Unit 5C – reading: A woman’s work is never done	

Comprehension exercise 3

1	Stated – lines 11/12 ‘this was decidedly out of character.’
2	Not stated.
3	Not stated.
4	Stated – lines 33/34 ‘And these days you are at pains to deny that you’re doing it…’
5	Stated – lines 39 – 43 ‘I remember being surprised when he requested…. ‘But why now?’ I wanted to know. ‘My cigarettes have never bothered you before…’
6	Not stated.
7	Stated – lines ‘…ex-wives are much slower to re-marry than husbands…’
8	Not stated.

Vocabulary: intensifying adverbs
1	mildly
2	rather
3	slightly
4	particularly
5	fairly
6	reasonably
7	completely
8	vaguely