up a big statue of him on a horse.

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Two sodiers were in camp. The first one,s name was George, and the second one,s name was Bill. George said, "Have you got a piece of paper and an envelope, Bill?"

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John lived with his mother in a rather big house, and when she died, the house became too big for him so he bought a smaller one in the next street. There was a very nice old clock in his first house, and when the men came to take his furniture to the new house, John thought, "I,m not going to let them carry my beautiful old clock in their truck. Perhaps they,ll break it, and then mending it will be very expensive". So he picked it up and began to carry it down the road in his arms.