People and Relationships

Choose the most suitable word for each space

Got to know let him down grew up went out together

Fell out turned him down moved in with got on well with kept in touch with ran away from

Replace the words underlined with one of the phrases given. Do not use any phrase more than once.

Abandoned criticized neglected quarreled separated adopted humiliated offended retired scolded

Complete each sentence with one of the words given.

Choose the most suitable word underlined.

Let me introduce you to my betrothed/ engaged/ fiancée. We’re getting married next month.

Jim is just a/an acquaintance/ colleague/ figure I met on holiday.

The playground was full of infants/ juveniles/toddlers running about and falling over.

As I am officially a/an alien/ outsider/ stranger I have to register with the police.

Local people are campaigning for better facilities for the aged/ ancient/ elder.

Our ancestors/ descendants/ predecessors are all buried in the local churchyard.

Peter is 50 and unmarried and his friends call him “an eligible bachelor/ independent/ single ”.

The bridegroom was handed the ring by the assistant groom/ best man/ godfather.

When I was a bloke/ chap/ lad I used to walk ten miles to school.

We call her ‘Auntie Flo”, though she is not really any family/ relation/ relative to us.

Keith’s parents ___________him badly when he was a baby.

The small child was being __________by its mother for getting dirty.

Tom deeply _________ Ann by ignoring her at the party.

David is not my real father, I was __________ by him when I was small.

Ian and Fiona are _________ and they may get divorced.

I ________with my boyfriend but we made it up in the end.

Jack _______ on his 65^th birthday and received his pension.

My parents ___________me for having a ring in my nose.

Julie’s mother _________her when she was few months old and she grew up in an orphanage.

My boss utterly _______me in front of important clients so I resigned.

When Brian asked her to marry him, Ann said no.

I communicated regularly with most of my old friends.

Ann spent her childhood years in London.

David and Jean dated for three months before they got engaged.

Kate quarreled with her boyfriend and they stopped seeing each other.

Helen had a good relationship with her in-laws.

Harry left home without his parents’ permission.

Sophia promised to meet Michael after work but disappointed him.

After a few weeks I went to live in the house of some friends.

I grew friendly with Pam when we worked together.

If cartoons are anything to go by, then the attitude of the British towards the family, and of British men towards the (1) _____ sex, has not changed much recently, despite (2) ____ to shame people into admitting their prejudices. The mother-in-law, frequently of horrific (3) ____, and usually either about to visit, or being somehow driven from the house, is still a favourite butt of this kind of (4) _____. Marriage itself has been reduced to the skinny male, dominated by a massive female who habitually lies in (5) _____ with the rolling pin behind the door for the return of her drunken (6) _____. Children are rarely shown other than as screaming infants, or else as ill-favoured urchins who (7) _____all their time being objectionable or asking for money. The old are simply (8) ______ as comic characters. The problem is, how do such cartoons relate to the way people truly see each other? Does a joke always (9) _____ some grain of the truth, however much we may dislike to admit it? (10) ______ other words, is life really a series of mother-in-law jokes? Or do jokes have a life of their own, with a (11) ______ of stereotypes we can recognize, (12) _____ the Englishman with his umbrella and bowler hat, or the Frenchman with his striped jumper and beret? According to this (13) ____ of thinking, we laugh at the stereotype, although we know really that it does not represent real life. Personally, I feel that many of these xartoon prejudices have outlived their usefulness, if they ever had (14) _____. They may give us a chance to laugh at situations we know we should not be laughing at, but it seems more (15) _____ that they strengthen our prejudices.

1. a) other b) problematic c) opposite d) taboo

2. a) attempts b) trying c) of d) often

3. a) sight b) view c) appearance d) dress

4. a) person b) type c) category d) humour

5. a) bed b) wait c) the way d) the end

6. a) spouse b) opposite c) colleague d) groom

7. a) waste b) spend c) take d) pass

8. a) seen b) such c) enough d) notorious

9. a) suppose b) achieve c) imply d) contain

10. a) with b) as c) from d) in

11. a) one b) set c) life d) base

12. a) as b) example c) like d) take

13. a) way b) in spite c) any d) been

15. a) so b) interesting c) over d) likely

14) Correct the sentences:

The whole country is in morning after the President’s death.

I’d like my dust scattered at sea.

My extinct grandfather was a shepherd all his life.

I’m afraid her elderly godmother has just passed off.

My car is on its last leg.

My grandfather inherited me his gold watch in his will.

Mrs. Wilson seems to have been at death’s window for years.

Over two thousand people were perished in the earthquake.

It was amazing there was no fatality when the bridge collapsed.

My uncle left me a request of five hundred pounds in his will.

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