Life expectancy Vocab quiz

Choose the best word for the following description:

"An area's resources, wealth and how they are managed."

• economise

• economy

• prosperity

• prosperous

• system

Choose all of the correct verbs which form collocations with "longevity (N)"

• attain

• achieve

• complete

• reach

• be

Complete the sentence with a word from last week's vocabulary:

"I find the responsibilities associated with being a parent to be particularly _" (similar to stressful)

Complete the following sentence with the correct synonym (from last week's vocabulary) for the word in the brackets:

"The stress on the tax system imposed by a growing number of Elderly people has already _ the economies of a number countries, namely Japan and Germany." (unsettled)

Complete the following sentence with the correct synonym (from last week's vocabulary) for the word in the brackets:

"Because of the increase in international traffic a number of companies have started to _ due to the increased sales from consumers in other countries." (succeed materially)

Choose the correct word for the following sentence:

"It is more _ to buy food from a local market than a mall or supermarket, because the larger companies charge additional fees for the convenience and to cover their costs."

• expected

• economical

• prosperous

• economic

Choose the correct word to complete the sentence below:

"Due to the lockdowns imposed during covid, a significant number of international companies, and even nation's economies, which fell from _. It has taken a few years for them to recover to their previous levels of success."

• economy

• expectancy

• prosperity

• destabilisation

• burden

Draft a topic sentence for the following ideas:

Topic - Increased life expectancy has negatively impacted economies

Main point (cause) - strain on healthcare

Create a support sentence for the following topic sentence:

"Because people are living for longer, beyond their working or productive years, this group of society if putting strain on countries' taxes."

Choose the option which highlights the error in the following sentence:

"On the other hand, there are negative aspects which should not be overlooked when the life expectancy is increasing considerably."

• "aspects" should be singular

• The sentence should be in the present perfect tense

• life expectancy should not have an article

• overlooked should not be used in the passive voice

• The sentence is too short