Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

20 practice makes perfect Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

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EXERCISE

Using vocabulary, part 2 For each of the following sentences, choose the correct

form of the academic word to ill in the blank.

1. It is against the law to against people on the basis of their skin color,
   race, religion, sex, age, or sexual orientation.
   a. discrimination
   b. discriminatory
   c. discriminate


2. Olympic athletes are not allowed to compete if they have been taking
   performance- drugs or substances.
   a. enhancement
   b. enhancing
   c. enhance


3. Your of this poem is quite diferent from the way that I understand it.
   a. interpretation
   b. interpretative
   c. interpret


4. The pharmaceutical company is hoping to come up with a drug for the
   treatment of breast cancer.
   a. revolution
   b. revolutionary
   c. revolutionize


5. The recipe the ingredients and the exact amount that you are to use.
   a. speciication
   b. speciic
   c. speciies


6. Mendel’s experiments were a that changed the course of science.
   a. revelation
   b. revealing
   c. reveal


7. Many signiicant medical beneits have from the research project.
   a. emergence
   b. emergent
   c. emerged


8. The research project was able to go ahead due to a generous of
   funding from the government.
   a. allocation
   b. allocated
   c. allocate