Use Of English: Test C

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Use Of English: Test C

The four-minute mile

It is the nature of athletic records that they are broken and their place is taken by new ones . Yet in many sports __(1)__, there is a mark which is not __(2)__ in itself, but which becomes a legend as athletes __(3)__ to break it. The most __(4)__ of these is the attempt to run the mile in __(5)__ than four minutes.

In 1945, the mile record was __(6)__ to 4 minutes, 1.5 seconds. And there, for nine years, it stuck. Then, in 1954, a medical student __(7)__ Roger Bannister decided to try and break the record. He had been __(8)__ for this day since running the mile in 4 minutes, 2 seconds the __(9)__ year.

Two other runners set the pace for him, and __(10)__ 250 yards to go he burst ahead for the finish. He wrote __(11)__: ‘My body had exhausted all its energy, but it __(12)__ on running just the same. Those __(13)__ few seconds seemed never-ending. I could see the line of the finishing tape. I jumped like a man making a desperate attempt to save himself from danger. ‘Bannister’s time was 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds. __(14)__ this record has been broken on many __(15)__ since, Bannister’s achievement will never be forgotten.

- A) happenings
- B) events
- C) games
- D) matches
- A) central
- B) major
- C) significant
- D) considerable
- A) try
- B) try on
- C) try out
- D) try for
- A) known
- B) public
- C) noticeable
- D) famous
- A) smaller
- B) less
- C) lower
- D) under
- A) broken down
- B) lessened
- C) decreased
- D) brought down
- A) entitled
- B) called
- C) nicknamed
- D) known
- A) trying
- B) studying
- C) running
- D) training
- A) early
- B) previous
- C) past
- D) former
- A) on
- B) in
- C) with
- D) by
- A) afterwards
- B) then
- C) next
- D) after
- A) went
- B) continued
- C) ran
- D) got
- A) last
- B) late
- C) latest
- D) later
- A) But
- B) In spite of
- C) However
- D) Although
- A) times
- B) times
- C) occasions
- D) incidents

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