FAME AND FORTUNE

Multiple Choice Cloze

Read the text below and decide which answer best fits each space. There is an example at the beginning (0). Press "Check" to check your answers.

The story of a poor family that (0) became rich and famous overnight, illustrates the (1) of the press. The family lived in the small town of Aberdeen. As the parents had five children, life was a constant struggle against poverty. They were faced with even more economic problems because they were (2) their sixth child. That fact would have passed unnoticed but they (3) became the parents of quintuplets, four girls and a boy – an (4) which radically changed their lives. The day after the birth of the five children, a plane (5) in Aberdeen bringing sixty reporters and photographers. Newspapers and magazines offered the family huge sums for the exclusive rights to (6) stories and pictures. They received gifts not only from unknown people, but from baby food and soap (7) who wished to advertise their products. (8) the five babies were still in hospital, their parents were paying the price of fame. It would never again (9) possible for them to lead (10) lives, because they had become victims of commercialization.