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1- c-
2-b
3-a
4-d
5-c
6-b
7-a
8-a
9-b

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Thank you Sara, let's wait for the others to post their answers tonight and then I will announce the scores.m

NOTE: there will another exercise related to the previous text.m

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Always .............::... be Thankful


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||.. Be thankful ..||

If you have a bad day at work, be thankful. Appreciate that you have a job. Some people don't


When you pay your bills, be thankful. You can pay them.


If you see a gray hair, be thankful. Think of the cancer patient in chemotherapy who only wishes for any hair.


When you find yourself waiting in line or the recipient of poor service, be thankful. Think about the people who have no food to eat at all.



When you realize how much work it is to take care of a house, be thankful you have a house. Think about those who only wish they had a house to take care of.



When you feel like complaining because you have to walk a long distance from your car, be thankful. Think of what it would be like not to be able to walk!



If you get irritated by other people's anger, apathy, ignorance, bitterness, or insecurities, be thankful. Things could be worse. You could be one of them



When you think everything in your world is terrible, and you want to give up, think of the people who have been told they only have a certain amount of time to live. They don't want to give up.


Live life to its fullest. Appreciate life, and be thankfull to Allah as u have been given everything by Him.


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Hi

The correct answers for the previous reading text are the following:m
1- c
2-b
3-a
4-d
5-c
6-b
7-a
8-a
9-c
10- b


Sara has answered 8 questions correctly out of ten with a wrong answer in question 9,and she didn't answer question 10.m
As Miss Sara is the only member who take part in this exercise, she is the winner of this contest and Her prize will be ''ten days in the Bahamas Islands fully paid from our forum members because they didn't participate in this contest''. well done Sara m

[سارة احمد]

How i feel about u

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How I feel About You


There are so many things I can say
But I don't have all night and day
So I'll say a little bit now
And the rest someday, somehow
I get so nervous when I'm around you
All of a sudden I dont know what to do
Now that your mine all the pain I felt before
Doesn't really matter anymore
I hand you now the key to my heart
Hoping you will never let it part
With you I know I can't go wrong
You are helping to make me strong
I know that you will never make me cry
With a cheat or a lie
I find that your always running through my head
Whether I'm on the computer or laying in my bed
Your all I think about at night
For once I think I finally got it right
I love what we share
This feeling I cannot compare
Lately I've found it's you I miss
As I await our first kiss
On you my heart is set
You give me memories I could never forget
It's kind of funny we haven't been together that long
But I fint you in every song
I guess that's all for now
I'll tell you the rest someday, somehow
But the most important thing to say
Is that I love you more and more each day

[سارة احمد]

it's nice to be winner

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There will be another reading exam, but this time you have to participate!! COME ON GUYS just this time please m

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The Hitchhiker

As Andrea turned off the motorway onto the road to Brockbourne, the small village in which she

lived, it was four o'clock in the afternoon, but already the sun was falling behind the hills. At this time in

December, it would be completely dark by five o'clock. Andrea shivered. The interior of the car was not cold,

but the trees bending in the harsh wind and the patches of yesterday's snow still heaped in the fields made her feel chilly inside. It was another ten miles to the cottage where she lived with her husband Michael, and the

dim light and wintry weather made her feel a little lonely. She would have liked to listen to the radio, but it had

been stolen from her car when it was parked outside her office in London about two weeks ago, and she had not got around to replacing it yet.m
She was just coming out of the little village of Mickley when she saw the old lady, standing by the road, with a crude hand-written sign saying "Brockbourne" in her hand. Andrea was surprised. She had never seen an

old lady hitchhiking before. However, the weather and the coming darkness made her feel sorry for the lady,

waiting hopefully on a country road like this with little traffic. Normally, Andrea would never pick up a hitchhiker when she was alone, thinking it was too dangerous, but what was the harm in doing a favor for a little old lady

like this? Andrea pulled up a little way down the road, and the lady, holding a big shopping bag, hurried over to climb in the door which Andrea had opened for her.m
When she did get in, Andrea could see that she was not, in fact, so little. Broad and fat, the old lady had

some difficulty climbing in through the car door, with her big bag, and when she had got in, she more than filled the seat next to Andrea. She wore a long, shabby old dress, and she had a yellow hat pulled down low over

her eyes. Panting noisily from her effort, she pushed her big brown canvas shopping bag down onto the floor under her feet, and said in a voice which was almost a whisper, "Thank you dearie -- I'm just going to

