Juliana Lucas - Unit 11 - What on Earth's Going On?

B2 First · Word Formation · Ready for B2 First 4th Edition Workbook, Macmillan Education Limited

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. There is an example at the beginning (0).

SEEM

ECOLOGICAL

RELATIVE

SPACE

REASSESS

EXTINCT

PROBABLE

PREDICT

What happened to transform Juliana Lucas from a well-respected business executive into one of the most headline-grabbing environmental (0) ___ of our time? To determine the answer, we have to turn the clock back almost a decade to a (1) ___ everyday conversation with a colleague, who was describing how her daughter's efforts to clean up a chemical spill had caused terrible damage to the (2) ___ of the local lake. It moved something in her and since then she's never looked back. Initially, the changes were (3) ___ minor. Lucas changed her own working environment, moving from a (4) ___ office block to a more modest-sized one. Her continuing commitment to her new-found 'green' priorities has forced respected critics to make a (5) ___ of their original reaction that this was all just for publicity. Most recently, she has turned her attention to the conditions for wildlife in sub-Saharan Africa, where many species are facing the possibility of (6) ___ . And she has worked tirelessly to raise public awareness of the issue. (7) ___ , as it may seem from a woman who has never received any formal training, she is currently offering architectural solutions to some long-term housing issues. Whatever she tackles next, you know it won't be (8) ___ .

Juliana Lucas

CAMPAIGN

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