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Test your reading part 11

Tesf Your Reading la part of the popular Test Your series devised by Peter Watcyn-Jones. it features 60 motivating reading teats based on magazine articles, atones, newpaper stories, formal and informal letter, poems, jokes and much more. | 50 Comedy SECTION This is an extract from The Day an Alien Scored for Leyton Orient by Gavin Ray. V7 T 7 his friends call him XJ comes yvj from the most advanced civilization the universe has ever seen. But even they get problems. On this particular day his one-man spaceship developed the only problem he couldn t repair with his mind. He was three universes away from home too far away to call for help. He was near the planet Earth and he had to land. Now XJ7 was five metres tall bright green had six arms ten legs and a fully computerized brain. So he knew people would notice him. Therefore he had to take the identity of someone from the planet Earth then land and then get the computer parts. Even on Earth they had the parts he needed. His computerized mind checked the identity of every person on the planet in less than one nano-second. He took the identity of Jimmy Pearce a striker with the Third Division Football Team Leyton Orient. With one wave of one of his six arms XJ7 put the real Pearce to sleep in his flat. When Pearce woke up he would remember nothing. XJ7 looked down at himself. He looked like a human being in a red football shirt and white shorts. He had a number nine on his back. His computerized mind was giving him more and more information. This was an important game for Leyton Orient. If they won promotion from Division Three to Division Two was certain. He Jimmy Pearce wasn t a very good striker. Only two goals in twelve games so far this season. The last thing XJ7 did before landing his spaceship was to press a button to make himself a better footballer. A much better footballer . You re late Where on earth have you been The data came through into XJ7 s computer-mind. The man speaking to him was Dan Grimes the Chief Coach of Leyton Orient. He must reply. T am an alien from the planet Gorb said Jimmy Pearce. T need computer parts to return to my home planet. Dan Grimes s eyes opened wide. Pearce Have you gone mad XJ7 thought hard. He searched his .