The First Runner to “Circumnavigate” the Planet

The First Runner to “Circumnavigate” the Planet

PART 2 For questions 13 – 24, read the text below and think of the word which best fi ts each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). The fi rst runner to “circumnavigate” the planet Like Sir Edmund Hillary’s conquest of Everest that he ran through or Neil Armstrong’s fi rst step on the Moon, Japan, Australia, Robert Garside has done (0) ......................something South America, North which no one else has ever done: he has run America, Africa, across six continents! Southern Europe, the Garside, the 40-year-old former psychology Middle East and back student (13) .............................. Stockport, to India. after a four-year evaluation has been formally (22) .............................. included in the Guinness Book of Records the time he got to the (14) .............................. the fi rst person to run town of Norsemen in around the world. Western Australia, he Marco Frigatti, head of records for Guinness (23) .............................. World Records, (15) .............................. The beaten the world Guardian their decision had been based on record claimed by Sarah Fulcher in 1988 for an “astronomical” number of receipts, witness the world’s longest run. “It’s an adventure, as tapes, video footages, (16) .............................. long as you see it as an adventure,” he told showed him “running in front of very iconic a reporter at the time. “You only live once. places” around the world. Death is when you don’t move. Life is when When Garside learnt he had been offi cially you move. I (24) .............................. moving a become the fi rst runner to “circumnavigate” lot.” the planet he said: “People fi nd what they’re looking for. If you want to fi nd negatives, you’ll fi nd them. I did it with positive intent and nothing else… How (17) .............................. I feel? Relieved”. What is the story of this superhero of running? Very simple. (18) ..................... attending a grammar school in Stockport, Robert Garside was between jobs and academic studies (19) .............................. 1996. He set (20) ..................... from London’s Piccadilly Circus, announcing that he was going to run around the world. Totally alone, (21) .............................. the support of a crew, he ran through the bleak mountains of the Hindu Kush, through Afghanistan, and, suspected of espionage, was jailed in China. After 28 FCE 1 | Paper 3 – Use of English | Part 2 FCE 1 | Paper 3 – Use of English | Part 3 !"#$%$&'&($)*+%!%$",%&-%("**%$$.%+&(/,010%-223334; 6678476133346094.

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