Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

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6 practice makes perfect Advanced English Reading and Comprehension


Noun Adjective Verb Deinition


  1. environment X

  2. resource X

  3. commodity X X

  4. revenue X X


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EXERCISE

Using vocabulary Complete each of the following sentences with the appropriate
word(s) from the chart in Exercise 1-2. Be sure to use the correct form of each verb and
to pluralize nouns, if necessary.


  1. At irst, children from immigrant families ind it diicult to into their
    new school and to make friends.

  2. The tour company is to providing the best service to its customers now
    and in the future.

  3. When people are not used to a foreign currency, they always into their
    own and compare local prices with prices at home.

  4. The manager plans to the new regulations as soon as possible.

  5. The airplane has become the way for most people to travel to faraway
    places.

  6. Laws will not be very efective if the police do not them.

  7. At the Shangri-la Hotel, our staf will do its best to our guests’ special
    needs and requests.

  8. In order to save money, we have to our expenses and stop buying
    things we don’t really need.

  9. Energy use will have a negative on the environment if we don’t change
    our consumption patterns.

  10. The government a 25-percent increase in health care spending in the
    coming years.

  11. Shy people ind it diicult to a conversation with complete strangers.

  12. Programs to protect the environment both the local population and
    tourist businesses.

  13. Developing countries need economic so that they are not dependent
    on one source of.

  14. Cofee is an important export for many Latin American countries.

  15. Unrestricted exploitation of natural resources is not a practice.

  16. Water is a precious that most people take for granted.

  17. If the is destroyed or polluted, no tourists will want to visit the area.

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