Vocabulary test
Fill in the missing words. Use the following expressions:
GREENHOUSE HOMELESS TRAFFIC JAM EARTHQUAKE CROWDED UNEMPLOYED POLLUTION FOREST FIRES FLOODS NOISE
- The number of [unemployed] people is rising. Last year there were about 50,000 people without a job. This year it has grown to 75,000.
- The square was [crowded] with dissatisfied citizens. There were thousands of them!
- I'm going to the conference about [greenhouse] effect. I'm interested in ecology.
- We moved out of the city because of air [pollution] .
- I've got stuck in the [traffic jam] . I'll come later.
- It was the biggest [earthquake] in the last century. Many towns were damaged and thousands of people were killed.
- The police can't do anything about the [homeless] people. They have nowhere to go!
- The 1997 [floods] weren't as hard as the ones in 2002. The water in the river rose by 3 meters!
- [Noise] is one of the biggest problems of cities.
- There are a lot of [forest fires] in Australia. Some of them are started by people.
