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Now turn to Part 3.
You will hear five different people talking about their
best friends at school. For questions 19-23, choose
from the list A-F what each person says. Use the
letters only once. There is one extra letter which you
do not need to use.
You now have 30 seconds in which to look at Part 3.
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My best friend at school was a girl called Terry. I
really thought she was wonderful but grown-ups
weren’t so keen on her. I suppose she was a bit
naughty in class. But often she would get the blame
even if it wasn’t her fault. We always used to say
that it was so unfair that they always picked on her.
Looking back, I suppose it was because the staff
were perfectly well aware that she was often
encouraging the others, even if she tried to avoid
being the focus of attention herself.
F
I had lots of best friends at school but I remember
one called Polly particularly well. She was my best
friend when I was nine or ten. She did far better in
class than me and all the other kids but I think it
was because her parents really forced her to do lots
of extra school work at home. That made things
quite stressful for her, I now realise, and it made it
quite hard to be around her at school. Sometimes
she’d be really friendly and at other times she’d snap
your head off. You never knew quite what to expect.
F
Sharon was my best friend all the way through
primary school. We lived near each other and spent
lots of time at each other’s houses. She would always
give me a hand with my homework whenever I
needed it. I’m not surprised she went on to become a
nurse. She was a very caring person. She really did
well at school and could easily have become a doctor
but she insisted nurses have more direct contact with
patients. The careers teacher at school went to a lot of
trouble to try to persuade her to go to medical school.
F
Sally was my best friend at secondary school though
I’m afraid my parents thought she was a bad
influence on me. Doing well at school was certainly
not her main priority and she encouraged me to go
out rather than to spend time on my homework. I
don’t know how she managed to get by without
getting into more trouble than she did. People
generally liked her because she had a great sense of
humour, so perhaps that helped her to get away
with more than she would have done otherwise.
F
Katie and I used to hang around together at school. I
was lucky in that I managed to get good marks
without making much of an effort but Katie was the
exact opposite. What she did well at were the things
that you don’t get marks for – things like sport and
drama. She was particularly good at acting and had
the leading roles in all the school plays that I can
remember. She said her happiest moments were
when she was alone on the stage being clapped by
an audience. Off-stage too, she hated to be ignored
and used to dress in a wonderfully eccentric way.