Cloze1 (welfare, dumb, typical, repeatedly, assure, know better than that,talent, interference, constant, dread, bet, frank) Our dad is _______(1) of the older generation. You can certainly say he gives our ________(2) his__________(3)attention. Sometimes, however, we wish he wouldn’t try quite so hard. To be_________(4), he seems to have a_________(5)for embarrassing us by making_________(6 remarks. He should __________(7) that, but he never seems to learn and just goes on making the same old mistakes _________(8). The result is that we live in constant ___________(9)of his well-intentioned __________(10)in our affairs. Mom is no help, as you can __________(11) she will always see things from his point of view rather than from ours. Overall, though, he’s a wonderful dad and I _________(12)you I wouldn’t trade him for anyone in the world.