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1 A

1. There's something wrong with our Internet connection; I can't _______________ my e-mail account.     access    :-)

2. Karen _______________ the failure of her marriage to her husband's inability to accept her change from a mother to a businesswoman.     attributed    :-)

3. The airline has more than 100 _______________ flights a day.     domestic    :-)

4. The students were well-prepared for the exam, _______________ their high scores.     hence    :-)

5. Children need something to _______________ their time; otherwise, they get bored.     occupy    :-)

6. The Russian president flew to Washington this morning to _______________ with the American president on the crisis developing in the Middle East.     confer    :-)

7. Doctors and lawyers are high _______________ jobs in our society.     status    :-)

8. One of the goals of the United Nations is to _______________ respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.     promote    :-)

9. Most teenagers go through a _______________ in which they argue a lot with their parents.     phase    :-)

10. The driver of the car suffered minor _______________ injuries from his seatbelt, but was otherwise okay.     internal    :-)

1B

1. The sculpture was originally thought to be a work of Michelangelo, but is now _______________ to a student of the master.     attributed    :-)

2. Electrical burns often look minor on the outside, but electricity can cause serious _______________ damage.     internal    :-)

3. The island nation of Malta has no _______________ energy sources.     domestic    :-)

4. Seventy percent of our Earth's surface is _______________ by oceans.     occupied    :-)

5. I'll need to _______________ with my supervisor before I can allow that.     confer    :-)

6. Wine will spoil if exposed to light; _______________, wine bottles are usually green or yellow.     hence    :-)

7. Desmond Morris once remarked that a true bond of friendship is usually only possible between people of roughly equal _______________.     status    :-)

8. More than one billion people on our planet lack _______________ to safe drinking water.     access    :-)

9. A complete cycle of the _______________ of the moon takes 29.53 days.     phases    :-)

10. My father was recently _______________ to the position of manager.     promoted    :-)

1C

AWL Sublist 4 - Exercise 1c

Matching exercise

1. We are now entering the final _______________ of our 10-year commercial project.     phase    :-)

2. Thousands of deaths each year are _______________ to drunk drivers.     attributable    :-)

3. The weather station is _______________ during the winter time, due to the extreme weather conditions.     inaccessible    :-)

4. The patient is bleeding _______________, and needs to be operated on immediately.     internally    :-)

5. In Indonesia, you can pat the shoulder of a close friend to express approval, but not someone older than you, or of higher _______________.     status    :-)

6. Prime Minister Lachance has _______________ with President Harrison, and both agree that immediate action must be taken.     conferred    :-)

7. In the Marxist view, we must eat in order to survive; _______________, the first activity of our species must be economic.     hence    :-)

8. The sole _______________ of the car that crashed was uninjured in the accident.     occupant    :-)

9. The president is quite popular _______________, but is not very well liked abroad.     domestically    :-)

10. He turned down the _______________ offered by his boss because he didn't want the added responsibility.     promotion    :-)

2A

1. The students told the teacher that they felt they didn't have _______________ time to finish the test.     adequate    :-)

2. The American _______________ War between the North and South cost thousands and thousands of young men their lives.     civil    :-)

3. Their _______________ was proven to be true in a number of experiments.     hypothesis    :-)

4. It's very difficult to _______________ the weather in Victoria.     predict    :-)

5. Our teacher _______________ the importance of learning vocabulary from context, rather than simply memorizing a definition.     stressed    :-)

6. Muhammad _______________ as a prophet to his people around 610 A.D.     emerged    :-)

7. Firefighters are _______________ a mysterious fire which broke out at a local high school overnight.     investigating    :-)

8. Harriet's friendly manner _______________ somewhat with her quick temper.     contrasts    :-)

9. You should look at all your different _______________ before you make a decision.     options    :-)

10. Millions of people in the Soviet Union died or disappeared during the _______________ of Joseph Stalin.     regime    :-)

2B

1. The scientific method is the main tool used by psychologists for _______________ both the mind and behaviour.     investigating    :-)

