• Intermediate
  • Listening

Family

  • Listening
Listen and answer the questions.
Choose the correct answer.
1) Sociologists suppose ...
  • Young generation don’t feel the responsibility for old people
  • In recent decades, many old people have been able to rely on their offspring for support
  • Before 1960s many children had been brought up by one parent
  • The family is a cell of society
2) According to the lecturer during the last we have seen a big change in traditional family structures.
  • fifty years
  • decade
  • century
  • fifteen years
3) In the early 1900s dwelling was ...
  • In short supply
  • Not a problem due to small population
  • Not in common
  • Increasing
4) In the 1900s people had to live with their parents because ...
  • They wanted to take over the property when their parents died
  • Housing scarce
  • They wanted to benefit from their family line
  • Not given
5) In the 1950s only of offspring were only children.
  • a third
  • a tenth
  • thirty per cent
  • a half
Listen and answer the questions.
Choose the correct answer.
1) The factors which are eroding Nuclear family structure are ...
  • Lone-parenting
  • Cohabitation
  • All answers are right
  • The rise of step-families
2) are becoming more and more common.
  • Step-families
  • Cohabitation
  • Lone parenting
  • All answers are right
3) Step-family is when ...
  • Not mentioned
  • One or both parents have a child from ex-partner
  • Partners have no children
  • A child has one parent
4) In the percentage of children with was just 4 percent.
  • 1918,only parent
  • 1980,step-families
  • 2008,only parent
  • 1918,step-families
5) Co-habitation is ...
  • A child has one parent
  • One or both parents have a child from ex-partner
  • Unmarried couple
  • When partners have no children
6) According to statistics ...
  • Probability of cohabiting couples separate is more than probability of their marriage
  • Cohabiting partners have one child
  • Cohabiting couples have no children
  • All answers are right
7) Lone-parenting is when ...
  • Child has one parent
  • All answers are wrong
  • Child has one step-parent at least
  • Child has no parent
8) In the past lone-parenthood was overwhelmingly the result of ...
  • Divorce
  • Death of a parent
  • All answers are right
  • Lack of understanding between parents
9) Single parents likely suffer from ...
  • Mental stress
  • Not mentioned
  • Loneliness
  • Poorness
10) How many people in Britain lived alone in 1990?
  • More than 4 million
  • 6 million
  • About 8 million
  • 1 million