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      Punishment is only one aspect of crime. [part of the topic]                  EXERCISE 2. Fill in the gaps with an appropriate word to
      Text-referring words are often used with ‘problem-solution’           refer to the underlined parts of the sentences.
types of texts, where a problem is presented and ways of solving it are            1 So you were talking about animal rights? That’s quite a big
discussed. In the following example, the words in bold concern a prob-               ……………… nowadays.
lem or solution. Try to learn these words as a family.                             2 We are running out of funds. How do you propose we should
      The situation in our cities with regard to traffic is going from               deal with the ………………?
 bad to worse. Congestion is a daily feature of urban life. The prob-              3 Is there life on other planets? This is a ……………… nobody
 lem is now beginning to affect our national economies. Unless a new                 has yet been able to answer.
 approach is found to control traffic, we will never find a solution to            4 (Teacher to class) You can write your essay on ‘My best
 the dilemma.                                                                        holiday ever’. If you don’t like that ………………, I’ll give
                                                                                     you another one.
      In the dialogue below, two politicians are arguing. Note how the             5 She thinks we should all fly around in tiny little helicopters.
words in bold refer to parts of the argument.                                        This ……………… to the traffic problem in cities is rather
                                                                                     new and unusual. I wonder if it is viable?
       A: Your claim that we are doing nothing to invest in industry is
 false. We invested £10 billion last year. You’ve ignored this fact.               Reinforcing, exemplifying
       B: But the investment has all gone to service industries. The
 real point is that we need to invest in our manufacturing industries.            Look at the newspaper snippets and note the contexts in which
       A: That argument is out-of-date in a modern technological so-        the words in bold occur.
 ciety. Our position has always been that we should encourage tech-             The Prime Minister reiterated1                Mr Burn’s comments
 nology.                                                                        his concern that the debate                   epitomize2 the attitude of
       B: But that view won’t help to reduce unemployment.                      should not be dominated by per-               many parents nowadays.
                                                                                sonal attacks. He also asked …                He seems to be in the …
      situation: state of affairs, position (with regard to)
      problem: difficulty [more formal], crisis, matter
                                                                                The recent events underscore3
      response: reaction (to), attitude (to)                                                                               Several historians have pos-
                                                                                the need for a better understand-              4
                                                                                                                           ited a connection between
      solution: answer (to), resolution (to), key (to), way out (of)            ing of the environmental impact            the decline of the Roman
      evaluation [of the solution]: assessment, judgement                       of biotechnology. If this phase            Empire and the eruption
                                                                                in the...                                  of a far distant volcano...
      EXERCISE 1. Draw lines from the left-hand column to the
right-hand column joining each sentence with a suitable label, as in
the example.                                                                   It was a philosophy first                 In an attempt to account for6
                                                                               expounded5 by John                        the lack of interest, political
      1 The earth is an orbit around the sun.                  problem         Ruskin in the nineteenth                  analysts have looked at past vot-
      2 World poverty and overpopulation.                      evaluation      century. If human…                        ing patterns. On the basis of…
      3 God exists and loves everybody.                        fact
      4 I’ve run out of cash.                                  belief          1                                    4
      5 It had proved to be most efficient.                    view              repeated, restated                   suggested as a basic fact or principle
                                                                               2                                    5
      6 They should get married, to my mind.                   issue             are a perfect example of             developed, proposed
                                                                               3                                    6
                                                                                 emphasise                            explain, find the cause of
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