Complete each word beginning as shown, formed from one of the words or part words given. Do not use a word more than once. 7 Replace the words underlined in each sentence with one of the words given. 14 World Issues €) There is a steady «nun Of young people from villages to the cities. A) drift B) stampede C)current D) motion d) Many countries have sent medicines for .. f the latest fighting. injured 8) wounded C) victims p) culprits ¢) Inmany countries poor children face a grim... . for existence. A) struggle B) attempt c) effort D) toil . is still common in many countries, even though it is illegal. A) Enslavement B) Slavery c) Servility D) Slavering g) The government has decided to send more .. .. to Saharan countries. A) charity B)aid C)collections _) donations h) Some of the people had little to wear and were literally dressed in A) strips B) cloths ) rags D) patches i) Assoon as the supplies arrive, they will be .......- to the starving people A)dispersed _B)assigned c)deale D) distributed j) The books you see here are the .........« of four fully grown trees. A)equivalent 8) match C) parallel D) counterpart ——— ee [burdened estimated lying populated rated crowded joyed nourished privileged simplified a) Many countries with high birth rates are seriously over. b) The usefulness of traditional farming methods in poor countries should not be under. ©) When the United Nations relief supplies arrived, the people were over. d) The government has seriously under... the gravity of the situation in drought-stricken areas. e) Those who say that developing countries simply need more money have OE enens the problem. f) Most of the children in the camp were seriously unde, ) Most third world economies are already ove th foreign debt. h) Those of us who live in prosperous countries should try and help the Under. .n..mne peoples of the developing world. i) The refugee camps are now seriously over. and more blankets and food are needed. i) Sending aid to countries may help in the short term, but the under... causes of the problem must also be tackled. densely illiterate inadequate sparsely urban essential impoverished rural traditional wealthy a) Inmany countries, thereis adrift of population from country areas to the cities. b) Education is desperately needed in many countries where a high percentage of the population is unable to read and write. c) Remote villages usually lack basic services such as piped water and electricity. 219Advanced Language Practice 8 Match the words and phrases a) to j) with the explanations 1)to 19). 1 Choose the most suitable word for each space. d) When villages move to the city, they usually lose touch with their time: honoured ways of life. ©) Rich people often find it hard to understand how the poor become poor. £) The mountain region of the country is thinly populated. g) Many poor nations can no longer afford to run schools and hospitals. h) Poor immigrants often end up living in shanty towns in city areas i) In thickly populated areas, unemployment may be a cause of poverty: j) The diet of most children in this area is poor. a) recycling f) conservation b) acharity g) negotiation ¢) reforestation h) self-sufficiency d) organic i) asubsidy’ e) irrigation }) immunisation 1) the settling of a dispute through discussion 2) theability of a country or person to support themselves without outside help 3) ameans of protecting people against some diseases 4) food of this kind is grown without the use of chemical fertilisers 5) the collection of raw materials so that they can be used again 6) money used by a government to lower the prices of eg basic foods 7) asystem of distributing water to places which need it for agriculture 8) an organisation which collects money from the public and uses it to help people in need 9) an organised means of saving resources, buildings, or animal and plant life 10) a programme for planting trees to replace those which have been destroyed 15 Thinking and feeling Interpreting the feelings of other people is not always easy, as we all know, and wwe (1) ..ncnesas much on what they seem to be telling us, as on the (2)... words they say. Facial (3)... showing oUF (4) ene to something, and it may well be that we (5) express views that we are trying to hide. The art of being (6).. picking up these signals, realising what the other person is trying to say, and acting so that they are not embarrassed in any way, For example, we may understand that they are in fact (7) ..0..0nu toanswer Our question, and so we stop pressing them. Body movements in general may als0 (8) sm feelings, and interviewers often (9)... particular attention to the way acandidate fora job walks into the room and sits down, However, it is not difficult to present the right kind of (10) while what many employers want to know relates to the candidate’s character traits, and (11)... stability. This, raises the awkward question of whether job candidates should be asked to complete psychological tests, and the further problem of whether such tests ...and tone of voice are obvious ways of lies in 220