FCE: Use of English, part 4

1) When I was young, I lived in a place called Coromandel in
New Zealand. I was been taken there by my parents when I was a few

2) weeks old, and lived there until I was fourteen years. I still think

3) of that period as the happiest time of my life. My life was much

4) uncomplicated then and Coromandel was a magical place. It 

5) had been a busy gold-mining town, but that was long before 

6) my family have arrived. By then it had become a very run-down 

7) place. My father was a doctor, and people would pay to him 

8) in sheep, pigs, hens and, occasionally, the pieces of gold. He would 

9) have preferred paying money, of course, but they simply didn’t have 

10) any. My sister and I had no many cares at all. We went to the village

11) school, which together was attended by just twenty children of all ages. 

12) Out of school hours, we looked after lots animals on the farms 

13) around the town, although we didn't really have a clue how

14) long to do it. Coromandel is a large and busy tourist resort now, 

15) but it was peaceful town when I was a child, and I would 

16) like doing nothing better than to go back to relive my memories.