Edison Peña - Module 9

C2 Proficiency · Word Formation · Expert Proficiency, Pearson Education

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in CAPITALS at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.

BEAR

DESPOND

EXTEND

MAINTAIN

PERSIST

COMPETE

ESTIMATE

CHARM

Edison Peña is living proof that sport can be a (0) ___ tool. The Chilean miner was trapped two-thousand feet underground with thirty-two others for sixty-nine days. Most people could find this appalling situation (1) ___ and Edison almost lost his battle against (2) ___ . Amazingly, what helped him to overcome such feelings was jogging through the (3) ___ system of underground tunnels. He believes he managed to survive his ordeal by concentrating on the (4) ___ of a strict fitness routine. Running around six miles a day, his (5) ___ paid off, and he emerged from the ordeal in relatively good shape. Following the miners' dramatic rescue, Peña was invited to attend the New York Marathon, not as a (6) ___ but as an honoured spectator, the organisers having been impressed by his story. They (7) ___ him however, because he asked to compete. Disarmingly (8) ___ , Peña captivated the New York crowds. Not only did he run the race, but he finished it in less than the six hours he had set himself.

Edison Peña

POWER

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