B1 English test 9 – Text with multiple-choice gaps

Gillian and Lily are twins 1 whowhichthey are being raised separately by two sets of parents in Canada.

Mike and Lynette Shaw and Allyson and Kirk MacLeod 2 were adoptedhave adoptedadopted their daughters from China in 2000, via an agency. Before 3 adoptadoptingto adopt the girls, the two couples had met and exchanged email addresses at a meeting that 4 had organisedorganisedhad been organised by the agency. When the couples were assigned babies, they sent photographs of the children to 5 themselvesanothereach other. They were immediately shocked. The girls were identical!

The two families contacted the adoption agency. They were worried that someone had made a mistake, and one baby had been promised to two different families. If, in fact, they were two different babies, 6 wouldcouldshould they be twins?

The Chinese orphanage soon confirmed that the photos showed two different babies. They insisted that the girls 7 aren’tweren’twouldn’t be twins. They said that the girls 8 would behave beenhad been brought to the orphanage from different locations on separate days. They said that if the couples 9 wouldn'tdidn'twon’t adopt the girls, the agency would give them to 10 anotherotherothers parents. So both couples decided to continue with the adoption.

However, when the parents went to China 11 to collectfor collectingfor collect their new children, it was clear that the babies were twin sisters. A DNA test later confirmed this. Before they left China, the couples agreed to raise the girls as sisters, 12 despitehowevereven though they lived 400 miles apart, so they kept in touch

Today, the families meet up on special occasions. The girls are very similar, 13 althoughdespitehowever their different upbringings. They look alike, have the same habits, and according to their parents, both were aggressive as children. They talk to each other almost every day and have a very special connection, although they can't see each other as often as they'd like.

In 2012, Lily said of her situation: “I don’t love it, I don’t hate it 14 neithertooeither. But if we 15 livedwould livelive closer, we could have sleepovers.”