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2. Read the following text with the advice on how to maintain loving relations 
throughout years and use the words in brackets in their appropriate forms. Do 
the task following it
The Generous Marriage
From tribesmen to billionaire philanthropists, the social value of 
(1) …………….. (generous)
is already well known. But new research 
suggests it also matters much more intimately than we imagined, even 
down to our most personal relationships.
Researchers from the University of Virginia’s National Marriage 
Project recently studied the role of generosity in the marriages of 
2,870 men and women. Generosity was defined as “the virtue of giv-
ing good things to one’s spouse freely and 
(2) ………… (abundant)
” — 
like simply making them coffee in the morning — and researchers 
quizzed men and women on how often they behaved generously to-
ward their partners. How often did they express affection? How 
willing were they to forgive?
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The responses went right to the core of their 
(3) ……… (to unite)
. 
Men and women with the highest scores on the generosity scale were 
far more likely to report that they were “very happy” in their mar-
riages. The benefits of generosity were particularly pronounced among 
couples with children. Among the parents who posted above-average 
scores for 
(4) ………………. (to marry)
generosity, about 50 percent 
reported being “very happy” together. Among those with lower gen-
erosity scores, only about 14 percent claimed to be “very happy,” 
according to the latest “State of Our Unions” report from the Na-
tional Marriage Project.
While sexual intimacy, 
(5) ……………… (to commit)
and commu-
nication are important, the focus on generosity adds a new dimension to 
our understanding of marital success. Though this conclusion may seem 
fairly self-evident, it’s not always easy to be generous to a romantic part-
ner. The noted marriage researcher John Gottman has found that suc-
cessful couples say or do at least five positive things for each negative