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Advanced English Listening Quiz - Disapprearing Cowboy
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1. How old was Jim when he made his first visit to the east?
12
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15
2. What did Jim show his cousins?
How to live in the big city
How to ride a bull
How to ride a horse
How to lasso
3. Where was Jim from?
A small town in the east
A big city in the east
The broad plains of Arizona
the biggest city in Arizona
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2. How to lasso
3. The broad plains of Arizona
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Jim was the son of a cowboy, and lived on the broad plains of Arizona. His father had trained him to lasso a bronco or a young bull with perfect accuracy, and had Jim possessed the strength to back up his skill he would have been as good a cowboy as any in all Arizona. When he was twelve years old he made his first visit to the east, where Uncle Charles, his father's brother, lived. Of course Jim took his lasso with him, for he was proud of his skill in casting it, and wanted to show his cousins what a cowboy could do. At first the city boys and girls were much interested in watching Jim lasso posts and fence pickets, but they soon tired of it, and even Jim decided it was not the right sort of sport for cities.