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WF005 WORD FORMATION

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Use the word in brackets to create a new word that fits into the blank.

The Rise of Cars


Cars have given us freedom. We can go wherever we want to go, whenever (EVER) we want to
go. They have also brought us independence (DEPEND). We don’t have to make compromises or take
into
consideration (CONSIDER) where other people want to travel. Cars provide us with a personalised
transport solution (SOLVE) that’s always available. But they have also changed the world we
live in dramatically (DRAMATIC).

If you had to consider the impact of cars on your town, you would probably think of traffic jams and the
diffuculty (DIFFICULT) of getting around in the rush hour. Or maybe you would think about
pollution (POLLUTE) and how poisounus (POISON) fumes destroy buildings
and roads. But you might not think about any of these things at all.

People buy more and more cars while roads keep getting wider (WIDE) to cope with the
increasing (INCREASE) amount of traffic. Cars are everywhere. They invade formely
(FORMER) green spaces: lawns, flowerbeds or trees that used to line the roads. p a v e m e n t s (PAVE)
and streets become thin strips along the front of buildings, further narrowed by parked
(PARK) cars that invade the last remaining inches of pedestrian space.

We all enjoy the facilities that shopping malls and enterteiment (ENTERTAIN) complexes bring us,
because we can use our cars to get there. They are efficient, conveniet (CONVIENIENCE) and
fast. At the same time we are saddened (SAD) by the loss (LOSE) of our local
grocery stores, as well as beautiful houses and community centres. What we must realise is that these
changes go hand in hand, and we are to blame.

Preferring our fredoom (FREE) to sharing transport with others, we get into our cars to get to
our workplaces, do our shopping, or to go out to the theatre. Many people would even drive to go for a walk
in the fields. And wherever we drive, we have to park too. Parking spaces are huge areas of land used up by
empty cars waiting (WAIT) for hours for their passengers to return. What used to be a vast
grassy (GRASS) meadow now becomes a small muddy field, crisscrossed by tire tracks of
several vehicles. Cars are changing the landscape (SCAPE). It will never be like it used to be
again.
Put the correct form of the word in brackets into the blank .
1. The results were very strange! In fact, they were unbelivable ! (BELIEVE)
2. He has an unfortunate inability to understand people’s feelings (ABLE)
3. Due to the clerk’s stubbornness we missed the train (STUBBORN)
4. What we saw was beyond all expectation (EXPECT)
5. She is a student of the humanities (HUMAN)
6. The book contains some great illustration (ILLUSTRATE)
7. Please give us details of your present occupation (OCCUPY)
8. What is the length of the Danube River (LONG)
9. The mechanics of our agriculture is important if we want to produce more food
(MECHANIC)
10. Drug addiction is a problem causing great concern (ADDICT)
11. The presentation of the awards is scheduled for next Friday (PRESENT)
12. I have been sworn to secrecy so I can’t say a word (SECRET)
13. After losing her job she was unemployed for a month (EMPLOY)
14. Pushing into a queue is considered to be extremely impolite (POLITE)
15. The audience gave the violinist a round of applause (APPLAUD)
16. He isn’t happy with his job because he feels he is underpaid (PAY)
17. We have just been shown another example of senseless killing (SENSE)
18. My sister’s shyness makes hers social life difficult (SHY)
19. I’m not sure at all I really can’t say with certanty (CERTAIN)
20. My specality is the history of Elizabethan England (SPECIAL)
21. The police were told by their informant where to find the criminal (INFORM)
22. He received many medals for his acts of heroism during the war (HERO)
23. The expansion of the company is said to be dangerous to small firms (EXPAND)
24. For all of us, Marilyn Monroe was the epitome of beauty (PERSON)
25. I can guarantee the relialibity of our new product (RELY)

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