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"When I was a child the rooms downstairs were locked. They had dusty windows behind steel bars so I couldn't see inside, and I wasn't really interested in what was there anyway. However, as I grew up, I became curious and asked my grandfather what exactly was hidden in those locked rooms. I found out that it had once been a shoe shop. It used to be run successfully by my great-grandmother. When she fell ill over 50 years ago, it closed. It never re-opened because everyone else in the family already had their own careers or had moved to other cities. Nobody was willing to manage the shop or to employ someone to do it," John explains.

Not long ago he got the keys from his grandfather and went to explore the shop on his own. "My grandfather said I could do whatever I wanted, even take all the shoes and just throw them away. Behind the steel bars and dusty shop windows I found over a thousand boxes of shoes. While most of the leather shoes looked and felt like new and were comfortable to wear, all shoes with rubber soles, including sports shoes such as trainers, were so stiff that they couldn't even be bent. The heat and dry air had probably damaged them."

Unfortunately, at the moment, for health and safety reasons, John does not plan on opening the old shop to the public. He says that the family are discussing what to do with their huge piece of fashion history. So far, they have sold about fifty pairs of shoes to a company which rents out theatre costumes.

6.1. The shoe shop was located in a building which

A. houses a museum nowadays.

B. is also John's grandparents' home.

C. fell into ruin between 1940 and 1960.

D. was found by John thanks to the Internet.

6.2. The shoe shop had to be closed because its owner

A. had health problems.

B. moved to another place.

C. had gone bankrupt.

D. chose a different type of career.

6.3. When John became an adult, his grandfather

A. showed him around the old shoe shop.

B. ordered him to get rid of the shoes from the shop.

C. decided to sell the shoe collection.

D. allowed him to look around the shoe shop.

6.4. Which is TRUE about the shoes in the shop?

A. Most of the trainers are in perfect condition.

B. Hot, dry air kept all of them in good condition.

C. The majority of the leather shoes are in poor condition.

D. Their condition depends on the material used to make them.

6.5. The author of this text

A. tells the story of an unusual discovery.

B. describes a recently opened shoe shop.

C. talks about the history of footwear.

D. presents a plan to open a museum.