Fill in the gaps with the correct form in brackets or with the correct form of the verb. (20p.) when harry’s school announced a trip to the foothills of (the / a / -) mount everest after his final exams, he was desperate to go. however, the cost was 1,650 pounds and harry’s parents told him it was (high /highly/ higher) unlikely that they could afford it. harry decide to earn the money himself and he (to begin) baking and selling cakes. “at the start, i underestimated how much work would be involved and i wish i (to know) then how many hours i had to work. yet, i do not regret (to spend) time on learning how to do business. i never used to be very enthusiastic about work but now i love it, and so far i (to earn) enough to go on the trip,” said harry. according to harry, working for himself has been (such / so/ a valuable experience. “some of my friends have decided to go to university, some are looking for jobs, and (another / others/ other) are doing unpaid internships,” he said. “at the moment, i (to plan ) to continue working for myself and hope to open my own shop next year. it is important to have goals and dreams, and (mine /my / myself) is to be a millionaire by the age of twenty-one.”

their machines work better than his machines. her holiday expenses are larger than my holiday expenses. the parking space in my region is more expensive than in his region.

financial problems in the family  the problem of finance in almost every family is a red stripe, no matter how high the total income of the family. how many would not have earned the family, the question always arises, what to spend money and how to divide them. therefore, with great confidence we can say that the financial problems of the family - this is the psychological problem of the relationship of the spouses.  usually the man earns more than women, and it is by its nature is the head of the family breadwinner, the provider. in a family where financial matters in charge of a man, woman and it approves, as a rule, fewer problems than in those families where the woman tries to take the initiative into their own hands and dictate their terms.  it is very common this problem: the woman, earning less (sometimes more), take your money personally its money that it spends only on himself, and the money her husband believes in common.  men, women see this attitude very often hide their true income to be able to independently manage their money and, just like women, spend it on themselves.  clearly, such decomposed are not the norm and lead to a large family problems. how to solve these problems?   the solution can be only one - arrangement. very often, problems arise when this arrangement is simply not present. one of the partners is itself one thing, believing that the financial issue should be solved in some particular way, the other says another.  there is no single right solution is unique distribution of funds in the family. must be all the money in general or each live on only what he earns - depends entirely on the personalities of the spouses, how they so agree.  wrong can be just the lack of understanding and following of this misunderstanding, mutual claims and determine the priority in household expenditure. as a rule, the problem is not how many family earns, and how it spends its money.