CAMBRIDGE
ENGLISH VOCABULARY IN USE ADVANCED
UNIT 28
Describing the world
A
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Climate
1
the amount of rain that falls, for example in a month or in a year
2
dry
3
tending to have a particular negative characteristic
4
long period without rain
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B
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Vegetation
1 area in the north with no trees and permanently frozen
ground
2 plant life
3 trees that are evergreen [in leaf all year round]
and produce cones, unlike deciduous trees, which lose their leaves in
winter
4 flat grasslands in Canada and northern USA (similar to
steppes in Asia or pampas in South America)
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C
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Agriculture
1 fields planted with rice growing in water
2 type of grass cultivated to produce a grain, e.g. a food
plant like rice, wheat or maize
3 take care of
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D
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Industry
1
with a modern, industrial economy
2
producing goods in large numbers
3
in an important position
4
produces/creates
5
describes a country that is poor and does not have a modern, industrial
economy
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E
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Population
1
are related to someone who lived in the past
2
existing naturally in that place
3
relatives from earlier times: we are our ancestors’ descendants
4
people who move to live in another country or another part of their own
country (often for reasons of economic need; an emigrant is someone
who leaves a country, an immigrant is someone who moves to live in a
country)
5
made their homes
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EXERCISES
28.1
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Match
the two parts of the collocations from the opposite page. Note the words are
not all in bold.
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28.2
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Here
are some other words which collocate with the words in the right-hand column
in the exercise above. There are three for each of the five words. Can you
match them?
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28.3
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Complete
the sentences using a word from the box. There may be more than one possible
answer.
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28.4
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Rewrite
the underlined words using words and expressions from the opposite page.
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28.5
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Over
to you
If
your country is not one of the ones on the opposite page, write a short
paragraph about it in the same style, or else choose another country and do
the same.
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ANSWER KEY
28.1
1 c 2 e 3 d 4 b 5 a
Less strong but also possible is coniferous plantation. Note that some other matches could be made although they do not appear in the text. However, paddy cannot collocate with anything else and it is not possible to talk about ‘crop fields’.
28.2
Suggested answers:
plantation: tea, coffee, rubber industry: manufacturing, pharmaceutical, textile forest: deciduous, rain, dense field: oil, wheat, magnetic nation: developing, independent, sovereign Note that oil, cotton and rubber could also collocate with ‘industry’.
28.3
1 ancestors
2 emigrants 3 immigrants/migrants 4 migrants/immigrants 5 descendants
28.4
1 Recently, the country’s economy has
suffered a decline in manufacturing industry.
2 The university has long been at the forefront of agricultural science. 3 The river delta is prone to catastrophic flooding on a regular basis. 4 One can often see local shepherds tending large flocks of sheep on the hillsides. 5 In the late 18th century, migrants settled in the uncultivated lands towards the north of the country. 6 In the arid southern provinces, vegetation is sparse. 7 In the cold northern regions, the landscape consists mostly of tundra. 8 The indigenous tribes in the eastern jungles are now facing threats to their way of life. 9 The farmlands are dotted with deciduous woods, while the large evergreen forests provide the country with much-needed timber. 10 The prairies of the northern USA experienced a severe drought last year. |
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