2. Martin Luther King, Jr. devoted his life to fighting for the _______________ rights of black Americans.     civil    :-)

3. In December 1978, a large Vietnamese army swept into Cambodia, and overthrew the _______________ of Pol Pot.     regime    :-)

4. You have a number of payment _______________, including credit cards, Interac, personal cheques or cash in all major currencies.     options    :-)

5. My mom is under a lot of _______________ at work right now, so she gets angry for no reason.     stress    :-)

6. The politicians statements before the election _______________ greatly with his actions once he was in power.     contrasted    :-)

7. Athens _______________ as the political and cultural centre of Greece following the defeat of the Persians around 480 B.C.     emerged    :-)

8. Because of the traffic jam, it's hard to _______________ how long it will take to get to the airport.     predict    :-)

9. About a quarter of the population of India is too poor to be able to afford an _______________ diet.     adequate    :-)

10. A number of different _______________ have been put forward to explain the rise in global temperatures.     hypotheses    :-)

2C

1. In my linguistics class, we did a _______________ analysis of the vowel sounds of Japanese and Spanish.     contrastive    :-)

2. A Chinese proverb tells us that respect for one's parents is the highest duty of _______________ life.     civil    :-)

3. Huang and van Naerssen have found that reading outside class is the most significant _______________ of speaking ability in a second language.     predictor    :-)

4. Galileo _______________ that the world is round.     hypothesized    :-)

5. The _______________ of the digital camera has completely changed the nature of popular photography.     emergence    :-)

6. She wasn't _______________ prepared for the test, and got a terrible mark as a result.     adequately    :-)

7. A firefighter's job is very _______________ because he never knows when he is going to be needed, and when he is needed, the work is usually very dangerous.     stressful    :-)

8. The final section in the homework is _______________; I will mark it, but it doesn't count for anything.     optional    :-)

9. He follows a fitness _______________ which has him running at least 5 kilometres a day.     regime    :-)

10. The _______________ into the robbery led to the arrest of two local teenagers.     investigation    :-)

3A

1. The children wrote each other short messages in a secret _______________ they had made.     code    :-)

2. You should check your homework before handing it in so that you can find your own _______________.     errors    :-)

3. In order to _______________ this conflict, we need to sit down face to face, and examine the issues together.     resolve    :-)

4. We have decided to _______________ the committee's suggestions in full.     implement    :-)

5. The addition of three new machines has increased our _______________ by over 50%.     output    :-)

6. This year, the _______________ convention is being held in Mazatlan, but next year it will be in Cancun.     annual    :-)

7. Death is simply a part of the _______________ of life.     cycle    :-)

8. Sophie did quite poorly on her first two math tests, but on _______________ exams she averaged between 90 and 100%.     subsequent    :-)

9. He has applied for a _______________ at a department store.     job    :-)

10. The _______________ crop grown in Colombia is coffee.     principal    :-)

3B

1. Writing _______________ for a software program is an endless, boring task.     code    :-)

2. While rock-climbing, you need to remain very focused so that you don't make any dangerous _______________.     errors    :-)

3. If the sun's energy _______________ were decreased by 10%, the entire Earth would be covered in ice over a kilometre thick.     output    :-)

4. The _______________ reason why she quit her job was because she didn't feel she had any future there.     principal    :-)

5. They have _______________ a new procedure to make registration at the university easier and quicker.     implemented    :-)

6. The area which includes the Amazon River has the highest _______________ rainfall in the world.     annual    :-)

7. In today's _______________ market, being able to speak another language is a useful skill.     job    :-)

8. Ecuador and Peru's border war, which began in 1995, was _______________ in 1999.     resolved    :-)

9. The supervisor has announced that our first staff meeting will last for two hours, and _______________ meetings for only one hour.     subsequent    :-)

10. Many festivals in Madagascar are connected with the natural _______________ of the year, such as the harvest.     cycle    :-)

3C

AWL Sublist 4 - Exercise 3c

Matching exercise

1. The information _______________ on DNA must be preserved for the survival of an organism.     coded    :-)

2. Harvey is overweight _______________ because he doesn't ever do any exercise.     principally    :-)

3. The remark was _______________ attributed to the president, but it was actually the minister of defence who made the comment.     erroneously    :-)

