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Moreover, he had to quit high
READING & WRITING school in spite of being a successful
student. What changed his life
1 READING was his meeting with billiard
sport. At the age of just 18,
a In your opinion, who is the most he participated at İstanbul
successful sportsperson? Explain Championship and became
why you believe this person is the
most successful one. the Turkish champion. He
won not only Turkish titles
b Read the text and find the title of but also international
each paragraph. ones. In addition to
a. Not the smartest, but the greatest. many medals that he
b. To be successful, the first step is to won internationally,
work. he became the
c. Getting over depression days world champion
at the UMB World
d. Being old is not an obstacle. Championship with his
e. Many medals at a young age teammate Tayfun Taşdemir
THEY ARE EXCELLENT! in 2003. He stopped taking
part in tournaments at the
1
_______________________________ climax of his career in
Everybody knows that the first rule 2006. He has been playing
of success is to work hard in all areas billiard just in special
of life. When you take a look at the short tournaments. He has also
history of sports, you can easily find out taken part in some TV
many success stories which make you series in Turkey.
feel encouraged. It is very easy to get 3 _____ ____________________ _____
discouraged in real life, but the key to
success is not to give up working hard Muhammad Ali, who
even in failure. You have to keep on was one of the
working in order to be successful. Let’s take greatest boxers of
a look at some famous success stories of popular the world, was born
sportspeople in the world. in 1942 in Louisville. His original name was
Cassius Marcellus Clay, but he changed his
2 ___________________ ____________ name after being a Muslim. He met boxing
Semih Saygıner, a professional billiard player, when he was 12 and soon after that, at the
was born in 1964 in Adapazarı, age of 18, he won his first gold medal at
Turkey. When he was just the 1960 Olympics in Rome and started
14 years old, he lost to be famous. What makes him a star
his parents in was his being the champion of “the
a traffic World Heavyweight Championship”
accident. in 1964. He was a great boxer and in
his wonderful career, he took part in 61
professional fights and won 56 of them.
He was also very popular with his
knockouts and won 37 matches with
it. Once he described himself with
these sentences; “I never said I was
the smartest. I said I was the greatest”. He
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