Starlight 8 Module 3 Vocabulary Test PDF

Starlight 8. Module 3. Vocabulary test
Task 1. Match the words with their definitions.
Variant 1
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debt
beg
privileged
afford
eager
self-sufficient
eye-opening
ecosystem
recover
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b
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d
e
f
g
h
i
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literacy
catastrophe
generate
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k
l
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the ability to read
surprising
a terrible disaster
to return to a previous condition
to produce
to ask for food or money from people
having advantages that others don’t have
money that is owed to somebody
all the plants and animals that live in an area and their relationship
to each other in the food chain
having the ability to look after yourself without relying on others
enthusiastic about
to have enough money to pay for something
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Variant 2
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slum
contribute
chatty
conserve
harsh
including
judgment
disease
wander
familiar
overcome
mystical
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negative opinion of somebody/something
recognizable; well-known
involving spiritual powers
to walk around the place, usually aimlessly
to successfully deal with a situation or problem
talkative
very difficult
used to introduce somebody or something that is a part of a group
an area with very poor living conditions and poor housing
to add to
to protect from harm
an illness caused by bacteria or infection
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Task 2. Fill in: lungs, modern, natural, companies, farmers, unique
The rainforests are home to many ___________ plants and animals. We rely on a
lot of the plants for many of the treatments used in _____________ medicine, but
the rainforests are vanishing at an alarming rate and need our help.
The rainforests, which some people call the ___________ of the planet because
they take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen, are disappearing because of
deforestation. Logging ____________ cut down the trees for timber and
____________ clear areas to graze their cattle on. This not only destroys the plants
in the forest but also the homes of many animals.
The rainforests are a beautiful and vital ____________ resource that benefits all of
mankind. We cannot allow them to disappear any longer and must do everything
we can to save them.
Task 3. Fill in the sentences with the correct form of the words derived from the
following: tropic, big, differ, especial, west, strange.
The Amazon Rainforest is a _________ forest that covers an area of 5,500,000
km2 in the Amazon Basin in South America. 60% of it it is in Brazil, 13% is in
Peru and the rest is divided between other countries. It is the ________ rainforest
in the world and contains the most animal and plant species. People call it one of
the New Seven Wonders of Nature.
Amerindians are the native people of South America. There are many
__________ tribes and languages ____________ in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and
New Guinea. Some tribes in the rainforest have had no contact at all with
_________ (society and do not want any contact with ____________ .
The Atlantic is the second ____________ (large) ocean in the world. It covers
76,762,000 km2 and 20% of the Earth’s surface. It occupies the space between the
continents of North and South America and the continents of Europe and Africa.
Task 4. Match the parts to make word-combinations.
Variant 1
eye-
eating
sharp-
changing
self-
opening
life-
toothed
non-
lit
face-
up
make-
chemical
well-
sufficient
Variant 2
festival-
like
tree-
fiction
hair-
making
long-
goers
earth-
planting
non-
raising
science-
term
film-
profit
Task 5. Complete the table with the words to make other members of Word
Family. There is one example.
Variant 1
noun
action
verb
act
adjective
active
adverb
actively
endanger
respect
creating
Variant 2
noun
action
verb
act
adjective
active
adverb
actively
product
use
frighteningly
The key
Task 1.
Variant 1
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h f g l k j b i d a c e
Variant 2
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
i j f k g h a l d b e c
Task 2. unique, modern, lungs, companies, farmers, natural
Task 3. tropical biggest different especially westen strangers largest
Task 4.
Variant 1 eye-opening, sharp-toothed, self-sufficient, life-changing, non-chemical, face-eating,
make-up, well-lit
Variant 2 festival-goers, tree-planting, hair-raising, long-term, Earth-like, non-profit, sciencefiction, film-making
Task 5.
Variant 1
noun
danger
verb
endanger
respect,
respectability
creation, creator
respect
adjective
dangerous,
endangered
respective, respectful
adverb
dangerously
create
creating
verb
produce
adjective
productive,
unproductive
useless, useful, usable
adverb
productively
frightened,
frightening, frightful
frighteningly
respectfully,
respectively
creatively
Variant 2
noun
product,
production, producer
use, usage, usefulness,
user
fright
use,
used
fright, frighten
usefully