A. BUT B. BESIDES C. AS LONG AS D. THEREFOREREAD THE FOLLOWING PASS...
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A. but
B. besides
C. as long as
D. therefore
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to
each of the questions.
Edward Patrick Eagan was born April 26, 1897, in Denver, Colorado, and his father died in
a railroad accident when Eagan was only a year old. He and his four brothers were raised by his
mother,
who
earned a small income from teaching foreign languages. Inspired by Frank
Merriwell, the hero of a series of popular novels for boys, Eagan pursued an education for
himself as well as an interest in boxing. He attended the University of Denver for a year before
serving in the U.S. Army as an artillery lieutenant during World War I. After the war, he
entered Yale University and, while studying there, won the U.S. national amateur heavyweight
boxing title. He graduated from Yale in 1921, attended Harvard Law School, and received a
Rhodes scholarship to the University of Oxford where he received his A.M. in 1928.
While studying at Oxford, Eagan became the first American to win the British amateur
boxing championship. Eagan won his first Olympic gold medal as a light heavyweight boxer at
the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium. Eagan also fought at the 1924 Olympics in
Paris as a heavyweight but failed to get a medal. Though he had taken up the sport just three
weeks before the competition, he managed to win a second gold medal as a member of the
fourman bobsled team at the 1932 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Thus, he became the
only athlete to win gold medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics. Eagan was a
member of the first group of athletes inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983.
Eagan became a respected attorney, serving as an assistant district attorney for southern New
York and as chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission (1945 - 51). He married
soap heiress Margaret Colgate and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel during World War II.
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