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Task B1-B7

Trapeze Flyer

There was little in Lucy Morgan's academic record to suggest that the bright, north London girl was going to do anything other than follow a conventional career. At school she admits to having been naughty but hard-working, and at university her English literature degree was enjoyable, but not terribly challenging. It was only when nearing graduation that she started to think, 'What am I going to do with my life? '

B1 ______________________ It seemed as good a career as any.

Qualifying, though, was something else. She found training to be a lawyer interesting, but very stressful, and she soon had something else in mind. She had never considered herself a sporty sort of person, and at school competitive games had left her cold. B2 ______________________ Aerobics at university developed into after-work gymnastics, and it was during one of these sessions that someone mentioned a trapeze course starting up at a place called Circus Space. Lucy recognised it instantly as something she had to do. B3 ______________________ It was so much more thrilling than what she was doing at the moment.

So, at the age of 23, the trainee lawyer enrolled on a course to learn the flying trapeze. The other students on the course were surprised at her success in a totally different field. “At first, they thought I was just there for the fun of it, but I am not a half-hearted sort of person.”

When her lawyer training eventually came to an end, Lucy felt as if she was committed to a career in the legal profession, and it wasn't a comfortable feeling. She needed a break from all that. So she thought of trying to get a place in a circus school overseas. Lucy applied to one in Montreal in Canada, intending to spend only six months away. B4 _______________________ There were just 35 students of all nationalities. These were the world’s elite there because Canada is one of the few countries where circus skills are held in really high esteem.

Lucy was assigned to Victor Fomin, a trapeze teacher from Russia. It was Fomin who changed her mind about her future. She describes having a great teacher as like having a third parent. B5 _______________________ Lucy saved hard, her parents helped, and one year she got a grant, but she managed never to have to work in her spare time. She wouldn't have had the energy. B6 ___________________

Eventually, three years on, Fomin pronounced her ready, and Lucy felt, slightly reluctantly, that it was time to return to the UK and look for offers of work in her new career. Most of these come, not as you might expect from the traditional theatre or circus, but from the world of business.

Frustratingly, few of her performances reach the perfection she attained during the years she spent in Montreal. Shortage of time and a limited budget usually make that impossible. B7 _______________________ But it is the physical thrill of performing on the trapeze, rather than the success and excitement, which she enjoys.

 

A. The physical, mental and emotional commitment of the course was huge - and it wasn't helped by money worries.

 

B. So it wasn't until after she had left school that she discovered she had some ability.

 

C. In the end, she looked to her father, alegal adviser working in the entertainment industry.

 

D. Lucy thought that people who did high-risk sports should have courage and energy.

 

E. The idea of learning to move so gracefully high up above the ground “just sounded fantastic.”

 

F. Although her income is decidedly not as good as it would have been had she stuck to a career in law, Lucy Morgan has a far more glamorous lifestyle than the legal profession would have allowed.

 

G. But the school proved to be captivating.

 

H. At weekends she was so tired she would spend one day in bed and the other doing her laundry.

 


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