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    Exercise "Cinema: The Straight Story", created by riverango (a free exercise to learn English):
    Results of the 1 556 people who have taken this test:
    Average mark: 43.5 / 100 Share


    Latest member with a 100/100 (perfect mark): ploplo / SWITZERLAND, on Tuesday 18 June - 20:03:
    "!! Thanks a lot for the exercise !!"


    They got a perfect mark


    Stats (1556 candidates)
    Question 1 passed: 74.2 %
    “The Straight Story” is a true-life story * on Alvin Straight's road journey from Laurens, Iowa, to Mount Zion, Wisconsin, USA.

    Question 2 passed: 39.5 %
    Alvin is *

    Question 3 passed: 64.1 %
    and he suffers from * hips,

    Question 4 passed: 64.8 %
    but he refuses to have an *.

    Question 5 passed: 21.5 %
    He lives with his * daughter, Rose,

    Question 6 passed: 36.8 %
    who makes small * bird houses.

    Question 7 passed: 39.5 %
    When he learns that his * brother Lyle, whom he hasn't seen in many years, has had a stroke he decides to visit him.

    Question 8 passed: 25.2 %
    Unable to drive a car, he goes on the road riding his lawn-mower and towing a * trailer.

    Question 9 passed: 48.1 %
    During his * journey he encounters many different people.

    Question 10 passed: 44.8 %
    One evening he shares his food with a * young woman who has run away from her family.

    Question 11 passed: 32.2 %
    On a different day he is cheered up by a * band of cyclists.

    Question 12 passed: 55.9 %
    One * night he had to find protection in an abandoned farmhouse.

    Question 13 passed: 56.7 %
    On another occasion he cooked and ate a deer accidentally * by a car.

    Question 14 passed: 17 %
    It even occurred to him to discuss philosophy with a priest and to sleep in a * cemetery.

    Question 15 passed: 40.1 %
    Along the way he encountered many * people and approached these experiences with caution and determination.

    Question 16 passed: 19 %
    Finally he arrived at his brother's * house.

    Question 17 passed: 32.6 %
    Lyle appeared, using a walking-frame, and as they sat together on the porch of the house, pride and relief on Alvin's face signaled the end of that * trip.


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