WHAT WAS LIFE LIKE ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO

WHAT WAS LIFE LIKE ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO? A hundred years ago people all over the world lived very differently from how they live now. Let's look at some ways in which daily life has changed enormously since then. Washing: Ahundred years ago, washing clothes was much more (1)_____________and time-consuming because people didn't (2) _____________washing machines. In most parts of Britain, for example, there was no running water and people washed their clothes in huge (3)____________of boiling water. They often collected this water from a public tap in the village and then (4) ____________it on a wood fire in the kitchen. To wash all the family's clothes, they used about sixty buckets of water a week. Keeping clean was not a priority as it is now. And most people had a bath only once or twice a month, also using the tub in the kitchen. Keeping cool: Keeping cool was a priority, however - especially for people in hot countries. Nowadays, we have air conditioning to keep our houses cool but then, no modern air conditioning (5)_____________. In some places, like Spain and Turkey, people lived in houses which were partly caves: large holes cut in the rock in the (6)_____________of a mountain. The air in these 'caves-houses' was always cool and pleasant. (7)_____________houses often had high ceilings and large windows. And houses in the Middle East sometimes had 'wind towers' which helped to keep the air moving in the house. Entertainment: The most popular entertainment in the home nowadays (8)_____________TVs and computers. In Japan, for example, young people spend an average of two and a half hours watching TV or playing computer games every day. This is a dramatic (9)_____________from a hundred years ago. Then, Japanese young people often spent time doing origami (a special kind of art with paper) or practicing calligraphy (a special kind of artistic handwriting). It was also traditional for the whole family to get (10)_____________ every evening to talk and have tea. Sometimes these sessions included the children doing performances of music or drama for the other family members to enjoy. 1. A. difficult B. easy C. simple D. hard 2. A. cover B. do C. have D. make 3. A. pipes B. caves C. tools D. tubs 4. A. hot B. heated C. heating D. heat 5. A. turned B. appeared C. existed D. emitted 6. A. vacant B. side C. part D. position 7. A. Other B. Another C. Others D. Anothers 8. A. divides B. provides C. allows D. involves 9. A. unstable B. change C. advance D. resemble 10. A. each other B. individually C. together D. privately