فرنلیش - b2 listening about characters

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Listen to five extract and decide which speaker mentioned the following sentence. Write A, B, C ... in the gap.

My sister was always going out alone on her bike and she'd spend hours cycling along the country lanes. She'd come home with blackbenies she'd picked and tales of wild rabbits she'd seen. I couldn't understand how anyone could get so excited about a rabbit. She went on to live on a farm and milked cows for a living. I left home when I was 16 and moved into a flat with a boy who played drums in a punk band. My parents were really upset. I had my hair cut really short and wore clothes that got all the neighbors talking. We're still both like chalk and cheese.

She'd do anything just to be different. That often caused a lot of friction in the family and I know our parents had a really hard time. If the atmosphere got a bit tense, I'd try to smooth things over.I was always there for my sister. Mum and Dad used to get really mad about the way she lived her life, but I'd always make excuses for her. And if she ever got into trouble I never told them the whole truth. I don't think they know half of what she got up to.

When we first started school, my sister used to get teased a lot because of her skin color. It was never anything unpleasant or spiteful - just silly name-calling, mostly. In fact, it never seemed to affect her and she just ignored it all. She's always been very tough, my sister - determined to get on with her life without letting anyone or anything else bother her, and I've always looked up to her for that. I'm far too sensitive,by comparison. Even then, when we were at school, instead or rushing to protect her, I used to burst into tears every time someone started making fun of her. Silly, really.

We might be twins but our characters are very different - I'm much more confident and outgoing,or one thing, and she's fairly quiet and shy. We don't share the same taste in music, we have different interests, and we also argue a lot, but then I think most brothers and sisters do, don't they? In our case it's because we want to be better than each other, at sports, at school and even at getting boyfriends. When people see us fighting, they immediately think we don't get on with each other, but nothing could be further from the truth.

She always liked dressing up and putting on loads of make-up. When we were kids, she always wore the shortest mini¬skirts and she smelt like a perfume factory. She used to make fun of me because I was so plain and unconcerned about my appearance, and she laughed openly at my clothes. It never bothered me though; I knew I couldn't compete with her looks so I just laughed back. I called her 'Alexis' after that woman in one of those 70s soap operas on the tally.

A Her sister teased her.

B They don't get on with each other;

C They compete with each other,

D They have always led very different lives.

E She admires her sister's strength of character.

F She protected her sister.

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