Extreme weather - Test 2

C2 Proficiency · Word Formation · Cambridge English Proficiency 1, Cambridge University Press

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.

COMPLEX

LEAD

POLITICS

CREDIBLE

ASSUME

PAIR

REPEAT

FINITE

Extreme Weather is packed with facts about the great forces of nature and is a (0) ___ illustrated science book by the meteorologist, H. Michael Mogil. The aim of the book is to present enough knowledge to understand the many (1) ___ of the debate about climate change. Mogil is alarmed about the way the public has been (2) ___ on this issue, being pushed towards certain positions on climate change by the campaigning of (3) ___ and the news media's need for a good story. He wants to demonstrate that climate change is an (4) ___ complicated issue, and that making overly simplistic (5) ___ will inevitably (6) ___ our understanding. He therefore (7) ___ emphasises that weather records are short, often incomplete and tricky to compare. Mogil suggests that, in the distant past, changes in climate occurred in magnitudes far greater than in recent times. It is the (8) ___ detail with which these recent events have been recorded that differentiates them from the past.

Extreme weather

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