Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

34 practice makes perfect Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

9. The university is carrying out a systematic study to establish facts in the ield of genetics.


10. The appearance of ghosts is one rare occurrence that science cannot rationally explain.

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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. The student’s claim that he failed his course because the teacher didn’t like him is not
   .
   a. validity
   b. valid
   c. validate


2. Every religion has a diferent of what happens to a person after he dies.
   a. conception
   b. conceptual
   c. conceive


3. As the result of a motorcycle accident, the young driver sufered brain
   damage.
   a. irreversibility
   b. irreversible


4. Every day, airplanes passengers and cargo from continent to continent.
   a. transportation
   b. transported
   c. transport


5. The of a credible theory depends on solid evidence.
   a. establishment
   b. established
   c. establish


6. After we found that someone had broken into our car, we reported the
   to the police.
   a. incident
   b. incidental


7. Computer technology is constantly.
   a. evolution
   b. evolved
   c. evolving


8. A person is considered clinically dead when all brain function.
   a. cessation
   b. ceaseless
   c. ceases