On Track 7 Topic 2

Choose a synonym: As the first solution didn’t work, scientists had to devise an alternative approach.

• convert

• design

• display

• perfect

The subsequent models were more effective than the prototype.

• next

• promising

• humble

• optimum

I want you to stop your nocturnal visits to the kitchen!

• handy

• cumbersome

• nightly

• resilient

A resilient bank should be able to survive a global recession.

• flexible and strong

• confined and secretive

• arrogant and practical

• inconvenient and scarce

I’d like to convert our garage into a study.

• generate

• turn

• rebuild

• contort

Do you think phones should be outfitted with alarms to use in cases of emergency?

• equipped with

• applied to

• displayed with

• compared to

Choose the correct alternative: For example, ... insects has enabled us to create a variety of products ranging from colour displays for e-readers to robotic cockroaches.

• constructing

• evolving

• mimicking

• admitting

The idea for Velcro is ... the adhesive quality of the burdock plant.

• trademarked as

• involved in

• based on

• outfitted with

Plant and animal species have ... many modern inventions.

• converted

• investigated

• collapsed

• inspired

More efficient ways to produce solar energy are being ... all the time.

• transmitted

• developed

• conducted

• reclected