Destination C1/C2 - Unit 6

I am looking forward to meeting up with some of my ... at the dinner next week. I hope to see you there.

• prospects

• anachronisms

• contemporaries

• neophytes

I'll only be working here for a couple of weeks. I'm a ... worker.

• obsolete

• provisional

• timely

• temporary

They should have sent that to us ages ago. It's long ... .

• simultaneous

• seasonal

• punctual

• overdue

It's the first draft of the text. We can change it later if we want. It's only ... .

• obsolete

• provisional

• simultaneous

• timely

After a short ... of being unemployed, I decided to set up my own business.

• span

• era

• spell

• phrase

Robots are often much more ... than people because they can work 24 hours a day without getting tired, and they don't make mistakes.

• effective

• efficient

Meaning: old and valuable

• vintage

• abrupt

• antique

• obsolete

The paintings are presented in ... order.

• subsequent

• prior

• contemporary

• chronological

Recently developed medical tests can give ... results.

• timely

• primitive

• instantaneous

• external

Five thousand miners were made ... when the tin market collapsed.

• redundant

• sacked

• fired

• layoffs