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1 Read the text. Choose the correct answers.
A life of challenge
Ellen MacArthur is an inspiring British sportswoman. On 7 February 2005, she broke the world record for sailing alone around the world. She recorded her amazing journey through the world’s most dangerous seas with a video diary, surviving Cape Horn in South America. And she immediately became internationally famous. The following year, a Frenchman called Francis Joyon made the same voyage and beat her record. He was faster than her by two weeks.
Ellen was born in Derbyshire, England in 1976 and lived there with her parents, who were both teachers, and her two brothers. She began sailing with her aunt Thea when she was just four years old, and spent the rest of her time reading books about sailing.
When she was eight, she started to save her school dinner money to buy her first boat. She was eleven when she had enough money to buy it. When she was seventeen, Ellen bought another boat and named it ‘Iduna’. In 1995 she sailed it on her own around Great Britain.
In 2009 she announced that she was going to stop sailing, and a year later she donated £500,000 of her own money to create a charity called the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. The charity works through business and education to inspire young people to think differently about the future. She wants to help the next generation to design different ways of reusing energy and to get more people using renewable energy.
By 2050, Ellen says there will be more plastic than fish in the sea, and she wants her charity to do something about this. Ellen says that changing people’s attitudes to the way they use things and throw them away is the greatest challenge of her life yet.
1 In 2005 Ellen MacArthur broke the world record for ___.
a sailing around Cape Horn​​b sailing around Britain on her own​​
c sailing around the world on her own
2 Joyon beat MacArthur’s record ___.
a two weeks after her​b a year after her​​c two years after her
3 Her first experience of sailing was with her ___.
a brothers​​​b parents​​c aunt
4 It took Ellen ___ years to save enough money to buy her first boat.
a eight​​​b three​​​c seventeen
5 Ellen’s charity wants to encourage ___ in particular to look after the planet.
a teenagers​​b business people​c designers

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1 In 2005 Ellen MacArthur broke the world record for sailing alone around the world.

2 Joyon beat MacArthur’s record by two weeks.

3 Her first experience of sailing was with her aunt Thea.

4 It took Ellen seven years to save enough money to buy her first boat.

5 Ellen’s charity wants to encourage young people in particular to look after the planet.

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