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12. Decide whether the following statements are true or false
1. Gordon didn’t mind some leftovers being thrown away. 2. Lau-
ra didn’t want their son to ever get married. 3. Gordon accused 
Laura of being absolutely ignorant of housework. 4. Laura didn’t 
bother to cook a hot dinner and they often ate out. 5. Gordon though 
tired after work always praised Laura’s dinner. 6. Mrs. Johns admitted 
that quick temper ran in the Johns family. 7. Mrs. Sheffield claimed 
that both she and her husband were very strict with Laura and never 
petted her. 8. The two mothers were deliberately trying to set Laura 
and Gordon against each other. 9. Laura believed that the two moth-
ers tried to make trouble between her and Gordon. 10. Gordon felt 
hurt and humiliated and wasn’t inclined to make up.
13. Complete the following sentences
1. It makes me wild to think of ... 2. You attend to your ... 3. All you 
can think of is ... 4. You think that if you’d married Jack Davis or some 
other of those jokers ... 5. I’ll put him wise to ... 6. Did you expect to 

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go through life ... 7. Is there anything in the world so cruel as ... 8. Mar-
riage ought not to be performed before an altar, but... 9. I ought to 
have known that... 10. Every marriage ought to be preceded by ...
14. a) Match the words on the left with the words on the right
1 unforgivable 
a ignorance
2 to find 
b temper
3 to put smb 
c example
4 humiliating 
d sides
5 perpetual 
e family
6 absolute 
f quarrelling
7 refined 
g fault
8 quick 
h sin
9 to take 
i criticism
10 vigorous 
j wise
b) Wrtte 10 sentences incorporating these word combinations
15. Explain what is meant by:
1. His fuse also is rapidly shortening. 2. If you’d married Jack Da-
vis or some other of those jokers you’d never have had to see the inside 
of a kitchen. 3. He shall get married, just to be a humiliating example 
to his father. 4. The expectant mother-in-law! 5. Let’s see if you can 
ratify it from your extensive observation of life. 6. I ought to have 
known that oil and water won’t mix. 7. He wants to take out some 
more insurance... 8. It runs in the Johns family. 9. ...and was made so 
much of, it gave her wrong ideas. 10. I was always afraid she’d have a 
hard awakening when she married. 11. My husband was shortsighted, 
too. He had had to skimp... 12. It’s a kind of spiritual laxative. But 
they carry it too far. 13. Being a mother-in-law is almost as painful as 
being a mother.