Reading II. Fill in each blank with one word from the box to complete the paragraph.
1. Elvis Presley
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Elvis Presley was born in 1935 in Mississippi. Later, his poor family moved to Memphis, in search of better opportunities. Elvis used to be a truck (1) …… . One day in 1954, he (2) …… a song at the Memphis Recording Studio to send his mother as a birthday gift. Sam Philips, the studio (3) …… heard him sing and recognized Elvis's potential in music. Elvis's (4) ….. was interrupted in the late 1950s when he went into the army. When he came out, he acted in several movies. His (5) …… were not very good but financially (6) …… . He had many (7) ……… with his weights and drugs. He died in 1977 at the age of 42.
2. Traditions and customs in Great Britain.
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Every nation and every country has its own customs and traditions. In Britain, traditions play a (1) ..... important part in the life of people than in other countries. English men are proud of their traditions and carefully (2) ........ them up.
It has been the law for about 300 years that all (3) ...... are closed on Sundays. No letters are delivered , only a few Sunday (4) ...... are published.
To this day an English family (5) ....... a house with a garden to a modern house with central heating . English people like gardens. Sometimes the garden in front of the house is a (6) ....... square covered ( 7) ...... cement painted green in imitation of grass and a box of flowers.
Holidays are especially (8) ........ in old traditions and are different in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England. Christmas is a great English (9) ..... holiday, and in Scotland it is (10)......., except by clerks in banks, all shops and factories are working.
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