Advanced English Vocabulary Exercise 2

1. The two major political parties in Britain have currently ____ to extreme and radically different approaches to the solution of Britain’s economic problem.

2. Among the problems facing bridge engineers, the most serious ones are those of ____ and repair.

3. I had my doubts about her when I took her on, but now I’m pleased to say that she has ____ to be a talented executive.

4. The report issued by the National Health Council draws attention to the hazards of ____ to X rays.

5. Many of the critics clearly regarded several of the paintings on ____ as of poor quality.

6. It was decided at the board meeting that more funds should be allocated to getting the firm’s products ____ more widely.

7. He’s clever, he seems to know by instinct where someone is ____ and strikes there.

8. Bartok was influenced as much by the musical innovations of Debuasy and Starvinsky as by East European, ____ Hungarian, folk music.

9. Due to the industrialisation and colonisation, the nineteenth century ____ the greatest expansion of wealth the world had ever known.

10. There’s nothing very brilliant about the report, but he has ____ collected all the data needed.