Exercise
Choose a word or phrase from the definitions above and write it in the
correct gap below.
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If there is more than one possible answer, choose the best option
for the sentence.
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You might need to use the same word or phrase more than once
in some cases.
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You may need to adapt the form of the word to fit into the
sentence. For example, you might need to change a verb to third
person singular to ensure subject-verb agreement like bond-bonds.
1. I found Amsterdam to be very ……………-friendly, as there are
very few cars, and the bikes there are quite respectful of the
people walking around.
2. Water …………… cause major problems in
some areas of the
country.
3. Public ………………… in my home town is great. There are
buses every fifteen minutes and train lines every twenty minutes.
You can be anywhere in town within twenty minutes.
4. One third of the people in the city live in …………... They don’t
have electricity or running water.
5. More funding is required to boost the crumbling ……………of
the country's production plants.
*Notes:
Funding = Money
Required = Needed
Boost = Improve or revitalise
Crumbling = decaying or run-down
6. I have to ……………… for one hour every day to get to class!
7. The ……………. are quite run-down
in my neighbourhood, but
the council don’t have enough money to fix them.
8. Half of the city’s population live in …………………… housing.
The conditions are quite bad for these people, as most of them
don’t have running water.
9. I grew up on the ………………
of the city, but I moved closer to
the centre when I started working. The commute was just too
long to do every day!
10. The ………………. in urban areas has led
to an increase in
pollution and inadequate housing among other issues. This is
something that needs to be addressed sooner rather than later.
*Note: ‘sooner rather than later’ is an expression to emphasise that
something needs to be done now not in the future.
11. John Milton proposed a new system designed
to remove
…………… in health care but it was rejected by his own political
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