Sweatshops - Review 5

C2 Proficiency · Open Cloze · Close-up C2, National Geographic Learning

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

Poor working conditions, long hours and low wages are (9) ___ millions of children endure in unregulated garment factories. Known as sweatshops, these facilities are common in developing countries (10) ___ labour laws are often not enforced. A factory can be (11) ___ more than a room with ten or so sewing machines. The children, most of (12) ___ do not attend school, undertake a number of sewing tasks such as stitching labels into clothes. They scrape a living in order to support (13) ___ and their families. Working six or sometimes seven days a week from sunrise to sunset, they sleep, eat and shower at the factory which, (14) ___ essence, is their home. The practice amounts (15) ___ child exploitation and denies them any hope of a brighter future since it is done at the (16) ___ of their education. But until there is an end to the grinding poverty that exists in some countries, child labour in sweatshops is likely to continue.

Sweatshops

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