Ex.10 Fill in the gaps with active words and expressions.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 503.

Ex.9 Read the following definitions and match them with active words and expressions.

Vocabulary exercises

1. An arrangement in which a bank looks after your money
2. To use your money with the aim of making a profit from it, for example by buying property or buying shares in a company
3. A situation in which you need someone or something in order to live or succeed
4. To avoid using something such as money, time, or energy, or use less of it; to keep or store something so that you can use it in the future
5. Freedom from control by another country or organization; the ability to make decisions and live your life free from the control or influence of other people
6. To take money from a bank account
7. An amount of something that you keep so that you can use it when you need it; the goods that are available to buy in a shop
8. A spoken summary or written document that gives information about a particular subject, situation, or event
9. Money that is used to pay for something such as a large project
10. A set of questions that you ask a large number of people or organizations

1. dependence
2. survey
3. stock
4. account
5. finance
6. to invest
7. independence
8. report
9. to save
10. to withdraw

Account, to account, to depend, dependence, dependent, independence, independent, finance, to invest, investment, report, to report (2), to save (3), savings, stock, survey, to withdraw

1. Do you have any of these batteries in __________ at the moment?
2. Their future ___________ on how well they do in these exams.
3. The story was ___________ differently on every news channel.
4. If you take inflation into ___________, we actually spend less now.
5. She is an ___________ financial adviser.
6. ___________ in new technology is critical to our success.
7. We are now trying to raise ___________ for more research projects.
8. ___________ some energy for the end of the race.
9. The hospital refused to confirm ___________ that the nurses are considering a strike.
10. Lithuania was the first of the Soviet republics to declare ___________.
11. He began ___________ in the stock market at an early age.
12. They hate being ___________ on their parents.
13. A ___________ carried out last year found 80% of the public in favour of the change.
14. Witnesses ___________ hearing a loud noise before the plane crashed.
15. Travelling by plane is more expensive, but it ___________ time.
16. You can ___________ cash at any of our branches.
17. She spent all the money I had ___________ up for our trip.
18. We'll pay the money directly into your bank ___________.
19. The money for the flight came out of my ___________.
20. Our relationship was based on mutual ___________.