Solutions Advanced Unit 4

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Shares in Chrysler ... today, losing $2.3 billion, after it emerged that the company had concealed the true amount of polluting gases emitted by its cars.

• crashed

• skyrocketed

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The revelations come months after a similar scandal at Volkswagen, which saw their sales ... as consumers refused to buy new models.

• mushroom

• flatline

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Car companies are now coming under ... pressure to alter the way that they measure emissions.

• tumbling

• mounting

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An estimated 3.5 million refugees are now in the country - and in border towns like Kilis, refugee numbers will soon ... the local population.

• plateau

• overtake

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Economic problems - a wildly ... currency and ... exports - are adding to the pressure on the government.

• fluctuating/plummeting

• mushrooming/mounting

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Two hundred years from now, humans ... in a very different world.

• will be living

• will have lived

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By the year 2220, we ... computers for over 250 years.

• will be using

• will have been using

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By the year 2220, computers ... beyond recognition.

• will have developed

• will be developing

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Self-aware computers will probably ... many of the jobs that people do today.

• have done

• be doing

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It's unlikely that human nature ... much, so there will still be huge inequality.

• will have changed

• will have been changing