Đáp án L2 - Test 21:

Interviewer: For those who don’t know the area, tell us something about Lidsey.

Woman: Well, I’ve lived there for 10 years. It’s a small town with a population of about (1) 7,500. We decided to move from London and were looking for a small business to buy. We thought that Lidsey looked like a nice town to live in. The streets are full of small, friendly shops - food shops, antique shops and the usual banks and offices. In the end we bought a small (2) hotel in the centre which was built in (3) 1368, so it’s got quite a history. It needed a lot of work but it’s now a very successful business.

The (4) special thing about Lidsey is the wide main street that used to have an open waterway in it. Boats used to come right into the town centre to transport food grown in the area, mainly potatoes and (5) carrots, from Lidsey down to London by boat. The waterway was filled in years ago and now it’s a wide street, as I say. There isn’t much industry in the area now, but there is a small company down by the river which builds (6) boats.

In the old days, the family who owned most of the town lived in a large house near the centre. Unfortunately the house was (7) pulled down about ten years ago. But part of the (8) garden is now open to the public, and people come from miles around to visit it.

We’ve also got one of the best (9) museums in the area which is in the old Town Hall. There are a lot of different rooms furnished as they used to be in the old days, and it’s open from April to September on Thursday and Sunday (10) afternoons.

Interviewer: Well, thank you, it sounds an interesting place.