What do you think are the main grounds for divorce? Infidelity? Money? Children? Boredom? Housework? Violence?
Look at the reports published in
The Telegraph and
The Daily Mail last week.
After reading, please complete the CLOZE. The full text can be found in the comments section.
Most divorces due to household chores (23rd November, 2012)
Most people believe that the biggest (1) ____ for divorce are either infidelity or arguments over money. However, a new report from British law firm Gateley suggests (2) ____. According to its analysis of 350 divorce cases, seven out of ten divorces occur because of disputes (3) ____ who does what household chores. Twenty per cent of divorces are due to unfaithfulness. Gateley says (4) ____ are the days when the wife did all the cooking and cleaning. Dual income marriages now mean (5) ____ responsibilities for vacuuming, doing the dishes and tidying. Gateley advised couples to discuss who does what before walking down the (6) ____. A spokeswoman said that, "going into a marriage blind could be a recipe for disaster".
Conversely, a study in Norway suggests that couples who share household chores are more (7) ____ to split up. Thomas Hansen, co-author of the report 'Equality in the Home,' said the divorce rate among couples who shared housework (8) ____ was 50 per cent higher than for those where women did all the work. Mr Hansen said that in Norway women did most of the housework in 70 per cent of marriages, and were "(9) ____ happy" to do so. An adverse side effect of marital (10) ____ is that many families are now "too poor to split up". The U.K. charity Relate said that in many (11) ____-income families, couples stay together because they can't afford to divorce. Relate says this results in a "(12) ____ " home environment.
Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.
| 1. | (a) | grounds | (b) | grounded | (c) | grounding | (d) | grind |
| 2. | (a) | wisely | (b) | other | (c) | otherwise | (d) | other than |
| 3. | (a) | round | (b) | due | (c) | over | (d) | because |
| 4. | (a) | vanish | (b) | history | (c) | finish | (d) | gone |
| 5. | (a) | split | (b) | splits | (c) | split up | (d) | split ends |
| 6. | (a) | gangway | (b) | aisle | (c) | corridor | (d) | path |
| 7. | (a) | likes | (b) | liking | (c) | liked | (d) | likely |
| 8. | (a) | equal | (b) | equally | (c) | equalise | (d) | equality |
| 9. | (a) | largest | (b) | large | (c) | largely | (d) | larger |
| 10. | (a) | harmony | (b) | discord | (c) | vocal chords | (d) | discern |
| 11. | (a) | mean | (b) | richer | (c) | top | (d) | middle |
| 12. | (a) | poison | (b) | toxic | (c) | vaccine | (d) | antidote |
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you think is the most amusing, or the most heartbreaking?