Brockbourne."m
"Do you live there?" asked Andrea, thinking that she had never seen the old lady in the village in the four years she had lived there herself.m
"No, dearie," answered the passenger, in her soft voice, "I'm just going to visit a friend. He was supposed

to meet me back there at Mickley, but his car won't start, so I decided to hitchhike -- there isn't a bus until seven, and I didn't want to wait. I knew some kind soul would give me a lift."m

Something in the way the lady spoke, and the way she never turned her head, but stared continuously into the darkness ahead from under her old yellow hat, made Andrea uneasy about this strange hitchhiker. She didn't

know why, but she felt instinctively that there was something wrong, something odd, something....dangerous. But how could an old lady be dangerous? it was absurd.m

Careful not to turn her head, Andrea looked sideways at her passenger. She studied the hat, the dirty collar of

the dress, the shapeless body, the arms with their thick black hairs....m
Thick black hairs?m
Hairy arms? Andrea's blood froze.m
This wasn't a woman. It was a man.m

At first, she didn't know what to do. Then suddenly, an idea came into her racing, terrified brain. Swinging the

wheel suddenly, she threw the car into a skid, and brought it to a halt.m
"My God!" she shouted, "A child! Did you see the child? I think I hit her!"

The "old lady" was clearly shaken by the sudden skid. "I didn't see anything dearie," she said. "I don't think you hit anything."m
"I'm sure it was a child!" insisted Andrea. "Could you just get out and have a look? Just see if there's

anything on the road?" She held her breath. Would her plan work?m
It did. The passenger slowly opened the car door, leaving her bag inside, and climbed out to investigate. As

soon as she was out of the vehicle, Andrea gunned the engine and accelerated madly away. The car door

swung shut as she rounded a bend, and soon she had put a good three miles between herself and the awful hitchhiker.m
It was only then that she thought about the bag lying on the floor in front of her. Maybe the bag would

provide some information about the real identity about the old woman who was not an old woman. Pulling into the side of the road, Andrea lifted the heavy bag onto her lap and opened it curiously.m

It contained only one item -- a small hand axe, with a razor-sharp blade. The axe, and the inside of the bag, were covered with the dark red stains of dried blood.m
Andrea began to scream.

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OKAY
Did you read the story? YOU did!! GOOD>>>>>>>>>> I will post the questions, but you have to give me the green lightm

[wajd]

Sorry , after prayer time I gonna be busy so I wanna answer now

c
b
a
d
c
b
a
a
c
b

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Thanks Wajd for answering the first text correctly, NOW are you ready for the second one (The Hitchhiker), I will post the questions for you.m

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1.

Where did Andrea work?m
a) Brockbourne
b) Mickley
c) London
d) the text doesn't say

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2. How was Andrea feeling as she drove home? m
a) happy
b) afraid
c) lonely
d) hot

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3. Why didn't she listen to the radio? m
a) The radio had been stolen from her car.
b) She liked peace and quiet.
c) The radio was broken.
d) There was a strike at the radio station.

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4. Why did she stop to give the old lady a ride? m
a) It was a cold evening.
b) Andrea felt lonely.
c) She felt sorry for the lady.
d) All of the above.

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5. Where did the lady want to go? m
a) Brockbourne
b) Mickley
c) London
d) The text doesn't say

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6. What made Andrea afraid when she looked at the old lady? m
a) She had a moustache.
b) She had a hard voice like a man.
c) She had a shopping bag.
d) She had hairy arms.

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7. Why did Andrea suddenly stop the car?m
a) She thought she had hit a child in the road.
b) She skidded on some ice in the road.
c) She wanted to trick the passenger into getting out.
d) She was so afraid that she couldn't concentrate, and she nearly had a crash.

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8. What did Andrea do when the "old lady" got out? m
a) waited for her
b) drove away quickly
c) opened her bag
d) switched off the engine

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9. Why did Andrea look in the old lady's bag?m
a) She wanted to steal what was in it.
b) She wanted to find her address so that she could send the bag back to her.
c) She wanted to borrow the old lady's tools.
d) She wanted to find out who the strange passenger was.

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10. What was the "old lady" probably going to do to Andrea?m
a) nothing
b) kill her
c) give her an axe
d) visit her in Brockbourne

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[wajd]

c
c
a
d
a
d
c
b
d
b

[سارة احمد]

1- c
2-c
3-a
4-d
5-a
6-d
7-c-
8-b
9-d
10-b