Cover of the textbook Solutions Pre-Intermediate - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Exam Skills Trainer 2 for the textbook Solutions Pre-Intermediate - Workbook with authors Tim Falla and Paul A. Davies from Oxford University Press

Question

Read the Strategy. Then read the text below. The two sentences in bold are both in the wrong place. Where should they be?

Answer

I was born in Nottinghamshire and was the third of five sons. My father was not a rich man, but he was able to send me to Cambridge University, where I studied for three years. When I left college, I continued my studies and became a doctor. But I always wanted to travel, and so I made several voyages as a ship’s doctor. When I married my wife Mary, however, I planned to stay at home for a while. But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients. I decided to go to sea again, and this time I joined a ship sailing to the islands in the South Pacific Ocean. We started our journey from Bristol on may 4th, 1699.