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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. (v): To combine or make two or more things combine to form a single thing. Ex: The banks are set to merge next year.
merge
isolation
implication
joint venture
2. (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
dominate
influence
trend
isolation
3. (v): To become gradually less or smaller
impact
dwindle
demographic
(have a) monopoly
4. (n): The ability to predict what is likely to happen and to use this to prepare for the future
dominate
hindsight
foresight
emigrate
5. (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.
hindsight
diversity
influence
attitude
6. (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.
isolation
exotic
foresight
subsequent
7. (v) Decrease: To become or to make something become smaller - weaker - etc.
ethnic
(have a) monopoly
emigrate
diminish
8. (n): The act of separating somebody/something; the state of being separate. Ex: An isolation hospital/ward (= for people with infectious diseases)
multiculturalism
merge
migrate
isolation
9. (n): A general direction in which a situation is changing or developing
diversity
influence
dominate
trend
10. (a): Relating to the population and different groups within it + demographically (adv)
demographic
proportion
impact
influence
11. (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.
hindsight
modernize
factor
foresight
12. (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.
joint venture
isolation
proportion
(have a) monopoly
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
diminish
attitude
sceptical
emigrate
14. (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.
influence
trend
emigrate
ethnic
15. (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?
lderly
diversity
influence
factor
16. (n): The practice of giving importance to all cultures in a society
multiculturalism
diversity
influence
migrate
17. (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
joint venture
dominate
migrate
factor
18. (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.
immigrate
foresight
compound
hindsight
19. (a): Used as a polite word for 'old' + The elderly (n)
proportion
foresight
ethnic
lderly
20. (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
joint venture
emigrate
immigrate
implication
21. (n): Data relating to the population and different groups within it
diminish
factor
impact
demographics
22. (v): Make something bad become even worse by causing further damage or problems - (v) with sth:mix something together
hindsight
proportion
emigrate
compound
23. (n): A business project or activity that is begun by two or more companies - etc - which remain separate organizations
compound
joint venture
influence
demographic
24. (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.
modernize
sceptical
subsequent
immigrate
25. (a): Connected with or belonging to a nation - race or people that shares a cultural tradition. Ex: ethnic Albanians living in Germany
sceptical
ethnic
multiculturalism
exotic
26. (n): Variety: A range of many people or things that are very different from each other
proportion
ethnic
joint venture
diversity
27. (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.
dominate
proportion
(have a) monopoly
lderly
28. (a): <> previous: happening or coming after something else. Ex: Subsequent events confirmed our doubts.
lderly
foresight
subsequent
ethnic
29. (v) Update: To make a system - methods - etc. more modern and more suitable for use at the present time
subsequent
migrate
compound
modernize
30. (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
proportion
diversity
impact
sceptical