III. Read the test,and do the tasks that follow. The Gcorge Cross is the highest award for bravery that a civilian in the UK can receive. It's King Gcorge VI, who decided to create the award in 1940 Since then, fewer than 160 named abe received it, all of them for performing acts of exceptional heroism. The youngest recipient is her Bandord John received the award in 1952, at the age of 15 after he suffered dreadful injuries while rescuing members of his family from a horrific fire at their home in Nottinghamshire. The fire broke out in the early hours of the morning of 19 October, 1952, In the house at the fime Were John,his parents and his five younger brothers and sisters. When John and his father realised that something was wrong, they went downstairs to investigate They opened the living room door and were 'horrified to see the interior of the room suddenly burst into flames The heat was so intense that John and his father couldn "I get back upstairs to help the rest of the family. Instead.they climbed up the front of the house and managed to help John 's mother and three of the children out of the bedroom window and on a flat roof.They knew that two children remained inside the burning building. John and his father climbed inside. They could hear the distressed cries of the two remaining children. who were only 4 and 6 years old.coming from a back bedroom. The father covered himself with a blanket and made a heroic attempt to reach the children. But before he could get to them the blanket caught fire and the searing flames drove him back. Telling his father to wait outside at the back of the house, 15-year. old John then crawled through the flames and into the bedroom. Despite the agonizing burning sensation as the flames set fire to his shirt he carried on until he reached his two younger brothers. They were on the bed, terrified. John picked them up and dropped the younger of the two boys out of the window and into his father's arms.But the elder boy was "dazed that he ran back through the burning room. Johe knew that he could jump to safety, but he refused to leave without his brother. He chased the panic- stricken six-year-old through the flames and eventually managed to catch him and drop him down to their father At this time, John was almost "unconscious from the heat, the thick smoke and the pain.But somehow he managed to get the leg through the open window and fall to the ground below exhausted. An ambulance rushed all three boys to hospital. The two younger boys soon recovered, but John did not return bome until February of the following year, after "countless operations. While still in hospital, he received the George Cross for his outstanding bravery and the newspapers printed the gripping story of his heroism. Task 1. Choose the best answers.