CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH examinations / PROFICIENCY EXAM / CPE / USE OF ENGLISH / word formation
For questions 1- 8, 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 gap in the same line.
Malaria
Figures quoted for the number of people in the world who are exposed to, contract, or die from malaria each year are inevitably only estimates, but this in no way (1) ... the reality of the disease. It has such a dominant and debilitating effect on huge populations, with (2) ... (one million or more
per annum) occurring most commonly in the children of the endemic regions. The situation has been worsening in recent years with the (3) ... inexorable spread of resistance to drugs shown by the parasite and to (4) ... by the mosquito. Clearly much effort is being directed towards the development of new and effective means of combating both parasite and mosquito but, in the (5) ... , control must be attempted by use of combinations of methods most (6) ... to each situation. The First Annual Public Health Forum of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine brought together 200 experts from 54 countries. They represented every (7) ... concerned with the control of malaria, and provided invaluable advice on how best to cope at the national level, the community level, and the level of the (8) ... sick child or adult.
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[answer="LESSEN" label="LESS"]
[answer="FATALITY" label="FATAL"]
[answer="SEEMINGLY" label="SEEM"]
[answer="INSECTICIDE" label="INSECT"]
[answer="MEANTIME#MEANWHILE" label="MEAN"]
[answer="APPROPRIATE" label="PROPER"]
[answer="DISCIPLINE" label="DISCIPLE"]
[answer="INDIVIDUAL" label="DIVIDE"]
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ANSWER KEYS
| ADVERB TO VERB | LESS => LESSEN |
| SUFFIX (-EN) (in verbs) - to make or become: BLACKEN, SADDEN |
| ADJECTIVE TO NOUN | FATAL => FATALITY |
| SUFFIX (-ITY) (in nouns) - the quality or state of: PURITY, ODDITY |
| VERB TO ADVERB | SEEM => SEEMINGLY |
| SUFFIX (-LY) (in adverbs) - in the way mentioned: HAPPILY, STUPIDLY |
| COMBINING FORM | INSECT => INSECTICIDE |
| SUFFIX (-CIDE) (in nouns) - the act of killing; a person or thing that kills: SUICIDE, GENOCIDE |
| VERB TO NOUN | MEAN => MEANTIME/MEANWHILE |
| IN THE MEANTIME/MEANWHILE => in the period of time between two times or two events. |
| ADJECTIVE TO ADJECTIVE | PROPER => APPROPRIATE |
| APPROPRIATE => suitable, acceptable or correct for the particular circumstances. |
| NOUN TO NOUN | DISCIPLE => DISCIPLINE |
| SUFFIX (-INE) (in nouns) - of no assignable meaning, appearing in nouns of Greek, Latin, or French origin:: FAMINE, DOCTRINE |
| VERB TO ADJECTIVE | DIVIDE => INDIVIDUAL |
| PREFIX (IN-) (in adjectives, adverb, verbs and nouns) - not; the opposite of: INFINITIVE, INFLAME + SUFFIX (-AL) (in adjectives) - connected with: MAGICAL, VERBAL |