Cloze test 10

The first thing that is included in the "living together” (1) ________ is the expected good relations with your family. This also involves sharing equally the housework. (2) ________ of people think that everyone should share the housework equally, but in many homes, parents do most of it. To certain minds, many families can't share the housework whereas they should try it. In fact, sharing the housework equally is not very possible because of the families' timetables. So, it is somehow believed that children and parents must do things together. For this they can establish a housework planning.

• custom
• tradition
• notion

The first thing that is included in the "living together” (1) ________ is the expected good relations with your family. This also involves sharing equally the housework. (2) ________ of people think that everyone should share the housework equally, but in many homes, parents do most of it. To certain minds, many families can't share the housework whereas they should try it. In fact, sharing the housework equally is not very possible because of the families' timetables. So, it is somehow believed that children and parents must do things together. For this they can establish a housework planning.

• lots
• few
• little

(3) _________ , housework's contributions of the teenager make him more responsible. He will think that he has an important role in his family. According to researchers, teenagers should share the housework because (4) ________ will help them when they have to establish their own family in the future. Too many teenagers and young adults leave home without knowing how to cook or clean, but if parents delegate basic housework to teens as they are old enough to do it, they won't be destabilized by doing the housework in their new grown-up life.

• In addition
• However
• In contrast

(3) _________ , housework's contributions of the teenager make him more responsible. He will think that he has an important role in his family. According to researchers, teenagers should share the housework because (4) ________ will help them when they have to establish their own family in the future. Too many teenagers and young adults leave home without knowing how to cook or clean, but if parents delegate basic housework to teens as they are old enough to do it, they won't be destabilized by doing the housework in their new grown-up life.

• which
• what
• that

It can be (5) ________ concluded that many parents don't really prepare their children for the future, because they don't stimulate them to learn how to run a house. If parents get them responsible, teens will be more responsible and that will improve the family's life.

• likely
• probably
• possibly