According to the passage, the opening scene of the film is intended ______.

The phrase “jostling one another” in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to “______”.

The young farm boys went to the city because they were ______.

Rewrite the following sentences as mixed conditionals.

but we had to tell him because he was planning to go home for the weekend, so he (9)………..the whole thing!

The passage mainly discusses ______.

Public assistance has become more and more popular due to the ______.

Americans on low incomes can seek help from ______.

That Social Security payments will be a burden comes from the concern that ______.

Most of the public assistance programs ____ after the severe economic crisis.

New immigrants to the U.S. could seek help from ______.

The most suitable title for the passage could be ______.

According to the writer, people shoul____.

Match the if-clause on the left with the result-clause on the right to make meaningful sentences.