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Colloquial Italian
The complete course for beginners

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Then and now

Here is a short piece contrasting life at the end of the Second World War with life today.  In the gaps insert either the word più or the word meno, to complete the picture of then and now.

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Oggi la vita è molto migliorata.  C'è _____ fame,

 

_______ benessere,


 

______ libertà,

 

_______ diritti,

 

______ malattie,

 

_______ divertimenti,

 

________ sacrifici.

 

Ma forse la gente è _____ felice ed è certo che il sistema politico non è migliorato come il modo di vivere.

This short passage is derived from what Lietta Tornabuoni says in the Reading passage L'Italia 1945 - 95 in Unit 13, p. 198. However, you will probably know the answers from your general knowledge and have only to think about the choice between più and meno, more and less.

 

 

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