Adjectives KEY

1. Understanding how different climate factors interact and impact food production is …………. when reaching
decisions on how to adapt to the effects of climate change.
A) indifferent B) perverse C) moral D) fatal E) essential

2. Governments need to work together on the international level, with significant investments from the
public and private sectors required to make the global food system more ………… to climate change.
A) ambiguous B) vague C) mysterious D) resilient E) solemn

3. Climate change, driven by unchecked fossil fuel burning, “is a threat to …………… development.
A) sustainable B) eventful C) erroneous D) flamboyant E) trivial

4. Plans are being made by some of those same leaders to encourage forest regrowth on such a giant scale that
it might actually pull a .............. fraction of humanreleased carbon dioxide out of the air and lock it into long-
term storage.
A) slight B) credulous C) sizable D) slender E) sincere

5. Giving weight to Kansas City’s moniker Paris of the Plains is Chez Elle, where hundreds of pounds of flour per
week creates ………. French crêpes inside a 100-year-old converted theater.
A) widening B) authentic C) admiring D) intensive E) permissive

6. Clouded leopards disappeared from Taiwan decades ago, probably in the 1980s after ……….. overhunting for
their furs followed by destruction of their forest habitat and declining populations of the cats’ prey species.
A) cozy B) intense C) evergreen D) shining E) invalid

7. Over time, humans have cut down or damaged at least threequarters of the world’s forests, and that
destruction has accounted for much of the …………… carbon that is warming the planet.
A) insufficient B) excess C) numerous D) luminous E) artificial

8. Greenpeace and other groups expect years of hard work as they try to hold business leaders and
politicians ............... for the torrent of promises they have made lately.
A) erroneous B) indisputable C) accountable D) abundant E) bizarre

9. There are several adaptation options to counter the ……….. effects of climate change on global wheat
production.
A) receding B) diminishing C) adverse D) fruitful E) satisfactory

10. The Health Service Executive is advising that anyone who gets flu should
stay at home, rest, drink plenty of fluids and use ……….. remedies like
paracetamol to ease symptoms.
A) erroneous B) indisputable C) accountable D) over-the-counter E)
bizarre

11. The biggest impact from the storm will be in western and northern counties with west to
southwest winds reaching ………. speeds of 65 to 80 km/h with gusts of 110 to 125kph.

A) cozy B) mean C) evergreen D) shining E) invalid

The particularly prevalent strain of Aussie flu, H3N2, mainly affects older people, those with
long-term health conditions, pregnant women and children

Older people, children, and people with underlying health conditions are at particular risk.