Advanced English Vocabulary Exercise 2

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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