For questions 1-6, choose the correct answer (1, 2, 3 or 4). t’s difficult not to suspect that Eram is just putting on a brave face. It’s hard to believe she’s truly satisfied with this way of life. Once a week, she travels to 25 London to pick up a cheque for £60 from a charity. “The cash goes nowhere,” she says. “Buying food at the airport is expensive. I don’t eat anything at breakfast 20 because, if I do, it makes me feel more hungry.“ Living in Heathrow isn’t easy for Eram. Besides being awakened by the jangle of coins as a passenger buys something from the machine, loud announcements and 30 bustling passengers, she has to engage in a full-time cat-and-mouse game with the police and security staff. It’s illegal to sleep at Heathrow unless you have a flight to catch, so along with the rest of Heathrow’s homeless population, Eram has to wash and change her clothes every morning in order to not stand out from the crowd and be detected. If she is, she faces a night 35 in the cold bus terminal or worse, being thrown out into the rain. “The builders who work overnight at the airport are very kind and don’t report the homeless to the authorities,” she says. “The cleaners turn a blind eye too.” Night workers aren’t the only ones trying to help this unusual group of people. Broadway, a homeless charity, visits the airport weekly to offer the 40 airport’s homeless temporary accommodation, help to get travel documents for migrant workers and attempts to reconnect people with their families. But, as a Broadway worker points out, “Homelessness is a way of life. It can be very difficult to convince people to receive help.” Like the passengers escaping to sunny holiday destinations, many of Heathrow’s homeless are 45 also in search of escape from debts, legal problems or family responsibilities. 4. What is meant by ‘just putting on a brave face’ in line 24? trying to make others feel sorry for you refusing to help yourself pretending to be happy making things sound worse

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For questions 1-6, choose the correct answer \(1, 2, 3 or 4\).

t’s difficult not to suspect that Eram is just putting on a brave face. It’s hard to believe she’s truly satisfied with this way of life. Once a week, she travels to 25 London to pick up a cheque for £60 from a charity. “The cash goes nowhere,” she says. “Buying food at the airport is expensive. I don’t eat anything at breakfast 20 because, if I do, it makes me feel more hungry.“ Living in Heathrow isn’t easy for Eram. Besides being awakened by the jangle of coins as a passenger buys something from the machine, loud announcements and 30 bustling passengers, she has to engage in a full-time cat-and-mouse game with the police and security staff. It’s illegal to sleep at Heathrow unless you have a flight to catch, so along with the rest of Heathrow’s homeless population, Eram has to wash and change her clothes every morning in order to not stand out from the crowd and be detected. If she is, she faces a night 35 in the cold bus terminal or worse, being thrown out into the rain. “The builders who work overnight at the airport are very kind and don’t report the homeless to the authorities,” she says. “The cleaners turn a blind eye too.”
Night workers aren’t the only ones trying to help this unusual group of people. Broadway, a homeless charity, visits the airport weekly to offer the 40 airport’s homeless temporary accommodation, help to get travel documents for migrant workers and attempts to reconnect people with their families. But, as a Broadway worker points out, “Homelessness is a way of life. It can be very difficult to convince people to receive help.” Like the passengers escaping to sunny holiday destinations, many of Heathrow’s homeless are 45 also in search of escape from debts, legal problems or family responsibilities.

4. What is meant by ‘just putting on a brave face’ in line 24?

trying to make others feel sorry for you
refusing to help yourself
pretending to be happy
making things sound worse

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