How something works (1)

Plants ___ carbon dioxide from the air and moisture from the soil.

• absorb 

• accelerate

• bend

• burn

Environmental factors can accelerate ___ the development of certain cancers.

• bend

• burn

• chop

• accelerate

The manufacture of ___ cans takes considerable resources and energy.

• angle

• ballpoint pen

• bend

• aerosol

You'll snap that ruler if you ___ it too far.

• bend

• burn

• chop

• compress

At the beginning of the film, the ___ zooms in to show two people sitting by the side of a river.

• car engine

• camera

• chop

• circumference

I managed to ___ ten pages of notes into four paragraphs.

• compress

• connect

• convey

• decrease

People believe that ___ skills will enhance their job opportunities or promotion opportunities.

• decrease

• diameter

• computer

• disconnect

The police have sufficient evidence to ___ the suspect with the explosion.

• contract

• convert

• convey

• connect

There has been a sharp ___ in pollution since the law was introduced.

• diameter

• firework

• decrease

• flow

The machines, each of which is perhaps five feet in ___, are not the largest devices in the room.

• disconnect

• firework

• flow

• diameter