C1 Outcomes - Unit 12 - pages 106, 107

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broken home / coup / deprived / flee / orphaned / radical / saw active service

I was forced to .....................(leave) the country after the

.................... (takeover of the government).

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broken home / coup / deprived / flee / orphaned / radical / saw active service

She was involved in ...................... (fundamentally

extreme) politics, committed to change.

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broken home / coup / deprived / flee / orphaned / radical / saw active service

He came from a .....................(very poor) background, his overriding childhood memory being of constant hunger.

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broken home / coup / deprived / flee / orphaned / radical / saw active service

She was..................... (left without any living parents) when her parents died in a fire.

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broken home / coup / deprived / flee / orphaned / radical / saw active service

My grandfather ............ (was on military duty) during the Second World War.

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broken home / coup / deprived / flee / orphaned / radical / saw active service

They grew up in a ............ (family in which the parents were separated), their mother having left when the twins were six years old.

The whole visit___________far better than I’d dared to hope it would.

• passed off

• passed away

It_________ that his bark is much worse than his bite.

• starts off

• turns out

When he was thirteen, his dad ___________.

• passed away

• set away

He__________ selling ice creams ... and then moved on to selling textiles door-to-door.

• started off

• got ahead