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Learning aims to memorize the important words and phrases to revise the texts to practice reading excercises Ⅰ Dictation Ⅱ Comlpete the following passage using the following words and expressions his mission in life at high altitude make his living rise steeply off the road from opposite directions thanks climbs up to the bend on the bend of the road have a close encounter with death in bad condition directs the traffic well-paid take it for granted a sheer drop Have you ever been to an area which is _____1______in big mountain? I suppose not. But maybe you have imagined how traffic is there. Roads can be _____2_______and dangerous. Let me tall you something about one road in La Paz which is at 3,500 metres in Bolivia, and a man who is always standing ______3______to direct the traffic. On one side, the mountains_____4____ and on the other there is_____5_____. Often the vehicles come _____6______and fall. You can imagine how many people________7________ there. The most dangerous thing there is a bend where two vehicles _______8____can’t see each other. But____9_____ to Timoteo, the death toll has fallen. Every morning he______10______ with a large board, which is red on one side and green on the other. When vehicles come, he shows the drivers the board, which tells them to go with the green color or to stop with the red colour. In this way he_____11______. You may think his job is______12____.how much money does he receive from doing it? Nearly nothing. He is a volunteer. Nobody asks him to do so. Only a few drivers give him a tip, which helps to______13______. Most of them_______14_______. You may want to know why Timoteo does so. It’s because he thinks it _______15______to help others. | 
