3. A. Read the paragraphs of the article and match them with the topic sentences below the text.

Bill Wyman, now 63, was a member of one of the most successful rock bands in the worid. But he may never have joined the Rolling Stones if his father had let him stay at school...

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My father especially disliked it. If I tried to speak like everybody spoke at school, which was well-spoken En­glish, then I was trying to be "above my station” — he was very old-fashioned in that way. It was like speaking two different languages. I'd go to school and my nor­mal talking voice would change to a well-spoken voice. Then I’d come home and go back to my normal south London, semi-cockney way of talking.

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i was the eldest, and so I had all the responsibilities, because when you're in a working class family and poor, a lot of duties get passed on to the eldest son.

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I was one of three kids out of my primary school who passed the 1 t-plus exam, and ! was offered a place at Beckenham grammar school. I was nervous about it, but

1. was absolutely delighted because I liked learning. My father wasn't exactly pleased — “Now we’ve got to buy you a bloody uniform”.

D

My mother used to take in blankets to wash: she was paid a shilling a blanket. She also used to get these huge bags full of elastic bands delivered to the house, and we had to sort them out into sizes and put them in pack­ets.

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Passing the 11 -plus exam changed my life for the better educationally, but much for the worse in my per­sonal life, because friends and family didn’t like me in my cap and red jacket with the Kent badge on it - - they accused me of being superior to them. "Aren’t you all posh now?"

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Anyway, that was the end of my education, but on the other hand, as a result, I got into music. But I think back on that school with great pleasure, because it was a good school. I loved maths and science and history, and I was good at them too, and I have very fond mem­ories of those teachers, they were really great.

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School was going well; I was 15 and about to take my О-level exams, when one day my father said: “Right, I’ve had enough of you in that school, you’re leaving. It’s time you started to help the family”.

• Bill was the eldest child in the family and had a lot of duties at home.

2. He got into music, and that changed his life

completely. But he still has very fond memories of school.

2. Bill Wyman was offered a place at a grammar school.

3. When Bill used well-spoken English, his father in particular disliked it.

4. Passing the 11-pius exam changed his life for

the better on the one hand and for the worse on the other.

2. His mother used to take in a lot of work at home.

3. Bill was only 15 when his father made him leave school to help the family.

B. Rearrange the paragraphs in a logical order. • The first one has been done for you.

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