DESTINATION B2 UNIT 20 - VOCAB + PHRASAL VERBS

Which of the following best describes an area outside of a city, but not entirely rural?

• Urban
• Suburban
• Rural
• Metropolitan

Answer explanation

"Suburban" refers to areas that are outside of a city but not entirely rural, often residential in nature.

Which phrase would you use to describe rain that is very light and gentle?

• Pour
• Drizzle
• Flood
• Storm

Answer explanation

"Drizzle" describes light, gentle rain, often softer than pouring rain or a storm.

If something is covered with water, what would you say has happened to it?

• It’s frozen
• It’s flooded
• It’s dried up
• It’s smogged

Answer explanation

"Flooded" means a place is covered with water, typically due to excessive rainfall or a body of water overflowing.

____ is a serious form of pollution in many large cities.

• smog

• fog

a word means a lake, often an artificial one, where water is stored so that it can be supplied to houses, factories

• lake

• reservoir

• pond

• puddle

That's a ____ of wheat over there.

• land

• field

• plain

• desert

Puddle (n)

Plain (n)

The weather should have ............. by this evening, shouldn't it?

• cleaned up

• cleared up

• been cleaned up

• been cleared up

Do you think the wind has ........... enough for us to go sailing without any danger?

• died down

• cleaned up

• done up

• put out