4. Experts say that as many as 4.6 million people living in Ethiopia need food assistance _______________.     annually    :-)

5. Jim Fox once remarked, "Find a _______________ you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life."     job    :-)

6. The manufacturing _______________ of the tiny nation of Andorra consists mainly of cigarettes, cigars, and furniture.     output    :-)

7. The union and management have agreed on most issues, but the question of contracting out remains _______________.     unresolved    :-)

8. While we sleep, we experience repeated _______________ of brain activity.     cycles    :-)

9. Independent for more than 300 years, Iceland was _______________ governed by Norway and Denmark until 1944.     subsequently    :-)

10. Since the _______________ of the NAFTA agreement in 1994, Mexico's trade with Canada and the U.S. has tripled.     implementation    :-)

6A

1. The transportation system of Vancouver _______________ gas-powered buses, electric buses, sea buses, and light rapid-transit trains.     integrates    :-)

2. Can you please turn your music down, I'm trying to _______________ on my homework.     concentrate    :-)

3. The _______________ thing to do if you're feeling sick is to go to bed.     obvious    :-)

4. There is an interesting _______________ which observes that 75% of the time someone is speaking English in the world, it is with a non-native speaker.     statistic    :-)

5. The university has received a _______________ of over a million dollars for research into tropical diseases.     grant    :-)

6. A thorough knowledge of the Christian religion is an essential _______________ for understanding much of the history of European art.     parameter    :-)

7. We'd better check the _______________ of the room again before we start cutting this new carpet.     dimensions    :-)

8. The Great Wall of China is the largest construction project ever _______________ by man.     undertaken    :-)

9. A local development _______________ in the area has resulted in the construction of a small school and health clinic.     project    :-)

10. Along with a positive _______________ and a healthy diet, your fitness level plays a major role in how you feel.     attitude    :-)

6B

1. It's _______________ that Roger is unhappy about something. He's been walking around looking depressed all day.     obvious    :-)

2. After analyzing the available data, we decided to modify the original _______________ of the spreadsheet to accommodate more information.     parameters    :-)

3. Canada's population is _______________ to rise to 35 million over the next couple of years.     projected    :-)

4. Norbert Schmitt observes that second language learners need to _______________ their efforts on learning the most useful words in the language.      concentrate    :-)

5. The United States _______________ the Philippines complete independence in 1946.     granted    :-)

6. In general, immigrants work very hard to _______________ themselves into the society of their new homeland.     integrate    :-)

7. She _______________ to improve her chances of promotion by taking some night courses in personnel management.     undertook    :-)

8. Despite the public's fears, _______________ show that the crime rate has actually dropped over the last 20 years.     statistics    :-)

9. Computer chat rooms have added a whole new _______________ to the dating process.     dimension    :-)

10. Many psychologists believe that we form our _______________ and opinions of ourselves in part by observing our own behaviour.     attitudes    :-)

6C

AWL Sublist 4 - Exercise 6c

Matching exercise

1. The Serengeti National Park has among the greatest _______________ of wildlife on the African continent.     concentrations    :-)

2. In February of 1996, Princess Diana of Wales announced that she would _______________ Prince Charles a divorce.     grant    :-)

3. A Dutch proverb notes that he who _______________ many things at once seldom does anything well.     undertakes    :-)

4. The _______________ of the oil find are even greater than originally predicted.     dimensions    :-)

5. _______________, travelling by air is the safest means of transportation.     statistically    :-)

6. She really changed her _______________ once she understood how the others felt.     attitude    :-)

7. The head office is responsible for defining the _______________ which guide policy decisions at the local level.     parameters    :-)

8. Emile Durkheim hypothesized that the more _______________ individuals are into their society, the less likely they are to kill themselves.     integrated    :-)

9. Our sales _______________ for the next year anticipate a steady growth of at least 5%.     projections    :-)

10. She is _______________ in love with him; she stares at him all the time.     obviously