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FCE REVISED EXAM, PAPER 3 USE OF ENGLISH, PART 3
Use the word in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap on the same line.
James Bond - 007 is a
character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming,
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who featured in twelve novels and two short story
.The character has
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also been used in the longest running and most
successful English film
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franchise which started in 1962 with Dr. No.
Most researchers agree that James Bond, a secret agent who seems to have no
, is a version of Ian Fleming himself. Both Fleming and Bond attended
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the same schools, preferred the same foods (scrambled eggs, and coffee), maintained
the same habits (drinking, smoking and wearing short-sleeve shirts), shared the same
ideas of the perfect woman in looks and style, and had similar careers in the Royal
Navy. They also shared similar
, hairstyle, and eye colour.
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James Bond, like Flemming attended the famous Eaton College before joining the
Royal Navy and eventually becoming a Commander. His fictional parents were Andrew
Bond, a Scotsman, and Monique Delacroix, from Switzerland. Their
were
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established in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' and are also linked to the real life of
Ian Flemming who himself came from a Scottish family and was engaged to be married
to a Swiss woman.
Commander Sir James Bond as we see him in films, is an agent of the British Secret
Intelligence Service (SIS). "I wanted the
, most boring name I could find,
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'James Bond' was much
than something more interesting, like 'Peregrine
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Carruthers.'
things would happen around him, but he would be a neutral
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figure – a nameless instrument used by a
department”.
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