96/97 COLLOCATIONS

Achieving ____in life depends on many factors.

• failure

• disadvantages

• success

Even if an academic career ends in ______, it does not mean that someone's long-term career prospects are damaged.

• success

• opportunity

• failure

• achievement

Everyone deserves a fair ______at succeeding in life.

• benefit

• chance

• improvement

• advantage

I made a huge ____in my last years at school.

• improvement

• failure

• achievement

• success

A person who has a vocational education does not suffer any _____in life.

FYI: Plural countable nouns follow 'any'.

• disadvantage

• disadvantages

• benefits

• achievements

Finding my first job represent the proudest _____of my life.

• improvement

• advantage

• achievement

• chance

______is a once-in-a- lifetime opportunity that must be seized when it comes along.

• Hanging out

• Mingling

• Hobnobbing

• Going to university

Students that sleep in class _____the opportunity of education. (etwsa)

Qualifications do not _______success. (eeaanugrt)

A job should be more that to _____financial benefits. (eurcca)

(synonym: received my someone in regular amounts over time)