Do you think it was right to celebrate mardi gras so soon after hurricane katrina? Can you think of any times when it is better to give in than to carry on? Choose from the ideas below: a fight, a war, a sporting match, an exam, a job, a journey

He would retire if he ___ ( had) enough money.
If she ___ (t lost) her job, she would go abroad for a while.
If there were no computers, I ___ (would find) life very difficult.
I___ (would be) very glad if I saw her.
If I lived near the sea, I ___ (would swim) every day.
We ___ (would watch) this film if my father returned earlier.
If she knew English, she___ (would enter) this university.
If she ___ (were) an introvert, she would live alone.
If we got a telegram from him, we ___ (would not worry).
It would be funny if the grass ___ (were) pink.

1) The manager of the company said to him they would have to ask me a couple of questions.
2) The young man answered he was happy to answer my questions and asked if my parents had had some illnesses.
 4) I answered that my mother had been very unhealthy when she was a child, and she had had problems with her health all her life.
5) The manager asked if my father had been healthy.
6) I answered he had had heart problems.
7) The manager said quietly he was sorry to hear that.
8) He asked how old they had been when they died.
9) I answered they had been still very young and my mother had been thirty-five and my father had been forty.
10) He said he, couldn't give me some life insurance.
11) When the man was leaving the office, another manager came up to him and said I had to be so honest with people and added I had to use my imagination and make something up.