Match the words in the left-hand column with those in the right-hand column to make collocations. Supply necessary articles.
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 499.
Find the words on the left in the article, match them with their definitions and translate the word combinations they are used in into Russian.
| 1) board | a) distinguished or important; easily seen |
| 2) trend | b) a reduction in economic or business activity |
| 3) impact | c) (infml often derog) a young professional person who earns a lot of money in a city job and is ambitious |
| 4) "yuppie" | d) (derog) showing interest in a local or limited area only; narrow |
| 5) to blight | e) to be/give clear proof of sth; to declare sth to be true or genuine |
| 6) to attest | f) to spoil or ruin sth |
| 7) downturn | g) a general tendency or direction |
| 8) exile | h) a group of people controlling a company or other organization; a committee or council |
| 9) parochial | i) to attract or tempt a person or animal |
| 10) to entice | j) to tempt/persuade sb to move from one place/activity to another |
| 11) to transcend | k) a strong impression or effect on sb/sth |
| 12) prominent | l) a person who lives away from his/her own country from choice or because forced to do so |
| 13) to lure | m) (fml) to be or go beyond the normal limits of sth |
| 1) Board | a) attitude |
| 1) Transcend | b) sb into a trap |
| 2) to attest | c) people into shops |
| 3) prominent | d) party politics |
| 4) to lure | e) in consumer spending |
| 5) to entice | f) of new technology on modern industry |
| 6) parochial | g) towards smaller families |
| 7) downturn | h) position |
| 8) impact | i) a signature/will |
| 9) trend | j) meeting |
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