Eindexamen engels vmbo bb 2004, tijdvak 1

How did a nice girl like this end up taking heroin? You’d never guess now, but Zoe Clarke, 16, spent two years addicted to heroin. It cost her £500 a day and nearly killed her. But somehow she found the strength to fight back. This is her story… getting ready to go out. We used to share clothes and make-up. We were ‘best friends’. It was with Katy that I first took heroin. 2 One day the two of us went to visit a boy I knew because I had been babysitting his little sister. He was older than us, in his 20s, and 7 he had some heroin with him. He offered Katy some and she said she’d take it if I did. I don’t know why I said I’d try. It sounds strange now, but it just seemed like something to do. 3 I took heroin the next day and the next. A week after I had first taken heroin I woke up sniffing, I was sweating, my legs hurt and I had cramps. I took heroin again and it took some of the pain away. I tried not taking any for a day, but I couldn’t stop myself. For the next two years my life was all about drugs. I had sores around my mouth and open wounds on my arms and legs, but still I didn’t stop. 4 After a year Mum found out that I was taking drugs. I’d had a ‘dirty hit’ – that is when some dirt gets into the injection, like dust for example. It can kill you. I lost consciousness and couldn’t move. Mum found me in my room. Luckily a friend of my mum’s, who is a little girl back. Today she’s clean and nurse, came and saved my life. Mum was ‘Cosmo GIRL’ noot 1 a rehab: a drug rehabilitation centre = afkickcentrum

1 Diane Rogerson, who uses her own home in Huntingdon to house Thumpers Rabbit Rescue , has a big problem to solve! She has to find homes for 117 guinea pigs 3) she rescued at the beginning of this month. 2 On July 8th Diane was sent to a house in Huntingdon where she thought 30 animals needed her help. “I just thought ‘oh my goodness!’ when I saw how many there were,” she said. “It took over two hours to catch them all. They were living in very dirty conditions and all of them were hungry and thirsty. 3 They had also never been kept apart, so all the females were pregnant as noot 3 guinea pigs = cavia’s

Sleepwalking almost killed me When Craig, 15, went to Spain, he didn’t think he’d be flying back on a stretcher… T 1 his summer I went to Costa del Sol in Spain with my family and my best mate, Lee. I was so excited - this was going to be the best holiday ever! We were staying on the things in Spanish, but I seventh floor of the hotel – couldn’t understand them. all in the same room. It was One of the doctors fetched a bit of a squeeze, but I someone who could speak didn’t care. We would only English who told me I was in be in the room to sleep. hospital and that I’d had a 2 On the first night, we bad accident – I’d broken my went out to dinner for my back! brother Jamie’s birthday. 4 Terrible thoughts came When we got back to the into my head. Would I be hotel I was very tired and fell paralysed for ever? The asleep straight away. English-speaking man told 3 The next thing I me that I had only broken a remember is waking up in a bone in my back and I would strange room. Doctors were still be able to walk. I told rushing around me, him the name of the hotel shouting. Where was I? and he went off to call my I couldn’t remember a thing parents. and I couldn’t move my legs. 5 I fell asleep and when I Suddenly I felt terrified. What woke up again Mum and Dad had happened to me? Two were by my bed. They told doctors started asking me me that a Spanish lady had ‘Sugar’