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C1.1 Unit 3 Reading Vocabulary

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

If we do not create food banks for families that need them, many children will _______

a)

take hungry

b)

go hungry

c)

stay hungry

d)

do hungry

2.

Do we want to build a society where young people are _____ because of their socioeconomic status?

a)

flourished

b)

appalled

c)

excluded

d)

integrated

3.

Essential products that we cannot do without ought to be _____ for low and middle income families.

a)

bold

b)

flourishing

c)

affluent

d)

affordable

4.

Young people generally ____ when they are stimulated and to do that they must be enthused about going to school.

a)

flourishing

b)

thrive

c)

alarm

d)

lose out

5.

Why do politicians constantly _____ the enormity of the struggle that hard up families are facing?

a)

integrate

b)

underestimate

c)

lose out

d)

alleviate

6.

Is it fair that talented applicants may have their future ____ ruined due to the government's failure to address this issue?

a)

prospects

b)

derelict

c)

struggles

d)

outrage

7.

We should consider it an ____ that the president has not suggested measures to tackle this problem head on.

a)

go hungry

b)

stagnate

c)

alarming

d)

outrage

8.

We could _____ some of these issues by listening to the appeals of local councillors who have made cogent proposals.

a)

emerge

b)

integrate

c)

flourish

d)

alleviate

9.

Thanks to the investment we have made in education, our new schools are ______ and making real progress.

a)

stagnating

b)

thriving

c)

alarming

d)

sheltering

10.

What is this? It is a (a)  

11.

Which word is the opposite of the verb 'to flourish'?

a)

to alleviate

b)

to emerge

c)

to stagnate

d)

to thrive

12.

What is the noun form of, 'integrate'?

a)

integracy

b)

integration

c)

integratory

d)

integrance

13.

What is the adjectival form of 'prospects'?

a)

prospectuous

b)

prospectful

c)

prospecual

d)

prospective

14.

What is the noun form of 'emerge'?

a)

emergion

b)

emergitate

c)

emergence

d)

emergatory

15.

What is the noun form of, 'stagnate'?

a)

stagnatence

b)

stagnatory

c)

stagnation

d)

stagnant

16.

The cost of the COVID-19 pandemic was not only in terms of public health; several other issues _____ in employment because jobs were hard hit.

a)

emerged

b)

alleviated

c)

thrived

d)

lost out

17.

This proposal is not _______ for the community because the measures don't match up with their needs for employment.

a)

suitable

b)

suitability

c)

suits

d)

suiting

18.

Lately, there has been an ______ rise in the number of muggings on our previously safe streets.

a)

emerging

b)

prospective

c)

thriving

d)

alarming

19.

If we don't propose _____ measures, what we implement will have no chance of alleviating the struggle everyone is going through.

a)

affordable

b)

bold

c)

alarming

d)

excluded

20.

What does, 'struggling to make ends meet', mean?

a)

That someone is frustrated with their life choices.

b)

That someone cannot do their daily tasks because they are disabled.

c)

That someone does not have a job and as a result has no income

d)

That someone has a job but it is barely enough to live off.