Fill the gaps with the words from the text vocabulary which are semantically correlated with the words in brackets.

1. There has been some … in economic growth. (speeding-up)

2. For the whole … of the speech the bored audience fidgeted. (continuance)

3. British and American officials said that would… the terms of the Gulf war ceasefire and put the aircraft at risk of being shot down by the allies. (disregard)

4. He says that there needs to be more … in the way the government operates. (clearness)

5. Historically, this place was characterized by the gradual adaptation of the race to its …. (environment)

6. An electron encircling a nucleus is continuously subject to acceleration as its … keeps on changing direction. (speed)

7. This media course was set up as the school's … to being chosen like school A to participate in the Gulbenkian Research Project. (reaction)

8. To widen a car eighteen millimeters is equivalent to widening goal posts by half a foot; to … the rules is always to seek an advantage. (break)

9. The author has come to a(n) … conclusion that, perhaps, clients and dealers are very much the same sort of people. (general)

10. The government can seek greater efficiency; it can squeeze expenditure across the board; or it can ask hard questions about what the state should be doing, and try to … whole categories of spending. (exclude)

USAGE

For sentences 1 – 3 think of one general scientific term only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences taken from the abstracts to different scientific monographs. Say which branch of science these sentences refer to.

1. a. The paper at hand is concerned with creating a flexible wavelet … on the three sphere S ³ and the rotation group SO (3).

b. As a descriptive framework for text, Rhetorical Structure … provides a combination of features that has turned out to be useful in several kinds of discourse studies.

c. In this review we revisit the classic definitions of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in light of contemporary research and ….

2. a. Observed changes in community … and composition demonstrate that the invisibility of plant communities may be directly influenced by nutrient availability, independent of physical disturbance.

b. Determining the … of text is an essential step in determining the deep meaning of the text.

c. A system of Fortran routines for calculating molecular … parameters is the focus of this review.

3. a. The research requires the use of iterative … of fixed points of asymptotically nonexpansive mappings.

b. Professor Andersen’s claim rests heavily on his ability to bring out the general principles from the somewhat obscure theory of glossematics and demonstrate their relevance to the … of an adequate overall model of the HCI.

c. Physical principles in the … of regular viruses are the key facts about viruses from which all consideration of their structure and functional organization must proceed.