Revision Units 1-4

Exercise 1. In each set of words, one word is odd. What is this word?

1. commodities goods markets products

2. essential important necessary difficult

3. to produce to manufacture to do to make

4. to provide to supply to take to equip

5. to concern to relate to deal with to occupy

6. property possession right ownership

7. based on founded belong to built on

8. completely partly entirely fully

9. to create to establish to set up to cause

10. anarchy control lawlessness disorder

Exercise 2. Un- or in- can be used in front of some adjective to mean not.

a. Write un or in before these adjectives to make their opposites.

...able ...known

...accurate ...necessary

un ...certain ...official

...complete ...pleasant

...convenient ...qualified

...experienced ...reliable

In ...Formal ...Successful

...fortunate ...usual

b. Use suitable words to complete the following sentences.

1. It was _______ that she couldn't reschedule her meetings so that we could all be free at the same time.

2. He was _______ to rewrite the document on the train because his laptop wasn't working.

3. It's _______ to rearrange everything on your desk if you know where it all is.

4. The product has been completely redesigned because the old model was _______ and kept breaking down.

5. When I reread the instruction manual, I realized that only some of the on-screen help was correct and the rest was totally _______.

Exercise 3. Which terms in the box are defined in sentences below?

capital inflation economical

economic cost of living economize

1. Adjective meaning of or relating to an economy or economics. _______

2. A measure of the amount of money that has to be paid for essential goods such as food, clothes and shelter. _______

3. To save money, to reduce an amount normally used. _______

4. The accumulated stock of goods used for production of further goods. _______

5. A rise in the general level of prices and an increase in the money supply. _______

6. Adjective meaning using a minimum of resources; cheap. _______

Exercise 4. Collocations

a. Match each verb in column A with a verb in column B that has similar meaning.

A B

change get

continue look for

end go on

receive alter

start collect

get back begin

pick up finish

search for return

reserve book

leave depart

b. Use suitable form of verbs from the list to complete these sentences.

1. It's strange that Mr. Grey hasn't _______from lunch yet.

2. Are you sure that they didn't expect us to _______them _______at the airport?

3. The meeting is due to _______ at 9 am and _______ before lunch.

4. When you _______ this e-mail, please send me a quick reply.

5. I didn't catch what you said - could you _______ it, please?

Exercise 5. Opposites

Complete each sentence with the opposite of the word in parenthesis. Choose from the following list. Use each word once only.

basic complex full-time internal

low partial private negative

1. The position went to an _______ candidate. (EXTERNAL)

2. I didn't expect my salary to be this _______! (HIGH)

3. She has a _______ job as an Account Executive. (PART-TIME)

4. There was a very _______ reaction to my suggestion. (POSITIVE)

5. Wages have risen more slowly in the _______ sector. (PUBLIC)

6. The company has a _______ management structure. (SIMPLE)

7. The new complaints procedure has been a _______ success. (COMPLETE)

8. We could see he was using very _______ equipment. (SOPHISTICATED)

Exercise 6. Form new words from the words listed below using the suffixes -ism, -ist, -istic. Translate the words.