Grandparents - Unit 5 Review

C1 Advanced · Open Cloze · Ready for C1 Advanced 4th Edition, Macmillan Education

For questions 1–8, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.

Always (0) ___ bottomless well of affection, grandparents often play an incredibly important role in our lives. Mine would shower my sisters and me (1) ___ just with sweets but stories too – telling tales about the childhood misdemeanours of our parents, much (2) ___ our delight. Finally, when the last of (3) ___ died, we all felt rather lost – who would be the holder of family anecdotes and secrets now? People have relied heavily on grandparents in Britain (4) ___ the mid-18th century, when whole families moved into cities from the country in (5) ___ to seek employment as industry began to flourish. Grandmother took care of the children during the long hours when both parents were away from home. Nearly 200 years on, this trend continues (6) ___ the fact that more grandparents are working nowadays. According to government statistics, they are the main child care arrangement for 35% of families, (7) ___ certainly makes it difficult to imagine how we’d manage (8) ___ them.

Grandparents

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