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Unit 5
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SHE PASSED HER DRIVING TEST WITH FLYING COLOURS.
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An Edinburgh woman was taking her driving test. At one point, the examiner told her to take the first turning on the left. At that moment a boy ran across the road just in front of the car. She braked hard, and the examiner who had been looking at his notes, hit the windscreen giving him a nice bump on his forehead.
She passed the test with the dry but objective comment "Your emergency stop is excellent.”
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ELLE A PASSÉ SON PERMIS DE CONDUIRE AVEC BRIO.
Une dame d'Edimbourg était en train de passer son permis de conduire. A un moment, l'examinateur lui dit de prendre le premier tournant à gauche.
A cet instant, un garçon traversa la route en courant juste devant la voiture. Elle freina brusquement, et l'examinateur qui était en train de regarder ses notes, heurta le pare-brise, ce qui lui occasionna une jolie bosse sur le front.
Elle passa son test avec le commentaire caustique mais objectif: "Votre freinage en cas d'urgence est excellent."
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UNDERSTANDING HATRED.
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Bradford, a northern England town, was the site of Britain's third race riot last summer. It was also its worst: 281 policemen were injured and 36 troublemakers arrested.
The riot's immediate cause was a rumour that the National Front, a rightwing extremist group, planned to march through the city. It didn't, but clashes between Asian and white youths turned into a fully-fledged battle.
The riots shocked the Bradfordians, but didn't surprise them. For years the city had been sliding into a de facto apartheid, with Asian, Afro-Caribbean and white communities living, working and studying separately.
On street corners, bored Asian and white youths say they have faced naked racism every day but at interrace meetings nobody has had enough courage to say "Hey, there are some lads in your community who are troublemakers". Everyone is afraid of sounding racist. The question then is:
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