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Dear Calherine.

Thanks for your letter. It was great to hear from you. I hope your exams are over now and you re happy with the results. I’ve just had an awful weekend. We (A1) … to go camping, but in the end all our plans fell down because of our car. Everything was fine on Saturday morning when we set out. and we had no problems for the first half of our journey. Unfortunately, just before lunch, the car (A2) … down. My Dad tried several times to call for help, but the number (А3) … . In the end he gave up and we ate the picnic my Mum (A4) … that morning. After lunch my Dad decided to go and get help with mv brother, so I stayed behind with my mother. We soon fell asleep in the car. When we woke up it (A5) … late and my Dad and my brother had still not come back. We started to get very worried about them. Just then they turned up in a van, which (A6)… our car to a garage. We went home in a taxi which had been following the van. I hope you had a better weekend than me. Please write soon and tell me what you (A7)….

Best wishes,
Millie

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(А8) … young woman was taken to safety (А9) … a helicopter yesterday after getting stuck on a freezing Swiss mountain. She and her climbing partner spent two nights under a simple shelter on a rock 9,800 feet up one of Switzerland’s most difficult mountains. The rescued woman, Rachel de Kelsey, admitted yesterday that they would have died if they had had to spend another night there. Their only chance of (А10) … survival was to dig themselves a hole (A11) the snow behind the rock and hope that they would be found. Miss Kelsey said that she had sent messages (A12)… five friends who she thought might be able to get (A13) … touch with the mountain rescue team.
The alarm was eventually raised by a friend in London after he received her text. He contacted (A14)… rescuers who found (A15) … pair but were unable to rescue them immediately because of the storm.

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One of the most difficult but rewarding pastimes is mountain climbing. The modern climber must (A22) … many different skills. Rock climbing (A23) … a combination of gymnastic ability, imagination and observation, but perhaps the most necessary skill is being able to (A24) … out how much weight a particular rock will support. Mountaineers climb in groups of three or four, each climber at a distance of approximately six meters from the next. Usually one person climbs while the other climbers (A25) … hold of the rope. There is no (A26) … that the most experienced climber goes first. He shows the other climbers which (A27) … to go, making the rope secure so that it is (A28) … for the others to follow.
With much mountain climbing, show skills (A29) … a very important part. The number of dangers (A30) … by climbers is almost end less. And the (A31) … of oxygen at high altitudes makes life even more difficult for mountaineers.

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§ 1. It is Saturday night at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. In the galleries devoted to African art, children are playing hide-and-seek while the parents sip beer from plastic cups. Some teenage girls head through the sculpture exhibition to a temporary dance floor where a DJ is playing reggae music. Watching the scene is Bryan, a young teacher from a local school. What brings him out tonight? ‘I’m here for the reggae, of course.’ he says. ’When I heard they were playing that I thought, «I have to be there,» and obviously a lot of people feel the same way.’ Besides the DJ. the museum has laid on gallery talks, a Martin Scorsese film, a puppet show and a samba band.

§ 2. The Brooklyn Museum of Art wasn’t always so trendy. For decades, it put on excellent exhibitions that few came to see. Had it been over in the city’s fashionable Upper East Side, of course, the museum would have been packing them in. Even when they put on dull exhibitions, New York’s top museums can count on a steady stream of visitors — mostly tourists. But Brooklyn, one of New York’s toughest districts, isn’t on the standard tourist route. When the museum was built, it was in a wealthy suburb, but these days the surrounding streets are home to recent immigrants, mostly poor folk from the Caribbean.

§ 3. Two years ago. in an effort to revive itself, the museum appointed a new director, Arnold Lehman, who was born in Brooklyn. Lehman was convinced that the museum should forget about trying to attract visitors from the other side of town and try to appeal instead to people from the surrounding area.

§ 4. The free evening events, called ‘First Saturdays’, are Lehman’s way of reaching out to people. The great thing for me is when you see teenage boys looking at art in the galleries without being handcuffed to their parents.’ he says. What’s more, the annual number of visitors to the museum has roughly doubled since the scheme was introduced. Similar institutions across the country are now calling, wanting to know how much it costs ‘to throw a good party’. The answer, incidentally, is about $25,000 per event. And worth every penny,’ says Lehman.

§ 5. The real achievement of First Saturdays is more significant and profound than the increased visitor numbers suggest. Most people visit art museums because they want to have a special ‘artistic’ experience. The Brooklyn Museum of Art has introduced thousands of people to the idea that museum-going can be a perfectly ordinary part of their lives.

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1. School student Carla Ruiz lives in a hot country and has become very aware of the need to save water. ‘Spring and autumn used to be quite wet, but these days it hardly rains at all,’ she says. ‘Nearly all the rivers have dried up, destroying all the wildlife in and around them, and no matter what we do they’ll never be the same again. At least, though, we can use water more sensibly. That’s why at home I recently decided to do simple things like making sure there are no dripping taps, or taps left on while I’m brushing my teeth or washing food. Within a few days I was regularly doing these things without even thinking, I know they made a difference because the water bills went down quite a bit. My parents noticed that so they started doing the same.’

2. Trainee manager, Vincent Owen, is doing his bit to save the planet by using less electricity around the home. ‘I was talking to this guy at Work and he told me that we waste a huge amount of energy every year by leaving things like the TV. DVD and computer on standby all the time, so nowadays I try to remember — not always successfully — to switch them off at night. Incidentally, I’ve now got solar panels on the roof so that all the hot water is powered by the sun. That was a big investment, and it ended up well over budget, but I’m sure it’ll pay for itself in the end.’

3. While Lin Chen is on a gap year, she is travelling round Europe with friends. ‘We had intended to fly everywhere,’ she says ‘but when we worked out just how much extra pollution that would cause, we decided to do it by train instead. It was cheaper, too.’ They began their tour in Greece: ‘We all felt the obvious place to start was where European civilization began, so our first rail journey began in Athens. We travelled to Patras on the west coast, taking the ferry across to Bari in southern Italy. From there we took the overnight train to Paris, and a few days later we went on the Eurostar to London. We saw far more of the countryside than we would have done by plane.’

4. Tanya Petrova works in a restaurant with an extensive menu, but at home she will only eat local or seasonal food: ‘I strongly believe that transporting food thousands of kilometers, or storing it under refrigeration for months on end, ultimately has a highly negative impact on the environment. I always try to buy food that is produced locally, and I have a special calendar to show me which kinds of food are in season so that I know what I’m buying is really fresh. Apart from the environmental considerations, I’m convinced the food I eat, which has far fewer chemicals in it, helps me avoid the kind of illnesses that seem to be so common these days.’