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2d Amazing People

1 Read  A. Read the title of the text. What do you think ‘comeback’ means?
Now, listen and read the text. Why has the text got this title?
GREG GUSA. As a teenager, he used to go cycling to
reg LeMond was born in 1961 in California,

clear his head so he could study better. He soon
LEMOND started winning races against older cyclists. When

he was 22 years old, he won the Road Race World
Championship. Later, in 1986, he won the famous
An Amazing Tour de France.
Sporting Then, in 1987, something terrible happened. LeMond

Comeback used to go hunting with his family when he visited
his home town. During a hunting trip, LeMond had
an accident and almost died.

2 Vocabulary 3 Grammar

Complete the sentences with the words
Used to
in the box. © MM Publications
award race cyclist  I used to play football when I was
forever decide success a child. (= I don’t play any more.)
 We didn’t use to sleep in the
1. Talk to your parents before you afternoon when we were young.
what to do.  Did Andy use to have a pet?

2. Emma Stone won the best actress
. Complete the sentences below. Use used to
and the verbs in the box.
3. The fell off his bike and
hurt his leg. work visit have not live go
4. Shelly is a good cyclist but she didn’t win
1. She her grandparents
the .
every weekend but now she visits them
5. This is a nice flat but I’m not going to live once a month.
here . 2. Juan lives in Peru now but he
6. The party was a . there when he was young.
Everybody had a good time. 3. A: you
camping when you were young?
B: No, we didn’t.
4. When my mother was a teenager,
she at a supermarket.
Today, she’s a doctor.
5. A: Kate
long hair?
B: No, she didn’t, but she does now.

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