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Debbie Hart is going to swim across the English Channel tomorrow. She is eleven and she is a strong swimmer. Debbie has been trained by her father. He will follow her in a small boat. Debbie's mother will be waiting on the English coast. She swam the Channel herself when she was a girl.
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The Olympic Games will be held in our country in four years' time, so the government will be putting up new buildings just outside the capital. Kurt Gunter has designed the buildings and workers will have completed the new stadium by the end of next year. The Games will be held in this country for the first time and we are looking forward to them.
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The writer's friend, Hanrrison, had spent many years in the Mediterranean, but he wanted to retire in England so he bought a house in the country. The summer that year was very bad and he complained about the weather. In the end Harrison not only sold the house but also left the country.
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