5 Przeczytaj tekst i wybierz prawidłową odpowiedź a, b, c, lub d do podpunktów 1-6.
A Marcus
Like most children, I had a dream job when I was young. From the age of two, I decided that my future career was going to be in the stars! I wanted to be an astronaut and travel in space. As I grew older, the ambition didn’t fade as many childhood dreams do, but it grew stronger. At 11, I would picture myself walking in space and looking at the Earth from thousands of miles away and by 14, I had read all there was to read about the experiences of those famous men who had actually set foot on the Moon. My parents thought I was being too ambitious and wanted me to study to be a doctor. I was almost influenced by their arguments but in the end I stuck to my plan and became a pilot. Now, after years of study and dedication, my dreams look set to become reality. I’ve been lucky enough to be chosen to join the crew as a pilot on the international space station.
B Annika
The earliest ambition I can recall was to work in a sweet shop. There was a lovely, old-fashioned sweetshop near my house, full of huge jars of the most wonderful sweets you can imagine! My sister and I used to spend hours in there deciding how to spend our pocket money. I think my plan was that if I worked there, I would be able to indulge in eating every type of sweet that the shop sold! However, eventually the sweet shop closed and my dream disappeared with it. Later I went to study at a business college and got a good qualification there. While I was trying to decide what to do with my life after that, I kept thinking about my childhood dream. I decided that perhaps there was a place for a real, old-fashioned sweet shop in today’s world of online selling and huge supermarkets. So I started my own sweet shop in the heart of my old town. We’re now in our fifth year and doing extremely well. It seems that there still is a place for those huge jars of wonderful sweets after all.
C Ben
When I was a child I had a dream of becoming an architect. I was good at drawing and spent hours sketching imaginary buildings and cities. Then when I was older I loved those computer games where you invent your own cities and fill them with buildings and shops and parks and everything. I played those games for hours and hours! I never really thought about making architecture my career though until I went to Copenhagen on holiday when I was 17. The amazing modern architecture there inspired me and I decided I wanted to go to art college. I studied architecture for seven years and finally graduated two years ago. I got my first job with a firm of architects in London six months later and I love it! I can’t imagine doing anything else.
D Maria
I remember being obsessed with the theatre when I was a little girl. I loved playing dress-up and pretending to be other people and I adored going to the theatre with my parents and entering the world of make-believe of the plays and musicals we saw there. My mother sent me to drama school on Saturdays for a few years and after that I did a few auditions for parts in small productions, but to be honest I wasn’t very good at acting! I got very stressed every time I had to go on stage and saw all those people watching me. However, the experience helped me understand that although I loved the theatre, I didn’t want to be an actress. I started helping out behind the scenes for a while as a summer job and found I had a talent for set design, designing the rooms and settings for different scenes in a theatre production. Last year I won a prize for my design for a new production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, so I think I made the right choice not to follow my childhood dream!
1 Marcus’ ambitions
a changed while he was growing up.
b started when he was very young.
cwere changed by his parents’ advice.
2 Before his dream came true Marcus had to
a do a lot of other jobs.
b train in the USA.
c study and wait for a long time.
3 Annika decided to open a sweet shop
a because she had a lot of money to invest.
b because it was a good business opportunity.
c because it was her childhood dream.
4 Ben decided to go to art college and study architecture
a when he was playing a computer game.
b when he was on holiday.
c when he was a child.
5 When she was a child Maria
a was a successful actress.
b had a mother who didn’t like the theatre.
c tried to get some small parts in theatre productions.
6 Now Maria feels
a disappointed she didn’t get to become an actress.
b happy she found a different career in the theatre.
c unsure whether she made the career right choice.
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