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L. Read the text and circle A, B, C or D that best fits each space to complete the text.
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A Lack Of Communication
Recent research has (1)
neighbors, and those who know each other (2)
garden fences and in the street was a common (3)
expert on local communities. Now, however, longer hours spent working at the office, together
with the Internet and satellite television, are eroding neighborhood (4)
neighborhoods once had strong kinship, but now prosperity buys privacy, said Chinn
that a third of people in Britain have not met their next-door
speak "Neighbors gossiping over
in the 1950s, says Dr Carl Chinn, an
Poor
Professor John Luke, a social scientist at Cambridge University, has analyzed a large
number of surveys. He found that in America and Britain the amount of time spent on social
activities is decreasing. A third of people said they never spoke to their neighbor at (5)
Andrew Mayer, 25, a strategy consultant, rents a large apartment in west London, with two flat
mates, who work in e-commerce. "We have a family of teachers upstairs and lawyers
below, but our only contact comes via letters (6) to the communal facilities or complaints
that we've not put out our bin bags properly", said Mayer.
The (7)
of communities can have serious effects. Concerned about the rise in
burglaries and acts of vandalism, the police have relaunched crime prevention schemes such
as Neighborhood Watch, (8) on people who live in the same area to keep an eye on
each other's houses and report anything they see which is unusual
1. A. exhibited
B. conducted
C. displayed
2. A. barely
B. roughly
C. nearly
D.
3. A. outlook
B. view
C. vision
4. A. ties
B. joints
5. A. least
6. A. concerning
7. A. breakout
8. A. asking
B. breakthrough
B. calling
B. once
B. regarding
C. strings
C. applying
D. shown
virtually
D. sight
D. laces
C. all
D. most
D. relating
C. breakdown
D. breakaway
C. inviting
D. trying
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