Read the text. Choose the appropriate alternative that completes each statement, according to the reading above. 1) Edson ______________________________.

A) founded the Santos Club in Brazil B) was well-trained since his childhood C) played with the Cosmos team since 1958 D) was a distinguished athlete in the last century

2) Edson Arantes __________________________.

A) was Pelé’s best friend B) participated in three World Cup matches C) was the trainer of the Brazilian national team D) scored one thousand two hundred goals in ten years

3) Pelé ___________________________.

A) played professional soccer in his country during nineteen years B) didn’t continue in the soccer world after nineteen seventy-four C) didn’t score any goal after nineteen sixty-three D) won all the World Cup matches with his team

Edson Arantes, known as Pelé, was born in 1940 in Brazil. He was an outstanding soccer player, but as a boy he didn’t have formal training in this sport. He learned to play soccer with his friends on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. His first match for the Brazilian national soccer team was in 1955, and by 1958 he was a world–famous soccer player. From 1958 to 1968, he scored 1200 goals for the Santos Club in Brazil and the Brazilian national team. He played for Brazil in four World Cup competitions, and Brazil won three of these. Everybody loved to watch Pelé. He was an excellent athlete, a wonderful team member and a funny person too. He retired from Brazilian soccer in 1974, and the next year he went to the United States to play for the New York Cosmos. He helped to make the Cosmos team a very good one. He retired as a soccer player in 1977. He now lives in Brazil where he works as soccer coach.

4) After Pelé’s retirement as a soccer player from Brazil, he ______________________.

A) decided to stay in the United States B) became a soccer coach in New York C) helped the Cosmos to be a good team D) played soccer with his friends on the beaches

5) Pelé retired as a soccer player when he was ___________________ years old.

A) forty B) forty-one C) thirty-four D) thirty-seven

6) Edson Arantes had the first match for the Brazilian national soccer team when he was

around _________________.

A) seventeen B) eighteen C) twenty D) fifteen

Read the following text. Choose the appropriate alternative to complete each sentence, from the reading above. 1) At the beginning of his career, Jackson ____________________.

A) belonged to a singing group of five brothers B) used to dance alone on TV shows C) showed unartistic skills D) preferred to sing alone

2) The Jackson group ______________________.

A) won many awards B) was very unpopular C) sold a lot of records D) began its career in 1958

Michael Jackson He was born in the United States, in August 1958. When he was a young boy, he showed great talent as a singer and a dancer. He sang and danced with four of his brothers. The group sold more than ten thousand records and had millions of fans. Later, at age thirteen, he separated from his brothers and made his first album alone. Many of the songs on this album became hits. Several years later, he performed with his family again on TV and on tour, but he preferred to perform alone. He won many awards, and his fans bought millions of his hit records and tapes. On rock videos, he became as famous for his dancing as for his singing.

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