<CD-RAT><Entry><HWD>PART\PART 2</HWD><Activity><GapFillInput layer="1" h="380" w="620" y="10" x="10" show-wordpool="0" wordpool-position="above"><Title alignment="left" isOn="1">2 Open cloze<br /></Title><Instruction alignment="left" isOn="1">For Questions <B>1-12</B>, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only <B>one</B> word in each space. There is an example at the beginning (<B>0</B>). <br /></Instruction><ReferenceObject soundIsOn="0" videoIsOn="0" defaultHeight="200" alignment="left" isOn="0" /><ScrollableAssets /><Content><Question><FONT SIZE="14"><B>A strange way of writing!</B></FONT><br />Philip Pullman is (<B>0</B>) <I><U>one</U></I> of England’s best-known children's writers. He (<B>1</B>) <Gap><Score num="1" />was</Gap> born in Norwich but spent his early childhood in Australia. After he left school, he studied English at Oxford, and then <br />(<B>2</B>) <Gap><Score num="1" />had|did</Gap> a number of odd jobs for (<B>3</B>) <Gap><Score num="1" />a</Gap> while, before becoming a teacher. He later left teaching in (<B>4</B>) <Gap><Score num="1" />order</Gap> to be a full-time writer.<br />He writes his books in a shed at (<B>5</B>) <Gap><Score num="1" />the</Gap> bottom of his garden. The shed contains several hundred books, a six-foot-long stuffed animal (<B>6</B>) <Gap><Score num="1" />which|that</Gap> was used in one of his plays, a guitar and a saxophone, as (<B>7</B>) <Gap><Score num="1" />well</Gap> as a computer and two comfortable chairs. There are pictures, notes, posters, reminders, postcards and book jackets stuck all (<B>8</B>) <Gap><Score num="1" />over|around</Gap> the walls, and Pullman can't write without "Post-it" notes. This is what he does: he writes a short sentence on each note, summarising a different scene, and then sticks all the notes (<B>9</B>) <Gap><Score num="1" />on|onto</Gap> a large piece of paper. He then moves them around to get the best order for his story.<br />Pullman believes (<B>10</B>) <Gap><Score num="1" />in</Gap> the power of storytelling. He once said: ‘Stories are the (<B>11</B>) <Gap><Score num="1" />most</Gap> important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't (<B>12</B>) <Gap><Score num="1" />be</Gap> human beings at all.’</Question></Content></GapFillInput><Feedback playallOn="1" showAnswersOn="1" animatedFeedbackOn="1" testModeOn="0" instantFeedbackOn="0"><Sounds /></Feedback><GenericActivity hintsNextTo="0" timerIsOn="0" CDPrefsFolder="preferences/" CDPrefsFile="cd1.xml"><ActivityCanvas graphicAlpha="100" folder="" file="" colourAlpha="100" colour="transparent" /><SoundLibrary y="10" x="10" isOn="0" /><VideoLibrary h="252" w="385" y="78" x="10" isOn="0" /><Assets /></GenericActivity></Activity></Entry></CD-RAT>
