I need……help with my homework. Are you free?

Hundreds of people…….for the jobs.

When filling out the order form, please…….your address clearly to prevent delays.

The figures that accompany the financial statement should be……….to the spending category.

He has impressed his employers considerably and ….. he is soon to be promoted.

The child that we caught…….was made to stand in the corner of the classroom

My mother can’t ……….seeing me at home all day.

Jim always keeps her promise, so you can rely…..her.

I bought a camera last year but I never use it. I …… a record player instead.

A stepfamily, or blended family, is a ____(16)_________________ with at least one child from a _____(17)_______________ relationship who lives with them all the time or some of the time.

These families often have an image problem. In old fairy tales stepmothers are wicked and stepsisters are ________(18)_________. When you see a stepfamily in one of your favourite TV soap operas they usually have __________(19)________ with other family members. That is why the phrase “blended family” is often used instead of stepfamily.

Being part of a stepfamily can really be a challenge for children. An important factor is the way the birth parents ____(20)________ with the end of their relationship. They need to be careful not to talk too much about their ex-partner or his/her faults. Children sometimes also feel guilty ____(21)________ liking their stepparent too much, because they may think that they are betraying their birth parent.

Although, while it may be hard at first, ____(22)________ in a stepfamily can provide all members with a new life and a feeling that they have achieved something worthwhile.

Overpopulation, the situation of having large numbers of people with too few resources and too little space, is closely associated with poverty. It can result from high population density, or from low amounts resources, or from both. Excessively high population densities put stress on available resources. Only certain number of people can be supported on given area of land, and that number depends on how much food and other resources the land can provide. In countries where people live primarily by means of simple farming, gardening, herding, hunting, and gathering, even large areas of land can support only small numbers of people because these labor-intensive subsistence activities produce only small amounts of food.

In developed countries such as the United States, Japan, and the countries of Western Europe, overpopulation generally is not considered major cause of poverty. These countries produce large quantities of food through mechanized farming, which depends on commercial fertilizers, large-scale irrigation, and agricultural machinery. This form of production provides enough food to support the high densities of people in metropolitan areas.

A country’s level of poverty can depend greatly on its mix of population density and agricultural productivity. Bangladesh, for example, has one of the world’s highest population densities, with 1,147 persons per square km. large majority of the people of Bangladesh engage in low-productivity manual farming, which contributes to the country’s extremely high level of poverty. Some of the smaller countries in Western Europe, such as the Netherlands and Belgium, have high population densities as well. These countries practice mechanized farming and are involved in high - tech indutries, therefore, they have high standards of living.

At the other end of the spectrum, many countries in sub - Saharan Africa have population densities of less than 30 persons per sq km. Many people in these countries practice manual subsistence farming, these countries also have infertile land, and lack the economic resources and technology to boost productivity. As a consequence, these nations are very poor. The United States has both relatively low population density and high agricultural productivity; it is one of the world's weathiest nations.