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Listening Week-9 [POLYGAMY]

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  POLYGAMY

The government in Kenya has (1) ____________ on a new law on marriage. It has made many female politicians very angry. The Marriage Bill (2) ____________ men to have as many wives as they want. Men will soon be able to marry other women without even (3) ____________ their wife. There was a big argument between the male and female politicians. Many female lawmakers (4) ____________ out of the debate in anger. The law was going to make it (5) ____________ to have more than one wife, but male lawmakers changed their (6) ____________. One male politician said the law was fair to women. He said that for the first time, women who get (7) ____________ would have 30 per cent of the family house and other things of value (8) ____________ to the couple


Kenyan politician Samuel Chepkong'a said the new law (9) ____________ keeps alive Kenya's (10) ____________. He told reporters: "When you marry an African woman, she must know the second one is on the way, and a third wife. This is Africa." Kenya's Nation newspaper said the law did not show Kenya as a (11) ____________ country. It wrote: "This is a [backwards] move that is simply taking us (12) ____________ into the Dark Ages, at a time when we should be (13) ____________ family values." Female politician Sopian Tuya said the law was (14) ____________ to the first wife because the second wife would take all the money. She also warned men about marrying in (15) ____________, saying: "We know that men are afraid of women's (16) ____________ more than anything else."

GUEST THE ANSWERS

1) The government in Kenya has ______ law

a. agrees on a new

b. agreeing on a new

c. agreed on a new

d. a greed on a new

2) Men will soon be able to marry other women without even ______

a. telling their wife

b. talking their wife

c. tailing their wife

d. taking their wife

3) Many female lawmakers walked out of the ______

a. debate on anger

b. debate in angry

c. debate in anger

d. debate on angry

4) …but male lawmakers changed ______

a. their minder

b. their minds

c. their minded

d. their mind

5) the family house and other things of value ______

a. belonging to the couplet

b. belonging to the couple

c. belonging to the couples

d. belonging to the couple of

6) …the new law simply keeps alive ______

a. Kenya's traditional

b. Kenya's tradition

c. Kenya's traditions

d. Kenya's traditionally

7) Kenya's Nation newspaper said the law did not show Kenya as ______

a. a modern country

b. a modernist country

c. amid and country

d. ammo darn country

8) at a time when we should be strengthening ______

a. family valued

b. family value

c. family valuations

d. family values

9) Female politician Sopian Tuya said the law was unfair ______

a. of the first wife

b. to the first wife

c. for the first wife

d. at the first wife

10) We know that men are afraid of ______

a. women's tongs

b. women's tongues

c. women's tans

d. women's tunes

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