Andrei had a natural talent for languages that is why
studying English at school was not difficult for him. He didn't do his homework very
often but _________________________

_______________________in making up dialogues and
speaking on different topics. His classmate Pavel knew English mu worse and
___________________________________ a lot of time to get ready for English
lessons.

When the teacher told the students about the English
Language Olympiad both Andrey and

Pavel wanted _________________________________ in it.
Participants had to show their reading and conversational skills, their knowledge of English vocabulary
and grammar, and to write
an essay. Andrei was sure that he would ______________________________ and didn't worry at all.

The day and the hour of the Olympiad came. Andrey,
Pavel and thirty other____________

__________________were sitting in a big hall reading a
text. Andrey read it and suddenly realized that he couldn't understand its meaning. There
were too many words that he didn't know. He saw that Pavel was already doing
the task on the text. It____________________ that he knew the words and the teacher had explained
them at the lessons. Andrey tried ____________________________ to remember when
it was, but couldn't — he had been so lazy at the lessons.

Things went from bad to worse. Andrei lost a lot of
time working on the text, __________ _________________________________________some mistakes in the grammar test, and couldn't
________________________________________________ to write an essay.

In the evening Andrei told his parents that the
Olympiad tasks were very difficult and it was impossible for children of his
age to do them. He was sure that nobody had managed.

He thought the same when he came to_________________________________on
the next

day and jumped up with surprise when Pavel___________________________________for
his excellent work. May be natural talent is not the only
necessary thing for studying languages?


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the award ceremony
participants
to collect himmself
was awarded the first prize
meant
collect his thoughts
get the first prize
to take part
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