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The Secret of A Long Life
Grygori Pilikian recently celebrated his 114th birthday and a reporter visited him in his mountain village in Georgia to find out the secret of a long life.
Reporter : What’s the secret of a long life?
Pilikian : The secret of a long life is happiness. If you …………...…… (be) happy,
you ………….………. (live) a long time.
Reporter : Are you married?”
Pilikian : Yes. I married my third wife when I was 102. If you …………… (be)
happily married, you …………… (live) for ever. But for my third wife, I ………………… (die) years ago.
Reporter : What about smoking and drinking?
Pilikian : Yes, they are important. Don’t smoke at all and you ……………… (feel) well. Drink two glasses of wine a day and you …………………. (be) healthy and happy.
Reporter : If you ……………….(can/live) your life again, what ………….. you ……………. (do)?
Pilikian : I ……………………… (do) what I have done. But if I ………………. (have) more sense, I ……………………. (eat) more yoghurt! Ha ha!
Reporter : supposing you …………………….. (can/change) one thing in your life, what ………………. you ………………… (change)?
Pilikian : Not much.
Reporter : So you don’t have any regrets?
Pilikian : Yes I have one regret. If I ………………………(know) I was going to live so long, I …………………………. (look after) myself better! J
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IITU Prep Programme March 2002
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