C1.3 Unit 5 Reading review

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peter driscoll was living the good life married to his secondary school sweetheart owner of a thriving manufacturing business a New York style loft in the heart of london and a 1967 shelby gt 500 the car of his dreams















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Peter Driscoll was living the good life—married to his secondary school sweetheart, owner of a thriving manufacturing business, a New York-style loft in the heart of London, and a 1967 Shelby GT 500, the car of his dreams.


















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the estate an 800 square foot bungalow nestled in the middle of an enormous sunflower field was filled with cobwebs unfamiliar bugs and a hole in the roof almost three feet long driscoll tapped into his manufacturing experience and called in the best materials he could get his hands on but he did the roof work on his own after all money doesnt grow on olive trees












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The estate, an 800-square foot bungalow nestled in the middle of an enormous sunflower field, was filled with cobwebs, unfamiliar bugs, and a hole in the roof, almost three feet long. Driscoll tapped into his manufacturing experience and called in the best materials he could get his hands on—but he did the roof work on his own. After all, money doesn’t grow on olive trees.

















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‘Jennifer was concerned I was going to make a bigger mess, but truthfully, it couldn’t get much more of a mess,’ he says. ‘Even though we made this decision together, I lived for the first two months in fear she’d ask for a divorce, pack up her things, and move back to England. I wouldn’t have blamed her!’ That fear—along with the cobwebs—is long gone. After the roof was fixed, the Driscolls made a list of other things they had to alter and tackled them one at a time. While they had made a decent profit on the sale of the business, neither of them was working, and soon, they were forced to renovate based on mutual priorities. New paint was followed up with a modest kitchen renovation that allowed Driscoll to use the fresh herbs growing outside his window to create what he dubs ‘culinary masterpieces.’ They discovered an appreciation for red wine, long meals, and lazy mornings at the market in search of fresh meats and vegetables.









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‘Jennifer was concerned I was going to make a bigger mess, but truthfully, it couldn’t get much more of a mess,’ he says. ‘Even though we made this decision together, I lived for the first two months in fear she’d ask for a divorce, pack up her things, and move back to England. I wouldn’t have blamed her!’

That fear—along with the cobwebs—is long gone. After the roof was fixed, the Driscolls made a list of other things they had to alter and tackled them one at a time. While they had made a decent profit on the sale of the business, neither of them was working, and soon, they were forced to renovate based on mutual priorities.

New paint was followed up with a modest kitchen renovation that allowed Driscoll to use the fresh herbs growing outside his window to create what he dubs ‘culinary masterpieces.’ They discovered an appreciation for red wine, long meals, and lazy mornings at the market in search of fresh meats and vegetables.









Add vocabulary to the right place:

settle down
chuckles
galore
transform
revolved around
take a hard look
meant
paints
accustomed to


‘Our whole life ____1_____ excess,’ he said in a telephone interview Friday. ‘Excessive spending, excessive partying, excessive pressure. We wanted to _____2_____ someday, and focus on the important things. We needed to  _____3______ at our marriage as well. When we did, we realized, that in order to save it, we had to make some changes. I had to make some changes.’

This___4___ selling the business and the fancy car, packing up, and moving into a far less glamorous home than they were _____5____—a run-down, rustic estate in Tuscany. Yes, a bit like in the Diane Lane movie, Under the Tuscan Sun.

‘My wife, Jennifer, loves that movie,’ Driscoll says, and___6_____. ‘But it ____7___ a much more idyllic lifestyle than what we found upon arrival. Italy is beautiful, of course, and the house has character ___8____. But to___9____ it into our dream home took considerable work—and we’re only half done.’







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‘Our whole life revolved around excess,’ he said in a telephone interview Friday. ‘Excessive spending, excessive partying, excessive pressure. We wanted to settle down someday, and focus on the important things. We needed to take a hard look at our marriage as well. When we did, we realized, that in order to save it, we had to make some changes. I had to make some changes.’

This meant selling the business and the fancy car, packing up, and moving into a far less glamorous home than they were accustomed to—a run-down, rustic estate in Tuscany. Yes, a bit like in the Diane Lane movie, Under the Tuscan Sun.

‘My wife, Jennifer, loves that movie,’ Driscoll says, and chuckles. ‘But it paints a much more idyllic lifestyle than what we found upon arrival. Italy is beautiful, of course, and the house has character galore. But to transform it into our dream home took considerable work—and we’re only half done.’