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ADVENTURES READING

READING

An Adventurous Teacher : David Nicholson

David Nicholson is an English teacher and he is very popular in his school. His students love him more than the other teachers
at school. He prefers living a more amusing life than most people. He thinks he has a routine working life and he should spend
his time very well on the holiday. So he would rather do adventurous activities like mountain biking, rock climbing and skydiving
during his summer holidays.
David is a member of a skydiving club because he is keen on
extreme sports. In summers, he takes necessary equipment for
skydiving such as; a flight suit, two parachutes and comfortable
shoes. Then, he goes skydiving. He usually prefers going with a
group, but sometimes he would rather jump individually.
Skydivers open their parachutes to slow down before they
land. They always carry a backup parachute and David thinks it is
necessary to survive. He performs acrobatic movements in free falls.
To him, the best part of skydiving is these acrobatic demonstrations
and feeling the adrenalin in the sky.
There is a risk of accident while doing skydiving, but he thinks
it is the best part of being an adventurer. You don’t know what will happen and it requires a lot of courage. He describes his
skydiving experiences as a fascinating flying experience for real adventurers.

Exercise 1
True False Not Given
Tick the sentences True, False or Not Given according to
the passage.

1. David thinks he has an exciting working life.

2. He is an experienced English teacher.

3. His students love David more than other teachers.

4. David prefers going mountain biking to rock climbing.

5. On his summer holidays, he always goes skydiving with a group.

6. Some of the skydivers don’t carry a backup parachute.

7. To David, the best part of skydiving is opening the parachute.

8. Skydiving is not a dangerous extreme sport.

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