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READING TASK TYPE 5 VOCABULARY

The document consists of a vocabulary exercise that includes matching words with their definitions and completing sentences with the correct verb forms. It covers various terms related to health, development, and agriculture. The task is designed to enhance vocabulary understanding and usage.

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READING TASK TYPE 5 VOCABULARY

The document consists of a vocabulary exercise that includes matching words with their definitions and completing sentences with the correct verb forms. It covers various terms related to health, development, and agriculture. The task is designed to enhance vocabulary understanding and usage.

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READING TASK TYPE 5 -VOCABULARY

A. Match the words/phrases with their definitions

prevailing (adj.) robust (adj.) vegetation (n.) staple (n.) penetrate (v.)
primitive (adj.) thrive (v.) eradicate (v.) curator (n.) cultivate (v.)
commission (v.) treatise (n.) outcry (n.) hostile (adj.) benign (adj.)
alleviate (v.) starvation (n.) forefront (n.) analogous (adj.)

1. strong and healthy: _____________________


2. of or typical of an early stage of development; not advanced or complicated in structure:
_____________________
3. (relating to) conditions that are difficult to live in, or that make it difficult to achieve something:
_____________________
4. not likely to be harmful: _____________________
5. existing and accepted: _____________________
6. the most important or leading position: _____________________
7. having similar features to another thing and therefore able to be compared with it:
_____________________
8. basic food that is needed and used all the time:_____________________
9. to make something bad such as pain or problems less severe :_____________________
10. a formal piece of writing that considers and examines a particular subject:_____________________
11. to formally ask someone to write an official report, produce a work of art for you etc.
:_____________________
12. to enter something and pass or spread through it :_____________________
13. to plant and take care of a particular crop:_____________________
14. to grow, develop, or be successful :_____________________
15. a strong expression of anger and disapproval about something :_____________________
16. the state of having no food for a long period, often causing death :_____________________
17. a person who organizes and arranges a showing of art or other objects of interest:_______________
18. plants in general, or plants that are found in a particular area :_____________________
19. to get rid of something completely or destroy something bad :_____________________
B. Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs in the list

penetrate thrive eradicate cultivate commission alleviate

suspect chirp incorporate capture halt permit

1. Suggestions from the survey have been________________________________ into/in the final design.
2. The disease that once claimed millions of lives has now been _______________________________.
3. I felt proud and honoured when they _______________________________me to write a series of articles
on language.
4. Production has _______________________________ at all of the company's factories because of the pay
dispute.
5. In a normal winter, the frost ______________________________ deeply enough to kill off insect eggs in
the soil.
6. The next time you hear a bird ______________________________outside your window, you might think
twice about what’s going on inside his little birdbrain.
7. Gradually it was found more profitable to ______________________________ vines and olives rather
than grain.
8. This strain of wheat can ______________________________ with less than four hours of sun and survive
in most garden soils.
9. Many conditions associated with old age can be treated and ______________________________ , if not
cured.
10. The law ______________________________ foreign investors to own up to 25% of British companies.
11. I don't really know how she got the job, but I ______________________________ her mother's got
contacts.
12. The American drive to land a man on the Moon ______________________________ the attention of the
whole world.

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