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CELPIP Practice Reading: Reading for Information ID: #63087 Easy Terry Fox and the Marathon of Hope

Read the following passage.

A. Terry Fox was 18 years old and living in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, when doctors found osteogenic sarcoma, a form of cancer, just above his knee. His leg was amputated, and he went through 16 months of treatment. In the cancer wards he saw how much other patients suffered, and he came to a simple conclusion: more money was needed for cancer research. He decided to run across Canada to raise it and began training with an artificial leg. He called the run the Marathon of Hope.

B. The run began on April 12, 1980, when Fox dipped his artificial leg in the Atlantic Ocean at St. John's, Newfoundland. He ran close to 42 kilometres a day, about the length of a marathon. He usually started at 4:30 in the morning and often did not finish until 7 in the evening. His best friend, Doug, was his driver, and when they could not afford a place to stay, the two would sleep in the van. Fox stopped in more than 400 towns and cities to explain why he was running. The first weeks received little attention, and on some days no money was raised.

C. Fox entered Ontario on June 28, and the crowds grew. In Ottawa he met Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who had not been properly briefed and turned down Fox's invitation to run half a mile with him. In southern Ontario, donations on some days reached 20,000 dollars. As he approached Thunder Bay, however, he began coughing and felt pain in his chest. On September 1, after 143 days and 5,373 kilometres, he had to stop running. Doctors found that his cancer had returned and spread to his lungs.

D. While Fox was in hospital, a national television fundraiser raised more than 10 million dollars for cancer research. In September 1980 he was named a Companion of the Order of Canada, the country's top civilian honour, and he was the youngest person ever to receive it. He died on June 28, 1981, at the age of 22. By then he had raised more than 23 million dollars, reaching his goal of one dollar from every Canadian. The Terry Fox Run is now held every year, and the Terry Fox Foundation says it has raised more than one billion dollars for cancer research.

E. Not given in any of the above paragraphs.

Decide which paragraph, A to D, has the information given in each statement below. Select E if the information is not given in any of the paragraphs.

- 1.
A TV appeal for money held during his hospital stay brought in millions of dollars for research.

- 2.
His closest friend was the one behind the wheel of the vehicle that followed the run.

- 3.
A cancer charity arranged for him to meet the country's leader in Ottawa.

- 4.
His cancer came back, and he had to quit the run after almost five months.

- 5.
No one younger had ever received the nation's highest award for ordinary citizens.

- 6.
On most days he set off on the road very early in the morning.

- 7.
An annual run named after him has now raised over a billion dollars, his foundation reports.

- 8.
Doctors first found his cancer while he was still a teenager.

- 9.
Watching the pain of others in hospital convinced him that research into the disease needed more funding.

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