C1 – Lesson 52 – Expressions with Age – Test

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• I had a really happy ____. I remember fondly going on camping trips with my parents when I was around five or six.

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• It’s important to save up for your ____. When you retire it’s difficult to make ends meet on the state pension.

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• I ____ on a farm and learned how to care for the animals.

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• I was ____ by my grandparents as my parents had died when I was only 4 years old.

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• Samantha really ____ her father. They’re both very cheerful and easy-going.

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• I wonder what’s ____ Jennifer. Last I heard she was living in the Costa Del Sol, Spain.

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• The famous locomotive, the Flying Scotsman ran between London and Edinburgh. It was the ____ of steam.

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• My grandmother is really ____. She still does yoga and runs half marathons.

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• Do you really believe that? It’s nothing but _____.

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• I haven’t seen Jim in ____. It must be at least ten years. I wonder what he’s up to these days.