1. Read the text about Hetty Robinson, and fill in the gaps with the missing connectors:

1. So
2. While
3. Although
4. Because
5. When
6. However

Hetty Robinson learnt all about money when she was very young. As a child, she read the financial pages of the newspapers to her rich father. Her father died when Hetty was 30 years old and she inherited $ 1 million. (1) ___________ she herself died in 1916, she left a fortune of almost $100 million to her two sons.

Hetty made her money on the New York stock exchange. She was a financial genius. She made money so easily that people called her the Witch of Wall Street. But (2) _____________ she was one of the richest women in the world she was very mean. She didn’t own a house, because she didn’t want to pay property taxes. So she and her children lived in cheap hotels. Other people had their own offices, but Hetty used a desk in the bank where she kept her money (3) ___________ it didn’t cost anything. She sat in the bank and ate her sandwiches (4) __________ she was buying and selling stocks and shares. If the bank complained, she just moved her money to another bank.

Hetty´s family paid the price for her meanness. When she was 33 she married a millionaire, Edward Green, and they had two children. (5) ____________, Green lost all his money and Hetty left him. When her son Ned injured his knee, Hetty didn’t want to pay for a doctor, (6) __________ she took him to a hospital for poor people. Unfortunately the doctor knew that Hetty was rich and he asked for money. Hetty refused to pay and took the boy away. His leg didn’t get better and two years later doctors amputated it.

At the age of 81 Hetty had an argument with a shop assistant about the price of a bottle of milk. She became so angry that she had a heart attack and died. Ned inherited half his mother’s fortune, and spent it all on parties, holidays and expensive jewellery.