English Vocabulary Exercises - AWL Sublist 1 - 5e

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. Earthquakes are a frequent daily __________ in many parts of Japan.
2. It is __________ from his playing that he was very nervous about this performance.
3. Recent studies reveal that the floral industry uses the highest level of pesticides of all agricultural __________.
4. Many carpets nowadays are produced using synthetic fibres made of petroleum __________.
5. One of the earliest U.S. passports on record was __________ in France in 1778.
6. Students can learn more quickly by __________ their own weaknesses in the subject they are studying and then taking steps to improve in those areas.
7. By the 19th century, Britain had __________ political control of virtually all of India.
8. I studied practical linguistics to become an ESL teacher, but some other people in my classes were studying __________ linguistics in order to do research.
9. Society can be viewed as a __________ in which human beings construct or negotiate social order.
10. Breaking the sounds of a word into their __________ parts can help students with the pronunciation of a new and difficult word.