Vocabulary practice W1 Module 17

Choose the correct words to complete the blank spaces.

The Singapore government, recognizing that fossil fuels are a(n) 1.______ resource, is keen to 2._______ traditional energy production with "renewable energies." It has decided to turn Pulau Ubin, a small, undeveloped, but inhabited island off the coast of Singapore, into a "green island."

• finite

• dispose

• substitute

• utilize

It will be powered entirely by clean and renewable energy, providing the 3._____ amount of electricity as it does now, but without using fossil fuels.

• steep

• equivalent

• advocate

• disposal

Residents on the island who presently 4._____ old, inefficient diesel-run generators to supply their power will be pleased to 5.______of them when the new system starts running in 2010.

• dispose

• finite

• utilize

• capacity

Advocates of an idea ________.

• do not believe in it

• are against it

• are for it

If a country's energy capacity increases, it means ________.

• it needs more energy

• it can produce more energy

• it has enough energy

A country that utilizes nuclear power probably ________ nuclear power plants.

• has

• doesn't have any

• have

Over the last 100 years ________ has been declining.

• the world's population

• environmental quality

A steep price rise takes place over a ________ period of time.

• short

• long

If you guarantee that something will happen, you ________ that it will occur.

• doubt

• promise