Close-up C2 U 9 WB reading

a (a)   of passage is an event marking an important stage in someone's life

Graduating from university marks one's entering (a)   (ADULT)

Match the following

• debt

• utility

• the nest

• saddled with

• bills

• fly

• prices

• exorbitant

• fees

• tuition

to remain in the same place or position is to stay ...

• put

• set

• immobile

• in

if your expenses soar, they

• reach a great height

• are reduced in amount

• make you worried or unhappy

• join or combine with sth else

If a problem or responsibility weighs on you, it

• reaches a great height

• is reduced in amount

• makes you worried or unhappy

• joins or combines with sth else

make a dent in something means

• reach a great height

• to reduce it in amount

• sth makes you worried or unhappy

• sth joins or combines with sth else

coupled with means

• reach a great height

• to reduce it in amount

• sth makes you worried or unhappy

• sth joins or combines with sth else

I haven’t even made a ... in that huge stack of papers I have to read.

• dent

• friction

• spike

• debt

There's a lot of ......... between my wife and my mother.

• dent

• friction

• spike

• debt