Part 3: Questions 76 – 85. (2.0 points- 0.2/ each).

Read the text and think of the word which best fits each gap.

My mother and my father are very different people. Mum is always very calm; not exactly easy-going, because she (76) …………………..things very seriously sometimes, but she doesn’t get excited. When we (77) …………………..small she almost never shouted at us. When we (78) …………………..something wrong, she talked to us about it very firmly, but in a soft tone of (79) …………………... If we shouted and cried, she made us go and sit (80) …………………..ourselves in her sewing-room (81) …………………..we calmed down. So when the news came, she reacted in her usual way, quietly seeing what she could do to prepare (82) …………………..the changes that were coming. Dad, on the other (83) ………………….., shouted, kicked a chair, and went for along walk to try cool off. During the next few days he was cross with us, as nothing was our fault. All of our kids were worried (84) …………………..what was going to happen, and a (85) …………………..afraid, but we didn’t talk to our parents much. We were also were sad about having to leave all of our school friends.