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The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 16 - The mother of invention for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Try to complete each collocation in bold from the broadcast in Exercise 3 with ONE word. Then listen to check your ideas.

Answer

  1. raise
  2. return
  3. heavily (here, heavily means ‘very much’)
  4. businesses
  5. lack
  6. scrutiny (if something comes under scrutiny, then it is investigated or questioned very carefully)
  7. fuel
  8. hugely