6 practice makes perfect Advanced English Reading and Comprehension
Noun Adjective Verb Deinition
- environment X
- resource X
- commodity X X
- 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.
- At irst, children from immigrant families ind it diicult to into their
new school and to make friends. - The tour company is to providing the best service to its customers now
and in the future. - When people are not used to a foreign currency, they always into their
own and compare local prices with prices at home. - The manager plans to the new regulations as soon as possible.
- The airplane has become the way for most people to travel to faraway
places. - Laws will not be very efective if the police do not them.
- At the Shangri-la Hotel, our staf will do its best to our guests’ special
needs and requests. - In order to save money, we have to our expenses and stop buying
things we don’t really need. - Energy use will have a negative on the environment if we don’t change
our consumption patterns. - The government a 25-percent increase in health care spending in the
coming years. - Shy people ind it diicult to a conversation with complete strangers.
- Programs to protect the environment both the local population and
tourist businesses. - Developing countries need economic so that they are not dependent
on one source of. - Cofee is an important export for many Latin American countries.
- Unrestricted exploitation of natural resources is not a practice.
- Water is a precious that most people take for granted.
- If the is destroyed or polluted, no tourists will want to visit the area.