E. Word Usage
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 498.
D. Word Fields
What do the following prefixes mean? Choose the right meaning. Find the sentences containing these words in the text and paraphrase them.
Match the words having opposite meanings.
| import | former |
| local | purify |
| contaminate | light (industry) |
| input | general |
| reduction | output |
| current | growth |
| heavy (industry) | export |
| prefixes | meaning | |
| outstanding | ‘not' | ‘superior' |
| refinance | ‘before' | ‘extra' |
| import | ‘taking in' | ‘taking out' |
| export | ‘taking in' | ‘taking out' |
| outperform | ‘outside' | ‘better' |
| incorporated | ‘united' | ‘difficult' |
1. Which of the words and phrases below are associated with:
*Heavy engineering industry: (trailer tracks; optical instruments and devices; leather; lowlands hollows; dump trucks; ornithology routes; garment) *Forestry and agriculture (timber; yarn; private plot; oil and gas basin; kitchen stoves; furniture; lumbering; livestock and crop) *Light industry (earthmovers; the tariff system; knitting; fur; chemical fibers; fertilizers; textiles; curtain and lace products; garment; optical instruments and devices) *Banking ( accounts; contamination; loans; currency budget; radioactive fallout; deposit; credit; interest rate)
1. Put the following words into correct order: e.g.: Increasingly difficult market conditions. Consult the text after you have tried it.
| tested | routinely | exports | milk |
| payments | government | advanced | credit |
| run | farms | privately | Belarusian |
| interest | strongly | negative | rates |
| production | complex | multisectoral | |
| textile | novel | materials | raw |
| hygienic | improved | exceptionally | properties |
| clean | regions | environmentally | |
| industrial | well-developed | base | relatively |
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