Verb suffixes

/Adapted from “Grammar and Vocabulary for First Certificate”, Luke Prodromou/

3. Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets.

1. Schools should ______________ (emphasis) the importance of looking after the environment because of our ____________ (depend) on it.

2. Parliament will vote on plans to ____________ (tight) up the rules on animal welfare at the time of slaughter.

3. The company ____________ (special) in the design, manufacture and ____________ (install) of air pollution control equipment.

4. It is time for the media and the general public to ____________ (real) what the real reason for the decline in our songbird populations is.

5. The German Environment Minister intends to ____________ (wide) the cooperation in the areas of water, sewage and waste management, energy ____________ (efficient) and renewable energies.

4. Write an appropriate suffix to complete each adjective in the following sentences.

1. Recycling is a very attract____ idea and has been a practice already with many designers of today.

2. Environmentalists are anx___ about the pollution a new coal plant might generate.

3. One of the most effect___ ways to fight global warming is to go vegetarian.

4. The proposed fine is not high considering the ill-effects of noise pollution and practic___ problems faced in controlling it.

5. The type of industr___ waste produced is an important factor in determining the most effect___ disposal method.

6. Organic food is generally more expens___ than intensively-farmed food.

7. The community has an impress___ record of recycling waste materials.

8. Along with econom___ and politic___ problems, environment___ degradation and health worries caused by the Chernobyl disaster are considered reasons for the decline in the birth rate in Belarus.

9. The country is getting addition___ money from the World Bank to help it solve its current ecological problems.

10. CFCs can cause irrevers___ damage to the environment.

5. Fill in the spaces in the following text using a suitable form of the word given at the end of the lines.

THE CAR

/from “Skills for First Certificate. Use of English”, Malcolm Mann, Steve Taylore-Knowles/

Vocabulary 3 Word building: Prefixes

1. Write an appropriate negative prefix to complete each word in the following sentences.

1. The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency warned governors that the agency would soon ___approve some of their air pollution control plans.

2. The apparently ___logical passion to burn fossil fuels stems from three main factors: consumer demand, supplier economics and national interests.

3. Industry and environmental experts ___agree about what levels of pollutants are safe.

4. Using ethanol creates more air pollution and environmental damage than oil does. It is also increasing starvation all over the world. That is ___moral!

5. The Government’s plans for eco-towns are ___relevant to the environmental challenges facing Britain.

6. Al Gore says global-warming ___believers are acting like groups who once believed the earth is flat.

7. A new report has shown how climate change can ___stabilize developing nations.

8. ___planned growth is a major problem in the world’s largest cities.

2. Write an appropriate prefix to complete each word in the following sentences.

1. Funding lobbyists to ___inform the public and politicians about climate change is part of the strategy to spread doubt about the science of global warming.

2. While urban living conditions may bring improvements in terms of access to health care, education, sanitation and clean water, this potential is often not realised, especially for poorer new migrants, who may suffer from ___crowding, pollution and dangerous working conditions.

3. It is apparent that air pollution is a subject that arouses great emotion and concern for many different reasons, but it is equally apparent that air pollution is a greatly ___understood phenomenon of modern society.

4. The Healthy City Project is urging the City of Westmount to ___place all its street lights with high-efficiency, low-intensity lights, in order to help reduce light pollution.

5. Opinion polls usually ___estimate Americans' concern about the environment.

6. Wisconsin’s lakes are ___developed and, as a result, face severe water quality problems.

3. Fill in the spaces in the following text using a suitable form of the word given at the end of the lines.

CLIMATE CHANGES

/from “First Certificate. Use of English”, Judy Copage/

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