Complete the text with the verbs in the correct form. Quiet Revolution
When you …… (read) this article, somewhere in the United States two couples will get married and another two ……(get divorced). One of three American children now ……(live) with only one parent, and the United States ……(not/be) alone here: in Canada and France the divorce rate …… (double) in the last twenty-five years. Even in Japan, where the traditional family …… (be) still strong, divorce rate. …… (go) up by 15 per cent between 1985 and 2000.
What is more, the nature of the family ……(change). In Sweden and Denmark, around half of all babies now …… (be born) to unmarried parents, and in the United Kingdom and France more than a third. Although Ireland ……(be) strongly Catholic, quite a lot of Irish people now …… (have) children without getting married. Families ……. (get) smaller. The average Turkish family ……… (have) seven members in 1980; today it ……(have) only five. And in Spain and Italy, where families …… (be) always traditionally large, the birthrate was the lowest in the developed world in 1999.
This fall in the birthrate …… (be) due in part to the fact that more and more women prefer careers and are waiting longer and longer to start a family. The age at which the average woman. ……. (have ) her first baby is now 28 in Western Europe, and it …… (get) later.
I have a cat. His name is Boris. I like it very much, although it is a very impudent cat. He has white and red hair, a bushy tail and long whiskers. It is a young and active cat, like a ball. Boris always wants to eat! He loves fish and sour cream. I love to stroke him and Boris purrs content with pleasure.
38 Dan asked if my friend lived in London.
39 She asked if I liked Benny Hill.
40 He demanded to know why she wouldn’t let him in.
41 The teacher asked if we knew who had broken the window.
42 He told the boy to go on.
43 The doctor told Mary to sit down.
44 Denny’s father told him not to be late.
45 The officer ordered the soldiers not to shoot.
46 The receptionist asked us to leave the key on the desk.
47 She warned him not to go near the dog.
48 Julia apologized for being late.
49 She promised to phone every week.
50 Jack thanked us for our help.