Варіант 14

I. Insert the necessary prepositions:

1. Officials said their aim was to blur public understanding ___ a time of rapid growth ___ the number ___ people living alone and single-parent families.

2. Female subjects tend to bond ___ discussing areas ___ divergent opinion, while male subjects tend to bond by discussing commonalities.

3. A person who leans toward unromantic type of relationship may look ___ a partner at work or where the person is spending time.

4. Respect the space ___ a young couple and the benefits will be enormous.

5. To publicize themselves interested females have to supply the web sites and agencies ____ all their contact and personal details.

6. Job loss, classroom failure, and divorce and other estrangements among family and friends are the results ___ our chronic miscommunication and misunderstanding.

7. Student achievement rates are a fairly reliable predictor ___ society’s future occupational and economic stability.

8. A role of a mother-in-law is loaded ____ pitfalls.

9. Interracial (and multi-cultural) couples try to find all types ___ information including marriage, parenting, career, religion, education, financial planning.

10. Three quarters ___ high school seniors cherish the goal ___ a strong, happy marriage and family.

ІІ. Insert the necessary active vocabulary items:

1. If interested men find any potential match, they will move forward with the introduction part by paying the company or website ___________.

2. In a situation where the prevailing style is a rapport-building exchange, such a man may fall silent throughout the conversation, while in a situation where he can hold forth on a pet topic to an audience the same man may only reluctantly________.

3. Researchers who study family relationships know that ___________ can be an accurate predictor of whether a marriage will succeed – or end in divorce.

4. Teens whose parents talk to their children and _______ for postponing sex are less likely to consider cohabitation before marriage.

5. Male subjects tend to bond by discussing areas of_______ opinion, while female subjects tend to bond by discussing commonalities.

6. The old mantras of ‘Did you do your homework? ’ from the years when parents had a supervisory role ­__________ to disappear.

7. _______________ refers to the sharing of thoughts, desires, and feelings with the other person.

8.Everyone is shaped by innumerable influences, such as ethnicity, religion, class, race, age, profession, the geographical regions they and their relatives have lived in, and many other group identities – all mingled with individual personality and________.

9. Those from families with higher incomes were less likely ______ cohabitation than those from families with lower incomes.

10. We receive communication through the filters of our own experiences and _______ ideas.

ІІІ. Match the following word from the left column and its meaning in the right column: