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Part 1: Read the text below and think of ONE word which best fits each gap. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
Always a sure source of affection, my grandparents (1) takes hugely important figures in
my life. They would shower my sisters and me with sweets, indulgences and stories, (2)
_tales about my parents as naughty children. When the last of (3)
wondered who would hold the family together.
died, we all
People have relied on grandparents in Britain since the industrial Revolution, (4) the whole
families moved into cities from the country to get work in the new factories, taking grandmother
along to look after the children. (5) By the fact that more grandmothers are working now,
grandparents are still the backbone of childcare in Britain. They provide 44% of full-time care for
pre-school children, which (6) made you wonder how the country would manage without them.
The traditional image of a grandparent is a smiling old person surrounded by a cohort of
happy children, but this doesn't match the facts. (7) What we have now is the so-called 'beanpole
family', thinly stretched over several generations, with fewer family members in each and with
growing (8) up of single-parent families. Grandparents are getting younger more than 50% of
grandparents have already had their first grandchild by the age 54.
For many of them, grandparenthood means juggling a job, involvement with grandchildren
and, sometimes, the care of their own parents. It is up to us to balance the demands we make on
them if we don't want to wear them (9) on. Grandparents are (10)
a valuable part of the
family that we just cannot do without them.
Dant 2. Road the follo
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