B)Complete the text with the words from the box. a)leaving b)from c)journey d)travel e)exciting f)restarted g)to h)up
i)continued j)hitch-hike
In August 1975, Michael Murphy left his home in Stevenage determined to 1)
_____ around the world by bicycle. Over the next two years, he was robbed by
Yugoslavian peasants, stoned by Afghani tribesmen, and nearly frozen 2) _____
death in Mongolian snowstorm. “Maybe I’m crazy,” he told a journalist 3)_____
his hospital bed in Shanghai, “but since I was a child, I have always wanted to see
the world. Of course, I could have travelled by plane but this seemed more
4)_____, I only hope I don’t have any more problems.” Murphy 5)_____ his
travels in China and arrived in South America exactly a year after 6)_____ Britain.
He stayed in Chile for a few weeks and 7)_____
cycling through Argentina, Brazil
and Central America. He reached America in time for Christmas. He celebrated the
New Year by cycling 8)_____ the east coast into Canada, before he finally
returned to London Heathrow Airport in April 1977. He travelled 25000 miles, and
all he had to do to finish his 9)_____ was ride the last forty miles home to
Stevenage… Unfortunately, his bicycle got crushed while it was unloaded from the
plane. Murphy, broke and broken, had to 10)_____ home in a car.
