Read the article about an unusual family. Match sentences A-G with gaps 1-5 in the article. There are two sentences that you do not need.
A Alexis and Natalie would like to be teachers and Kelsey wants to be a beautician.
B At mealtimes, all the family eat together in their enormous kitchen.
C Their father says they can only have cars when they get a job.
D The couple are very proud of the septuplets because they are now eighteen years old.
E Each one is different, but they all have some things in common.
F Some of them have tablets and three of them have mobile phones.
G She has to do a lot of housework every day while her husband is at work. Look at exercise 4 again. Underline the words in the sentences that help you find the answers. Why are the answers correct?

The McCaughey family of Carlisle, Iowa, in the USA, is very special. Seven of Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey's eight children are septuplets - they were all born on the same day (1) ........... ' Alexis, Kelsey, Natalie, Brandon, Joel, Kenny Junior, Nathan and their older sister Mikayla Marie are all adults, but for now, they still live at home. For Bobbi, it isn't easy being a mother of eight (2) ........... Her children help by doing their own washing. Bobbi says that the family does the washing between fifteen and seventeen times a week. They have two washing machines to wash their clothes, two dishwashers to wash the dishes after meals and two microwaves to heat up food. The thing Bobbi finds most difficult is going to the supermarket. She has to buy a lot of food for the family and this gets very expensive. She also grows vegetables in the family's garden (3) ........... Bobbi does the cooking, but the children put the food on their plates. After dinner, they all help to load the dishwasher. While Bobbi is at home, the septuplets are in their final year at school (4) ...... All seven play a musical instrument, and they're all in the school band. They also enjoy sport. Five of them go running, one - Kelsey - plays football, and two of the boys like wrestling, which is a kind of fighting where two people try to throw each other onto the ground. As for school itself, the septuplets are very hard-working, and they want to go to university next year (5) ........... ' Kenny Junior and Joel aren't sure what to study, but Brandon wants to go into the army after university and Nathan wants to work in science. After an unusual start, the future of the McCaughey septuplets is looking good.

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