A Home for Every Dog

B2 First · Word Formation · Cambridge Ready original exercise

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).

REWARD

NERVE

QUALIFY

RELY

MAJOR

HAPPY

PAIN

ATTACH

Every year, thousands of dogs are (0) ___ abandoned by their owners. Animal shelters rely on volunteers to look after them until new owners can be found, and many volunteers describe the work as extremely (1) ___ . As well as walking the dogs and cleaning their cages, they spend time with the animals to make them less (2) ___ around people. No special (3) ___ are needed, but volunteers must be (4) ___ , as the dogs depend on a regular routine. Shelter managers say that the (5) ___ of their volunteers stay for years, and many come back every single weekend. For most of them, the (6) ___ of seeing a dog leave with a loving family makes all the hard work worthwhile. Saying goodbye can be (7) ___ , though, especially when a volunteer has developed a strong (8) ___ to a particular animal. 'You try not to have favourites,' admits one volunteer, 'but some dogs just steal your heart, and it's hard when they go.'

A Home for Every Dog

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