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IELTS Modern World
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Subjects
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ielts
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english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 30 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. (n)on/upon: The effect that somebody/something has on the way a person thinks or behaves or on the way that something works or develops. Ex: What exactly is the influence of television on children?
influence
(have a) monopoly
dwindle
merge
2. (a): From or in another country - especially a tropical one; seeming exciting and unusual because it is connected with foreign countries. Ex: She travels to all kinds of exotic locations all over the world.
influence
exotic
demographic
trend
3. (n)in/of/on sth: The complete control of trade in particular goods or the supply of a particular service; a type of goods or a service that is controlled in this way. Ex: In the past central government had a monopoly on television broadcasting.
(have a) monopoly
diversity
merge
foresight
4. (n): The practice of giving importance to all cultures in a society
emigrate
diversity
multiculturalism
proportion
5. (n) on/of sth: The powerful effect that something has on somebody/something. (n): The act of one object hitting another; the force with which this happens - (v): = affect
trend
lderly
dwindle
impact
6. (a)about/of sth: having doubts that a claim or statement is true or that something will happen. Ex: I am sceptical about his chances of winning.
trend
sceptical
implication
dominate
7. (n): A part or share of a whole. Ex: Water covers a large proportion of the earth's surface - (n) = ratio: The relationship of one thing to another in size - amount - etc.
modernize
diminish
foresight
proportion
8. (n): Data relating to the population and different groups within it
joint venture
demographics
dominate
trend
9. (v): To become gradually less or smaller
compound
modernize
dwindle
dominate
10. (v) sth in/into: include a particular fact or situation when you are thinking about or planning something. Ex: Remember to factor in staffing costs when you are planning the project.
factor
exotic
diversity
ethnic
11. (a): Connected with or belonging to a nation - race or people that shares a cultural tradition. Ex: ethnic Albanians living in Germany
foresight
dwindle
ethnic
proportion
12. (v) Update: To make a system - methods - etc. more modern and more suitable for use at the present time
(have a) monopoly
exotic
isolation
modernize
13. (n): The way that you think and feel about somebody/something; the way that you behave towards somebody/something that shows how you think and feel
dominate
attitude
trend
exotic
14. (v) Decrease: To become or to make something become smaller - weaker - etc.
migrate
immigrate
hindsight
diminish
15. (n): The act of separating somebody/something; the state of being separate. Ex: An isolation hospital/ward (= for people with infectious diseases)
dwindle
isolation
implication
demographic
16. (v): To move from one part of the world to another according to the season - (v) emigrate : To move from one town - country - etc. to go and live and/or work in another
migrate
joint venture
dwindle
ethnic
17. (n): A general direction in which a situation is changing or developing
influence
emigrate
modernize
trend
18. (v): To combine or make two or more things combine to form a single thing. Ex: The banks are set to merge next year.
foresight
exotic
merge
diminish
19. (a): <> previous: happening or coming after something else. Ex: Subsequent events confirmed our doubts.
subsequent
modernize
diversity
(have a) monopoly
20. (n): Variety: A range of many people or things that are very different from each other
diversity
emigrate
isolation
immigrate
21. (a): Relating to the population and different groups within it + demographically (adv)
sceptical
impact
demographic
emigrate
22. (n): The understanding that you have of a situation only after it has happened and that means you would have done things in a different way. Ex: With hindsight it is easy to say they should not have released him.
emigrate
dominate
hindsight
factor
23. (n)of/for sth: A possible effect or result of an action or a decision. (n): The fact of being involved - or of involving sb - in sth - especially a crime
implication
migrate
modernize
merge
24. (v): Make something bad become even worse by causing further damage or problems - (v) with sth:mix something together
attitude
compound
dominate
migrate
25. (n): The ability to predict what is likely to happen and to use this to prepare for the future
sceptical
impact
proportion
foresight
26. (a): Used as a polite word for 'old' + The elderly (n)
hindsight
diversity
lderly
influence
27. (v): ~ to ~ from: To come and live permanently in a country after leaving your own country. Ex: About 6.6 million people immigrated to the United States in the 1970s.
joint venture
modernize
implication
immigrate
28. (v): ~ from ~ to: To leave your own country to go and live permanently in another country. Ex: The family left Czechoslovakia in 1968 and emigrated to America.
subsequent
emigrate
demographics
influence
29. (n): A business project or activity that is begun by two or more companies - etc - which remain separate organizations
compound
factor
joint venture
ethnic
30. (v): To control or have a lot of influence over somebody/something - especially in an unpleasant way. Ex: As a child he was dominated by his father - (v) sth: To be the most important or noticeable feature of something
demographic
lderly
emigrate
dominate