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Bernie Voytas, 46, had been working 28 hard and long days. That’s the way of it for a ___1__during

harvest time in Randolph County, Illinois.

So he decided to take a ____2____ and spend a Sunday with his friend Stephen Keith at a St. Louis

Rams football game. But Keith noticed something ___3____ : Voytas’ speech was halting and he was slurring

his words.

Just after the game started, Voytas’s face became contorted, ___4_____ his right side froze. Keith

found someone to help send Voyats to the hospital. Doctors stabilized him and discovered the ____5____ of

his illness.

Early the next moring more than 15 farmers arrived at Voytas’s fields with their tools and trucks. They

came without ____6______ asking them to. “This is a small community,” Keith explained. “Hard to say how

the news gets ____7____ . it just does.” There were so many that Keith had to refuse some of their help.

The neighbors harvested the corn and soybeans and planted wheat. They worked into darkness and were

back at 6 a.m. After five days the job was done.

This is a farming thing, the workers said. ___8____ is a sense of community when everybody is

dependent upon the ___9_____ and the soil. But it was more than that. “Bernie is always the first to help

others,” Keith said. “ He ____10____ his equipment to others. He does things for people that he doesn’t have

to do. It’s why we had to turn people away.”

Voytas has resumed farming with the continued help of his friends.

1. a. boy b. farmer c. worker d. woman

2. a, walk b. picture c. break d. leave

3. a. strange b. unreasonable c. negative d. funny

4. a. so b. but c. and d. for

5. a. trouble b. reason c. case d. cause

6. a. him b. anyone c. someone d. her

7. a. through b. away c. off d. around

8. a. There b. It c. As d. That

9. a. nature b. season c. weather d. environment

10. a. rents b. lends c. borrows d. purchases

TEST-2

If you’re driving in Brooklyn, Ohio, and find yourself attracted by your surroundings, resist the urge

to get hold of your cell phone and share the moment. The leafy Cleveland suburb is the first town in the

country in which it’s ____1_______ to drive and talk on a cell phone at the same time. “We don’t ban cell

phones,” ____2_____ former mayor John M. March. “But pull to the side of the road.”

It wasn’t the first _____3__ Brooklyn, with a population of 11,924 and Coyne, 83, who served as

mayor for 52 years, __4______ the lead on driving safety. In 1966, after Coyne, saw a child who was riding in

the front seat of her parents’ car hit her head __5______ the windshield, the city passed the nation’s first

mandatory seat-belt law.

His idea to stop cell-phone users was ______6___ by another accident. “In early January 1999,” he

says, “our chief of police ___7____ a car smashed from behind by another vehicle.” The driver of the second

car was talking on a cell phone and, according to the chief, ___8______ talking even after the crash.

The regulation ____9___ drivers to keep both hands on the steering wheel talking on a cell phone.

First-time offenders are fined $3, then the fine jumps ___10_____ $100.

Coyne doesn’t own a cell phone. “I’m not that important,” he says. 2

1. a. fault b. illegal c. incorrect d. mistaken

2. a. demands b. explains c. insists d. tells

3. a. city b. law c. man d. time

4. a. held b. made c. took d. did

5. a. by b. into c. on d. with

6. a. confirmed b. determined c. decided d. found

7. a. arrested b. discovered c. drew d. saw

8. a. continued b. insisted c. persisted d. stopped

9. a. allows b. forces c. requires d. wants

10. a. as high as b. as many as c. as far as d. as well as

TEST-3

Mark Clements, 53, a garageman, had long and untidy hair. Laura Shira, 43, who gives haircuts, needed

car repairs. Rather than __1___ for service, the two residents helped each other. A typical small town favor,

right? No, the two didn’t know each other. They __2__ the Neighborhood Service Exchange ( NSE), where

members ___3___ their skills. The exchange need not be direct; members earn credit for hours __4____ and

can cash in later from anyone in the group.

The NSE may help people save a little money, but at its heart it’s building a (n) ___5____ of community