B1.2 VOCABULARY

Peppers are usually cooked with other vegetables or eaten ______ in salads.

• tuck into

• raw

• dams

animals or plants that may soon not exist because there are very few now alive

• endangered species
• vulnerable species
• extinct species

There's plenty of food, so please ______.

• tuck away
• tuck up
• tuck in

Fish are affected when a river is _______.

• pollution

• dam

• dammed up

They ______ to discover a cure for cancer.

• set out

• set in

• set down

She had an _______ attitude towards her new boss.

• friendly
• positive
• ambivalent

There was a _____ of applications, and we want to avoid proliferation of sites.

• spate

• dearth
• abundance

Some women make a _______ choice to rear their children alone.

• deliberate

• tactless

• unconscious

I need someone dependable to _______ the children while I'm at work.

• take

• start off

• look after