Задание

Put the elements into the gaps

  • household name
  • unheard-of
  • envious of
  • devoted
  • noble
  • black sheep
  • extended
  • immediate

Bedlam

The word often used by us in everyday life has an unusual history. The word became a [ ] after the Royal Hospital, named after Bethlehem, became abbreviated as Bedlam. The hospital mainly kept patients with schizophrenia, dementia and other mental disorders. But according to rumours, [ ] things were happening in the hospital.

A relative could be sent here under the guise of a mentally ill person. Close people were sent to the hospital for various reasons. Some were [ ] their brothers or sisters, many sent their [ ] wives who bored them. There had been cases when [ ] ladies and gentlemen who became a [ ] of a family were admitted to the hospital. At first, their stay in the hospital began with three months, but "caring" relatives [ ] the treatment again and again and people lived there for the rest of their lives.

Of course, none of them was really sick.