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F C E P a p e r 3 P a r t F i v e 1. Verbs to nouns
1. The water-fuelled car was his greatest .......... . (ACHIEVE)
2. The final .......... took 8 hours to reach. (AGREE)
3. The .......... on their faces was worthy of a photograph. (AMAZE)
4. The first .......... of problems in the design started in November of this year. (APPEAR)
5. Thanks to mobile phones, the emergency services come to people's .......... much faster these days. (ASSIST)
6. My first .......... for a holiday would be Okinawa. (CHOOSE)
7. The managing .......... of the pharmaceutical company was sent to prison for bribing medical staff. (DIRECT)
8. .......... is now at more than 20% in Spain, which is catastrophic. (EMPLOY)
9. Helping companies to create jobs is the best way to stimulate .......... in an economy. (GROW)
10. Electric cars have been showing remarkable .......... in recent years. (IMPROVE)
11. People need to increase their .......... of nutritiion, especially about the dangers of sugar, red meat and refined flour. (KNOW)
12. For the first time, there is .......... that using baby formula has a negative effect on babies' health. (PROVE)
13. The World Health Organisation .......... is for babies to be exclusively breastfed for the first six months. (RECOMMEND)
14. The initial government .......... was to deny everything. In the end, however, the minister was forced to resign. (RESPOND)
15. The .......... of the Toyota Prius has been very encouraging for people who want a better planet. (SUCCEED)
16. The .......... to the energy crisis is not nuclear, because of the enormous hidden costs, the toxic
waste and simply because it is not renewable. (SOLVE)
17. Thanks to all the great improvements, .......... now fill the streets of Valencia. (TOUR)
18. There is a huge .......... of rice dishes in Valencia, apart from paella. (VARY)
I n t r o d u c t i o n t o … 2. Nouns to adjectives
1. The .......... state many people experience before exams often means that they get lower marks than they deserve. (ANXIETY)
2. Ecuador has many different climates in one country. The .......... area has a tropical climate for example. (COAST)
3. These days the expensive restaurants are empty whereas those with good offers are .......... with hungry customers. (CROWD)
4. Cycling in a city without a safety helmet is extremely .......... and also pretty stupid. (DANGER)
5. 'In the Night Garden...' is a TV show babies can understand. It is absolutely .......... . (DELIGHT)
6. The politician's explanation about the environmental disaster was extremely .........., if not to say a boldfaced lie. (DOUBT)
7. The government's .......... policy of cutting spending on research and development resulted in a
catastrophe for the country on the world market. (ECONOMY)
8. She's a real fighter, .......... and full of enthusiasm. (ENERGY)
9. How can people keep eating processed food when it is so .......... for your health. (HARM)
10. To be .......... you need to cut out processed foods, red meat and sugar and do regular exercise. It
will also make you feel happy. (HEALTH)
11. A green .......... society is perfectly feasible and maybe our only option if our children are to have a happy future. (INDUSTRY)
12. The reason why the Spanish government banned the sale of stevia seeds is .......... and highly suspicious. (MYSTERY)
13. Despite many great improvements, the streets of Valencia are still very .......... . (NOISE)
14. Morella is a beautiful and .......... place to spend a weekend. (PEACE)
15. Refined sugar does so much damage to human health that you could almost say that it was .......... . (POISON)
16. Using many different sources of renewable energy, both on a national and domestic scale, is the
only .......... way to stop using coal, nuclear and petroleum. (PRACTICE)
17. We need to be looking for .......... solutions rather than just seeking profit. (SCIENCE)
18. Just because bullfighting is .......... or cultural does not mean that it is good. (TRADITION)
I n t r o d u c t i o n t o … 3. Verbs to adjectives
1. She is an .......... young woman and far more intelligent than her male colleagues who spend their
coffee breaks talking about football and cars. (ATTRACT)
2. He is intelligent but so .......... that his work is very difficult to follow and full of inaccuracies. (CARE)
3. Despite having a very .......... position in the civil service, he was bad-tempered and unhappy. (COMFORT)
4. Although I do not really like ballet, Swan Lake is absolutely .......... . (DELIGHT)
5. Nobody is very .......... about Japan agreeing to stop killing whales and dolphins. (HOPE)
6. Valencian firework displays are very .......... . (IMPRESS)
7. Sugar has so many terrible effects on the human body that it could almost be considered .......... . (POISON)
8. German cars are famous for being very .......... . (RELY)
9. People's ignorance about the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding is quite .......... . (REMARK)
10. The economy is already .......... the effects of not investing in new technology. (SUFFER)
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4. Positive to negative meaning
1. We were .......... to convince her of the dangers of red meat, both to human health and the planet as a whole. (ABLE)
2. His arguments were .......... but seemed to be based on emotions. He got angry when I challenged him. (CLEAR)
3. .......... the investigators were unable to prove that the scientist had been murdered. (FORTUNATE)
4. Portuguese bullfighter do not kill the bulls, .......... their Spanish counterparts. (LIKE)
5. European politicians are .......... to take effective steps to protect the environment now that there is
an economic recession. (LIKELY)
6. Herons remain .......... until their prey comes within reach. (MOTION)
7. It was very .......... to watch the scenes of fishermen killing dolphins in Taiji in Japan. (PLEASANT)
8. His vegetable garden is not at all ordered, In fact it looks very .......... in shape. (REGULAR)
9. Sponge Bob is quite subversive and .......... for young children. (SUITABLE)
10. In recent years there has been a very .......... increase in jellyfish populations. In fact, they have
started to attack salmon farms. (USUAL)
I n t r o d u c t i o n t o … 5. Final revision (test)
The Vanishing Invention
In 1998, a Valencian professor made an
(AMAZE) claim. Professor Antonio Cervilla
discovered how to use water as a substitute for petrol. The (SCIENCE) said that you could
drive from Bilbao to Valencia on just half a litre of water. His (INVENT) uses a molybdenum
compound to break down water into hydrogen and oxygen. (LIKE) other methods, no
electricity is required and the reaction happens at atmospheric temperature. This
(IMPRESS) technology is based on the way plant enzymes break down water. The use of molybdenum is the perfect
(CHOOSE) because, although rare, it is cheap and found all around the planet.
Since the claims were made, nothing more has been heard about this fabulous technology. There is no explanation for the
(DISAPPEAR) anywhere on the internet, apart from a list of similar
inventions which have also vanished. An
(INVENT) from the Philipines called Daniel Dingel
developed a water-fuelled car but was arrested at the age of 82 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
If this technology were to become widely available, it would prove (DISASTER) for petrol
station owners and would also save the planet from the impending environmental catastrophes being caused by (POLLUTE).