Practice 1 (Vocabulary) SVIP

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________ is the process by which urban areas grow bigger as more and more people leave the countryside to live in towns and cities.

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Thanks to the development in technology, students have ________ to good resources.

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People often ________ to urban areas on a massive scale due to lack of resources in rural areas.

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Scientists are concerned about the constant risk of epidemic diseases resulting from poor ________.

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Thousands of migrants live in slums surrounded by ________, crime and drugs, and with no hope of getting a job.

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The talk was long and overloaded with useless information, so I ________.

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Labour shortages in rural areas are likely to result in a decrease in ________ and food production.

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Match to make compound adjectives.

Complete the sentences using the adjectives given.

1. Students can easily overload their memory with unnecessary information.

2. Caring for a disabled child is a , but ultimately rewarding, job.

3. It's not to heat the whole building if only three people are working here.

4. The hospital has some of the most equipment in the country.

5. His face makes him perhaps a decade older than he really is.

Complete the sentences using the adjectives given.

6. Rural people tend to follow practices like child marriage and gender discrimination.

7. The documentary about life in the slums was really and was followed by a lot of discussion about how to solve this problem.

8. The travel operator is trying to lose its cheap image and move with more exotic destinations.

9. The most demanding challenge will probably be to live in a world with a population.

10. Wood stoves are an alternative that can save you 50 percent compared to running an oil-fired central heating system.

Choose the word that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined one.

There is a heavy reliance on private transport that has led to the congestion of roads and increasing commuting time and pollution.

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Urbanisation brings with it several consequences - both adverse and beneficial.

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People in rural areas tend to be more conservative and follow old-fashioned practices like child marriage and gender discrimination.

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Commuting by car nowadays is much more time-consuming than it used to be.

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An upsurge in the cost of living in big cities has caused a lot of difficulties for low-income people.

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The huge new factory spurred economic growth in the entire region.