Free Exercises: Grammar, Vocabulary & Phrases
Level: Elementary Intermediate Advanced
Exercise: Grammar Vocabulary Phrases
Advanced Vocabulary: Phrasal Verbs - Environment
For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from the choices below.
- The expression 'global warming' conjures images of fewer cold winters and wamrer drier summers but in fact the opposite may happen.
- At the moment electric vehicles for fewer than one tenth of a percent of all vehicles on UK roads.
- Some people think that nuclear war would out all life on our planet, but actually some species like cockroaches and mosquitoes would probably survive.
- Environmentalists are working hard to across the message that our modern way of life is not sustainable.
- The UK government is planning to phase all petrol driven cars by the year 2015 but I think this is a bit over-ambitious.
- It takes over one thousand years for a plastic bag to rot away in the ground but a plastic pot may take more than a million years to be down.
- The British Army intend to back on their use of petrol-driven vehicles and soon we may be seeing British soldiers going to war on bicycles.
- Despite a government campaign to encourage car shaing, cars with only one occupant up over half of the vehicles on UK roads.
- British scientists have up with a unique way of carrying shopping without using plastic carrier bags.
- Many British people are calling a ban on circuses using wild animals to entertain the public.
- Because our population is so densely concentrated, a new disease like bird flu can out very quickly after the first case has appeared.
- At first the people of Bristol didn't take the idea of car sharing but now at least ten percent of rush hour vehicles have more than one occupant.