Aúmily targedy 2

TASK 1: Answer the questions by choosing the right answer:

1.    The Dionne sisters became so famous because they were the only quintuplets:

who had lived past infancy.

b)    who were not bom in a hospital.

c)    whose mother had already had children.

d)    who nearly died at birth.

2.    Why did the Ontario govemment take the girls away from their parents?

a)    They thought their parents would cause problems.

b)    They thought their father was exploiting them. ,

They responded to people’s reactions to the quints’ situation. d) They wanted to make money out of the girls.

3.    What happened when the girls were nine?

a)    Their mother had triplets.    *

b)    They gained morÄ™ control over their finances.

c)    They eamed $1 million dollars.

4.    How does Cecile feel about her parents?

a) She feeksorry for them both for having had such a large family.

She appreciates the difficulty of her mother’s situation.

c)    She wishes she had been able to talk to her father.

d)    She feels they were not properly portrayed in a book and TV programme.

5.    What is Cecile’s lasting impression of the quints’ early years at Quintland?

a)    The nurses were cruel to them.

b)    The other quints missed their parents.

People madÄ™ a lot of fuss about them.

d) They had very little privacy.

6.    Why was life morÄ™ difficult when the quints moved back to live with their family?

a) The family were divided over what to do with the quints’ eamings.

^ The other Dionne children felt ambivalent about them.

c)    The girls couldn’t spend as much time together as they had before.

d)    They madÄ™ the rest of the family miserable by quarrelling all the time.

7.    How does the writer of the article react to Cecile’s account of her childhood?

a) She is not convinced by it.

^ She accepts it as fact.

c)    She thinks Cecile is concealing the truth.

d)    She thinks Cecile is exaggerating.

TASK 2: Look at the context in which the words below occur in the text and match them to the explanations 1-10 which follow:

a)	Celebrated 3	i.	without doubt, clearly
b)	Outcry 8	2.	express approval or support
c)	Peered 40	3.	well-known, famous
d)	Sparked 9	4.	a smali uncertain sign
e)	Endorsed 2-	5.	refuse to let go
f)	Dwindled G	6.	become steadily fewer or smaller
g)	Decidedly 1	7.	distressing
h)	Glimmer	8.	a public expression of anger
i)	Harrowing >	9.	be the cause of
j)	Clung 5	10.	look very carefully or hard