Fill in the gaps using the correct form of the words in the box.

CONCERN, EXASPERATE, HAUNT, MAKE, PREPARE, RECALL, STRETCH, TAX, TELL, TORMENT, UNDERMINE           

1. Tony had anticipated that he might be ___________ by the challenge of dealing with rowdy children. (make use of all sb's intelligence)

2. He was not _______ for the task of coping with 'difficult' anxious parents. (ready)

3. The most _______ moments of his working life were to be spent dealing with 'worried mums'. (demanding)

4. He sighs as he _______ of the mother who insisted on driving behind her son's coach ... (talk)

5. He wearily _______ a school trip to the seaside. (remember)

6. Were these normally non-smoking cars, or would the children be _______ victims of passive smoking. (suffer from)

7. Adventure confined to their imagination and many of its education aims are _______ . (make sth gradually weaker)

8. _______ by 'problems - all in the minds of parents', Tony sought, and found, a career outside teaching. (annoy or irritate very much)

9. Of course, it is normal for parents to be _______ about the well-being of their children. (worried)

10. Our grandparents were _______ by many of the doubts, worries and preoccupations that _______ fathers and mothers today. (cannot forget it, make sb suffer very much)

KEY:

1. stretched, 2. prepared, 3. taxing, 4. tells, 5. recalls, 6. made 7. undermined, 8. exasperated, 9. concerned, 10. haunted, torments