Sorry – the easiest word? Exercise

 


1. [Match]

Can you recreate the main points of the reading passage by joining the two halves?

Answers for Quiz [1].

  • 1. made an official apology recently for the way Canada had treated Chinese immigrants. (correct)
  • 2. to pay a special tax which made it difficult for their families to join them. (correct)
  • 3. have faced discrimination in Canada in the past. (correct)
  • 4. but were refused the right to do so. (correct)
  • 5. Caribbean suffered injustices. (correct)
  • 6. Jews were not allowed to settle, or even to enter the country. (correct)
  • 7. their internment during the first world war. (correct)
  • 8. who are similarly seeking redress. (correct)
  • 9. because they suffered from leprosy. (correct)
  • 10. internship in the early 1940s during the second world war. (correct)
  • 11. to support this. (correct)
  • 12. to keep apologising for past history. (correct)
  • 13. with Pierre Trudeau’s view of these matters. (correct)
  • 14. have often faced considerable discrimination at the hands of Canadians. (correct)
  • 15. from the liberal party to the conservative party. (correct)