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CHECK YOUR VOCABULARY FOR NATURAL
ENGLISH COLLOCATIONS
41. AGRICULTURE
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A. Which of these is not a natural
collocation?
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1
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organic/ dairy/ agricultural/ arable
farm
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2
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farm produce/ animals/
crop/ worker
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3
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cereal/ potato/ record/ sheep crop
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4
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grape/
bumper/ good/ full harvest
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5
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growing/ fertile/ barren/ rich soil
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B. Choose the most natural-sounding word or
phrase.
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6
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______________ the seeds in April, in rows at least 15 cm apart.
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a
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Drop
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b
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Sow
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c
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Grow
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7
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He’s
worked ______________ a farm all his life.
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a
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in
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b
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at
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c
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on
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8
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The land
has been ______________, with heavy use of fertilisers.
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a
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grown heavily
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b
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intensively farmed
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c
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cropped extensively
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9
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Increasingly,
consumers are choosing to buy ______________ instead of factory-farmed
animals.
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a
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open air poultry
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b
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free range chickens
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c
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farmyard chickens
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10
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My
Harcourt has been ______________ pigs for many years.
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a
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growing
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b
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harvesting
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c
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breeding
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11
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The
famine was caused by ______________ across the region, due to the low
rainfall.
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a
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harvest loss
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b
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growth damage
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c
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crop failure
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______________
fruit and vegetables can be sold for higher prices than those produced
using chemical fertilisers and pesticides.
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a
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Biology farmed
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b
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Organically grown
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c
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Green grown
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C. Choose the right word to complete these
expressions.
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harvest
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horses
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fields
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corn
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cows
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13
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harvest the __________________
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14
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plough the __________________
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15
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stable
the __________________
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16
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milk the __________________
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17
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bring in
the __________________
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