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Eight rules for walks in the country Posted by Tom Cox

1. “It’s quite an up and down kind of walk,” said my friend
2. Emma. “Oh,” added Emma, “and it gets a bit blowy up there,
3. so I’d leave your credit card back here if I were you.” I gave
4. her a searching look, wondering how a credit card might
5. relate to a strong wind. “I took mine up there the other week
6. and it blew out of my hand into the sea,” she clarifi ed. “I had
7. to order a new one.”
8. I fell in love with walking because it lifted my spirit
9. and took me to parts of my local area that I would never
10. have _________ otherwise, but also because there was
11. something brilliantly ridiculous about the idea of _________
12. yourself, on a whim, alone, in a bit of countryside you’d never
13. _________ before, with no real goal apart from putting one
14. foot in front of the other.
15. I’ve never really dressed in any walking-specifi c clothing
16. or taken any special supplies out with me, but I do think
17. there are a few things I’ve learned about “how to walk” in
18. gentle terrain that might help others. I have compiled some
19. of the main ones: always be assertive in saying “Hello!”
20. to fellow walkers, unless in a built-up area; learn to
21. fold your map properly; show strange dogs and cows
22. who is boss; don’t be afraid of dictaphones*; try not to
23. have a beard, but if you do have a beard, have a dog as
24. well; try to avoid headwear, unless strictly necessary;
25. choose an apt soundtrack for your walk; watch out for
26. fookwits and loonies!
27. This last one doesn’t apply specifi cally to country walks.
28. It’s just something that my dad tells me every time I see him,
29. and it’s worked fairly well as a general rule for life over the
30. years, so it probably works for walking as well. *voice recorders

Adapted from http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/sep/11/eight-rules-country-walks.

read paragraph 3 and select the correct words to complete the gaps. _________ you _________ in a built-up area, you _________ greet the fellow walkers. According to the idea in the text (lines 19-20), the correct words to fi ll in the gaps are, respectively,