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
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2) weeks old, and lived there until I was fourteen years. I still think
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3) of that period as the happiest time of my life. My life was much
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4) uncomplicated then and Coromandel was a magical place. It  ___________________________(4)

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

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

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

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

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

10) any. My sister and I had no many cares at all. We went to the village
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11) school, which together was attended by just twenty children of all ages.  ___________________________(11)

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

13) around the town, although we didn't really have a clue how
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14) long to do it. Coromandel is a large and busy tourist resort now,  ___________________________(14)

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

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