WORD FORM PRACTICE - 02

WORD FORM PRACTICE – 02 (KEY)

Part 1: Complete the sentences with the correct form of the given words
1. The lines were interpolated into the manuscript at a later date. (POLE)
2. Then he had been brought home, paralysed from the waist down, embittered and resentful.
(BITTER)
3. Rachaela knew she could read well but was virtually innumerate. (NUMBER)
4. Some groups are very decisive, very productive, very creative and very satisfying for their
members. (SATISFACTION)
5. I am deeply indebted to my family for all their help. (DEBT)
6. The architect was instructed to keep ornamentation to a minimum. (ORNAMENT)
7. It would be trespassing on their hospitality to accept any more from them. (PASS)
8. Discontented workers joined the protests. (CONTENT)
9. Now some meretricious construct called Big Brother – without value, meaning or even
entertainment-value – seems to captivate the luckless viewer. (MERE)
10. A new breed of soothsayers has already been prophesying the virtual demise of the Indian
manufacturing industry. (SAY)

Part 2: Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to
form a word that fits in the space in the same line.

THE DANGERS OF DISTRACTED PARENTING

Smartphones have by now been (1) IMPLICATED in so many crummy IMPLY
outcomes – car fatalities, sleep disturbances, empathy loss, relationship
problems, failure to notice a clown on a unicycle – that it almost seems
easier to list the things they don’t mess up than the things they do. Our
society may be reaching peak (2) CRITICISM of digital devices. CRITICISE

Even so, emerging research suggests that a key problem remains

(3) UNDERAPPRECIATED. It involves kids’ development, but it’s probably APPRECIATE
not what you think. More than screen-obsessed young children, we should
be concerned about (4) TUNED-OUT parents. TUNE

Yes, parents now have more face time with their children than did almost
any parents in history. Despite a dramatic increase in the
(5) PERCENTAGE of women in the workforce, mothers today PERCENT
(6) ASTOUNDINGLY spend more time caring for their children than ASTOUND
mothers did in the 1960s. But the engagement between parent and child is
increasingly (7) LOW-QUALITY, even ersatz. Parents are constantly QUALITY
present in their children’s lives physically, but they are less emotionally (8) TUNE
ATTUNED. To be clear, I’m not (9) UNSYMPATHETIC to parents in this SYMPATHY
predicament. My own adult children like to joke that they wouldn’t have
survived (10) INFANCY if I’d had a smartphone in my clutches 25 years INFANT
ago.

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Part 3: Complete the following passage with the correct forms of given words in the box.

RICH SEAM FRONT FREE CERTAIN

AUTO SEQUENCE FORM INHERIT BOUND

THE FUTURE IS HUMAN

As cities get denser, the modern workforce is being (1) transformed by powerful forces like (2)
automation and global competition. Looked at in one way, these are forces that could eventually
turn us against each other, instilling in people a sense of alienation and (3) uncertainty that can
make urban life lonely and the future of work seem ominous.

That may sound bleak, but there is plenty of reason for hope. According to experts, the disruptions
to urban work life also have the potential to bring us closer together if harnessed correctly, giving
cities—and the companies that operate therein—the chance to create new hives of meaningful
social interaction that can (4) enrich local economies. “People tend to work better together,” says
Ethan Pollack, an associate director of research and policy for the Aspen Institute’s Future of Work
Initiative. “Humans are (5) inherently social beings, so as work becomes more independent, it
further emphasizes the need to create other ways that people can connect with each other.”

A number of urban centers are at the (6) forefront of addressing this change, which is one big
reason why cities in the U.S.—and around the world—are now on the rise. And not just cities like
New York and London. From Kansas City to Denver, São Paulo to New Delhi, cities are all growing
as young entrepreneurs migrate en masse to urban areas, forming a constellation of enterprise that
dots the globe.

Recently, Long Beach, California, lost a giant Boeing manufacturing facility, which decimated the
local economy. Rather than shying away from the (7) consequences of technological innovation,
though, Long Beach was determined to embrace them. The city set about connecting employers
with (8) freelancers, who make up 30 percent of the population, and brought WeWork, the co-
working giant, to its downtown area last year. Since then, Long Beach has seen a hearty revival of
its business district. WeWork’s introduction to the area acted as a kind of (9) binding agent and
economic accelerant, allowing entrepreneurs and enterprises to (10) seamlessly connect within
Long Beach and in cities around the world. “I think WeWork can be a game changer for the future
of cities,” says Robert Garcia, the mayor of Long Beach.
(The Atlantic)

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